Zimbra Desktop and other musings

Posted on May 11, 2008
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Today I downloaded and installed Zimbra desktop. I’m not completely sold on it, but I have yet to find an email program that I am sold on. So I will continue to check it out and let you know what I think.

On another front I am getting the beginnings for a website that will centralize everything that I do on the web. Mainly facebook, twitter, myspace, email, rss feeds and possibly Instant Messaging. Then possibly from there implementing this into a desktop application that can either sync with the webpages or sync with the centralized website. Unfortunately I am pretty much a newb at all of this so I cam sure this is going to take a while to come to total fruition. Hopefully I will blog about the progress. If you have any suggestions or would be interested in helping. Let me know.

Raggle - RSS Feed Reader for the Command line

Posted on April 6, 2008
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Raggle is a feed reader that I just discovered for the Command Line. You can import opml files or just add the feeds you want manually.
To install:
sudo apt-get install raggle

To run you just type raggle in the command line. To import an opml file you just type:

raggle –import-opml filename

If you just want to add one feed:

raggle -a webaddress

Wishlist and other rants

Posted on March 28, 2008
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So this evening I was updating my task list, and decided to start working on a “wishlist” of applications or hacks I would like to see in Ubuntu/linux/Gnome….

The reason I did this is I really would like to learn python and if I can give myself some applications to look at and try to decipher in my head I think that maybe I can actually figure it out. I really get the feeling that I will actually just be giving myself a headache :)

Personal Wishlist:

A hiveminder/Remember the Milk plugin for evolution. Yes I know hiveminder has rss feeds and can send you emails. Don’t want that….I want my tasks from evolution to be synced to hiveminder. Or RTM for all that I care.

A Gnome-do plugin for RTM/Hiveminder. I don’t use gnome-do a lot but some form of integration for RTM to and/or from evolution would be awesome…would go hand in hand with my first wish.

A gnome-do plugin howto. Maybe a screencast showing what happens…even if it is the nefarious “Hello World” Maybe not a how-to as much as a lets make all the plugins work the same way. No matter the platform, plugin goes here….and on and on.

Thunderbird

Posted on March 23, 2008
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So  a quick Thunderbird how-to. I finally got it running the way I think it should. The one thing that is missing is a sync to hiveminder or another online todo list. So to install Thunderbird you do a ‘ sudo aptitude install thunderbird -y ‘

Then to add the needed extensions, click on tools and then Add-ons. I am including the addons I am using
Adblock addon for thunderbird

Contacts sidebar

This button will “Get all mail”

Google calendar provider, sync your google calendar

Makes Search Bar available

Bayesian Junk mail filter, just some added protection

Flock

Posted on March 16, 2008
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Flock is an open source web browser based on Mozilla Firefox. The installation is really quite easy, donwload the tarred file from http://www.flock.com/ (remember where it was saved)

Untar the file

‘ tar -xzvf flock-1.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz ‘

It will create a folder named ‘ flock ‘

cd flock

Then to run just ./flock

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weechat-curses

Posted on March 16, 2008
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weechat-curses is the IRC client that I am currently using. to install ‘ sudo aptitude install weechat -y -r ‘ I add the -y and -r tags to automatically say yes to install and also to install the recommended files (weechat-curses, weechat-plugins, etc).

To run weechat you need to open the terminal and then type in ‘ weechat-curses ‘ Weechat will automatically connect to server irc.freenode.net (which is where I lurk) to join a channel ‘ /j #channel name ‘

Some common Ubuntu Channels are:

#ubuntu

#kubuntu

#ubuntu-classroom

Ubuntu-Classroom

Posted on February 24, 2008
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What are you doing to help out ubuntu? Are you a new user, that doesn’t know where to start? Is there a place to go for help?? YES!! IRC irc.freenode.net #ubuntu-classroom….check it out!!

Jabber love

Posted on February 24, 2008
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I had to change my jabber account due to unforseen circumstances. It is now sdudenhofer@jabber.org.

So you need some system info?

Posted on February 2, 2008
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Alright, so maybe you need to get some vital system info. But you would rather not have to try to learn it all from the command line. All the lspci’s etc are sort of confusing. So to take a look at your system info you need a little program called sysinfo. So lets install it. Open your terminal, type in sudo aptitude install sysinfo….voila…installed. It is located under Applications, System Tools.

System Backups

Posted on January 24, 2008
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So I have decided that I may need to do backups since, I seem to blow my computer out of the water occasionally. so on to the how to. I am using sbackup. Which in ubuntu is very easy. Just type sudo apt-get install sbackup. It will install automagically for you.Then to get to the backing uppedness you go to System -> Administration and then choose simple backup config. You can then pick and choose all your settings including what files to backup and where to store the backup.

Happy day!

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