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Enable Thunderbird Global Search in Fedora

jonmoore — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:38:35 +0000

If you’ve just installed Thunderbird on Fedora 13, you’ve probably noticed the Global Search bar is missing. At least, this is one of the first things I noticed. After using Thunderbird 3.x for sometime on Windows I’ve really come to love this feature.

It seems the default configuration on Fedora doesn’t enable this feature by default, however it is simple to get working. Go to the Preferences menu, Advanced section and check “Enable Global Search and Indexer”. After this, restart Thunderbird and it will begin indexing your mail. After which, the Global Search should work as expected.

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Burn ISO from command line in Linux

jonmoore — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:20 +0000

Quick and simple way of burning an ISO image from the command line in Linux. First, find your devices with wodim, the use the cdrecord command to burn the ISO image.

$ wodim --devices
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) :
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 0  dev='/dev/scd0'	rwrw-- : 'LITE-ON' 'DVDRW LH-20A1P'
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$ cdrecord -v dev='/dev/scd0' Download/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686.iso

Then, you’re done.

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Installing Dropbox on Ubuntu (and others)

jonmoore — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:12:27 +0000

I’ve been using dropbox to sync and share files between my various computers for quite some time, and overall have been very pleased. However, one area things are not so great… documentation for installation on Linux. After having to reinstall on my notebook, I decided to somewhat document the hidden part of the process.

After downloading the .deb (or other package) and installing, dropbox instructions leave you hanging. There is no dropbox folder, there is no daemon running, nothing. The next step is simply to run dropbox start -i to install the daemon and launch the process to move forward. It’s simple, easy and poorly documented. Maybe dropbox should add this to the end of their install instructions?

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Using source control for config management

jonmoore — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:13:26 +0000

A project involving asterisk has forced me to find a way to help manage my configurations. I’m going to give using subversion a go at helping me to keep some level of change control and really simple backups, and I’m going to share my thoughts on that here. This post doesn’t have any new details, it’s simply a way for me to remember to update

Stay tuned.

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Super simple, limited and basic look at tar

jonmoore — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:42:00 +0000

Create a tar archive
tar -c -f archive.tar *

Create a compressed archive with gzip
tar -c -z -f archive.tar.gz *

You can also condense down the commands like so..
tar -czf archive.tar.gz *

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