I shifted my email for jamesmcdonald.id.au to Google Apps. However I have found an annoying behaviour for Gmail. Join an email list (I'm on linux-users@linux-sxs.org) with your Google hosted email domain. Send an email to the list. The traditional behaviour should be...
Sendmail from the command line
echo -e To: 'The Persons Name ' \\n\\n Body of mail \ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F "From Name" \ -f from@address.com -t to@address.com.au Where -e says I want to interpret \\n as a newline. -F is the from description -f is the from address -t is the to address Example:...
Linux /tmp size for DVD burning
I was just trying to burn the Fedora 11 Preview DVD in XUbuntu and the default burning application logically uses /tmp as the location for temporary image files. However my /tmp only had about 2.9 GB free space The DVD is 3.8G and so the DVD burn failed due to lack of...
IIBYGTKBP – If it breaks you get to keep both parts
IIBYGTKBP. I saw this acronym on the linux-users email list A Google didn't enlighten me. So I delved into wet memory and came up with what it means by recalling the poster who used the full version of IIBYGTKBP in the past. So here it is - IIBYGTKBP: If it breaks you...
Organic Feast Cafe
Went to Organic Feast for a Coffee on the weekend. As you do at Cafe's you grab a magazine. My wife found me a magazine named "The Owner Builder". I loved it. So many real life experiences of people building low cost but very interesting structures. By the end of the...
KDE4
So I have haunted the linux-users mailing list for about um (1999-2009) 10 years. And the discussion turned to KDE4 and well frankly there wasn't many people saying it 'completes me'. Quite the opposite. So seeing I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 I though I would install...
Exchange fails to deliver to a Single Mailbox
Problem: I had a user that wasn't getting any internal / external emails. There was nothing in the logs and nothing to indicate why the Local Delivery queue was stalled for all emails that had them as a recipient. Troubleshooting: I Opened the Exchange System Manager...
svn working copy inside ecryptfs file name gotcha
So encrypting your stuff is wise from a security standpoint. Yes? Here is a little problem I ran into when I copied my svn working copy into an ecryptfs directory. The actual copy operation gave an error message about "file name too long" which I ignored. But then I...
Ubuntu – PuTTY GTK2 Package
I wrote some stuff on compiling PuTTY with GTK2. Here is a deb for Ubuntu (I compiled it on 8.04 and have tried it on 9.04) putty_20090326-1_i386 md5sum: 2f0926105d949dcb7fc7ce0c818b2088 I think I did it with checkinstall and if it's broken you get to keep both peices...
Ubuntu 9.04 – How to map the Windows + E keys to open Nautilus
Goto System ==> Preferences ==> Keyboard ==> Layouts ==> Layout Options Set Alt/Win Key Behaviour as show in next graphic Goto System ==> Preferences ==> Keyboard Shortcuts ==> Desktop ==> Home Folder and set the Windows + E combo (it will appear as Mod4+E)
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