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Integrate Shared Google Calendars With Thunderbird

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

Before we get started, if you have a personal calendar, Google has a quick how-to here. The Google tutorial only covers basic calendars.  This tutorial will cover both personal and shared calendars.

Google Calendar is neat and pretty much every phone and app has some sync system that works with it… except Thunderbird with the [...]

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Tags: Calendaring · Google · How Tos · Sunbird · WebDav · iCal · lightning · thunderbird

Removing a File Beginning With Dash -

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments

I get this a lot from friends and Google is full of examples, but here it is again.
If you have a file that begins with a hyphen (one of these: -) you’ll have a tough time removing it unless you remember something simple from Command Line 101. In most CLI environments, your shell has [...]

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Tags: How Tos · Unix · linux

Locate an Unknown NIC Device Name in Solaris 9

June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

If you install a NIC in a Solaris SPARC box, at least on Solaris 9, and you don’t know the device name, the following will help:
prtconf -pv | more
look for
device_type:  ‘network’
Near the network device you’ll see model and name, similar to this:
model:  ‘SUNW,pci-qfe’
name:  ‘SUNW,qfe’
In this case your device is a qfe card.  You can get [...]

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Tags: How Tos · solaris