Monkey of the Sea

You know how I wrote about all the stuff you have to do to get Thunderbird or Firefox to perform simple operations you’d like it to do and you had to edit the friggin’ registry yourself (and sometimes even add entries to it, that’s right, add, not just edit existing entries)? It was frustrating me to a point I was looking for another e-mail client and was really considering getting something working in text mode so I can finally take advantage of my e-mail instead of having my e-mail application take advantage of my time. Well, now I have an advice for you: if you want to take control over these and more annoying features of the apps mentioned, just get Seamonkey (wee, no more pages popping up in new windows/tabs when you don’t want ‘em to too!)

Have a fantastic day.

redhatredhat

I hate myself when I slack the time away instead of doing what I should be doing. Why am I doing this? And why I’m writing about that? And, since I’m in such an asking mood, why oh why am I writing this instead of doing what I should, since I realised I’m not doing it again?

Mayn!

See ya, I’m off to do something productive.

My wpa_supplicant configuration

Both for might-come-in-handy-to-someone and for my own future reference.

# network with WPA encryption and a pre-shared key
network={
ssid="network_ssid"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="network_password_aka_pre_shared_key"
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
}

# network with WPA encryption and EAP TTLS user-based authentication
network={
ssid="network_ssid"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
eap=TTLS
identity="username@domain"
password="password"
}

ATM in Kraków

I saw this while going back from uni to my flat.

Prevent Thunderbird from downloading attachments automatically when connecting via IMAP

To achieve this, go to Edit (or Tools in Windows), Preferences (or Options in Windows), Advanced, Configuration editor and input mail.inline_attachments, then double-click the item that remains on the list (so it is set to false).

Harry Potter vs. technology

http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/71451/showdown-harry-potter-vs-modern-technology

Password-less SSH login

This is the best article on password-less SSH login I’ve found:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152

Facebook apps

Oh my, my, my.

Debian on ASUS Eee PC 1005HA

I managed to install Debian on ASUS Eee PC 1005HA (sub-model H).

What I did was downloading the latest weekly build of Debian testing from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/, since SynrG from #debian-eeepc on OFTC told me the ath9k drivers (for the Atheros wifi card used in this laptop) should be merged into the kernel now. (Before that, neither ethernet nor wifi worked.)

The network cards installed in this model are:

• Wifi: Atheros AR9285
• Ethernet: Atheros AR8132

While I couldn’t run the text-mode installation, graphical installation worked just fine with one flaw: GRUB didn’t install. What I did was skipping this step (luckily Debian Installer allowed that) and getting Super Grub Disk from the Net, which I used to boot into Debian (listed as Boot Ubuntu GNU/Linux in Super Grub Disk) and remove the grub package and related packages (by doing apt-get autoremove), and then install grub-pc package (grub is currently an alias to grub-legacy, while grub-pc is GRUB 2. This should change in the future). Maybe grub-legacy would work too, but I just didn’t feel like testing at that point, since I already had a long run with trying to get Debian to work; I’d rather use the OS right away.

After that, I didn’t have to do anything more. Reboot and voila!

Oh, and I recommend changing the font sizes from 10pt to 8pt. They’re huge by default. (Or, even better, the DPI from 118 to 96.)

Custom trash folder in Thunderbird

What’s always been annoying me in Thunderbird was the lack of an option to choose your own “Trash” messages folder (the folder messages are moved to when you click “Delete”). It was annoying me so much I actually planned to create an extension which would add that option into the “Copies and folders” account configuration dialog, but it turned out there is such an option. The thing is, not only it’s not accessible in a GUI-zed way, it’s not even present in the configuration editor, but it’s supported by Thunderbird and you have to manually add it.

In order to set a custom trash folder in Thunderbird, you have to:

1. Go to the Configuration editor. To do so, click Edit -> Preferences (or Tools -> Settings/Preferences in Windows), select the Advanced tab and click Configuration editor (the bottom button; excuse me if it’s not the correct name, I’m using a localized version of Thunderbird).
2. In the Filter box, input: mail.server.server (yep, that’s right, server.server). Find the account you want to customize the trash folder for in the Value column and remember its number from the Name column (determined by mail.server.serverX, where X is the number you’re looking for).
3. Right-click anywhere in the list and select Add a setting -> String. In the first dialog, input mail.server.serverX.trash_folder_name (remember to change X to a correct number!) and click OK. In the next window type the name of your desired trash folder.
4. Restart Thunderbird (I recomment restarting it twice just in case, because after the first restart you’ll have the trash icon displayed by your old and new trash folder).

The next time you want to change this setting, just input mail.server.serverX.trash_folder_name in the Filter field and double-click the setting.