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Mozilla Thunderbird: Forwarding Message results in ‘Mail delivery failed’ error

sood — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:36:17 +0000

Have you ever forwarded a message (for example to a Gmail account) in Mozilla Thunderbird, and gotten one of these pesky message?

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  email@example.com
    This message has been rejected because it has
    a potentially executable attachment "Hey Buddy.eml"
    This form of attachment has been used by
    recent viruses or other malware.
    If you meant to send this file then please
    package it up as a zip file and resend it.

I have. This error baffled me because I never had problems forwarding messages before and just wrote it off as a “quirk” in Thunderbird. However, after doing some research (and carefully reading the error message), I found out that Thunderbird is forwarding the email thread as an .eml attachment.

To resolve this issue, you must change an option to forward messages Inline, rather than an Attachment. To change this option, navigate to:

Tools –> Options and click on the Composition icon

Next to the Forward Messages option, click on the drop-down box and choose the option Inline. Click OK.

Now try forwarding a message… This one won’t bounce back!

How to install Windows 7 on VMware Workstation 7.0 (A Step-by-step Guide)

sood — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:16:21 +0000

This article will show you how to install Windows 7 within VMware Workstation 7.0. This latest release from VMware was unveiled a couple weeks ago that added support for Windows 7, Aero Glass, performance improvements, and much more. Now, lets cut to the chase and get started!

To Install Windows 7 inside of VMware Workstation 7.0

Download & Install the free 30-day trial of VMware Workstation 7.0

Insert the Windows 7 install DVD into your drive

Run VMware Workstation 7.0 from the Start menu

Click New Virtual Machine

Choose Typical and click Next

Choose the option Installer Disc and ensure that the optical drive that has the Windows 7 installation DVD is selected.
Note: If you have Windows 7 as an ISO image, choose the option labeled: Installed disc image file (iso)

A convenient new feature is the ability to specify your Windows 7 product key prior to starting the installation to allow for a fully-unattended install. No more coming back to your computer an hour later after you think the installation finished only to find it stuck on a screen asking for a serial number!
Go ahead and enter your Windows product key and Full name. The password is optional. Click Next.

Now it is time to name the virtual machine and choose the location. We will keep the default location and name the VM Windows 7 Pro

VMware needs to know how hard drive space to allocate to the Windows 7 disk. Lets stick with the 40.0 GB default and click Next.

Now you will be presented with a summary screen that shows all the VM configuration parameters. Don’t worry, you can change most of these at any time! Click Finish to begin the installation!

The virtual machine will now boot up and load the Windows 7 installer from the DVD. If you need to step away from the computer, go ahead, no more user-intervention is needed. But if you would like to stick around and read the rest of this post, I don’t mind

The installer will now copy files… This will take a while…

Your system will reboot…

And continue installing…

And about 30 minutes later, its all done!

Now is a great time to save the state of your VM by taking a snapshot. This way, if you shut down VMware, you don’t have to start all over again! Right click on Windows 7 Pro in the left panel and choose Take Snapshot

Enjoy your Windows 7 VM!

Free VMware Alternative – VirtualBox

sood — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:33:48 +0000

For years VMware has dominated the market as the leader in virtualization. They offer a number of products from desktop to enterprise applications which can be confusing for users looking for a simple way to run, for instance, an Ubuntu instance within their Windows OS. VMware offers one freeware product called, VMware server that runs on Windows or Linux and can be used to virtualize a number of operating systems. However, I recently came across a freeware offering from Sun Microsystems that will give VMware a run for their “freeware money”.

Introducing VirtualBox! You may not have heard of this product before, but don’t get the unfamiliarity fool you. This is a full-fledged competitor to VMware server that will allow you to create various OS instances in a jiffy! Unlike VMware Server, VirtualBox runs on Mac OS and Solaris in addition to Windows and Linux. Also, the Windows installation package is a paltry 60 MB vs. the 500 MB of VMware Server. What I really dislike about VMware is that it runs as a Apache Tomcat server and the user interface is browser-based which is clunky and a memory hog. Also, VMware Server only allows users to capture a single snapshot whereas multiple snapshots can be taken using VirtualBox. VirtualBox’s interface is also very clean, efficient, and easy-to-use. See below for screenshots!

Download VirtualBox!

ACSLS 8.0: Authentication Failure on Web GUI Login

sood — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:43:47 +0000

As you know, the addition of a Web-based UI was one of the biggest additions in ACSLS 8.0 versus previous versions. However, when attempting to login to the UI using the acsss account as the ACSLS Admin Guide suggests, you will receive an Authentication Failure message. The solution to this problem is to create a new Solaris user account to login with. In this example, I created a user called acsgui to use as the username and password.

Create New Account To Login to ACSLS 8.0 UI

Login or su to the root user
Create a new user with the username acsgui

useradd -d /export/home/acsgui -m -s /bin/bash acsgui

Set the password for this new user

passwd acsgui

Firefox 3.0 Memory Leak Problem Caused By FireBug

sood — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:21:54 +0000

My work computer stays on 24/7 and I like to keep all my applications open, including Firefox 3.0. For months now, I noticed that everyday, my firefox.exe process grows to over 1.5 GB, eating up all my system’s memory. It was a very annoying problem since it would cause my entire system to become sluggish. My temporary solution was to restart the browser everyday, until the memory crept back up again. This issue baffled me because I always thought Firefox was supposed to have far superior memory management than other browsers like IE.

I finally decided to investigate the issue and did a Google search for the problem. Most websites recommend altering a couple of settings in the about:configFirefox configuration page. However, these issues did not address the root of the problem and simply gave a non-ideal workaround. However, searching for the solution gave me the idea that perhaps it is one of my FF Plugins that is causing the problem. So I one-by-one, I disabled my plugins and let FireFox run for several hours while I observed the memory usage and voila! I found the culprit…FireBug 1.3.3! After disabling this plugin, I have been running Firefox memory leak free!

I hope this article helps those that are suffering from the same issue!

What is the login name and password in VMware Server 2.0?

sood — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:19:33 +0000

This article will show you how to login to VMWare Server 2.0. If you have used an old version of VMWare Server, you know that a username and password were not required to use the program. However, VMware Server 2.0 introduced a web application to run and manage the VMs which run on a Apache Tomcat web browser. When you accesss the VMWare Server Home Page for on your machine, you are now greeted with a login screen asking for login name and password. In order to login, you must have a password-enabled account with administrator access on your computer. On a Windows machine, this can be done by creating a user account from Control Panel. If your computer is running on a corporate network, try logging into VMWare using the same credentials you use to login to your Windows workstation. But be sure to include your corporate domain name in the login name (ex: domain/username).