Install WebHTB on Ubuntu 10.04

Assume here your Ubuntu LAMP, PHP5, have been running well.

1. Download webhtb "wget http://www.webhtb.ro/downloads/WebHTB_V2.9.bz2"

2. Extract to directory /var/www/ "sudo tar -jxvf WebHTB_V2.9.bz2 /var/www/"

3. Change directory ownership "sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/webhtb"

4. Activate SSL module on Apache2 "sudo a2enmod ssl"

5. Generate SSL key for apache2
"sudo apt-get install openssl ssl-cert"
"sudo mkdir -p /etc/apache2/ssl"
"sudo make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem"

6. Create Virtual Host for Webhtb "sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/webhtb"

NameVirtualHost *:443

      SSLEngine On
      SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem
    
      ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
      DocumentRoot /var/www/webhtb/
      
              Options FollowSymLinks
              AllowOverride All
      
      
              Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
              AllowOverride All
              Order allow,deny
              allow from all
      

      ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
      
              AllowOverride None
              Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
              Order allow,deny
              Allow from all
      

      ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

      # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
      # alert, emerg.
      LogLevel warn

      CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
      ServerSignature On

7. Activate Virtual Host WebHTB "sudo a2ensite webhtb"

8. Reload your apache2 "sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload"

9. Install sysvconfig php5-cli php5-snmp "sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-snmp"

10. Create startup script for WebHTB "sudo cp -r /var/www/webhtb/docs/webhtb /etc/init.d/"

11. Edit startup script "sudo vim /etc/init.d/webhtb" #search this line dir="/var/www/html/webhtb" and change into dir="/var/www/webhtb"

12. Make it executeable "sudo chmod u+x /etc/init.d/webhtb" "chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/webhtb"

13. Set your root password "sudo passwd root"

14. Browse from another computer to https://your-server-local-ip/setup/index.php
Insert:
* MySQL admin user: root
* MySQL admin password: yourrootpassword
* MySQL WebHTB user: "leave it blank"
* MySQL WebHTB password: "leave it blank"
* MySQL WebHTB password again: "leave it blank"
* MySQL WebHTB databasename: webhtb
* Default interface: eth1 ---> ## Your LAN interface

Now you can manage your internet bandwidth :
1. Add interface --- add your LAN interface
2. Create some class (This is a must!!)
>Class Name : Squid-DNS
>Bandwidth : 10240 (10Mbps)
>Limit : 10240
>Prio :0
>Que : SFQ (Stochastic Fairness Queeing)
3. Add client
>Choose class Squid-DNS
CLIENT : DNS-request
BANDWITDH : 128
LIMIT :128
SRC IP : DNS Server Local IP / Provider (to add more than one IP click Add new src)
4. Add your next client to your CLIENT Class and there you go!!! Read More...

Install Canon iP1980 on Ubuntu 10.04

Back to another tips again today....
Yes... like the title, here's the step :
1. Download the Canon iP1980 driver from here and here
2. And now repackage it using "dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb" and yes... it's said that the package needed libcupsys2... and Hey Canon!!!! That package is obsolete and have been changed by libcups2!!!! What a shame for a big company like Canon that didn't have time for updating their driver.
3. But it doesn't meant we giving up right!!! What we need now is just changing the dependency from Canon OLD DRIVER!!! we just have to remove the libcupsys2 and change it to libcups2
4. First of all you will need to extract the .deb to a temporary directory (tmpdir) "dpkg-deb -x cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb tmpdir"
5. Then we are going to pull the control file that is located in the tmp/DEBIAN/ folder. This is where you will make your dependency changes "dpkg-deb --control cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb"
6. Edit the control file using your favorite text editor "vim tmpdir/DEBIAN/control"
7. Just remove the "libcupsys2" and change it to "libcups2"
8. After edit the control file, now you can repackage it using "dpkg -b tmpdir new-name-of-package.deb"
9. Just do "dpkg -i new-name-of-package.deb"
10. Do the same thing with the cnijfilter-ip1900series_3.00-1_i386.deb.

For you guys who don't want to bother with the "repackaging issue" you guys can download the driver from here and here Read More...

Install HP Laserjet 1020 on Ubuntu 10.04 Server

Wow.... after a frustrated day, finally i can install HP LaserJet on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
Straight to the step!!!

