How to force fsck run on next boot
Run sudo touch /forcefsck Next time you boot, the file system will be checked.
Continue reading →How to disable “more” addresses button in Thunderbird 3
So I upgraded to Thunderbird 3 some time ago. It has nice new features, like the grouped folders. Anyway, there are a few things that annoyed me too; one of them being the fact that whenever someone sends a mail to me and some other people, only the first recipient was displayed, with a “more…”…
Continue reading →Building a HTPC with Mythbuntu 9.10
So I decided it’s time to build a HTPC so I can record TV and also use time shifting when watching live TV. I’ve tried several products, be it software packages or whole linux distributions, including Windows Media Center, Apple Front Row, vdr, c’t-vdr, yavdr, freevo and mythTV. That last one I liked most by…
Continue reading →Why Macs may have trouble with fonts from SMB shares
The problem Did you ever want to install a font on your Mac that’s on a SMB share, for example on a Windows/Unix server? Did you experience the font was broken somehow, being displayed in the finder as “unix executable file” with 0kb size? We had this issue here often, finally I figured out why…
Continue reading →No more business PCs with DVI?
I was looking for some new business desktop computers to buy. They should have a Core2Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a DVD burner, Gbit LAN and two monitor connectors of which one should be DVI. I used to buy these computers from HP, but I couldnt find a single model with DVI anymore. They have…
Continue reading →Facebook on spamcop.net
Some people complained that they get this message when they open facebook: I asked the people if they ever received mails from facebook – they said “regularly”. So I wasn’t really sure what could cause this issue. So I grepped the logs from our mail servers and found…
Continue reading →RBL/DNSBL blacklist comparison
Want to configure postfix/spamassassin and wonder which RBLs to choose? I found a cool site which monitors ham and spam hit statistics of a lot of RBLs. Check out http://www.intra2net.com/en/support/antispam/, it’s worth a visit. My definite winner is zen.spamhaus.org. While having the highest spam hit quote, it has 0% ham hits.
Continue reading →How to open or close the CD/DVD drive on a Mac
The most common solution is pressing the eject key on the keyboard. If that fails for some reason (in my case the key was not working properly) you could always drag the DVD icon to the trash or right-click (ctrl-click) it and click “eject” – as long as there is a CD or DVD in…
Continue reading →Embed Video in PowerPoint for Playback on Windows and Mac OS X
Have you ever tried to embed video files in PowerPoint? If you managed to do that, have you ever tried to play that presentation on other PCs or even on a mac? It’s a pain in the ass. I haven’t yet reached the point to say it’s impossible, but at least I can say it’s…
Continue reading →Zimbra and Lightning Calendar Issues
Trying to integrate Zimbra calendars in Lightning, I ran into a couple of problems. So far I’ve found four different ways to do it in the internet: ICS: http://zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME ICS: webcal://zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME ICS: webcal://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME CalDAV: http://zimbrahost.example.com/dav/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME Now the ICS solutions don’t work properly for me, the calendar entries are loaded but Lightning is unable to write…
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