Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Launch Firefox from Thunderbird

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

To make Thunderbird uses Firefox as default browser, just add these lines on your all-thunderbird.js.
If you’re using Debian and install Thunderbird from .tar.gz package, look to /usr/local/src/thunderbird/defaults/pref/all-thunderbird.js.

pref(”network.protocol-handler.app.http”, “/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox”);
pref(”network.protocol-handler.app.https”, “/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox”);
pref(”network.protocol-handler.app.ftp”, “/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox”);

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Debian Installation on Thinkpad T41.

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

This tutorial page is intended to provide information about how to install Debian Sarge on Thinkpad T41 (2373-1Fa). The latest version of this tutorial is available here

Quick ‘n Dirty GPG Key Implementation

Monday, July 18th, 2005

I feel like I need to put this tutorial here as I tend to forget things easily. Here’s the quick ‘n dirty GPG key implementation. If you need more explanations, please read Gnu Privacy Guard tutorial, part 1 or www.gnupg.org

Install Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 as Firefox plugin

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

I installed Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux about a month ago while I needed to open a pdf document that required document authentication from its origin server. The document was successfully opened, but my Firefox browser could not open any pdf document anymore. Firefox was able to open pdf document using previous Adobe Reader version, [...]

DicOOo

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Yes, I admit that I’m very late using this spelling features on OpenOffice.org.
To install, download and open DicOOo.sxw (I get it from here).
For complete information you can read it from here