Some people prefer their min,max,close window buttons to be on the left – mac style.
Somehow I managed it then forgot how I did it so when I finally found how to do it AGAIN!, I thought I’d share it.
GNOME calls this “metacity button layout”.
From a terminal window, type gconf-editor.
Now navigate to apps/metacity/general and change the [...]
I own a Sony VAIO laptop on which I dual boot either Windows XP or CentOS 5 (Linux Kernel).
I always wanted to get wireless networking to work but, the plain and simple truth is that although the core components for wireless activities are present, there are vital applications missing which allow a user to connect [...]
Recently I tried to update my CentOS5 PC and had the following error:-
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* updates: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* addons: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
* extras: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package libxml2.i386 0:2.6.26-2.1.2.8 set to be updated
—> Package xulrunner.i386 0:1.9.0.12-1.el5 set to be updated
—> Package libxml2-python.i386 [...]
It’s at the core of any computer system. If you use any computer in the world, it is 99.9% likely to be connected to a network of some kind.
The internet is the biggest network. If you want to communicate with anyone or anything then you will certainly be doing it across a network.
The technology has [...]
As always with mobile use, signal quality is everything.
I lost my land line for a day just recently and thought, why hadn’t I already sorted out a mobile broadband option?
I recently found that my area had fantastic reception with O2, so I have switched my mobile from Virgin to O2 – great, signal is always [...]
This is the easiest way to schedule tweets to Twitter. If you want to seriously start building traffic to your web site then regular tweets are essential.
First, make sure you have curl installed. cURL is often already present in Linux distros but Windows users will need to locate and install it.
The command is very simple [...]
So you have your linux server up and running. A lot of time and effort went into this so lets get it backed up. You don’t need to invest in any fancy backup system. A bit of shell script and some use of crontab will do the trick.
Here are the two scripts I use…
Email backup
Create [...]
Very often it is necessary to test that your SMTP server is working.
The easiest way to do this is with the telnet command.
This lets you talk directly to the email server in its own SMTP protocol script language.
Here’s how…
telnet server name or IP address 25
HELO aaaa
mail from: <tom@fromdomain.com>
rcpt to: <fred@todomain.com>
data
Enter your message text
.
quit
Along the way [...]
This is an SMTP server like the one your ISP provides. It is targeted at Windows users and sells as a faster and more flexible alternative.
I don’t like to be negative about the efforts of others but, I do find it diffucult to see what advantage this server application gives you over the already available [...]
There are a huge range of email server products available.
I won’t beat around the bush, in my honest opinion, most Postfix based systems are by far the most practical and effective. The main reason for this is that Postfix is free and flexible.
A fantastic, sophisticated and clever email server software system is the Zimbra Collaboration [...]