Enable Timestamp in bash history for all users

Enable Timestamp in bash history for all users

Time Stamp in Linux history can save you from many tight corners.

To enable this, please add below line to "/etc/bash.bashrc" file

HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d-%h-%Y %T "

Logoff login will enable time stamp in history like below example

57  03-Jan-2013 07:15:22 history

That should do the trick!!!

How to Prevent Emails from Going to the Junk Email Folder

Marking Email and Senders as "Not Junk"

Open Microsoft Outlook
Go to the Inbox Screen
Select the "Junk E-mail" folder
A list of mail items will appear on the right preview pane.


Right click on each mail item that is not considered junk
Scroll to and select Junk E-mail
Scroll to and click on "Mark as Not Junk..."


Follow the prompts to confirm each sender you would like to continue to receive mail from.
All mail from that sender will now be directed to the inbox instead of Junk e-mail folder.

Adding a Sender to the Safe Sender List

Mail that is screened by Outlook is diverted to a Junk E-mail folder. Mail that is filtered and identified as SPAM by SPAM SOAP is identified by a message sent to your mailbox from SPAM SOAP.

If mail is going to the Junk E-mail folder open your Junk E-mail folder. If you have moved the mail to a new folder, open that folder.



Right click on the message and scroll to Add Sender to Safe Senders List.
If mail from a specific domain is going to the Junk E-mail folder select the option to Add Sender's Domain (@example.com) to Safe Senders List. It is recommended that you use this option sparingly and avoid adding sender domains that are known to be havens for SPAMMERS such as Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail.
Once added to the Safe Senders List your Outlook will need to be open and running for the rule to be active.  Known as a "client-side rule" these filters will not work though Outlook Web Access https://mail.business.uconn.edu unless the PC that is running the rule has Outlook Running.

Component MSCOMCTL.OCX or one of its dependencies not correctly registered

MSCOMCTL.OCX error screenshot:


How to Correct or fix this dependency error:

1. First search your local drive for MSCOMCTL.OCX to see if it is missing. The path to the file is typically: C:\WINDOWS\system32 if you are running Windows XP
2. If the file is missing you can download it HERE
3. Once downloaded, click the MSCOMCTL.exe and extract the file to your C:\WINDOWS\system32 directory

Note: Some users may need to perform this additional step to register the file:

1. Click Start -> Run and type REGSVR32 MSCOMCTL.OCX

 

 

How to Manage Auto Archive in Outlook 2010

If you want to keep Outlook 2010 clean and run faster, one method is to set up the AutoArchive feature. Today we show you how to configure and manage the feature in Outlook 2010.
Using AutoArchive allows you to manage space in your mailbox or on the email server by moving older items to another location on your hard drive.
Enable and Configure Auto Archive
In Outlook 2010 Auto Archive is not enabled by default. To turn it on, click on the File tab to access Backstage View, then click on Options.

The Outlook Options window opens then click on Advanced then the AutoArchive Settings button.

The AutoArchive window opens and you’ll notice everything is grayed out. Check the box next to Run AutoArchive every…
Note: If you select the Permanently delete old items option, mails will not be archived.

Now you can choose the settings for how you want to manage the AutoArchive feature. Select how often you want it to run, prompt before the feature runs, where to move items, and other actions you want to happen during the process. After you’ve made your selections click OK.

Manually Configure Individual Folders
For more control over individual folders that are archived, right-click on the folder and click on Properties.

Click on the AutoArchive tab and choose the settings you want to change for that folder. For instance you might not want to archive a certain folder or move archived data to a specific folder.

If you want to manually archive and backup an item, click on the File tab, Cleanup Tools, then Archive.

Click the radio button next to Archive this folder and all subfolders. Select the folder you want to archive. In this example we want to archive this folder to a specific location of its own.

The .pst files are saved in your documents folder and if you need to access them at a later time you can.

