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Born in the continental USA but not in any state. (This is your geography quiz!)

Mounting NFS on OSX

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 … Continue reading

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Say No to Photo ID

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: … Continue reading

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Postfix as mail relay for Exchange

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 … Continue reading

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Installing Horde with Virtualmin on Centos 5.x

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 … Continue reading

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Ubuntu GUI tips

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

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Emacs soft word wrapping

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 … Continue reading

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