Monthly Archives: October 2006

Thunderbird inbox opens slowly or not at all 2

If your Mozilla Thunderbird 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 even [...]

Apache mod_status and page not found 404 1

Problem: Checking the apache 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, this [...]

Clearing spamassassin BAYES filter tokens Comments Off

I recently had a problem where my Spamassassin install started thinking that a lot of spam 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, Firefox 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!
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Printing to a shared printer from DOS 1

If you or your client is using an old-DOS based program to do work (for example, Wordperfect for DOS) – and you need to print to a printer 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 [...]