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Problem
You have left a message in a squirrel mail account in dreamhost for a long time and it gets archived by dreamhost. According to the dreamhost you should be able to get to your archived messages, by looking at the old-messages folder.
The problem is that just by logging in to squirrel mail the folder doesn’t get displayed on the left hand side.

Solution
Log on to squirrel mail and go to ‘Folders’ menu at the top.
In the ‘Create Folder’ put ‘test’ or anything that you would like in the text box, and make sure that in the dropdown box you select ‘INBOX.old-messages’, so your newly created folder is a subfolder of the ‘inbox/old-messages’ folder.
Create the subfolder, refresh the page, and in your left hand the old-messages folder should appear.

Problem
You want to add the Google calendar tab in your thunderbird but you don’t want to use the standard google mail calendar, but the one setup for your domain.

Solution
Install the Google Calendar add on in Thunderbird:

Tools -> Addons -> Get Add-ons and then search for Calendar (Google Calendar Tab)

The when thunderbird is restarted go and change the default domain for logging in to the calender in:

Tools – Add-ons -> Extensions

and select the Preferences in the Google Calendar Tab.

from there select the ‘Google Apps for your domain’ and then change the URL into something like:

‘http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/your_domain_hosted_with_google

Problem
You want to mirror directories from one PC to another, using rsync and ssh.

Solution
Use the following:
rsync -avc /path/to/source_folder/ user_name@remote_pc:/path/to/destination_folder/

Problem
Cannot install RMagick as there is an error about nob being able to find some shared libraries.

Solution
After reading the RMagick installation FAQ it seem there is a problem with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH that cannot find the needed libraries as they are installed in /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib.
Doing a quick search revealed that people suggest that the LD_LIBRARY_PATH shouldn’t be changed, for various reasons.
So, the quick solution is to create a couple of symbolic links for the libraries that cannot be found, ie:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libMagickWand.so.4 /usr/lib/libMagickWand.so.4
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libMagickCore.so.4 /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.4

Problem
Trying to get Mandriva 2010 to work on a dual monitor with an ATI Radeon HD 4350. Desktop used is a Dell Vostro 430 and two BenQ G920WL monitors.

Solution
After reading the articles here and here, the steps required were:

• Select driver ATI Radeon HD 2000 and later (radeon/fglrx)
• Don’t select proprietary driver from next screen
• Run xrandr -q to find out the name of the monitors
• From the output find out the current resolution (1440×900), names (VGA_1,DVI-I_2/analog) and maximum resolution (1440×900)
• Edit the xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and add the Virtual 2880 900 (without quotes) underneath the Modes line in the Display Subsection
• Save the file and restart the X server
• Run again the xrandr -q command and make sure the maximum resolution has changed to 2880×900
• Run xrandr –output DVI-I_2/analog –auto –right-of VGA_1 to put one screen next to the other
• Follow the description here to set it up permanently on login

Problem
After an upgrade my Sansa E260 is no longer automatically recognised in Mandriva and looking at the /var/log/messages displays the error:
reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5

Solution
Run as su the following (maybe a couple of times), while the sansa is connected:
sudo rmmod ehci_hcd
sudo modprobe ehci_hcd

Problem
When you get the above error you cannot login to your application.

Solution
You will need to delete the cookies for the authentication, so in Firefox (Linux) go to Preferences, remove individual cookies for the specific domain.

Problem
You have just deployed your rails application to dreamhost but you are getting this error from passenger.

Solution
There was a change in the ImageMagic between versions 6.4.3 and 6.4.4 from the affinity function to remap.
If you don’t want, or don’t have time to recompile the ImageMagick and install the rmagick gem, you can comment out the two declarations for the alias functions, located around lines 782 and 1525 in the file rmagick-2.12.2/lib/RMagick.rb:

alias_method :affinity, :remap

Problem
You already have a project in github, but you want to move it to a different host (ie dreamhost)

Solution
Following the post here that describes how to setup a new git repository in dreamhost, the only difference after the initial setup :

ssh username@dreamhost_domain.com

mkdir -p ~/git/yourproject.git

cd ~/git/yourproject.git

git –bare init

is to edit your project’s .git/config file:
vi local_host/your_project/.git/config

and change the :
url = git@github.com:user_name/project_name.git

to the following:
ssh://dreamhost_username@dreamhost_domain/~/git/yourproject.git

Lastly you have to push for the first time to the server:
git push origin master

Optionally if you would like to check and/or checkout to a different pc you can use:
git clone ssh://dreamhost_username@dreamhost_domain/~/git/yourproject.git

Problem
Just recently installed Mandriva 2010 in a new Dell Vostro 430 and the network card (Broadcom Netlink BCM57780) was not recognized.

Solution
Add the following to the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.conf
install tg3 /sbin/modprobe broadcom; /sbin/modprobe/ –ignore-install tg3