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Welcome to CompUnite South Africa's Documentation Pages.

We are currently assembling Linux and Open Source documentation for global public viewing. This should be ready within November 2006. We welcome public contributions in this regard, either in originating documentation or adding/editing existing pages. The only condition to this is that all documentation falls under Creative Commons licensing.

Enties may take whatever form is useful for public consumption including Howtos's, tips tricks and traps, advice for dummies, etc

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OpenSource fast track

Yes, you can enter the OpenSource fast track. Use the web where you can. Start with some seriously useful links to get yourself and your company on the fast track to software freedom, increased efficiency, greater security and mega profits!

  • Full featured office suite: OpenOffice.org
  • Free Anti-Virus with free updtates: ClamWin
  • A powerful cross platform Customer Relations Manager: VTigerCRM
  • Yet another cross platform Customer Relations Manager with built in Enterprise Resource planner: TinyERP

Read up on OpenSource software:

Furthermore, please feel free to contribute what you've found useful in terms of Open Source software and Linux to this page and other pages like it.

Some wonderfully powerful yet simple databse frontends (M$ Access replacements for Linux)

Kexi, OpenOffice.org Base, knoda and Glom are all database gui frontends for Linux/BSD.

They each have their cons and pros but check out the site listings. Most of these will offer seamless cross platform database pleasure!

Quick and easy data recovery on Linux

One of my clients recently experienced a strange phenomenon wereby a Recordable CD was accidently (and mysteriously) overwritten. I was determined to help her and came across a tool called safecopy. This is the simple procedure I used to successfully retrieve nearly 700Megabytes (and years worth of work):

  1. Ordered List Item Download SafeCopy from here
  2. Ordered List Item Extract the downloaded file (safecopy-0.2.tar.gz)
  3. Ordered List Open a terminal window and go to the directory you just extracted.
  4. Ordered List Item as an ordinary user type ./configure && make
  5. Ordered List type su and press Enter
  6. Ordered List Item type make install
  7. Ordered List Item type safecopy /dev/cdrom restoredimage.iso (or /dev/hda1 for hard drive data, /dev/fd0 for floppy data, etc)
  8. Ordered List Item write the restored.iso file to disk using k3b (or cdrecord or any cd writer app)

All restored data now resides on your new CD.

I hope this works for you!

For recovery even after a format (especially on hard disks, but also usb devices) try Photorec. For partition recovery and some other magic try Testdisk.

Migrate emails from Kmail to Thunderbird

Kmail stores files in the Maildir format by default - each email is contained as a file in a mail directory. Thunderbird (Mozilla, Netscape, Evolution and others) use MBox format - all emails are combined into a single file in this method.

Here we go:

  • Open Kmail and right click on Local Folders. Select New Folder and enter the name of the new folder (eg Inbox Export) and change the Mailbox format option to MBox.
  • Click on the folder containing the messages you wish to export. Select all (by pressing Ctrl-A)
  • Drag the selected files to the newly created folder
  • Browse to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/ (~ represents your Home folder)
  • Locate a file with the same name as the export directory you created earlier and copy it to ~/.thunderbird/[yourprofile].default/Mail/Local Folders/
  • Open Thunderbird and you'll see the file you copied appearing as a subdirectory. From here you can selct all mails and drag them to your Inbox (or whichever mail directory in Thunderbird is apropriate)

Please note that this procedure will also work for Evolution, Netscape and other mail clients that also use MBox format mailboxes.

Change Firefox's default email client to kmail

If you click on an email address on a web page in Firefox and you are using kmail as your default mail client try this:

Open the prefs.js file in your favorite editor (it is in your profile folder in your home directory under .mozilla/firefox/[profile name consisting of random characters]/) Make sure Firefox isn't open. Add this line to the end of the file: user_pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.mailto”,”/opt/kde3/bin/kmail”); Start Firefox and presto kmail opens when you click an email link.

 
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