Lightning Calendar for Thunderbird on 64-bit Linux (Ubuntu) can be downloaded from here:ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1/contrib/linux-x86_64/Doesn#t seem to appear on the official download page 🙁
Posts By: jonny
Lost Grub on Ubuntu 10.04 Upgrade
Oops chose the wrong disk for grub while upgrading and system wouldn’t boot. Inserted the Super Grub Disk I keep handy for such eventualities and this allowed me to boot into Ubuntu 10.04.At the command-line I then entered: sudo grub-install /dev/sdb I had chosen the first disk sda during the upgrade but a: df -hsudo… Read more »
VirtualBox Cloning a Virtual Machine
For future reference cp mymachine.vdi mynewmachine.vdi won’t work due o the uuid of the disk so …. cd ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisksVBoxManage clonevdi mymachine.vdi mynewmachine.vdi Then go through the steps of creating a new machine but specify the new vdi image as the disk rather than creating a new one.
Mail Server Uptime Wow!
They don’t make Windows servers like this! Up for 848 days and going strong. For anyone interested this is a Slackware machine in a MTA role.
jQuery Zebra Stripes
Traditionally I added these tiger/zebra stripes for alternate row colours within PHP but with jQuery we can accomplish the same with the following. I had a little difficulty getting the rollover to work initially until I worked out that I needed to combine the .mouseover and .mouseout onto one line and also remove the unneeded… Read more »
Ubuntu 10.04 Window Controls
I’m not about to start to lambaste the move of the window controls to the left. I think we should give change a bit of time and see how it pans out. I do feel that it will put off some ardent Windows users – who would find it difficult to move to Mac too.So… Read more »
Firefox New Tab button left
On Ubuntu to move the the Firefox new tab button to the left rather than the right (replace the ‘me’ and ‘profilename’ bits below with the appropriate settings for your own system): cd /home/me/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/chromecp userChrome-example.css userChrome.cssgedit userChrome.css Add the following lines under the @namespace line: /* Tab bar: buttons */.tabs-newtab-button {-moz-box-ordinal-group: 1 !important}.tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox {-moz-box-ordinal-group: 2… Read more »
Mounting FTP on Ubuntu
Install CurlFtpFS with: sudo apt-get install curlftpfs Mount an FTP site with: sudo curlftpfs -o user=myuser:mypass ftp://ftp.domain.tld ./mylocaldirsudo ls ./mylocaldirsudo fusermount -u ./mylocaldir Or add it to the fstab: mkdir /media/myftpsite && chown myuser:mysuer /media/myftpsitevi /etc/fstab Add the following line at the end of the file: curlftpfs#ftp.domain.tld /media/myftpsite fuse rw,uid=1000,user,noauto 0 0 Then under the… Read more »
Convert bin/cue to iso with bchunk
On Ubuntu install binchunker with: sudo apt-get install bchunk Then create the iso at the command-line with the following: bchunk myfile.bin myfile.cue newfile.iso More info here
Internet Explorer 8 CSS Issues
I had a brief issue with a quickly thrown together website. Specifically the margin:auto; centering was not working in IE8 and jQuery scripts were not behaving. I found out that this was related to the lack of a DTD e.g. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”> More explanation of doctypes is here.
