Thunderbird tips – hide sending progress and compose window
Linux, Tech July 27th, 2011
I do understand why you are reading this post now!! ^^
Hide sending progress and compose window in Thunderbird
Set:
“mailnews.show_send_progress” to false
“mailnews.sendInBackground” to true
That’s it! Enjoy!
Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA Inbox X
Linux, Tech February 16th, 2011
This morning I received this email saying that Ubuntu Wiki content now is listed as copyright Canonical, to the CC-BY-SA license.
- Image: creativecommons
The CC-BY-SA means you are free to:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
To me, free culture license is totally a new term =^0^=
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Dear Contributor to the Ubuntu Wiki,
We are contacting you because you have contributed content to the Ubuntu wiki at http://wiki.ubuntu.com.
The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. Working with the Ubuntu Community Council, Canonical has decided to transition the content in the Ubuntu Wiki to the the CC-BY-SA license[1]. This license is a free culture license[2] and is the same license used both by the Ubuntu Documentation wiki [3] since 2007 [4] and by Wikipedia.
If you are happy with the idea of this transition for the content you have provided, you do not need to do anything. If you have problems or issues, please read the feedback section below and contact us.
The rest of this message provides a rationale, details, and information on providing feedback.
= Decision =
After discussion among the Ubuntu Community Council, it has been decided that the material on the Ubuntu wiki should be licensed under a free license, CC-by-SA[1]. The Ubuntu wiki will be changed to make this clear to those creating or editing pages, and of course external links from the Wiki to material under other licences will continue to be welcome.
This decision is not intended in any way to underestimate the value of contributions, but rather to ensure that the material on the wiki complies with the same standards of openness as the Ubuntu project as a whole.
= Rationale =
The Ubuntu wiki is a collaborative resource, and the product of the Ubuntu community as a whole. Its content, put together by many contributors with different knowledge and points of view, is immensely valuable to us all. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no clear definition of what rights contributors to the content retain over the material that they post, or the extent to which other persons are entitled to copy or modify the material. For example, it would be very useful to ensure that community contributed content may be shared by many teams without complex licensing issues, ensuring that those working on content can concentrate on producing the best information possible rather than legal negotiations.
Furthermore, consistent with Ubuntu’s philosophy, it is important that material created for use on the Ubuntu wiki be available for other communities outside ours to benefit from. Using an open license on the Ubuntu wiki allows other communities to re-use material which may be useful to them under terms which are widely recognised in the free software community.
= Feedback =
We would again like to make a good-faith attempt to ensure that contributors of existing material are happy with this change. We invite any contributors who have any questions or concerns about this plan to contact us at <community-council@lists.ubuntu.com>. Given that the re-licensing of http://help.ubuntu.com/community was fairly uncontroversial and since the aim to re-license the Ubuntu wiki at some point later has not brought up any objections, we hope that contributors will welcome it.
In the absence of a substantial number of objections, this change will be made to the Ubuntu wiki after approximately one month.
More details can be found here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiLicensing
Many thanks for your contributions to the Ubuntu Wiki, and we hope that you will continue to help!
= Exceptions =
If you want to license a code snippet on the wiki under another open source license [5], please specify the relevant license in the snippet itself. In the event that no license is specified, the license applicable to the code snippet would be the same as that applicable to any other material on the wiki.
[1] See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
[2] http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
[3] http://help.ubuntu.com
[4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000275.html
[5] http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
How to install Ubuntu 10.10 on Toshiba Satellite C650 Core i-3
Linux October 18th, 2010
Problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOTKbrPkd94
How to fix
Tags: Satellite C659, Toshiba
Solved – Import Address Book: Gmail Address Book field does not match Thunderbird’s fields
Linux, Tech September 13th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia
Firstly we need to export Gmail address book from Gmail (you can searcheasily how to do it or click HERE ). Ok. Run Thunderbird, go to Tool>Open Address Book (Ctrl+Shift+B), Tool>Import. Then check on Adress Books radio button, next. As you will see, the “Adress Book Fields” and the “Record data to import” are not match! At the first time, I did not pay attention to that so the Address Book of Thunderbird is not totally correct.
So one thing you should do is that we have to move up (//down) the Address Book Fields on the left to match with the “Record data to import”. There are two important fields we need to adjust correctly: Primary Email-Email Address; Second Email Address – Email 2 address (see the image)
Tags: address book, email, guide, thunderbird, ubuntu
Ubuntu How to add Thunderbird to the Indicator
Linux September 12th, 2010
TeamViewer – the All-In-One Solution for Remote Access and Support over the Internet
Linux, Tech September 11th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia
This is a free program that can help you access to other computers to help them.
Why TeamViewer?TeamViewer is our solution for easy and friendly desktop sharing. You can remote control a partner’s desktop to give online assistance, or you can show your screen to a customer – all without worrying about firewalls, IP addresses and NAT.
Download it freely from here:
http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx
Tags: remote access, TeamViewer
Wikipedia Database – Freebies 2010 – Sunday Sep 5th,2010
Life, Linux, Tech September 5th, 2010
He he he, here are what I am doing with my laptop on Sunday Sep 5th, 2010.
Download Wikipedia Database (WARNING: 6.07 GB compressed, up to 20 times that size uncompressed.))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Where_do_I_get…
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2
Note: If you are lacking of technical proficiency or simply you do not know what is called PHP, SQL, database… or just because you are lazy now, but you want to use Wikipedia OFFLINE, you may use Software bundle for Mediawiki.
