Comments on: More Open-Source goodness

By: Andrew T

Andrew T — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:57:01 +0000

If only terminal services worked on 56k dialup and ADSL

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:01:30 +0000

We have network profiles and network drives here at College (as I’m sure almost everyone who reads this knows), but for some reason that I’ve not yet worked out, most programs use my precious H: drive to store their settings (in the H:\IExplore directory). I’m guessing there’s some kind of group policy / registry settings. So my firefox and thunderbird profiles are on my H: drive without me trying.

But I’ve never found mozilla profiles the most reliable of things, unless you stick to one application instance at a time – I’ve been caught out by locking on the profiles in the past. So I think they’d just take a hairy fit if I tried opening the same profile twice on different machines. OpenOffice.org is aware of which computers the profile is open on, and warns you about it.

But I mainly just use Terminal Services if I want access to any programs on my office PC when I’m ‘out in the field’.

By: Andrew T

Andrew T — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:40:23 +0000

Hmm.. Thunderbird and Firefox profiles on network drives… you can hack the prefs.js file to work like that. It’s working on about 30 peoples PCs as well, and seems stable. The only place it doesn’t work is on my PC, where every once in a while it claims that my profile is in use, and I can’t for the life of me work out why. The whole thing will probably come crashing down around my ears when it happens to all the other people…

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:01:05 +0000

Use procmail or dot.qmail files to do your filtering… then you don’t need the web interface open. That’s what does the spam pre-processing on fireburst.co.uk before it forwards on the mail and it works a treat.

Not that hard to learn either.

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