Thunderbird (yes, Mozilla’s email client) doesn’t know how to open URL’s in Firefox out of the box. How is stuff like that even possible? I’m continually amazed that Thunderbird doesn’t get more love from Mozilla. Fix it like this:

  • Close Thunderbird
  • Get the path to firefox with [which firefox]
  • Find the Thunderbird preferences file, something like this:
    /home/user/.thunderbird/####.default/prefs.js
  • Add this:
    user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/path/to/firefox");
    user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/path/to/firefox");
    user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/path/to/firefox");

Ahhh much better. Silly!

I dumped new memory into my gentoo server. The stuff I pulled out (along with a couple pounds of DUST) was weird:

ch1: Infineon 1024MB DDR 333 CL2.5 PC-2700 128Mx72
ch2: elixir 512MB DDR 266Mhz CL2.5 PC-2100

Where the hell did I scrounge up that cruft…. Replaced with:

ch1+2: G.SKILL 1024MB DDR 400 CL2.5-3-3-6 PC-3200 2.6V

The other weird thing is the mobo has 4 slots – 2 DDR and 2 SDR. So I had to dump the first set of memory. Just as well.
I’m literally still sneezing from all the dust…

Warning from mplayer emerge:

You've enabled the 'gtk' use flag which will build
GMPlayer, which is no longer actively developed upstream
and is not supported by Gentoo.  There are alternatives
for a GUI frontend: smplayer, gnome-mplayer and kmplayer.

Note from x264 emerge:

Please note that this package now only installs
x264 libraries. In order to have the encoder,
please emerge media-video/x264-encoder.

Updated [package.use]:

# MDM gtk is deprecated as a front end, kill it...
# "Use smplayer, gnome-mplayer and kmplayer instead".
# smplayer needs [srt].
media-video/mplayer -gtk srt

Updated [package.keywords]:

# MDM Un-soft-mask VLC (and dependencies)
media-video/vlc
media-plugins/live
media-video/ffmpeg
media-libs/x264
media-libs/x264-encoder

Emerged:

emerge -Davu smplayer gnome-mplayer kmplayer

[x264-encoder] wasn’t ready to emerge, mplayer wants a different version than vlc. Holding off for now…

tdm3 hardware died
ordered new amd phenom quad-core chip, hdmi-output miniATX mobo, 4GB RAM
renaming tdm3 (lame) to dune
using gentoo live cd stage 3 install over tdm3 drive
stage 3 installed – bad drive!
non-destructive read-write test: fsck -t ext3 -c -c /dev/sda2
shopping for eSata RAID 1 solutions…

# MDM Un-soft-mask VLC (and dependencies)
media-video/vlc
media-plugins/live
media-video/ffmpeg
media-libs/x264