a7p's » thunderbird http://a7p.org/blog code, confusion, confessions Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:54:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Setting up a WindowsPC – Part I (hope it’ll be only a triology) http://a7p.org/blog/2009/02/04/setting-up-a-windowspc-%e2%80%93%c2%a0part-i-hope-itll-be-only-a-triology/ http://a7p.org/blog/2009/02/04/setting-up-a-windowspc-%e2%80%93%c2%a0part-i-hope-itll-be-only-a-triology/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:11:53 +0000 A7P http://a7p.org/blog/2009/02/04/setting-up-a-windowspc-%e2%80%93%c2%a0part-i-hope-itll-be-only-a-triology/ Continue reading →]]> /me has to set up a WindowsPC – has been a long time since I was last forced into this. I feel a bit rusty concerning Windows matters.
Here I will list what I’ve done so far:
  1. installed Antivir
  2. system updates (including all the restriction stuff)
  3. activating – via telephone (yeah, this sucks), since I’ve installed this version too often (used it for VM-experiments heavily)
  4. installed Mozilla Firefox 3
  5. installed Mozilla Thunderbird
  6. installed OpenOffice 3
  7. installed 7zip (free compressor)
  8. installed Flash (and felt bad about it)
  9. installed AcrobateReader (and felt bad about it too)
  10. installed VirtualBox
  11. installed Console 2 (latest beta)
  12. concated my partimage-files (I want to virtualize an old W2k-installation with lot’s of ugly software which needs to get activated) – did not install ‘cat’, but tried: copy /b <fileA?+<fileB>+<fileC>+<fileD> <newfile>
  13. used 7zip to uncompress the resulting file
  14. used VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw <infile> <outfile.vdi> to generate a VirtualBox disk image.

Then I got struck – my newly generated image simply did not boot – more on this later.

Currently everything to step 9 would be a simple aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade && aptitude install <application-list> under Linux.

Things I did not install:

  • Palm Desktop (this PC will be used with an old Garmin): I hope it will work from the virtual machine … this software and it’s drivers are at least a pain.
  • M$-Office: only got an old very old version and don’t feel like buying a new one. Excel and co will be available in the VM as a fallback option – OpenOffice should do the job.
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Sadly Message-ID-Finder does not seem to be under active development, so the you have to adjust the installation-requirements in install.rdf in order to enjoy this wonderful extension. Even though this is ugly in some way – this extension rocks!

]]> http://a7p.org/blog/2008/02/03/extension-of-the-day-messageidfinder/feed/ 0 Once upon a time (firefox location-bar-searching) http://a7p.org/blog/2008/01/27/once-upon-a-time-firefox-location-bar-searching/ http://a7p.org/blog/2008/01/27/once-upon-a-time-firefox-location-bar-searching/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:47:40 +0000 A7P http://a7p.org/2008/01/27/once-upon-a-time-firefox-location-bar-searching/ Continue reading →]]> Once upon a time, the Mozilla webbrowser allowed specifying the searchengine using a shortcut, you just typed your query into the location-bar, pressed “down” and Mozilla suggested asking Google about it.
The SearchWords extension brings something way better to Firefox: The SearchWords Add-on allows you to specify your search-engine using the Konquerer style (which is one of the few things I always liked about Konquerer. Just specify some shortcuts for certain search-modules you have available via the search-box and enjoy searching for “g apache doc”, “i Wes Anderson”, “cc chinese wall”.

]]> http://a7p.org/blog/2008/01/27/once-upon-a-time-firefox-location-bar-searching/feed/ 0 Thunderbird – domain missmatches & somehow broken certificates http://a7p.org/blog/2007/12/25/thunderbird-domain-missmatches-somehow-broken-certificates/ http://a7p.org/blog/2007/12/25/thunderbird-domain-missmatches-somehow-broken-certificates/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:52:15 +0000 A7P http://a7p.org/2007/12/25/thunderbird-domain-missmatches-somehow-broken-certificates/ Continue reading →]]> If your ssl-certificates domain should differ from the actual domain you are using to establish the secure connection to your mailserver, install this extension, check the domainmissmatch carefully ONCE and never again think about arguing with your Systemadministrator (because of this particular problem).

If Thunderbird still complains about your certificates, try installing the Cert Viewer Plus, to save your certificate and import it as a trusted authority afterwards – I’m feeling lucking now.

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