Sunday, January 22, 2012

Ubuntu 11.10 and Thunderbird 9 and addons

Install Thunderbird 9.0 for ubuntu 11.10, source.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thunderbird

Addons:
AddressBookTab
CompactHeader
Exchange 2007/2010 Calendar and Task Provider
Google Contacts
Lighting
No message Pane Sorting by Mouse
Provider for Google calendar
SmartTemplate 4
Folderpane Tools

Turning:
- remove all controls(button, search area) from main toolbar to economize on vertical space - as toolbar contains never used buttons.

Result:

to show buttons for reply/forward/.... you can change preferences of CompactHeader, by right click over mail header/panel, select "CompactHeader Preferences" and select "right", result is below:

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Play DVD video disc in Ubuntu 11.10

It is necessary to install additional dvd libraries from medibuntu repositories, source of wisdom is here.
32bit
Code:
wget -c http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_i386.deb
64bit
Code:
wget -c http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libdvdcss2_1.2.9-2medibuntu4_amd64.deb

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Service command not found at CentOS 5.7

CentOS 5.7, attempt to restart PostgreSql server cause error


[root@server user]# sudo service postgresql initdb
sudo: service: command not found

Solution:

 /sbin/service should be added it to environment variables like this

vi ~/.bash_profile

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/sbin


logout/login

for errors of service startup review /var/lib/pgsql/pgstartup.log.