“exim -bt email@address” is reason enough

It is simpler to setup and easier to administer. If you want your fedora machine to send local email via Gmail, here is a guide.

One point to add, if you want root mail delivered somewhere, edit /etc/aliases and set an alias for root. Don’t forget to run “newaliases” when your done.

It is pretty simple though, you just need a boot option:

radeon.audio=1

If this is passed in via grub at boot time, audio will work.

Footnote 9 on this page: http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

This config change will get the applet to launch Thunderbird (or any  other app), but it will still not populate the calendar with entries from Thunderbird. But this single line, will mean that Thunderbird launches when you click on the in-built calendar.

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.office.calendar \
exec 'thunderbird'

To populate the calendar widget there is an extension for Thunderbird called: Evolution Mirror which should populate the evolution db with your Thunderbird data. You will need to install a couple of additional packages to make it work, in F16:

$ sudo yum install gnome-python2-extras gnome-python2-evolution

I could probably calculate where the superblocks should be on the filesystem by hand if I needed to, but it was much simpler than that:

# mkfs.ext3 -n

The -n is a dry run. It will show me what would happen but not actually touch the drive. This will also show you where the superblocks should be. Pass one of these to you fsck command. If the previous partition had been created with a set of unique options this may not work. But your filesystem’s hosed anyway so it may be worth the punt.

If your filesystem is completely screwed though you may recover little. And what you do recover will probably be sitting in “lost+found”, fsck will recover your filesystem but it makes no guarantee about recovering files.

You do not need a credit card to sign up for the free voip plan, but after registering you will need to add one to your account profile. Add a traditional phone number to you account (This costs $15 for 3 years). You can then enable voicemail through the portal and add an email address for forwarding.

Your done. Just forward whichever number you like to the pennytel number you just signed up for. As my home plan has unlimited local calls the forwards cost me nothing. $15 for a voicemail service with email forwarding seemed pretty reasonable to me.

What I do want to say is that the official instructions from the Cyanogenmod wiki work, and are simpler than anything else I read. So follow them.

The Nook Color is a tablet disguised as an ereader. Spec wise it is lacking a few things, but the build quality is brilliant and it is cheap.

I ordered a refurbished unit from ebay for $199.00. At the time this made it about $190.00 AUD. They only ship the the US so I sent it to an address provided by ComGateway. I expected to be billed for about $30 shipping to Australia, but ComGateway charged me the cost of a 2kg package. So it came in at just over $40. Of course I am not about to argue when my Nook is sitting in their warehouse. The other disappointing thing for me was that is sat in Portland at the ComGateway address for 4 days before it was shipped.

But it was shipped and there were no problems, it was just more expensive and slower than I expected.

If you want to use the Nook with the original firmware (though why would you) first register an account with B&N online using a US address, also skip the credit card setup, unless you have a US credit card.

But with CM7 this thing is brilliant. Fast and a whole bunch more functional. I no-longer have tablet envy.

I have been doing things, but they have been un-interesting, at least from a blog point of view. Which I do find troubling.

Uninteresting work tends to make me a little restless.

When a couple of current projects come to an end there may be some interesting things to blog.

And it is easy to get compiz working with it. Really easy. One command easy.

# yum install compiz compiz-gnome compiz-manager compiz-plugins main


Now one you enter your username at GDM you will be presented with a pull-down from here you can select. “Classic GNOME with Compiz”.

User fpmurphy over at fedoraforum has posted a shell extension that removes the offending icon.

I have created a tarball of the extension. Download it here and extract it to “~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions”

$ cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
$ unzip gnome-shell-extensions-noa11y.zip

Then restart the shell. Hit “Alt+f2″, and type “r”.

Grab it here.