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on the server, in /etc/exports:

/home/somedirectory 192.168.1.0/24(no_root_squash,rw,nohide)

then after editing /etc/exports, refresh the NFS server with:

# /sbin/exportfs -a

After much procastination and personal interuptions (you can tell, I haven’t been blogging that often lately) , I’ve managed to install Subversion running as a subdomain with Plesk 8.0 and CentOS 4.3…

rest of the story on Alex Le’s blog

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On an XP system: When Firefox fails to regard Thunderbird the “Default Mail Application” (even though you set that elsewhere) the problem may be solved by:

•  Opening the Control Panel
• Opening the Folder Options
• On the File Types tab, find the  (None) URL:MailTo entry
• Click the Advanced button
• In the Actions window, you should see the entry: open
• Click the Edit… button
• Set the Application Used to Perform Action to the correct path of your Thunderbird as:

“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe” -compose “%1″

Worth a look –

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  A complete solution for remote access to your Unix workstation. It allows 2 concurrent users to connect no matter what their location is, and share the desktop. NX Free Edition is incredibly easy to install and run, leverages the competence and quality of the company that makes NX and, most importantly, is free forever.

• 2X TerminalServer
  

  Using a compressed version of the X protocol, 2X TerminalServer for Linux provides users with a secure, personal Linux desktop accessible from anywhere in the world, over any connection…

  2X TerminalServer for Linux is an Open Source project, licensed under the GPL and is free of charge. Only user to user support is available via the 2X forums.

If you’ve tried to open a Peachtree company file on a computer that serves company-files but isn’t actually running the Pervasive engine, Peachtree can irrecoverably hang at startup.

Using the Registry editor, find and modify:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Peachtree\Peachtree Complete Accounting\14\Options
lastcompanyopenlong

and set it to the “real” company file — or to a legal filename that doesn’t exist.  Then Peachtree will start and you can re-point it to the correct location.

Default parameters for new users — like minimum “user” UID, the location of the skeleton directory, and such, varies between the major GNU/Linux distros –

Had to dig a little for this one.  If you have created a mailman email list and need to reset the password:

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/change_pw -l mail-list-name -p new-password

This little program runs as a temporary server, possibly on your local machine or wherever you can run it, and shows you in plaintext what it receives thru FTP or POP3… in order to recover passwords saved in a program.

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By default, many FTP servers don’t list ‘.’ and ‘..’ (current and parent directories) which confuses lftp when uploading a mirorr copy. What happens is that lftp sends a “list” command and, if it’s in an empty directory, lftp gets nothing back.

Solution: use

set ftp:list-options -a

This forces the remote ftp server to include ‘.’ and ‘..’ to keep lftp happy.