Just in case you are using OpenOffice.org (OOo) and are looking for ways to speed it up, here is a tip that makes it open very quickly.
Tools -> Options -> Memory
Under Graphics cache:
Use for OpenOffice.org increase to 64MB “Memory per object” increase to 8MB
then under Java -> Java Options
Unselect Use a Java runtime environment
Close OOo and reopen it. See, how fast she goes now?
After taking the advice from a blog post of my friend Zack Perry, I decided to try Attensa Software’s Attensa for Outlook.
I was a little skeptical when I read the post, thus my comment of “Bah… just use Thunderbird :)”, but I must say for an Outlook “plugin” it works very well. Now I can stop using Thunderbird for my rss feeds and use Outlook for both mail and rss. If you are still visiting websites during the day looking for updates, then your still in the 2004’s. RSS feeds are the way to keep updated on the mutlitude of websites that I visited on a regular basis.
Now I can see how many items have that have been posted per website and once it gets up to a certain number, I can just click on the items in Outlook/Thunderbird and read my “news” without opening a browser and visiting the website. Using RSS feeds are just a more effecient use of time for me.
Thanks for the tip Zack!
*NOTE* Make sure that samba is installed on your box before you begin. Maybe something like yum install samba or aptitude install samba will do it for you.
First make sure that your Linux box can see your Windows box:
smbclient -L 192.168.1.12 -U winuser
Where 192.168.1.12 is your windows box and winuser is the user on your windows box.
Next create the directory that you want to use to mount the windows share:
mkdir /mnt/windows
You could just as easily have mounted it as /usr/local/mywindowsbox. I just like to keep things nice and tidy under /mnt/
Next you will want to actually mount the windows share:
mount -t smbfs -0 username=winuser,password=mypassword //192.169.1.12/:share: /mnt/windows
The previous should all be on one line and :share: is the name of the share on your windows box.
Now your all set… what?… you want it to work automatically after you reboot?
Ok… here goes:
Open up /etc/fstab and put this in:
//192.168.1.12/:share: /mnt/windows smbfs \
user,rw,iocharset=utf8,uid=500,gid=500,fmask=775,dmask=775, \
password=mypassword,username=winuser 0 0
The previous should all be on one line so omit the \ at the end of line 1 and line 2