So I've been trying to get hotmail setup in Thunderbird but I cannot get it to work. I know hotmail IMAP works fine in Windows Live Mail. How can I get it to work in Thunderbird?
Which backup software do you recommend for Mac OS X?
As you probably know, Leopard comes with an integrated backup tool called Time Machine. It works pretty well despite it misses some advanced restore/search features.
Here's a list of backup software for Mac OS X:
Time Machine (integrated)
Carbon Copy Cloner (free)
SuperDuper (commercial)
iBackup (free)
Do you know more? What software do you use and which feature can't you live without?
I installed windows 7 and noticed that the battery status was "plugged in, not charging". I tried unplugging the battery, uninstalling the microsoft ACPI compliant Control Method, updating bios,windows. All to no avail. at first I tought it was related to windows 7 because it's a brand new laptop. But I also tested with a knoppix live cd, and there the output of acpi -V is this
Battery 0: Unknown, 0%
What else can I test to figure out what's going on.
My daughter uses Word and at some point in the past tried to install a feature which needed the install CD. She no longer has the CD, figured she could live without the feature and cancelled the install.
However, every time she boots the computer it tries to resume the install and asks for the CD. All you have to do is hit cancel but it seems a bit annoying to me to have to do that each time you boot.
How can I get it to permanently abort the install?
Can anyone explain this? On this laptop, ustream and justin.tv don't work - just get a blank screen. But UTube and bitgravoty work fine (also flash based).
64-bit windows 7 - but I have 64-bit windows 7 on my desktop machine and everything works fine there.
Good place to test is here http://live.twit.tv/ where the bitgravity feeds work fine, but ustream and justin.tv don't.
I have to do a virtual host to another virtual host transfer , Both of them are hosted on Rackspace , OS (Red hat 4 ).
client is using this server for hosting more than 10 live sites , lots of files in /var/www.
I transferred all files and db from old to new ,
My questions:
what else should I need to worry about ?
how to transfer all cron job too?
is I need to make entry of each site on httpd.conf or rackspace will do it , during IP swapping ?
I use Outlook 2007, and have a Hotmail/Live webmail account. Using Outlook Connector, I want them to be synced to Outlook 2007 on my Windows 7 HP machine, however when I click on the folder name (e.g. [email protected]) in the 'Navigation Pane' under all the usual folders such as 'Inbox', 'Deleted Items', etc, it just shows a blank inbox stating that there are no items to be shown.
My setup: I have a MacBook Pro 5,5 with a Mac OS X Snow Leopard partition and a Linux partition. I use rEFIt to boot into Linux. I didn't use Boot Camp when I originally installed Linux; instead, I manually created the partition (with either Disk Utility in OS X or Gparted on a Linux live CD--I don't recall which one) and then installed Linux on it from a live CD.
The problem: My OS X partition is corrupt, and I need to reinstall Snow Leopard. Since I installed rEFIt from within OS X, I'm concerned that wiping the OS X partition will prevent me from booting into my Linux partition. How can I do this without losing access to my Linux partition? Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on the partition I reserved for it, or will it automatically overwrite the entire drive? And if I do the fresh OS X install and then install rEFIt again, will it automatically recognize my Linux partition?
Thanks for any tips!
Specs: MacBook Pro 5,5 (Mid-2009); Snow Leopard 10.6.7/64-bit Sabayon Linux, 2.6.36 kernel
EDIT/UPDATE:
Thanks, but the situation has taken a more complicated turn:
I tried to reinstall Snow Leopard from the DVD, but it refused to install onto my Mac partition, claiming: "The disk cannot be used to start up your computer." Disk Utility wouldn't let me resize the partition or create a new one, and it doesn't see my Linux partition. It only displays the two partitions "Macintosh HD" and Linux Swap.
I can, however, see all the partitions from Linux. This is the partition table as shown in Gparted:
And the output of "fdisk -l" is:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 409639 204819+ ee GPT
/dev/sda2 409640 349590464 174590412+ af HFS / HFS+
/dev/sda3 483122745 488392064 2634660 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 * 349590465 483122744 66766140 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I wonder if this is because I originally partitioned my disk with Gparted instead of OS X's Disk Utility (at this point, I don't recall whether I used Gparted or Disk Utility). In any case, it doesn't seem safe to do any reformatting with Disk Utility now, as I'm afraid it will wipe sda2 ("Macintosh HD") as well as sda4 (my Linux partition).
So... I'm hoping to find a solution that doesn't involve wiping my entire hard disk. Would it be safe/possible to use Gparted to erase sda2 ("Macintosh HD") and then use the Snow Leopard DVD to install OS X onto [I]just[/I] sda2 without touching the other partitions?