I personally refer to using this one: http://bitnami.org/stack/mediawiki
Note of note: Sure that is has some limited things when you compare to ONLINE Wikipedia, but it is still great for us ^0^),
Ok, here are some bonus for you. Some free things which may be useful for you! Click on Read the rest of this entry » bellow to read the whole post.
Hope it helps!
Tags: free
Introducing to Pāli-English English-Pāli and Buddhism dictionaries for Stardict
English, Linux, Research, Tech, Theravada Study August 21st, 2010
The aims of this post is to introduce you to Stardict, a free & opensource international dictionary, provide some useful and free dictionaries including Pāli-English English-Pāli. Whenever you visit a web page in Pāli, just select or double click on a Pāli word, Stardict will auto look up the meanings of that word in English, you do not need to type the Pāli word.
If you want to type Pāli word, please see part 5. And if you just want to read the Tipitaka in Pali, you can use Pāli Text Reader, Pāli Text Reader itself contains Pāli-English dictionary.
This post has 5 parts as listed bellow:
1-What is Stardict
2-Downnload& Install Stardict
3-Add dictionaries to Stardict
4-Stardict pronounces English words
5-More Pāli resources
1-What is Stardict?
StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary Software. It has powerful features such as “Glob-style pattern matching”, “Scan selection word,” “Fuzzy query,” etc. Stardict Version3.0 has developed a lot of new functions, such as Full-text translation, Net Dict.
Just select the Pali word on the website, Stardict will look for its means in English
- Mouse Inquiry: When “scan” option is selected, you can capture the words via mouse to translate.
- More Powerful!: Thousands of free dictionaries can be found on the internet. Choose your own favorites.
- Net Dict : Dictionary installation on your own computer is not necessary any more. Click the main menu icon on the top right of the corner, choose “Preferences” option. Here you can set Net dict. Register or log on your account, then you can use the Net Dict with your own dictionaries.
- Full-text translation: Click text translate icon on the left. With google, yahoo, Altavista, Excite Janpan translation engines you can tranlate from one language to another with satisfactory results.
- My other posts about Stardict can be found Here
2-Downnload& Install Stardict
According to which OS you are using, you can downloa d 1 of these versions and install Stardict. For the Window OS and Linux system, just double click on the downloaded file to start to install. (If you can’t downloa d the files here, please try this link.)
For Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) stardict_3.0.1-1_i386.deb 1.6 MB (Or you can install via terminal: sudo apt-get install stardict)
For Window OS: stardict-3.0.2.exe 10.6 MB
For Mac OS http://sourceforge.net/projects/stardict/files/stardict/3.0.1/StarDict-3.0.1-MacOSX.zip/download
3-Add dictionaries to Stardict
Here are some of Stardict Dictionaries that I am using:
Pāli-English-English-Pāli-Vietnamese
1) English-Pali của ngài A.P. Buddhadatta
2) Pali-English của ngài A.P. Buddhadatta
3) Pali-Việt của ngài Bửu Chơn
4) Thuật ngữ Luật tạng Pali-Việt của Sư Giác Nguyên
5) Abhidhamma Pali-Việt của ngài Tịnh Sự
6) Việt-Pali của Sadi Định Phúc
7) Pali-English English-Pali Dictionary
Pali-English Dictionary-Pali Text Society
9) CKJ Buddhism Dictionary
1- Startdict-Buddhism-3dics.zip contents 3 dictionaries: CKJ Buddhism Dictionary, Pali-English English-Pali Dictionary, Buddhist Dictionary by Ven. Nyanatiloka Mahathera:
http://cuongdang.info/stardict/pali/3Buddhism-and-8Pali-dicts.zip
2- Here are some useful dictionaries for Vietnamese (En-Vn, Vn-En, Fr-Vn, Vn-Fr, Vn-Vn, Rus-Vn) 6 dictionaries
http://cuongdang.info/stardict/6dics-En-Vn-and-others-for-vietnamese.zip
YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD THEM FROM HERE:
http://cid-2aaf1aaefb464249.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/stardict
For other language dictionaries you can download them from http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries.php
or
http://reciteword.cosoft.org.cn/stardict-iso/stardict-dic/
If you are using Ubuntu Linux and new to Ubuntu, you can use this method:
Firstly, right click on the downloaded compressed file and choose Extract Here, you will get a new folder (*).
Using sudo nautilus to copy dics to /usr/share/stardict/dic
Now open the Terminal (Go to the menu Applications/Accessories/Terminal) type:
sudo nautilus
provide your root password, then the nautilus (like window explorer on Window^^) will be opened. Now just browse to the uncompress folder (*) and copy them to usr/share/stardict/dic.
Or you can use this method:
To install these tarball dictionaries, do this:
tar -xjvf a.tar.bz2
sudo mv a /usr/share/stardict/dic
B – Install Dictionaries in Window OS:
Use free uncompress program 7 Zip or other unzip softwares like Winrar…. to extract the .tar.bz2 file, which you get a directory, then move this directory to the dic\, such as C:\Program files\stardict\dic\
C- Install Dictionaries in Mac OS X:
tar -xjvf a.tar.bz2 -C /opt/gtk/usr/share/stardict/dic
4-Stardict pronounces English words
3- Pāli Keyboard and typing (now Window version only): http://www.tipitaka.org/keyboard
A Pali-English text reader Firefox Extension that allows Pali students to read the Pali Canon. Automatically recognizes pali words and gives definitions from the CPED and PED, as well as DPPN if available. Includes text search and dictionary lookup.