1. Download the HPLip from here
2. Execute the file "sh hplip-3.10.9.run" then just choose automatic for the installation way then follow and answer nicely every question and command :).
3. After the re-plug (or if you fail or choose to restart, you could just run "sudo hp-setup -i" again) and choose usb (for me).
4. If the hp-setup asking for the plugin, just choose to download it and it will be downloaded automatically.
5. After the installation is finished, YOU MUST HAVE SWITCH-OFF AND THEN SWITCH-ON AGAIN your printer!!!! This is what i miss and make the headache all the day, after that just try to print a test page from your CUPS.

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Install Magic Mouse on Apple Bootcamp

Hello All,

I received my Magic Mouse and it works great under OSX but I couldn't get it working under Windows at all. Searching here and around the web, I've compiled a guide on how I got it working. Hopefully, Apple will release proper drivers in the future but for now, here is what I did:

1. Remove your Magic Mouse from your OS X bluetooth device (i don't know why Windows connected with my OS X)

2. On Windows Turn mouse off...if you have already tried installing, remove the device and then turn the mouse off. To remove it, open Start, type "Devices" and press enter. Select "remove device"...Now let's get started:

1) Update the Bluetooth Driver.
Open Device Manager.
Start > (Right Click Computer) > Properties. Click Device Manager in upper left of this window. Double click (Bluetooth Radios), Right click on "Generic Bluetooth" and select "Properties". Open the Driver tab and then select "Update Driver". Click "Browse my computer for driver software". On the next screen, towards the bottom, click on "Let me pick from a list of device drivers...". Uncheck "Show compatible hardware". Select "Apple" and then "Apple built in bluetooth". Done
(You don't have to do this step if you already installed Bootcamp 3.1)

2)In the notification area of the task bar, right click on Bluetooth icon and select "Add a device". Turn on your mouse. It will show up on screen. Right click on the mouse icon. Select Properties. Select the "Services" tab and check the "Drivers for keyboard, mice, etc". The mouse may disappear from the screen since it's been added.

3) Disable power management for Bluetooth Radio. Open device manager, open Bluetooth Radios and right click on "Apple Bluetooth". Select the "Power Management". Uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".

4) Mouse should be working in Windows 7/Vista now.

For addition if you want some hack for smoother experience on your magic mouse, UneasySilence have managed to hack the driver to make it run on PCs running any version of Windows from XP to 7, you can get it here for 32bit and 64bit
Next time if you want to connect your Magic mouse to your Windows or OS X, just power up your magic mouse and wait for 3 seconds, then just left click 4 times... and viola!! "It's just works!!!" Read More...

Reverse Proxy on Apache2

What is reverse proxy?
According to Apachetutor reverse proxy is a gateway for servers, and enables one web server to provide content from another transparently


In what scenario it can be use?
Company example.com has a website at www.example.com, which has a public IP address and DNS entry, and can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet.

The company also has a couple of application servers which have private IP addresses and unregistered DNS entries, and are inside the firewall. The application servers are visible within the network - including the webserver, as "internal1.example.com" and "internal2.example.com", But because they have no public DNS entries, anyone looking at internal1.example.com from outside the company network will get a "no such host" error.

A decision is taken to enable Web access to the application servers. But they should not be exposed to the Internet directly, instead they should be integrated with the webserver, so that http://www.example.com/app1/any-path-here is mapped internally to http://internal1.example.com/any-path-here and http://www.example.com/app2/other-path-here is mapped internally to http://internal2.example.com/other-path-here. This is a typical reverse-proxy situation.

How do i enable Apache2 for proxy?
To enable Apache2 for proxy, you need to enable this modules :

• mod_proxy: The core module deals with proxy infrastructure and configuration and managing a proxy request.
• mod_proxy_http: This handles fetching documents with HTTP and HTTPS.
• mod_proxy_ftp: This handles fetching documents with FTP.
• mod_proxy_connect: This handles the CONNECT method for secure (SSL) tunneling.
• mod_proxy_ajp: This handles the AJP protocol for Tomcat and similar backend servers.
• mod_proxy_balancer implements clustering and load-balancing over multiple backends.
• mod_cache, mod_disk_cache, mod_mem_cache: These deal with managing a document cache. To enable caching requires mod_cache and one or both of disk_cache and mem_cache.
• mod_proxy_html: This rewrites HTML links into a proxy's address space.
• mod_xml2enc: This supports internationalisation (i18n) on behalf of mod_proxy_html and other markup-filtering modules. space.
• mod_headers: This modifies HTTP request and response headers.
• mod_deflate: Negotiates compression with clients and backends.
  

