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Prism is a fairly new Mozilla project that runs web pages as a program. Which is to say, they take a web page and run it in its own program window without an address bar or menus or anything like that. Nice and isolated.

More useful, for my purposes, is to set this as the default mail application. See, I use the panel application mail notification, which checks things like IMAP and Gmail accounts and tells me if I have mail. So rather than head to a browser, open a new tab, and read things sent to Gmail, I've configured mail notification to open the default mail app whenever I click on it's notification icon. And this opens a Gmail session in a new window.

Install prism. Then run prism and create an application and desktop shortcut for GMail: http://mail.google.com. Remember what you named it. Then create a shell script somewhere that calls

/opt/prism/prism -webapp $NAME@prism.app

Then, change the default mail app to call that script, with a %s appended to the end. I'm not sure why, but it works better that way. It periodically stops working, but running the command from shell tends to make it work again. Again, I'm not sure why.

Got sound working in Myth - it had something to do with setting a default ALSA sound output device. This also fixed my Firefox sound issues.

Other than being generally nifty, I found a good use for Compiz. I've set it to briefly blur the active window instead of sounding the system bell. It's just the right level of notification for me - a subtle nudge, rather than an obnoxious beep.

I don't get motion sick, but the motion blur feature had that effect on me. Some features are not meant to be experimented with.

Gave up on stunnel. Recompiled mail-notification with SSL. Now it's just a matter of telling it which mailboxes to look in. I wonder if I can use a wildcard (nope).

Needed the Gutsy disk to install things to compile. Couldn't find it, burned a new one.

Still need to get sound working in Myth. Also Amarok. Rhythmbox and totem both crash, hence Amarok. But it doesn't output audio. Yet.

I can switch desktops by mouse-wheeling on the background. Why can't I switch desktops by mouse-wheeling on the little desktop panels on the tool bar?

Would it be so hard to implement Alt-Tab switching across desktops?

I should go to bed and not play with the Gnome art manager. Especially if I'm going to be ditching GNOME.

EDIT: added recompile link 5/12/08

http://www.pocock.com.au/linux-doc/mbox-maildir.html

install mb2md

mb2md -m
mb2md -s mail

do something with ~/mail and /var/spool/mail/$USER

/etc/postfix/main.cf
home_mailbox = Maildir/
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir

Tweak procmail filters, can use .target/ for destinations

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
default_mail_env = maildir:~/Maildir

nmap -sT -O localhost

Run it without root. It's cute.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/security-guide/s1-server-ports.html

I'm in the middle of reinstalling Linux on both of my computers (Consolidation has just gone from Hoary to Feisty, so it was a clean install and everything needs redoing), so expect a flurry of Linux posts here, so I remember how to do everything next time this happens.

Accessing k4pacific is difficult because it's an LVM, which causes problems.

Install lvm2.
Reboot.
sudo vgchange -an VolGroup00
sudo vgchange -ay VolGroup00
sudo mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /k4pacific
add the following line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /k4pacific ext3 defaults 00 (note all spaces are tabs)

For static IP

edit /etc/network/interfaces:

iface eth0 inet staic
address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.2.1
auto eth0

Then run

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart