October 23, 2008 – 1:40 am
By default, OSX doesn’t use privileged ports for NFS connections; when you try to connect to an NFS share from a Linux server, you’ll get
Could not connect to the server because the name or password is incorrect.
So try (as root from the OSX command-line)
mount -o -P servername:/sharename /mountpoint
October 2, 2008 – 11:44 am
If you present your credit card and the merchant won’t accept it unless you produce photo identification, that merchant is breaking Mastercard and Visa rules. You should report such merchants to your card issuer:
MasterCard
This form (MasterCard site) (NOTE: Form broken as of 2008-10) lets you report a merchant who refused to accept your MasterCard for [...]
October 2, 2008 – 9:54 am
Taken from http://www-personal.umich.edu/~malth/gaptuning/postfix/ however note that the “your_recipients” file in the postfix main.cf, the “plusone_recipients” in the cron job, and the “example_recipients” in the Perl file should probably all be the same. — wl 200808
This method consists of a simple perl script which uses Net::LDAP to retrieve Active Directory users’ “proxyAddresses” which are both primary [...]
October 2, 2008 – 9:54 am
CentOS specific instructions found here; Also see the general Horde install document. Tested on CentOS 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.
CentOS + Virtualmin Walk-through Tutorial
With Centos 5.x and a Webmin/Virtualmin installation you’ll do things this way:
# yum install horde imp
to install both the Horde general module and the Imp email IMAP gateway. Next, run the database generation [...]
October 2, 2008 – 9:53 am
Top 7 Ubuntu GUI tips on OpenView360
Improve font appearance
Configure boot parameters
Enable backports (new software releases even on older installs)
Add a clipboard manager
Control startup applications
October 2, 2008 – 9:52 am
If you’re frustrated with Emacs’ default behavior of displaying \ characters when wrapping long lines, try this:
M-x longlines-mode
M-x longlines-show-hard-newlines
This only changes the way your file is displayed — it does not insert or remove anything from the file’s contents. At the end of a line beyond 70 characters, if there is a reasonable word-break, then [...]