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Lucid: http://www.secudb.de/~seuffert/mozilla/ Karmic: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa/+packages ( Will install also firefox 3.5 daily build by default!! ) http://blog.thomas-lauria.de/archives/9-Mozilla-Lightning-1.0b1-for-Thunderbird-3-on-linux-amd64.html Download Dutch 32 bit tar version from http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-3.0&os=linux&lang=nl Extract tar cp thunderbird-3.0/dictionaries/nl.* /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.0*/dictionaries/ Update: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThunderbirdLightning http://themikecam.com/blog/2009/10/05/64-bit-lightning-builds-for-linux/ http://www.secudb.de/~seuffert/mozilla/2010-01-12%20-%20lightning%201.0pre%20x86_64%20linux%20english/

On the to-be-woken-up computer make sure to enable ACPI/APM (S3/STR) and Wake-On-Lan(WOL) in the BIOS and add in /etc/network/interfaces: post-up /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g post-down /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol g Write down the MAC-ADDRESS. Powerdown the computer. Only when the computer is powered downContinue reading

After some trouble compiling nzbget for Debian mips, I created a Debian package for it. Click the continue reading button to download.

I installed VirtualBox 3.0.6 and installed a couple of Guest OS’es. During the installation of a OEL 5.3 Linux as Guest, I discovered that the VirtualBox process for this Guest on the host was consuming between 55% and 85% of CPU usage, even though theContinue reading

I find it not always easy to find the correct theme, with the correct icons and the correct colour scheme. The letters should not be to be big or to small. Menu’s and windows and widgets should look nice, but remain visible and easy toContinue reading

Compiz works fine on my new 64 bit Dell Latitude E6400 laptop’s LVDS screen. Only after connecting a big LCD screen and using gnome-display-settings to extend my Desktop to this monitor, compiz fails to start and makes the following complaint: Comparing resolution (3040×1200) to maximumContinue reading

Since VMWare Server 2 everything is administrated from a webinterface. This works nice and looks nice. Unfortunately I could not open the Console to the Guest OS. Starting and stopping the Guest OS no problem, but no graphical console. When opening the console in theContinue reading

The CTRL-ALT-DELETE option in the Server Console of VMWare Server 2.0.1( 2009/03/31 | Build: 156745 ) is missing. This is very anoying. In Ubuntu, when pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE the ‘Close Computer’ screen appears. Also pressing CTRL-ALT removes keyboaard/mouse control from the VMWare Server Console window backContinue reading

vlc, mplayer, kdenlive are not able to open my webcam(/dev/video), while aMSN is able to. I have the following webcam: ID 046d:08ad Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX It seems that Ubuntu recently switched from V4L to V4L2 causing some trouble with some devices. Fortunately thereContinue reading

I created a very nice project which turns an OpenWRT supported router into an embedded device running a full Debian ARM GNU/Linux distribution instead of the default small Busybox/uLibc based OpenWRT distribution. I called the project DebWRT. It took me a lot of time toContinue reading