Monthly Archives: October 2006

Thunderbird inbox opens slowly or not at all View Comments

If your [tag]Mozilla Thunderbird[/tag] is slow to open the inbox, or any other folder for that matter, there are two things that you can do to try to fix this problem. Step #1: The first thing is to try to compact the folder. This should help if you have a large inbox. If you can’t [...]

Apache mod_status and page not found 404 View Comments

Problem: Checking the [tag]apache[/tag] server status with the command “apachectl status”, “service httpd fullstatus” or by viewing http://server/server-status I get the message: “The requested URL /server-status was not found on this server” or your alternative 404 page not found error. Answer: Assuming you have the module loaded and set up per the documentation of mod_status, [...]

Clearing spamassassin BAYES filter tokens Comments Off

I recently had a problem where my [tag]Spamassassin[/tag] install started thinking that a lot of [tag]spam[/tag] messages were really ham (non-spam). Since these were getting BAYES_00 scores of -2.5 they were almost all getting through my spam filter. These particular messages all were regarding STOCK quotes and were pretty obviously spam just by looking at [...]

Firefox 2.0 is out Comments Off

Hey, [tag]Firefox[/tag] 2.0 is out! Get it here. Improved tabbed browsing, additional customization, feed enhancements, and security improvements. If you haven’t tried Firefox before, there is no better time than now!

Printing to a shared printer from DOS View Comments

If you or your client is using an old-DOS based program to do work (for example, [tag]Wordperfect[/tag] for [tag]DOS[/tag]) – and you need to [tag]print[/tag] to a [tag]printer[/tag] which is shared on the network, you first need to map the printer to an LPT port. You do this by using the following command in a [...]