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Firefox Running Slowly…. install.rdf

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Recently my Firefox on my Linux box has been running slowly.

Then things became worse when I started it and it gave me a message that it couldn’t complete the install because something was wrong with install.rdf.

“Error message: install.rdf is not well formed or does not exist”

I read somewhere that I should rename my ~/.mozilla folder and run Firefox.

I did more than that.

  1. I uninstalled Firefox with Synaptic
  2. Then renamed ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla_delete_after_02012010.
  3. Then I reinstalled Firefox and ran it.

Firefox ran fast and clean.

Reinstalling my plugins, it maintains good speed.

I think the install.rdf file was a corrupt update of noscript.

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How to make Unison sync from a Linux machine to Windows XP…

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

I wanted to use Unison to sync over my local network, but Unison for Ubuntu doesn’t like Samba, so here’s what I did.

  1. Make sure you have Samba installed.
  2. Create a folder on your linux machine called something like /mnt/stufftosync.  This folder will represent your remote folder of files.
  3. In the terminal type,

“mount -t smbfs -o username=name,password=password //machinename/sharename /mnt/smbshare” without the quotes, where name is your username, password is your password, and smbshare is your stufftosync. You can pick whatever name you want for stufftosync, provided it corresponds with the folder you created in the /mnt folder.

Perform your sync, using Unison using the location of the files on your Linux machine as the first folder and using /mnt/smbshare, where smbshare is your stufftosync, as the second.

Worked like a charm.

Looks like you have to do type the mount command each time you boot.

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MS Word 2003 in Linux…

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Wow — that was too easy.  MS Word 2003 works great on Ubuntu in Wine.  Why am I using Windows, again?  I keep forgetting.

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