Sunday, February 21, 2010

Move Thunderbird Email Profiles To Another Location

The email client Mozilla Thunderbird uses a similar structure of storing data
in so called profiles which are saved by default in the user directory of the operating system.There
are a number of reasons why some users might want to move the data from the Thunderbird folder
to another custom folder....

Installing IE7 On Ubuntu

==== command Line Instructions for Installing Wine: ====

First, open a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). Then add the repository's key to your system's list of trusted APT keys by copy and pasting the following into your terminal:

BSNL EVDO wireless modem on Ubuntu 9.04

Configure Bsnl EVDO wireless Modem on Ubuntu 9.04

Steps to connect are:

1. Open terminal, become root user :
$ sudo -s
$ sudo apt-get install wvdial
create the dialup profile
$ wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf
This creates a file called /etc/wvdial.conf with default settings.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Linux Create Software RAID 1 (Mirror) Array

How do I create Software RAID 1 arrays on Linux systems without using GUI tools or installer
options? How do I setup RAID 1 array under Linux systems?
You need to install mdadm which is used to create, manage, and monitor Linux software MD
(RAID) devices. RAID devices are virtual devices created from two or more real block devices.
This allows multiple devices (typically disk drives or partitions) to be combined into a single device
to hold (for example) a single filesystem. Some RAID levels include redundancy and can survive
some degree of device failure...