Yo Berry Where Have You Been?

I have been right here plugging away at several projects.

pyFollowBack.com My Twitter follow back service is going well.  Everyone who join’s the service loves it.  My own combined twitter account are now close to 200,000 followers, my own account @madberry has 21,509 followers and is growing strongly each month.

This blog is now a PR3 blog so I am happy about that.  Thanks everyone for linking back and helping me to grow this blog.

Migration to Kmail 4.7.2 Failed, Now What?

When I upgraded the first laptop to 11.10 kmail’s files needed to me migrated to the new version 4.7.2 of kmail.  The migration failed, when it fails you get an error message saying that you can run “kmail-migrator –interactive” to fix this.  How ever this doesn’t work.  To get this to work follow the steps below:

1. Back-up the original kmail files/folders:
   ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
   ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer
   ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc
2. Remove the following files:
   ~/.kde/share/config/kmail-migratorrc
   ~/.kde/share/config/kmail2rc
3. Then run: kmail-migrator –interactive which you can do in terminal or by hitting alt->f2

That is it, the migration should now run and finish like planed.

Source: wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/Final/Kubuntu/Kmail2

HELP My Ubuntu / Kubuntu Will Not Upgrade to Oneiric / 11.10

The solution is simple, in most cases the upgrade is blocked by a package that can’t be upgraded. Or as Ubuntu / Kubuntu calls it the package is held.

I had this problem on a server of mine. In my case it was kdevelop that was held back. I removed the held package and the upgrade went through as expected.

dd With Progress Bar 2.0

many of you might remember my first article about this. It was written in 2009 and by the looks of it is somewhat outdated.

What is dd?

dd is an application to make bit for bit copies of a hard drive, or anything else you need a bit for bit copy of. One of dd’s downfalls is that it doesn’t have a progress bar. Instead you are just staring at a blank screen, waiting for dd to finish copying your drive.

Google Apps An Alternative For Running Your Own Mail Server?

I have several domains, all of those domains have associated e-mail addresses.  Some of these e-mails have the same prefix.  Currently most of them are forwarded, some have mailboxes.

I knew about Google Apps, I had even played around with it before.  Although it seemed like a good product, I wasn’t really interested in using it.  Recently I decided when I bought another domain to use Google Apps for it instead of my own mail server.  I must say I like it, I like it so much I am now transfering e-mail for several domains to Google Apps.