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Hosting a website on your own server gives you ultimate control over all the details of how that site works. Running your domain’s mail on your own server gives you the same amount of control. Unfortunately, setting up postfix (Ubuntu server edition’s default mail server) is not nearly as simple as setting up [...]

After upgrading to FireFox 3, I noticed that ThunderBird was no longer opening links in FireFox. Unfortunately, there are no Preference entries to modify how ThunderBird opens links, which means going into the Advanced Config Editor (the ThunderBird version of about:config). Just Another Tech Blog (among others) details how to configure ThunderBird to [...]

The mantra of the Linux world is “Always backup important data!!!” This is usually instructed directly before installing Linux onto a system, or otherwise doing anything that could even remotely corrupt anything. Better to be safe than sorry.
Backing up a Thunderbird or Firefox profile is important, too. Especially if you’re like me, [...]

This may not apply to a lot of people out there, but, in case you’re interested, I’ve figured out how to make your Thunderbird-accessed email accounts available to all Windows XP user accounts. Unfortunately, Google was not much help in my endeavors.
Here’s the background: our family computer has almost a one-to-one ratio of user [...]

College courses that involve essays, reports, presentations, and other communications-related assignments — most of them, that is — make flash drives essential, especially if you don’t own your own computer/laptop. And even if you do have your own little workstation, a portable flash drive is very handy for accessing the campus printers.
But those little [...]