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In Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0, we started to see the use of Tabs browsing of messages, much like what we have had in Lotus Notes Client for quite a long time.

Now in Thunderbird 3.1, “Message actions such as reply and forward have moved from the toolbar onto the message header itself.”

This is kind of a funny post about “Help Vampires.”

Quick and handy way to find all files in a particular directory.

find /home/ -type f -size +5000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

The same command on Ubuntu is:

find /home/ -type f -size +5000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }' 

You can replace the “5000″ above with a number of your choosing. The example above finds all files larger than 5 Megabytes.

If you just want to find a particular filename try:

find | grep searchterm

where searchterm contains the part or all of the filename that you are looking for.

For those out there that run WHM/cPanel servers and like to get under the hood to configure Apache outside of the WHM interface, here’s a need to know tip.

These commands must be run if you add any custom configurations to /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

This is because in cpanel/whm, the apache configuration is saved into a database for safe keeping, and when whm updates or rebuilds apache configuration it pulls the previous configuration from database.

This command must be run after the save

$ /usr/local/cpanel/bin/apache_conf_distiller --update

This command can be run to test if you changes were saved because it reloads the httpd.conf file from database.
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/build_apache_conf

I should also say that this is for Centos 5 servers (and probably RHEL too).

A few days ago, I wrote a post about adding Google Tasks to the Firefox sidebar. I’ve been using this for a few weeks now and feel more productive.

I have a gmail account and use it to synch my non-work/personal CalDAV calendar between my iPhone, different macs at home, and can access my personal calendar on my PC at work with Lotus Notes.

I’m also now able to synch my personal to-do lists (or tasks you may not want in your corporate Domino mailbox for whatever reason) between my iPhone, PC at work, and Macs at home (both via Firefox sidebar bookmarks).

I tried setting this up on a new computer today and wasn’t able to drag the google tasks to my firefox bookmarks tool bar.

I kept getting the error message “Close this window to resume using Tasks in Gmail.”

I found this second post which shows the exact URL that you need to bookmark, and also highlights how to either set this up in Google Chrome, or set up your tasks in a desktop application.