How to migrate Thunderbird’s data&profile from Ubuntu to Windows.

1. Prepare data for migration on Ubuntu.

$ cd ~
$ tar cvfz mozilla-thunderbird-[YYYYMMDD].tgz .mozilla-thunderbird

* YYYYMMDD such as 20080525 (2008 May, 28th)
** Be careful in front of “mozilla-thunderbird” has dot (.) .
2. Copy file backup (mozilla-thunderbird-[YYYYMMDD].tgz) from Ubuntu to Windows

3. Extract backup file.

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How do configure the OpenVPN client on Windows OS.

Previous post, I posted how do configure the OpenVPN client on Ubuntu and this post I will show to do like that but configure it on Windows.

1. You must download OpenVPN Client for windows from : http://openvpn.se/download.html and install it.

2. Download this configure file : OpenVPN Client for Windows

3. After you downloaded ,this file must be edited by change IP/HostName of OpenVPN server to your OpenVPN server such as :

:
:
# You can have multiple remote entries
# to load balance between the servers.
remote YOUR.IP.OpenVPN.Server 1194
# Keep trying indefinitely to resolve the
# host name of the OpenVPN server. Very useful
# on machines which are not permanently connected
# to the internet such as laptops.
:
:

4. Download cacert.pem from OpenVPN Server. (Admin can help you).

5. Put them(openvpn-client.ovpn
and cacert.pem) in path c:\Program Files\Openvpn\config\

6. Right-click the OpenVPN Client Icon in the taskbar and select Connect

How to rewrite MBR [Master Boot Record].

My problem happen from :

1. Install Windows XP.

2. Ghost full haddisk which name of this image is XP-Only.img .
3. Resize&Create parttion on harddisk for prepare installation Ubuntu OS.
4. Install Ubuntu on new partition.

5. Ghost full harddisk to image backup which name of this image is XP-Ubuntu.img . It can full backup.
6. Test to restore image backup to harddisk by image XP-Ubuntu.img which it can not restore , it’s crash. So that you can not start it again.
7. Restore image XP-Only.img again which this image has Windows XP only that you can restore.

8. After you restore completed , you can not start. You found blank screen.

How to fix :

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What are CDO, Simple MAPI, and Extended MAPI ?

วันนี้ผม..นั่งสารวนอยู่กับ MAPI ทั้งวัน อันเนื่องมาจาก ไอ้เจ้า BES (Blackbery Enterprise Server) มันไม่สามารถ synchronize กับ Exchange 2007 ได้ เด้งมาฟ้องต้อน Start Program Blackberry Manager ทั้งวัน ทำให้ไม่สามารถรับส่ง mail ได้ ปัญหาก็น่าจะเกิดจากไอ้เจ้า MAPI นี่แหละ ก็เลยลองมาหาข้อมูลดูว่า ไอ้ MAPณ นี้มันเอาไว้ใช้ทำไรหว่า และแล้วก็มาเจอที่

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=200018
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