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Upgrade Firefox 3.0 On Ubuntu Gave An Error

When I upgraded my Firefox to the full 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 it started giving me an error when starting. If I started the Firefox 3 from a folder on the desktop it would start fine. So I figured it was an extention or cache problem. To solve my problem I decided to rename the firefox folder under /opt and copy the working firefox to /opt/firefox. It worked.

First I renamed the firefox folder in opt:

In the opt folder from a terminal I typed:

sudo mv firefox oldfirefox

Then I copied the working folder from my Desktop to opt:

sudo cp -a /home/steve/Desktop/firefox /opt/

Show All Unread Email In Gmail

I love Gmail. Its my main email portal. At work I use Outlook and love that to. I have multiple accounts going to my Gmail and get tons of email a day. I found this on the Internet and had to share the great tip.

Type in the search box

is:unread

New Firefox 3.0

I have played with the beta of Firefox 3 and have really liked the new features and the stability. Now that its out of Beta its really nice now. Most of the main add-ons work and the others will be updated soon because its out of beta. If you have not downloaded it yet follow this LINK.

AVG 8 Has Attachments On Every Email

If you recently updated to AVG 8 and now your email has attachments on every email in Outlook Express its because of a setting that you have to change. Do the following:

Right-click the icon in the SysTray and choose Open AVG User Interface (or run AVG). Go to the Tools menu and select Advanced Settings. In the left pane, choose E-mail Scanner, untick the box that says “Certify mail” and click OK.

Remove Sonic Update Manager

Some of my clients with Dell PC’s are getting Sonic Update Manager errors on startup. Found this on the Internet that will explain what it is and how to remove it.

Sonic Update Manager

What is Sonic Update Manager?

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Error 14 Not enough storage error on SBS 2003 Server

Have a client that was having issues on their SBS 2003 server. I needed to restart the server. After restarting the server I started to get the Error 14 error when it was trying to start some of the services (DHCP Server, WWW Services, Exchange Routing service and even trying to get into the Disk Manager). Thought it might have been a windows update that they did recently. Also there were 30+ incidents of the the wmiprvse.exe loaded in the task manager. After searching the Internet found out is was caused be a recent Linux box that they installed a week earlier. If the Linux box is running and connected to the network and then start the SBS 2003 server I get the problem. If I shutdown the Linux box and start the SBS 2003 server first then everything works fine. It has something to do with naming in the domain. MS KB 888193 explains a bit about it.

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Upgrading Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 Experience

Well I upgraded my Ubuntu from 7.10 to 8.04 by doing the ALT-F2. Then typing update-manager -d. It took about an hour for the download and doing all the prompts. Search for upgrade Ubuntu and you will see the proper instructions. Basically when it asks just after the download I had to press the terminal view and answer yes on the first question. The following questions I did the default and said keep the config files. After the upgrade it booted fine. Then there were a few things that needed to be done. The Virtualbox I had to uninstall and then reinstall for it to work. The uninstall command I ran from Terminal was the following:

sudo dpkg -r virtualbox

After this I then ran the install from the terminal using the following instructions. After the install I then had to kill any saved incidences and then the Virtuabox worked fine.

The next problem I had (which seems common) is to adjust the hosts file for the upgrade and Synaptic Package Manager to work. Going to the System-Administation-Network. Unlock and then select the Hosts tab. Then modify the 127.0.1.1 and take off any extentions and just leave the alias.

After this the Ubuntu seems stable. The new Compiz 0.7.4 allows the other new effects like the 3D Windows to work. I could not find any way to install the newer Compiz under Gutsy. Will see if there is any other quirks I find and will post when I do.

Ubuntu Rules!

Lock Bump Key

This is scary!

XP System process using 99% CPU

A client complained that their mouse (USB) was not working and PC was really slow. Looked at the processes and found the SYSTEM process was 99%. Search on the Internet and found some others had the same issue with USB ports causing the problem. For me I changed the USB ports in the Intel motherboard to not use 2.0. The USB ports did work fine (only running at the USB 1.1 speed). I also could install a USB 2.0 card and it worked fine.

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