In some cases, Firefox’s default layout.css.dpi value of -1 may result in abnormally large font sizes. This can be fixed by going to about:config and changing the value to 72 or 96. It’s likely that this could apply to more than just Ubuntu and Firefox 3 Beta 5.
This is one of the most useful technical resources I have ever seen. Check out the Unix Toolbox. You will find this guide extremely valuable whether you are a seasoned Linux/BSD veteran or not.
Have you ever noticed that it’s nearly impossible to mount a password-protected Samba share in Windows Vista? Well, after filtering through error logs and searching the Internet I found a solution. I know this may be hard to believe, but the problem is not with Samba. It appears that Vista defaults to the NTLMv2 protocol, which Samba does not support.
To make this problem go away, simply run secpol.msc and go to Local Policies followed by Security Options. Look for Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level. Change Send NTLMv2 response only to Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated.
After making that change I was able to mount the network shares without issue.
If you run Mutt and Postfix on your home LAN, it’s probably in your best interest to relay all outgoing mail to a dedicated mail server. Oddly enough, it’s not that hard to setup.
Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and add the following lines:
relayhost = mail.domain.tld smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/passwd smtp_sasl_security_options =
Create the password file/hash and paste the following using your own authentication credentials:
mail.domain.tld username:password
Create the hash:
postmap hash:/etc/postfix/passwd
And finally, restart Postfix. Double check your logs to make sure everything is working as it should.
From now on I will be sharing most of my projects in a read-only SVN repository. You may currently check out some of my configuration files. I will eventually get around to importing everything else.
Edit: All of the projects available on this website have been moved to the subversion repository.