After you’ve setup AutoArchive you can find items in the archived files. In the Navigation Pane expand the Archives folder in the list. You can then view and access your messages.

You can also access them by clicking the File tab \ Open then Open Outlook Data File.

Then you can browse to the archived file you want to open.

Archiving old emails is a good way to help keep a nice clean mailbox, help speed up your Outlook experience, and save space on the email server. The other nice thing is you can configure your email archives and specific folders to meet your email needs.

Schedule Auto Send & Receive in Microsoft Outlook

If you use Outlook as your email client, you might want to schedule how often it checks for new messages. Today we show you how to schedule how often auto send/receive occurs.
If you’re busy during the day and need to keep up with your emails, you might want want Outlook to check for new messages every few minutes. Here we’ll show how to schedule it in Office 2010, 2007, and 2003 for a busy inbox where you want to keep on top of your important emails.

Outlook 2010
To schedule Auto Send/Receive in Outlook 2010, click on the File tab then Options.

The Outlook Options window opens…click on Advanced and scroll down to Send and receive and click on the Send/Receive button.

In the Send/Receive Groups window under Setting for group “All Accounts” check the box Schedule an automatic send/receive every…minutes. It is set to 30 minutes by default and you can change the minutes to whatever you want it to be. If you’re busy and want to keep up with your messages you can go as low as every one minute.

You can also get to the Send/Receive groups by selecting Send/Receive tab on the Ribbon and then Define Send/Receive Groups.


Outlook 2007
To select the send/receive time intervals in Outlook 2007, open Outlook and click on Tools \ Options.

Click on the Mail Setup tab, check the box next to Send immediately when connected then the Send/Receive button.

Now change the schedule to automatically send/receive.

You can also access the Send/Receive Groups section by going to Send/Receive > Send/Receive Settings and Define Send/Receive Groups.


Outlook 2003
In Outlook 2003 click on Tool \ Options…

Click on the Mail Setup tab then check Send immediately when connected, then the Send/receive button.

Then set the amount of time between send/receive attempts.

If you live out of Microsoft Outlook and want to keep up with messages, setting the automatic send/receive minutes will keep you up to date.

How to Disable and Enable USB Device in Linux

Follow the steps

1) Add this line “blacklist usb_storage” to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
To add : Open a Terminal by using Ctrl+Alt+T or Applications->Accessories->Terminal. You need to have root access to do this tweak. Copy and paste the following command in the Terminal. Type the password for the user, when prompted.

$ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

The above command will open the blacklist.conf file in gedit. You can use any editor to edit this file like vim, gvim, emacs etc., Now copy and paste this line “blacklist usb_storage” at the end of the file. After adding this save it and close the gedit. Check the below screen shot.

2) Add this line “modprobe -r usb_storage” before exit 0 in /etc/rc.local
To add : Copy and paste the following command in the Terminal. Type the password for the user, if prompted.

 $ sudo gedit /etc/rc.local

The above command will open the rc.local file in gedit. Now copy and paste this line “modprobe -r usb_storage” before the last line of the file. After adding this save it and close the gedit. Check the below screen shot for Fedora and Ubuntu.

For Ubunntu:

For Fedora:

Now restart your system.

To Mount USB device
Open a Terminal and use the following command. Type the password for the user, when prompted.

$ sudo modprobe usb_storage

To Unmount the USB device

Use “safely remove drive” by right click on the device, then run the below command in the Terminal. Type the password for the user, when prompted.

$ sudo rmmod usb_storage

Hope this will be helpful for you!!

 

Make Backspace Key Work Correctly in Firefox on Linux

 

Type about:config into the address bar :

then 

filter by the following key:

 browser.backspace_action

Double-click on the item in the list and change the value to 0.



The change should be immediate – you can hit the backspace key to go right back to whatever you were doing (probably reading this)
This tip should work on any platform… I’m not sure if all versions of Linux have the same annoyance, but at least Ubuntu does.