After enabling those modules, we need to edit httpd.conf and insert line like these (do not forget to create the folder you specified below!!!) :

ProxyPass /news/ http://news_server.domain.lan/news/
ProxyPassReverse /news/ http://news_server.domain.lan/news/

And the final step is to edit our mods-enabled/proxy.conf :

ProxyRequest Off

Order deny,allow
Allow from all

ProxyVia On


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How to FSCK - fix error LVM volume

Boot from a CD
Boot from a CD with Ubuntu Desktop (or another desktop distro) on it, and run it from the CD. Then none of your filesystems are mounted, you can't run fsck on a mounted filesystem.

If you've used the Linux LVM to create your partitions, you'll need to make those accessible before you run fsck:

"lvm pvscan"
"lvm vgscan"
"lvm lvchange -ay 'NameOfYourVolumeGroup' "
"lvm lvscan"
Then you can run fsck:

"fsck -f NameOfYourVolumeGroup"

simply wait for the fsck process and boot into your Linux box again :)

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Installing Zoneminder on Ubuntu 9.04 32bit & 10.04 32bit - The open source surveillance system

Yes... you may have heard the Linux is going into CCTV world! On this tutorial we are going to
install zoneminder on Ubuntu 9.04 32bit.
Note that this walkthrough is taken from http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_9.04_server_32bit with some modification due to update to ffmpeg module.
This also a solution to ffmpeg error on compiling zoneminder.We assume here you guys already installed the Ubuntu Server with LAMP and the SSH server if you guys want to do remote SSH,and change the IP of your server to static IP.

- Do the "apt-get update" and then "apt-get upgrade" to update your distribution to the latest
one.

- After that install webmin (optional), install sysvconfig: "apt-get install sysvconfig", enter; now
run it: "sysvconfig", enter , now choose "enable/disable", also
ensure webmin is checked if you want it; back to the main screen, hit "finished" to save; exit it;

- Ensure you had your capture card recognized, in my case i'm using Kodicom 8800 DVR card.
root@myhomeCCTV:/home/myhome# find /dev -name video*
/dev/video1
/dev/video7
/dev/video6
/dev/video5
/dev/video4
/dev/video3
/dev/video2
/dev/video0
/dev/.udev/names/video1
/dev/.udev/names/video7
/dev/.udev/names/video6
/dev/.udev/names/video5
/dev/.udev/names/video4
/dev/.udev/names/video3
/dev/.udev/names/video2
/dev/.udev/names/video0
root@myhomeCCTV:/home/myhome# lspci -v | grep Multimedia
04:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
04:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
04:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
04:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
04:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
04:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
04:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:0e.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
04:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
04:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

ZM Installation :
echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ffmpeg.conf

echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> /etc/bash.bashrc

echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> /etc/bash.bashrc

ldconfig

aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` automake perl libnetssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl libmysqlclient15-dev libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libmime-perl libstdc++6 libwww-perl zlib1g zip unzip patch ntp openssl libpcre3-dev libssl-dev libjpeg-progs libcurl4-gnutls-dev munin munin-node libmime-lite-perl netpbm libbz2-dev subversion yasm

Install Perl Modules
type "perl -MCPAN -e shell", enter
(accept yes when prompted)
type "install CPAN", enter
(accept yes when prompted)
type "exit", enter
type "perl -MCPAN -e shell", enter
type "install YAML PHP::Serialization Module::Load X10::ActiveHome", enter
(accept yes when prompted,and yes again to fix dependencies problems if so)
type "exit", enter

FFmpeg & ZoneMinder from SVN
Install FFmpeg
cd /usr/src

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

cd ffmpeg

echo "Checked out external at revision 29318 - Checked out revision 18890" > xxx_SVN_info.txt

./configure --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-pthreads

make

make install

make install-libs

cd /lib

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libswscale.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.52
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.52
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.50
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52
(all commands ran smooth, no broken symbolic links so far)

