30 May 2010

Check badblocks on a device

If error occurs, strange behaviour or if SMART error are reported (Cf. instructions to get report), you should check file System (see next post), including bad blocks.

23 April 2010

Migrate you URL nicknames from Opera to Firefox

Follow those instructions:
 - under Opera, export your bookmarks (e.g. to /tmp/bookmarks.adr file)
 - into a console, parse the file like that :
cat /tmp/bookmarks.adr |tr -d '\n' |sed -e 's/#/\n/g;' |grep "SHORT NAME" |sed -e 's/.*URL=\([^ \t]*\)[ \t].*SHORT[ ]NAME=\([^ \t]*\)[ \t].*$/\2\t\1/g;' > /tmp/urlAlias.txt
 - under Firefox, go to Preferences of Url Alias add-on
 - copy/paste contents of /tmp/urlAlias.txt in "Configuration" panel

Firefox add-ons providing more or less same Opera functionalities

Those are Firefox add-ons which fit more or less some Opera functionalities I found the most useful:

20 April 2010

Goodbye Opera, Welcome back my Beloved Firefox Web Browser

I'd used Opera from May of 2008 to March of 2010, against my strong philosophy of open-source software use.

Flush a queue of e-mails

For various reasons it's possible that some e-mails are queued (for instance because of issue into an element of a full and safe emails server - e.g. too old packages, broken anti-virus, broken anti-spam ...).

After having fixed the issue, it's interesting to flush all queued e-mails, which can easily be done with the following command:
postqueue -f