Essentially:

1. Go to System->Preferences->Preferred Applications
2. For "Mail Reader" choose "Custom" and enter this (we'll create the script later):

   /home/username/bin/open_mailto.sh "%s"

3. The above script will be triggered anytime you click on an email link.  Now, let's create the actual script.  Note: This is a modified script from the above web site.  It is based on some of the comments posted about the artice and then refined a little.  This script will properly handle subject, cc, to, body, and most any proper email tag that you can throw at it.  One other difference is that it can handle parenthesis.

   #!/bin/sh
   uri=`echo "$1"| sed -e 's/subject=/su=/' \
        -e 's/^mailto:\([^&?]\+\)[?&]\?\(.*\)$/\1\&\2/' \
        -e 's/(/%28/g' -e 's/)/%29/g'`
   firefox -remote "openurl(https://mail.google.com/mail?\
   view=cm&tf=0&to=$uri,new-tab)"

4. Finally, change the mode of the script so that it can execute:

   chmod 755 /home/username/bin/open_mailto.sh

Hopefully that will work for you without problems.  In my tests so far it has worked great.

Where this would be useful is your "log interceptor" program could do a multitude of different things with this stream of log data. For example, it could push it into a database which could later be searched by developers to narrow down time windows or look for specific error messages. Another really useful thing to do would be to have the log interceptor do basic log rotation. This could keep the log file size manageable. Or, maybe you want the log file emailed somewhere every 100k or whatever. There are a lot of uses I could see for something like this.

Has anyone written or seen such a program? Am I the only one that thinks this would be useful? Post a comment and let me know what you think.

From my reading this seems to be related to version 2.6.24 of the Linux kernel. The solution to this problem is actually quite easy...if you are willing to edit one of the VMWare header files. A blog post pointed me to the solution. Here is what you need to do:

1. cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
2. sudo cp vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.orig
3. sudo tar xvf vmmon.tar
4. cd vmmon-only/include/
5. sudo vi vcpuset.h
• Line 74 needs to be changed from: #include "asm/bitops.h" to: #include "linux/bitops.h"
6. cd ../../
7. sudo rm vmmon.tar
8. sudo tar cvf vmmon.tar vmmon-only/
9. sudo rm -rf vmmon-only/
10. sudo vmware-config.pl

Things should work now. Good luck.

Here's how it works: Port 5222 of my work machine is forwarded through my home machine. My home machine then bounces the connection to port 5222 on the Google chat server.

Here's the command to accomplish the double hop:

ssh -L 5222:talk.google.com:5222 my.home.computer -N -f

The command line is slightly confusing at first, but here is a breakdown of what that does:

• -L 5222:talk.google.com:5222 -- This says to connect local port 5222 (the first 5222) to port 5222 (the 2nd 5222) on talk.google.com
• my.home.computer -- This is the server to bounce the connection through
• -N -- Do not start a remote shell
• -f -- Fork the process into the background

The effect of the -N and -f together is that this command will establish the tunnel, then fork into the background. It will appear as if the command did nothing, since there is not output. In reality it will have become a background process.

Good luck and happy firewall smashing.

Now, if I go and do a chown on the audio devices it will only last as long as I don't reboot the computer. So, I wanted a more permanent solution. I know the inherent risks associated with it, but I basically enabled audio for all network users. In my /etc/rc.local file I added the following:

# Enable sound for nis users
chown root.users /dev/adsp /dev/audio /dev/dsp
chown root.users /dev/mixer /dev/rtc /dev/sequencer /dev/sequencer2

This works. I know it's not ideal, but I can listen to my music at work now.

Look out podcasts, here I come.

I've tried a few Wine helper tools designed to install Internet Explorer on Linux, but have never had any luck getting IE to work. Today I ran into the IEs4Linux project and it worked perfectly. In just a few minutes IE6 was installed and is running correctly under Linux.

That's one less thing I need to be totally free of Windows.

Type:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets

and answer yes to SUID the applet.

 
find ./ -type f | xargs sed -i 's/string1/string2/g'
 

That will replace every occurrence of "string1" with "string2."