Category Archives: Administration

speedup slow Mozilla Thunderbird email client on Windows 7

Posted on 03/07/2017 by sta.ee

How to speedup slow Mozilla Thunderbird email client on Windows 7 Worked for me, reposting. Edit Thunderbird options under Preferences → Advanced → General tab, click on “Advanced options” button and set these values: layers.acceleration.disabled = true gfx.direct2d.disabled = false … Continue reading →

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rsync over samba on debian 8 jessie for switching to newer hardware

Posted on 10/05/2017 by sta.ee

On server swap it is needed to move data from one server to another with preserving all attributes and access times. New server is installed from clean (just for fun and to prevent some old errors from updates or hacks … Continue reading →

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MiniSAS, MiniSAS HD, IPASS, SFF8087, SFF8643 example

Posted on 24/03/2017 by sta.ee

Always need this information, decided to create post for it. CBL-SAST-0507-01 HD SAS -> mSAS(SFF8087) SFF8643 to SFF8087 Mini SAS Cable cable suits to rs2bl0x0 (miniSAS or ipass or sff8087) and hdsas backplane on supermicros cse-826be1c-r902lpb, like this one: https://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/826/SC826BE1C-R920LPB … Continue reading →

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thunderbird (45.7.1) local folders arhive transfer to another profile

Posted on 06/03/2017 by sta.ee

I run Thunderbird (45.7.1) for my emails with two profiles: First is current and another is with old archives. Once a year I want to transfer old archive folder from current profile to backup profile. In windows, Open start>run> %appdata%\Thunderbird\Profiles\XXXXXXX.default\Mail\Local … Continue reading →

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ddrescue map file bad sectors position counting

Posted on 03/02/2017 by sta.ee

If hdd failed and image recovered by ddrescue, might be necessary to know the failed sectors positions. For example hdd failed and recover by ddrescue /dev/sdd /dev/null /root/1tb.log –force log its content: # Rescue Logfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version … Continue reading →

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ssh user for scp only, chrooted

Posted on 24/08/2016 by sta.ee

controlled at OpenSSH_6.0p1, Debian-4+deb7u2 If I write commands with # – that is root permission required. Remember to use sudo instead of root console. 1. in /etc/ssh/sshd_config add Match group groupforscponly ChrootDirectory ~ X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no ForceCommand internal-sftp note … Continue reading →

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w7, w8.1, w10 virtualstore dir

Posted on 19/04/2016 by sta.ee

Some programs tend to hold files they use in programfiles folders, but windows wants to not to let it. When some files in program files are missing, seek for following paths: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore

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debian 8.1 install ntfs-3g 1:2012 instead of 1:2014 and set it to no autoupdate

Posted on 06/07/2015 by sta.ee

It’s happened, that 1:2014 version of ntfs-3g does not work correctly for me (drops input/output error when mounted, ls -alh for that mounted partition will show d????????? instead of correct permissions drwxr-xr-x for example) The way I solved this problem … Continue reading →

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Debian 7 ( 7.8 ) remove unneeded translation and localization files (Estonian)

Posted on 25/05/2015 by sta.ee

In case the lang is set, default programs try to translate interface to this language. Found a few tricks that could change it: apt to download en translations # sudo sh -c ‘echo ” Acquire::Languages \”en\”;” > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations’ delete already … Continue reading →

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choosing default editor in Debian (7.7)

Posted on 15/01/2015 by sta.ee

Always after new debian install I forget a command to configure default editor: update-alternatives –config editor Then choose default editor. If missing from list, install it first. My option “vim” is available by installed default.

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