Thanks for any insight!
So I've got a Mac in the post coming to me, and will probably be doing quite a bit of development on it so I am looking for a text editor (PHP + HTML mainly).
I curently use Notepad++ on Windows and I simply cannot live without the function list plugin (It displays all functions in the current PHP file in a box on the right). Do any Mac text editors have this functionality? I am fairly sure that Notepad++ isn't available on an Apple.
Thanks!
I wanna upload a song to youtube, and put a static 1280x720 pic as the video. I'd like the format to be one of the recommended ones.
I tried Windows Movie Maker 2.6 but it only generated a 640x480 video.
I also tried Windows Live Movie Maker but it put a big black margin around my pic (and unexplicably, produced a video with a slightly lower volume).
Do you know any way to do what I need?
I have recently (as of July 2012) bought a HP Pavilion dv6-6c40ca laptop. It came pre-installed with Windows 7 on an MBR. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it on a GPT partition in what I think is BIOS emulation mode. I made a BIOS-Grub partition so the install didn't fail. That is what it is for .. right? Now I want to upgrade to UEFI mode.
How would I Install Ubuntu 12.04 in UEFI mode on a HP Pavilion dv6-6c40ca.
Or is it impossible? My laptop, despite its new age may not be UEFI 2.0+ capable. If it isn't how can I install a software UEFI (i.e. a DUET such as the one by tianocore). Or is this too impossible?
A link to my laptop's specs is: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03137924&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=ca&dlc=en&lang=en&lc=en&product=5218530
My laptop should have a UEFI given this link from HP http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01442956#N218. And from the link I draw a quote: That means most notebooks distributed with Windows Vista, and all notebooks distributed with Windows 7, have the UEFI environment. My laptop had Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed.
OK. Following the comments so far --
NOTE: I am trying to do this on an external drive so I can see if it works.
I have partitioned the drive using GParted as a GPT drive.
Created a 200MB partition at the beginning of the drive with a FAT32 file system.
Given the 200MB partition a label of "EFI".
Set the boot flag on the 200MB partition.
What should a do next to install Ubuntu 12.04?
Given the link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting#Selecting_the_.28U.29EFI_Graphic_Protocol
In my first read through (just to see if I will understand everything before I start) I get to step 2.3 Install GRUB2 in (U)EFI systems
The first line is Boot into Linux (any live ISO) preferably in UEFI mode. Um .. how do you tell what mode your live CD is in?! And how do you change it if the mode is wrong?
First, is this possible?
Second, how can I install Grub2? Would it be possible to use an Ubuntu Live CD?
Third, what Grub2 settings would be needed to achieve this?
Has anyone managed to get Opensuse (any version) with KDE3 running on Acer Aspire One AOA 150 with all the device drivers? References:
http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick
http://news.opensuse.org/2009/01/09/unofficial-kde-35-live-cd-for-opensuse-111/
Can anyone explain this? On this laptop, ustream and justin.tv don't work - just get a blank screen. But YouTube and bitgravity work fine (also flash based).
64-bit windows 7 - but I have 64-bit windows 7 on my desktop machine and everything works fine there.
Good place to test is here http://live.twit.tv/ where the bitgravity feeds work fine, but ustream and justin.tv don't.
Our site was running fine with Apache, but I am switching us over to Nginx (with php-fastcgi) to be more scalable.
Everything is working fine except our HTML gets truncated sometimes (usually on large pages).
Live server running Apache: http://bros4bros.com/index.php?action=browse_members&members_page=50 (WARNING: half naked guys!)
New server running Nginx: http://50.56.238.208/index.php?action=browse_members&members_page=50
I have tried modifying these settings with no avail:
max_execution_time
fastcgi_send_timeout
Does anyone know where I can find the i386 centos 4.7 repos files that would normally sit in /etc/yum.repos.d. Alas, it looks like someone copied the 5.5 edition over to a 4.7 system.
I can setup a new VM, install 4.7 and extract the files from that system (but I was hoping for a faster approach.
Please let me know if you know where these files live on the net. I'm off to RPMfind to see what I can locate.
Thanks
Peter
Background
I have VirtualBox on Linux and recently the drive with the system files failed on me. I'm able to use the Live CD to view the files of the storage drive, and through this, I can copy my data files to another computer while I work on this one.
How do I load the .vdi in another computer (or in this case, the fresh install of Ubuntu)? I see many samples online of how to export it, but it assumes the host is currently working.