Install & Config ZoneMinder
cd /usr/src

svn co http://svn.zoneminder.com/svn/zm/trunk zm

cd zm

echo "Checked out revision 2887" > xxx_SVN_info.txt

./configure --with-webdir=/var/www/zm --with-cgidir=/usr/lib/cgi-bin --withffmpeg=/usr/src/ffmpeg CPPFLAGS="-D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS" ZM_DB_HOST=localhost ZM_DB_NAME=zm ZM_DB_USER=zmuser ZM_DB_PASS=zmpass --enable-debug=yes --withwebgroup=www-data --with-webuser=www-data

autoconf
(ok, outputs nothing here)

aclocal

automake
(now, the most important step, that takes about 3 minutes compiling)

make
(so far so good, lets now create the initial db; when prompted, use the **root
MySQL** password you created before;)

mysql -u root -p <> db/zm_create.sql

mysql -u root -p

grant select,insert,update,delete on zm.* to 'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';

quit

make install

Post Install
Install Cambozola
cd /usr/src

wget http://www.charliemouse.com:8080/code/cambozola/cambozola-latest.tar.gz

tar -xzvf cambozola-latest.tar.gz

cp cambozola-0.70/dist/cambozola.jar /var/www/zm

Make sure ZoneMinder starts automatically
vim /etc/init.d/zm
#!/bin/sh
# description: Control ZoneMinder as a Service
# chkconfig: 2345 99 99
# Source function library.
#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
prog=ZoneMinder
ZM_PATH_BIN="/usr/local/bin"
command="$ZM_PATH_BIN/zmpkg.pl"
start() {
echo -n "Starting $prog: "
$command start
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo success
[ $RETVAL != 0 ] && echo failure
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
echo -n "Stopping $prog: "
$command stop
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && echo success
[ $RETVAL != 0 ] && echo failure
}
status() {
result=`$command status`
if [ "$result" = "running" ]; then
echo "ZoneMinder is running"
RETVAL=0
else
echo "ZoneMinder is stopped"
RETVAL=1
fi
}
case "$1" in
'start')
start
;;
'stop')
stop
;;
'restart')
stop
start
;;
'status')
status
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart | status }"
RETVAL=1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

Make /etc/init.d/zm executable:
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/zm

Make zm "automatic start on boot" -- Webmin -> System -> Bootup and Shutdown

Notes :
- There are some fix to also include support for Safari users or people surfing with the iPhone's built in Safari browser.Also, there is no need to do anything for Google chrome because its being detected as Mozilla\firefox.If you are using the JPEG streaming mode (Motion JPEG) with the browser Opera or Safari, or even using your iPhone, there is no reason to use cambozola because all those browsers support MJPEG natively.The problem: with ZM's CAN_STREAM setting set to "auto", ZM's auto detection believes those browsers don't support MJPEG, although they do.This is because ZM's auto detection is slightly outdated and this fix will update it.
You can do the changes manually or use the patch below.EDIT: If after this fix you experience flickering in Opera, here is how you fix it:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=61493
(or if you want the easiest way, you can download the
functions.php file from HERE, and overwrite the file function.php on /var/www/zm/includes/function.php)
- In file include/functions.php, change the following which is at around line 823 (May vary from installation to installation):
elseif (ereg( 'Opera ([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],$logVersion))
to
elseif (ereg( 'Opera/([0-9].[0-9]{1,2})',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],$logVersion))
- In around line 876 (May vary from installation to installation),change:
function canStreamNative()
{
return( ZM_CAN_STREAM == "yes" || ( ZM_CAN_STREAM == "auto"
&& (isNetscape() || isKonqueror()) ) );
}
to
function canStreamNative()
{
return( ZM_CAN_STREAM == "yes" || ( ZM_CAN_STREAM == "auto" && (isNetscape
() || isKonqueror() || isOpera() || isSafari()) )
);
}

- In around line 840 (May vary from installation to installation),find this:
function isNetscape()
{
getBrowser( $browser, $version );
return( $browser == "mozilla" );
}
to
function isOpera() {
getBrowser( $browser, $version );
return( $browser == "opera" );
}
function isSafari() {
getBrowser( $browser, $version );
return( $browser == "safari" );
}

- For Kodicom KMC-8800 there's a fix, make a new file on /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf and place the option, for

for 1 card :
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 autoload=0
for 2 card :
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options bttv gbuffers=16 card=102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 autoload=0

- There's a issue with shared memory with my installation - i don't know if you guys got the same issue too, if so... just insert below line to /etc/sysctl.conf
vim /etc/sysctl.conf
then insert :
kernel.shmall = 134217728
kernel.shmmax = 134217728
to load this setting immediately
sysctl -p

- If you want to use another partition as storage just create a symlink from /var/www/zm/events to zoneminder default folder :
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Digital Surveilance with Zoneminder 1.23

After several time our church congregation got stolen, we decide to upgrade our CCTV - yes we've been using the CCTV, but the quality is very poor (we seen the theft but the picture quality is very poor and the way to retrieve the recording isn't very comfortable - we've to search every single frame and there's no other way to skip it). Then we decide to upgrade the CCTV using computerize system which we find out will be doing more good for us.

