Technical Stuff

Getting ALPINE to work with Microsoft's Mail Server when Evolution isn't an option Rational:  I had to work on my Linux box for a long term project and needed to be able to watch for new mail.  Evolution wasn't an option because the Exchange servers didn't allow Evolution to read certain settings and I couldn't find a (quick) work around to manually configure.  So I decided to run the Office Communicator in Google Chrome and to start-up Alpine to watch my mailbox via IMAP.  Here are the relevant settings to get that to work Find a valid SMTP server for your organization Hint:    dig example.com mx Configure   .pinerc user-domain=example.com smtp-server=mailserv.example.com/novalidate-cert default-saved-msg-folder={exchange.example.com/user=myid}Sent Items feature-list=enable-suspend,         quell-dead-letter-on-cancel,         enable-sigdashes,  ...

Making Microsoft Usable with Cygwin Making Microsoft Useful Through Cygwin Making Microsoft Useful Through Cygwin .bashrc changes .xinitrc .bashrc changes if [ "i686-pc-cygwin" = "${BASH_VERSINFO[5]}" ]; then   # uses UTF-8 now         LC_CTYPE=en_US;         export LC_CTYPE;         LANG=en_US.UTF-8;         export LANG; fi STMP=/cygdrive/c/Temp export STMP if [ -x /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/tracert ]; then     alias traceroute="/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/tracert " fi alias startxbig="/usr/bin/startx -- -multiwindow -multimonitors -nowinkill -unixkill -clipboard -emulate3buttons 50" alias ls="${DIR}/ls --color=auto -AFC " if grep --color=auto me /etc/passwd > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then         alias grep="grep --color=auto " fi .xinitrc #!/...

Configuring Fedora 17 for Xvnc through systemd/xinetd I found a number of links around but nothing exactly covered my setup.  I wanted to be able to run an X11 session from home as securely and efficiently as possible.  After configuring my home server like this: sudo yum install xinetd tigervnc-server-minimal sudoedit /etc/gdm/custom.conf [security] RelaxPermissions=0 [xdmcp] Enable=1 HonorIndirect=1 [greeter] Quiver=1 sudo useradd -d /var/empty/vncuser -m -s /bin/false vncuser sudoedit /etc/services vnc-1280 5910/tcp # VNC Listener sudoedit /etc/xinetd.d/vnc # BEGIN service vnc-1280 { socket_type = stream protocol = tcp wait = no user = vncuser server = /usr/bin/Xvnc server_args = -inetd -query localhost -desktop 1024x768x24 -once -geometry 1024x768 -NeverShared securitytypes=none } # END sudo systemctl start xinetd.service And you will need to restart GDM.  I couldn't get the systemctl restart prefdm stuff quite right, so I reboote...