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Thunderbird sorts its mails in such a way that the newest mails are at the bottom of the list by default. You can change it, but you have to change it for each folder separately, which sucks.
The solution is to set the order option with the advanced config editor before you open the folders (before you let Thunderbird create the index):
mailnews.default_sort_order = 2
Because I wanted to be able to give Windows 7 machines access to our domain controller, I needed to upgrade samba to 3.4 from lenny-backports. Because the database backend changed, a consequence of this was that the user database was empty; it didn’t migrate it.
pdbedit has an option to import the old smbpasswd file:
pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd
That should take care of it. I didn’t test it this way though, because I already fiddled with the user database by creating new users by hand. I imported one user with which I still had problems correctly this way, but I don’t know if importing this database from the start would have prevented all my errors.
This site has a comprehensive list of Unreal Tournament 99 console commands. Some necessary ones (for some you have to do adminlogin
| Restart map | admin servertravel restart |
| Change map | admin switchlevel (or servertravel) [map name] |
| Kick player | admin kick [player] |
| Kick and ban player | admin kickban [player name] |
| Remove all bots | admin killall Bot |
| Screenshot | shot |
| Show player ip’s | showips |
| Show player id’s | showid |
| kick player with ID | kickid [id] |
| kick and ban player with ID | banid [id] |
Windows 7 doesn”t have a quicklaunch by default. Luckily, there is a fix. To enable it, add toolbar, other toolbar and include this as location:
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
That site also states you have to save your theme, so do that, to be safe. Just do desktop right mouse, adjust to preference, rightmouse on unsaved theme, etc.
Newer samba versions no longer have a human readable password file. To see the passwords, use pdbedit. Do “pdbedit -w -L” to get a classic password file layout.
I just installed two Windows 7 machines and both of them take a very long time to logon to the (samba) domain controller. I’ve found several reports on the internet about people with the same issue. This was one of the pages I found. I tried it and it works. It says:
You’d think that this means it can’t logon, because it suggests the wait period was because of network connection problem. However, I tried adding files to the profile on the server and logged in, and the file was synced to the PC. So, it does seem to work.
While I was at it, I also changed the setting not to allow logons with temporary profiles. It’s in the same list as the option above. In Dutch, it’s “gebruikers niet aanmelden met tijdelijke profielen”.
I also found this about slow logons. It’s for Windows XP, but perhaps it’s useful. It sets “Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon” to true. For some reason, the asynchronous loading of the network caused slowdown for that person.
Finally, I also found people who fixed slow logons by setting the desktop to an image, as opposed to solid color. I tested it, and indeed seemed to influence it.
I was trying to add a Windows 2000 machine to our domain, but I got this message (in Dutch, unfortunately):
De opgegeven referenties zijn strijdig met de bestaande groep referenties
In true Windows fashion, this meant that the existing network-drive mappings should be disconnected first…
With our new Windows 7 machines, we need at least samba 3.3.7. However, our server with Debian stable doesn’t have that in its repository. So, I was forced to install samba with lenny-backports.
I included this line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
Because backports are disabled by default, I needed to pin all the packages required for samba:
Package: samba Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: smbclient Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: smbfs Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: samba-common Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: samba-common-bin Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: libwbclient0 Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: libtalloc2 Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999
I haven’t actually installed it, but I will soon. So I don’t know if it will work or not. Aptitude -s suggests it does.
I often need to make a MySQL database and a user that can do anything in it:
create database bla character set utf8 collate = utf8_general_ci; use bla grant all on bla.* to 'jack'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
To drop a user:
drop user ‘jack'@'localhost’;
I’ve had to deal with crappy DNS servers quite a lot; servers that don’t resolve certain sites, servers that take endlessly, etc. Therefore, using OpenDNS can be a good solution. The IP addresses for OpenDNS are (including /etc/resolv.conf directives):
nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220
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