Fix Kopete Crashing On MSN Sign In

“Mini How To”: Fix Kopete Crashing On MSN Sign In

Why?

I have experienced some crashes with my Kopete lately.  Every time MSN would try to sign in Kopete would crash.  I searched around on the Internet.  But couldn’t really find an answer.

So I’ll provide one for people having the same problems.

The Solution For A Crashing Kopete

The solution is really quite simple just remove the configuration files.  Here is the thing Kopete has those files in two places.  Both located in the .kde/share/. Run the following commands in Terminal to remove the files.

How To Search Terminal Commands Recently Used

“Mini How To” How To Search Terminal Commands Recently Used.

Introduction

You know how to skip through the commands by using the arrow up and down keys but wouldn’t it be easier to search through the commands?  In this Mini How To I explain how to do it.

Recursive Search

You’ve typed in a long command for instance:

sudo hddtemp /dev/sda && sensors | grep Core\ 0 && sensors | grep Core\ 1

To check the temperatures of the machine that you’re working on.  You’ve checked it once and after a couple of days you want to use it again.  To do so as said you can scroll through the commands using the up and down arrow keys.  It might take while depending on how many commands you used after this one.

Installing Windows After Kubuntu

Introduction

As most of you know I write for Bright Hub.  I write for the Linux, hardware and Windows channels as well as small Business security which also is Windows oriented.  Unfortunately this also means I have to have Windows installed on at least one of my boxes.  I had to do so on my secondary slave. The box I’m installing Windows on has three HD’s and one CDrom.  The first and second HD are installed on Primary master and slave.  The Secondary master is the CD drive the slave is the Windows HD.

Clone A Drive With dd

“Mini How To” Clone A Drive With dd

Cloning under Windows always requires a third party application.  In Linux we can use a build in command to clone a drive.

Why And When Would You Need This.

You can use this for a number of applications.

• Imaging a drive to a iso file.
• Clone a defective harddrive to save data.
• Replace a harddrive for a bigger one.

Keep in mind that there are more efficient ways of doing this.  But if you need to clone a drive or make an image of a hard drive, and you only have access to a Live CD.  Then using dd is a great way to do this.  Also it does not matter if the harddrive has ntfs of ext3 or any of the other file systems dd will image the harddrive not matter what file system is on the drive.