Thanks!
i have made a live boot usb using UnetBootIn tool for ubuntu desktop 9.10 , i have windows xp sp2 installed as primary os and i want to make a partition for ubuntu but when i try to boot it via usb , it just goes to boot menu of ubuntu , then i enter the default type for installation after that nothing happens , just the ubuntu logo showed up and just that nothing happens after that ,
i can try the simpler task also i.e.via cd install but i want to know what's not working with this usb boot method
Thnx n Advance
I've windows 8.1 pro Build 9600 x64 installed, I have recently installed Windows Movie Maker 2012 (Latest) via Windows Live Essential,
Now when I run Movie Maker it disable Movie Maker sound as well as all windows sound and keeps it mute until I close Movie Maker, as per their suggestion Huge Problems With Movie Maker Sound I have also updated my audio drivers,
I'm using Dell Inspiron 15R 5520, and I have this audio device/driver Conexant HD CX20672-21Z Audio Driver with Version 8.54.37.0,A03 Last Updated 12/20/2013
I need to edit and create a video by this weekend and this is the only tool I know how to use,
I asked Skype team if they have a corporate instant messenger, but they didn't give me a straight answer.
My company wants employees to send message and files to each other, just like Skype or Windows Live Messenger.
The bottom line here is: they don't want people to contact internet users. Only employees would be possible contacts.
Is there any product like this?
I think would be necessary a corporate server for this solution?
I'm interested in finding a free piece of software for Windows XP & 7 that allows us to measure both incoming and outgoing internet traffic, but not traffic between users of the local network.
I live in a shared household with three others, and we're interested to see which of us is using the largest amount of our monthly internet quota. We're all happy to install the necessary software.
Any suggestions?
There is this file that I really want to download. The kahel os live cd
I tried downloading it with 45kbps download rate and it would take 3 hours. And the connection is intermittent. So my download was cut.
Is it possible to treat the file as your own and then put it to your own dropbox. And from there it would continue downloading.
Has anyone tried streaming media with VLC as server? I want to deploy VLC as streaming server, but my department didn't had a nice experience with VLC streaming.
My question is has anyone tried VLC streaming over LAN with as many as 200 clients? What were the precautions to be taken before going for the actual showdown? What kind of transport stream is better for a smoother live streaming?
Are any test bench I can use to convince my superiors?
As I boot into the Ubuntu 10.10 (or 11.04, doesn't matter) live environment or installer, it just refuses to recognise my Vertex 2. It reports the disk as ATA and not supporting smart, shows no serial number, and doesn't list the size correctly.
All fdisk tells me is Unable to read /dev/sda (it's the only storage in the PC).
I'm now running a temporary install of Windows 7 off of it, which worked like a charm, so where am I going wrong with Ubuntu...
Specs:
Asus M4N68T-M LE V2 (BIOS 0702, most recent)
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 60 GB
Amd Athlon II X4 640
Patriot PSD34G13332 4GB DDR3 ram (two banks)
EDIT
I installed a second drive, installed Ubuntu on that and booted, it recognised the SSD just fine. I'm now trying to apt-get upgrade the live-environment. I wonder if there is any way to sort of install Ubuntu from Ubuntu (I boot into the working install on the other drive, install it on the SSD and then boot from the SSD).
EDIT2
Ok, so that doesn't work. The install detects the SSD, however, it cannot format it.
EDIT3
After a fresh boot I can read out SMART-data and even perform a read-benchmark, but if I try to format it, or do a write-bench, it'll crap out and after that it says SMART is not supported. So basically it seems I can't write to the disk, as it will stop working when I do, I will try to run repeated read-benchmarks to see if that has any effect.
EDIT4
I'm running several read benchmarks on the drive right now, they give results that are to be expected from an SSD. If the read-benches don't fail, I can use fdisk on the disk, but it is now stuck trying to re-read the partition table after issueing the 'w' command.
EDIT5
Parted Magic did recognize the drive and with hdparm -I even could tell me the drive was in a frozen state. I powercycled it (just pull out the plug from the SSD and plug it back in) and it wasn't frozen anymore. After that I could upgrade the firmware on the drive (still using Parted Magic) and format it to Ext4. After I rebooted into the Ubuntu installer, it wouldn't get recognized and hdparm didn't want to talk to it saying HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid exchange.
EDIT6
For some reason if I enable one of the RAID controllers (the one the SSD is connected to, obviously) Ubuntu will let me format it, mount it and write to it. The installer also recognizes it. However if the raid controller is enabled but no array is defined the motherboard can't boot from it :(