July 2008 Archives

Jul 30, 2008

Avoiding catastrophe!

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Linux No comments

All UNIX administrators, if they’ve not been bit by a typo like this, have heard of it (or something like it) happening:

cd /
rm -rf foo *
Notice the extra space, and the current working directory. Instead of deleting directories beginning with the name “foo” it will delete everything!
How can this be avoided? There are number [...]


Jul 29, 2008

Copy your files faster with TeraCopy on Windows

Posted by Martin Perron in Software Reviews No comments

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time [...]


Jul 23, 2008

Better Gmail 2 – A nice addon for Firefox

Posted by Martin Perron in Software Reviews No comments

Want to try a nice addon on firefox? Try Better Gmail 2.
Lot of feature and a nice skin called Redesigned
Website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6076


Jul 23, 2008

HowTo eject or close the tray (Mac OS X)

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Mac OS X No comments

With Apple, you need the apple keyboard in order to eject or close the cd/dvd tray. But if you don’t have the keybord, how can you do this?
Simply by going to the Terminal (Application – Utility) and type this command
For ejecting the tray:
drutil tray eject
For Closing the tray:
drutil tray close


Jul 21, 2008

Migrate and upgrade Zimbra to a new server

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Linux 3 comments

Want to upgrade your Zimbra server but you wanna make sure the upgrade won’t crash your production server? the best way is to migrate it to a new server.
What you need?

- A new server! (with minimum 2 Hard Drive, 2 to 4GB of RAM)
- Same OS on the new server than the previous install
- [...]