I use Mozilla Thunderbird for accessing my home email from work, which I connect to using ssh tunneling. For Calendaring support I have the Thunderbird plugin Lightning. My email account is hosted on an IMAP server. My problem was how to keep my Thunderbird address...
Error: Missing Dependency: libc-client.so.2006 is needed by package php-imap To fix it I did: # remove the package that is causing the complaint yum remove php-imap # do the update yum update # install php-imap it will then pull in the correct version of...
If you have ever installed a server, then gone offsite and tried to connect using "Remote Desktop Connection" (mstsc.exe) and found it not responding because you forgot to allow for Remote Connections... you may have had an arrrgggh moment. Here's how to enable it...
PuTTY is an excellent Telnet and SSH client for Windows and Unix. I have used it for all my IT Career to access my Home and Work Linux boxes. I now exclusively use Linux at home, but found the GTK1.2 PuTTY client to be a bit aged. However, while not listed as a...
Recently we became the proud owners of 4 chooks. This morning my Wife calls out and says that one of them was outside of the pen. I presume she got out by jumping onto the coop and then over the 1.8m high wire fence. Looks like I'm going to have to do some wing...
I have been tinkering with a SBS 2003 box that has been restored from backup. One of the annoying things I have come up against was that it wouldn't reboot quickly enough and a "service or hardware" failed to start popup would be there when it finally arrived back at...
If you use Windows XP at work, but Linux at home, you may be missing the multiple desktops feature that Linux provides . http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ is the answer. I don't use the "group similar taskbar buttons" Windows XP feature but find multiple workspaces a...
I just had an issue where I tried to issue crontab -e as a user and got crontabs/username: Permission denied The problem was traced to deleting an old account that had a crontab then recreating the account later which had a different user id. Note here how the...
I have been thinking about getting a micro sized Linux desktop / laptop machine. I hate buying something without getting a 3rd opinion from someone who has used it. On Youtube you can get user and industry trade reviews. When I was looking at the Asus EeePC there was...
If you want to do this get an old version of XAMPP Update: New versions of XAMPP for Windows don't have the PHP paradox module. The latest I could find that contained the necessary php/ext/php_paradox.dll file was XAMPP for Windows 1.7.0 Windows (XP) provides a...