picofarad.org » tips http://picofarad.org/blog/ Karl-Martin Skontorp's homepage and blog. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:28:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Attaching an MP3 player to a hard hat http://picofarad.org/blog/attaching-an-mp3-player-to-a-hard-hat/ http://picofarad.org/blog/attaching-an-mp3-player-to-a-hard-hat/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:26:56 +0000 kms http://picofarad.org/?p=470 Close-up of rubber band

  1. Take one nice and wide elastic band and pull the ends through the venting holes on a Peltor G22 hard hat.
  2. From the inside, adjust the size of the elastic loop to fit the player and tie the ends together with a wire tie.
  3. If you want, add some friction between the player and hat surface by attaching a big furniture feet pad. I used a felt pad, rubber would be better.

Hard hat with MP3 player

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If Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings -> “When I delete a message” is set to “Move it to the Trash folder” and you set mail.imap.expunge_after_delete to true using the Config editor Thunderbird will compact the folder immediately after you delete or move a message. Note: Thunderbird ignores the modified mail.imap.expunge_after_delete setting until after you have exited and restarted Thunderbird.

Thanks to MozillaZine: Compacting folders.

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