Remote Desktop from Ubuntu to windows XP

Well I believe this is some kind of very cool stuff. While you have the very stability of Linux, now you are able to use remote desktop to connect to a windows to use windows world advantages as well. The point is to have Terminal Server Client. The only thing you do choose Terminal Server Client from Application > Internet, and then type in your destination computer address ( or remote desktop server at university or somewhere), username & password , ...

Some tips : If you are connecting to a PC, make sure the Remote Desktop is enabled on your PC. Basically, right click on My Computer, click Properties. Choose the Remote tab, and click the check box for Remote Desktop. Then go to Windows firewall and add an exemption for Remote Desktop, if it didn't already. If you have a Symantec firewall or something else, make sure to open the port there instead!

Then use the Terminal Server Client in Ubuntu and give it the XP machine's IP address. Choose RDP as the protocol.

How to forward an URL to another website

Redirecting with HTTP-EQUIV Refresh
The "Refresh" HTTP-EQUIV meta-tag allows you to specify a timeout and a new page to load once that timeout has expired. To use it add the following to the HTML of the page line between the and sections:

Note:

The timeout (shown here as 5) is in seconds.
Be sure to change the URL to that of the desired page.
Insert double quotes exactly as shown.

Copy or makea back up of your thunderbird emails and addresses

All your emails, contacts, filters, settings and what not in one place — Mozilla Thunderbird — are great, but in two places they are even better. This is true in particular if that other place is a shiny new computer emitting the certain new laptop smell. Fortunately, copying all your Mozilla Thunderbird data is easy.

You may have noticed that I did not mention backups yet. This is because you need a backup when you have lost your data — and you won't lose your data. But, of course, you can (and should) create backup copies of your Mozilla Thunderbird profile by copying it.
Back Up or Copy Your Mozilla Thunderbird Profile (Email, Settings,...)

To copy your Mozilla Thunderbird profile:

* Make sure Mozilla Thunderbird is not running.
* Open your Mozilla Thunderbird profile directory.
* Highlight all files and folders in it.
* Copy the files to the desired backup location.
o You can compress the files and folders to a zip file and move the zip file instead.

Now you can restore the profile on another computer, or when problems arise.

How to get a back up of bookmarks in Firefox

I make regular backups of my Internet Explorer favorites which are placed in a folder named "Favorites" inside the user profile. In IE for every entry added to the favorites an Internet Shortcut (*.url) is created so the backup is actually a container of files with the url extension. Now that I am switching to FireFox it is important to keep my backup schedule but FireFox is using a different mechanism to store bookmarks! Instead of creating an entry for every bookmark it uses a single HTML file to hold the entire bookmarks and this HTML file is located in the user profile:

"Drive:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.qfb\bookmarks.html"

So by backing up "bookmarks.html" I will have my backup in place again and FireFox gives me the ability to search through my Bookmarks by keeping all the entries in this HTML format.



Source : http://www.itbuzzer.net/corner/2004/07/how-to-backup-firefox.asp

What is a DMS-59 ?

Well it took me a while to find out what the hell this port is @ work but I post it here, so it might helps others and prevent wasting of time ...

Wiki describes DMS-59 as followed :

DMS-59 is a 59-pin electrical connector generally used for computer video cards. It provides two DVI outputs on a single connector. An adapter cable is needed for conversion from DMS-59 to DVI or VGA, and different types of adapter cables exist. The connector is four pins high and 15 pins wide, with a single pin missing from the top row, in a D-shaped shell, with thumbscrews.

The application for DMS-59 is to support a higher density of video displays, in a similar amount of connector space to a DVI connector. DMS-59 supports two DVI Dual Link digital channels or two VGA analog channels from a single connector. The compact size lets a half-height card support two high resolution displays, and a full-height card (with two DMS-59 connectors) up to four high resolution displays.

The DMS-59 connector is used by ATI, NVIDIA, and Matrox for video cards sold in Lenovo Thinkcentres, Viglen Genies and Omninos, Dell, HP, and Sun computers. Some confusion has been caused by the fact that vendors label cards with DMS-59 as "supports DVI", but the cards do not have DVI connectors built-in. Such cards, when equipped with only the VGA connector adapter cable, cannot be connected to a monitor with only a DVI-D input. A DMS-59 to DVI adapter cable needs to be used with such monitors.

The DMS-59 connector is derived from the Molex Low Force Helix connector, which can also be found on some (presumably earlier) graphics cards. These ports are similar to the DMS-59 port, but have all 60 pins present, whereas DMS-59 has one pin (pin 58) blocked. You cannot put a connector plug with all 60 pins (such as a Molex 88766-7610 DVI-I splitter) into a properly keyed DMS-59 socket.

The photo is taken from wikipedia.

9th of July 2008 - 10:30
Source : Wikipedia