Thunderbird’s email reply header is short and not like the ones in Outlook and other email lients. Thunderbird provides several integrated reply headers. However, the Outlook-style reply header with sender, receiver, date, and other information are clear and useful (e.g. my boss cc’ed an email to me to let me handle a request and I […]
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Windows 7 MAK Activation
The Windows 7 Multiple Activation Key (MAK) can be used to activate Windows 7 Enterprise installed with the Windows 7 Volume Licence DVD provided by Microsoft to enterprise/university customers. How to activating Windows 7 with MAK: 1. Make sure your system is connecting to the Internet. During Windows 7 activation, Windows will connect to Microsoft.com […]
How to Print Notes on a PDF File with Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader
Print PDF with notes is not that straightforward, especially when you want specific styles of the printed notes/comments. In this post, we introduce how to print notes on a PDF file with Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader. Acrobat ∞ The detailed method is posted on Adobe’s blog: Printing Sticky Notes on a PDF. Excerpt […]
HP Compaq BIOS Crisis Recovery from a Failed BIOS Flashing Using a USB Flash Disk
I tried to flash my HP Compaq CQ35-240TX’s BIOS to F.15 but unfortunately failed. The computer turned to white screen. When I restarted (powered off then boot again), this is no response any more: the hard disk and caps lock’s LED keep blinding. I thought “Oh my God! I must send it to HP to […]
Latex Cheat Sheet
Latest has many commands and it is not easy to quickly remember them all. Then, a cheat sheet will be very useful. Here is a collection of cheat sheets for Latex that I collected from the Web. Latex cheat sheet ∞ Latex cheat sheet by Winston Chang: Download latex cheat sheet. LaTeX Math Symbols ∞ […]
Thunderbird Tips: Default Descending Email Sort Order and Inline Quote When Reply
Thunderbird is a great email client and what make it special is deeply configurable like Firefox. For me, I like to view email in the descending sort order and inline quote relied email content when replying emails. Let’s look at how to set the default order as descending sort order and quote mode as inline […]
Keep Firefox Open After Closing the Last Tab
Firefox should always be ready there for us, right? Even after we closing the last tab, we would like firefox to be still open. At least I like to treat it in this way. But unfortunately, Firefox will close after we closing the last tab as default in version 3.5. But the good news is […]
Thunderbird中使用Google Calendar及它的SMS功能
Google Calendar可以自动发短信提醒,这是一个非常棒的功能.为何不把它集成到Thunderbird中来呢. 首先安装Thunderbird的插件: Lightning 0.9 然后下载: Provider for Google Calendar 0.5.2 provider默认加入的提醒是pop-up.其实要把它改成sms非常简单: 将下载下来的.xpi文件unzip, 它就是一个zip包:) 然后修改其中的calGoogleUtils.js JavaScript文件, 将其中的两个pop-up修改为sms. 然后打包,再到Thunderbird下安装即可. 这样就把Google Calendar和Thunderbird集成到一直来啦.
Essential Firefox Add-ons to Make Firefox Better
Firefox is highly configurable and there are lots add-ons for it. Addons make Firefox to be good. In this post, I list a set of the best add-ons that I use daily and make my life easier and happier. Essential Firefox addons ∞ Screengrab! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screengrab-fix-version/ to make screenshots and save to files or to clipboard. […]
Set Up SSH Server on Windows XP
It is useful sometimes to set up a sshd server on a Windows. One example is using remote forwards tunnel to pass through the firewall. My platform is Windows XP SP3. The sshd server is sshwindows. It can be dowloaded from here: http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ . The version I use here is 3.8p1-1 20040709. It is really […]
CS 1.6 去鼠标加速参数
去掉CS中的鼠标加速需要去掉windows系统的鼠标加速及CS中加以设置. 首先将windows的鼠标加速选项去掉. 在控制面板->鼠标里面将相关选项去掉即可. 然后运行cstrike.exe时加如下参数: -noforcemaccel -noforcemparms
Windows Server 2008 开启休眠功能
在管理员模式下运行: powercfg -hibernate on 然后在控制面板里设置电源选项就可以了. 关闭的话运行: powercfg -hibernate off
Makefile Tutorial
Make is a utility that automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called makefiles which specify how to derive the target program. Make is widely used, especially in Unix/Linux world. More introductions to Make and it’s history can be found on Wikipedia. In this post, I list articles for Makefile […]
Viewing XPS Files in Linux
XPS files is a format from MS on Windows. Evince can view some XPS files, but fails to view some. To view XPS files generated on Windows on a Linux system, we can use mupdf. It works very well. I like it much especially in the situation that Evince fails to open the XPS file. […]
How to Install MS Office 2007 on Linux using Wine
As a Linux user, I must keep a copy of Windows. One reason is that I should edit MS Office files, such as .doc, .ppt, .xls and .xml (office 2003 xml format) required by, created by or for other using Windows. Wine worked for me with Office 2003 ever but has this or that problem. […]
Vim as KMail’s External Editor
Vim is my favourite text editor and I also prefer to use Vim to compose Email. I ever used Vim as Thunderbird’s External editor with the help of plugin. I started to use KMail as my email client on KDE and I find it is not hard to configure KMail to use Vim as email […]
How to Use MPlayer to Play DVD Directories / ISO Files / Disks
MPlayer is a universal (nearly) movie/music player on Linux and many more systems. It’s also my favourite player and MPlayer plays movie or music files in any format that I drop to it. Now, let’s take a look at how to use MPlayer play DVD. MPlayer plays “DVD” in many formats: DVD disks, ISO files, […]
How to Convert JPG Images to EPS
I write a lot latex documents and most of the documents have images in it. Latex deals EPS very well, while sometimes we need to add JPG / PNG images to it. I find converting the JPG images to EPS ones is the most convenient way to embed JPG images to latex documents. On Linux, […]
How to SSH to Linux Hosts for Beginners
This is a simple tutorial for beginners to SSH to a Linux host. This is quite easy with the easy-to-use software freely available but the beginners need a tutorials to start with. Hence, I write this tutorial about how to ssh to a Linux host. This tutorial is for users on Windows. 1. Download a […]
Extending a LVM Volume Group
We introduced how to create a LVM group with two hard disk partitions, which the LVM group can be used for installing LVM backed Xen DomUs. The LVM volume can have large capacity from several hard disks. However, we may use all the disk space after some time and we may need to extend the […]
