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ECS A785GM-M

dp — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:31:27 +0000

FYI, The ECS A785GM-M 1.0 does *not* have a speaker connector. Makes it difficult to have a system beep without the built-in speaker.

Using Thunderbird and Zimbra together with tags

dp — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:05:50 +0000

If you’re trying to use Thunderbird to tag messages, you might notice in Zimbra‘s webmail that the tags are called $label1, $label2, etc. The way to make these “right” is to edit the prefs.js file. Rename the $label1, $label2 values to “important”, “work”, etc. Make sure they start with a lowercase letter, else they won’t be recognized. Just some food for thought.

udev debugging toolbox « Web 0.2

dp — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:32:24 +0000

This is a great read about working with udev, specifically, getting things working after you’ve written your rules, and they still don’t work.

Remember that udev has a different $PATH than everything else, so qualify your paths to mount, etc.

udev debugging toolbox « Web 0.2.

Light IM Client

dp — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:01:15 +0000

If you’re on Linux, and looking for an IM client that’s lighter than Pidgin, check out Empathy. It only uses about 23M of memory, plus about 15-20M for the background transport services. It has tabbed chat windows, notifications (via Gnome Notification), etc. It’s also one of the only clients that supports Voice Chat through Google Talk.

Overall, I give it a 4 out of 5.

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Claws Mail Auto Preview of Messages

dp — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:58:21 +0000

To enable auto-preview of messages within Claws, go to Configuration -> Preferences -> Display -> Summaries. Under the Message list section, change Open message when selected to Always. Done!

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