free the bird - Part 26

Again, Thunderbird leaves me scratching my head…

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!

Comments | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 [ thunderbird ]

server gets memory

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…

Comments | Friday, October 24, 2008

Multiple-repo subversion-sourced git HOWTO updated

My git wiki article has been updated. Humming along. If this looks like something you want to do, check it out…

                      repo1
               mybranch<->master
              /                 \
my shared repo                   external svn repo
              \                 /
               mybranch<->master
                      repo2

Comments | Monday, October 20, 2008 [ git ]

Pimp your removable devices with unique names, automount, and autorun

I want to plug my 8GB-SDHC-card-in-a-USB-adapter in, and immediately be able to add and remove files to it. With a little digging in, I got the job done. This is going to make my life a LOT easier. Now I can trigger any action I want for every single device I plug in to my boxxen. Sweetness.

I use gentoo, but this should apply to any modern linux distribution. With a less hands-on distribution like Ubuntu, everything should be already done for you, but you still might want to dig in here to see what’s going on under the hood. Also, there’s a LOT of outdated material out there, as this stuff has been hammered out over the years. So without further ado, here’s an up-to-date summary to get you up to speed fast:

Comments | Thursday, October 16, 2008

Spamassassin getting squeezed, try a world bump…

Spamassassin was failing, all I needed was a kill, zap, and restart. But in my typical kid-in-a-candyshop fashion, I used it as an excuse to bump up the server to the latest goodies. BAD admin! But it wasn’t very many packages, and gentoo made it smooth as always. Included a bump to kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8, and a postfix bump (which dispatch-conf made trivial). Sweet.