fopen("/etc/psa-webmail/atmail/.atmail.shadow")

For some reason, the fopen() call fails, but there are several ways of fixing this. The easiest is to get the database password from .atmail.shadow and hard-code it in Config.php.

Disclaimer: don’t do this if you don’t know exactly what you are doing, why you are doing it and which possible consequences might result.

Now, change your /var/www/atmail/libs/Atmail/Config.php like this:

//if (!($fd = fopen("/etc/psa-webmail/atmail/.atmail.shadow", "r"))) {
//  echo "<script>alert('Unable to get webmail password!')</script>";
//  exit();
//}
//fscanf($fd, "%s", $buff);
//fclose($fd);
$buff = 'MySQL_password';

Note that you changed an Atmail application file, and it is very likely to be reverted by the next Plesk/Atmail update. This patch will be very helpful in that situation.

Fortunately, there is lessmsi. It allows to open, inspect and extract Windows Installer packages.
For TortoiseHG, download the binary .msi package from the Mercurial homepage. Run lessmsi, open the .msi package and select “extract”. Mercurial will be extracted to WheretherYouExtracted\SourceDir\PFiles\TortoiseHg, and the original folder layout of Mercurial will be preserved.

Lessmsi is provided under the MIT License and does not require installation. Just download, unzip and run it.

1. get the decent Purity app, unplug the network (so that iCal won’t sync before the culprit has been removed), and clean the iCal cache
2. have a closer look at ~/Library/Calendars/, where all the calendars are stored. Inspect the info.plist files and .ics event data to find the bad calendar and move its folder to another location. Restart iCal. If it is still crashing you got the wrong calendar – put the moved calendar back and keep on searching.

No. 2 did the trick for me.
Plain text files and simple folder layouts might not look as evolved as SQL tables and mysterious binary data files – but they work just fine in this scenario and are pretty easy to debug.

Fortunately, you can set the display brightness using the hardware keys in GRUB, the bootloader that let’s you choose what OS and/or Kernel you want to start.

Settings are lost on reboot, and you still can’t change the brightness at runtime, but it’s better than nothing.

Update:
Actually, there is a way to enable the brightness keys. And you don’t even have to edit your X.org conf manually. Just head over to ubuntu-tweak.com and install samsung-brightness

Luckily, there is abcTajpu, a Firefox extension that allows you to select foreign characters, umlauts, … quite easily.

Free, no ads – really worth a try

First of all, the desktop Ubuntu and Kubuntu install images don’t support full disk encryption. So get the Alternate ISO from here (Kubuntu users this way, please). Then create a bootable USB drive using UNetbootin.

Ready? Then boot your netbook from the USB drive, and proceed with the installation using this guide. You will be able to select your country, keyboard and configure your network. Then the installation will fail, because the installer won’t find a CD-ROM drive. Yuck.

Okay, if there is no CD-ROM drive we just have to mount the installer ISO. For this we copy the alternate installer ISO to a second USB stick, plug it into the netbook and give the system a few seconds to recognize it. Then we use alt+F2 to switch to a command line and hit so we can enter commands. First, we should make sure that both USB drives are there:

ls -la /dev/sd*

should return something like this:

/dev/sda
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc

/dev/sda is your hard disk, /dev/sdb is the USB drive you booted from, and /dev/sdc is the second USB drive containing the installer ISO file (unless you have a second hard drive). Use mount if you are not sure if and/or where your USB drives are mounted to.Now you can mount the second USB drive to /mnt and the ISO image to /cdrom:

mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt
mount /mnt/ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso /cdrom/
exit

Next, hit alt+f1 to return to the install menu and select “Detect CD-ROM”. The installation will proceed as described in the blog post above.

Have fun with Ubuntu 10.04!

• tasklist: shows a list of all running processes
• taskkill: kills processes

Among other options, processes can be killed by their process ID (taskkill /PID 4711) and by the name of their executable (taskkill /IM firefox.exe).
So, if you have perl scripts running wild, just execute taskkill perl.exe to kill all of them down with a single command.

More lesser known Windows commands are described in this PDF.

Whether you are looking for a handy summary to carry around, or a help to get started quickly – this is what you are looking for.

Feel free to launch NetBeans now