My choice drop to Zoneminder, the fact of it being open source and it ran on LINUX also!!! has been always makes me believe we're not going wrong direction. As you guys know, we are non-profit organization and our budget come from the congregation, thats why we've to consider well every penny we spent and mostly because it ran on Linux which have been famous because of it's stability and robustness.

The hardware we choose this time is a set of computer (motherboard with onboard graphic card should be enough as we're going to install a server) and a DVR card - we choose Kodicom KMC-8800 8 channel DVR card.
Here is the list of supported hardware by Zoneminder

This time i choose Ubuntu 9.04 LAMP 32bit - Jaunty Jackalope as our base system. I'm not going to tell you guys about how to install it because the installation is pretty straight forward and well documented on internet. After the installation - make sure you guys give your server a static address, and change the repository to the local one (choose the closest one to you guys).

Once again!!! make sure you guys choose to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, mysql, PHP)!!!!

After that as usually, do some package update "sudo apt-get update" and the the upgrade "sudo apt-get upgrade" - install webmin to help us configure our system.

Now we're going to the install the zoneminder, installation is pretty straight forward also - we're going to make our life easier by installing it from debian repository "sudo apt-get install zoneminder" and if it asking for dependency fire up some command "sudo apt-get install -f" and try install the zoneminder again with "sudo apt-get install zoneminder".

After the installation progress is finish, try to link Apache with Zoneminder

"sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf" and the reload apache "/etc/init.d/apache force-reload"

Notes :

• For Kodicom KMC-8800 we've to make bttv.conf file on /etc/modprobe.d/ and write down
  

     options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
     options bttv gbuffers=16 card=102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 autoload=0

   for 1 card - The 8 inputs are from /dev/video0 channel 0 to /dev/video7 channel 0, and

     options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
     options bttv gbuffers=16 card=102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102,102 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 autoload=0

   for 2 card - The 16 inputs are from /dev/video0 channel 0 to /dev/video15
   channel 0.
   At this time it appears its not possible to install more than 2 cards of this card in the same computer, the computer will detect no more than 16 BT878 chips.

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Install Final Cut Pro/Studio on Macbook

Some of you may have facing some problem when installing Final Cut Pro on older Macbook white, yes the Final Cut Pro require us to have 128 MB of VRAM - As many of you know already, in many cases Apple's 'requirements' (and installer checks) for OS's, Apps, etc. are steeper than what the software will actualy run on (although not all features may work, or performance may be poor on some hardware).

The FCS 3 Install requirements lists "ATI or NVIDIA graphics processor (integrated Intel graphics processors not supported)" and "128MB of VRAM". They also list a higher minimum res (1280x800) display recommendation than FCS2 did (1024x768 min). And there's higher "requirements" listed for some apps like Color.

I copied the entire installation disk to my hard drive and deleted the installation check file from the FinalCutPro.mpkg file. (right click/"show package contents", etc.), and then go to "Content" - "Resources" and rename "Requirement Checker" file. Then the installer ran normally. After it was installed, I had to open up the applications' packages and change the "MRCheckPro.bundle" from the respective Contents/Resources folders (this is slightly different from older versions) with the one from here.

I should note that many newer Macbooks have more than 64MB shared VRAM, so people may not have to jump through these hoops on those models.

By the way, my experience with FCS 2 on this Macbook was that "almost" everything ran perfectly -- there were one or two filters (like "Bloom") that wouldn't render, but other than that, it was virtually indistinguishable from a Macbook Pro (and I should mention I have seen Mac Pros that couldn't render the Bloom filter either). I suspect this version will be similar...

Ok, have a great ministry with your Macbook.

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Panasonic AG-MX70 DSK (Down Stream Keyer)

Yes it's a bit confusing for the first time we using the DSK function on AG-MX70, me either need about one week to figure out how to set the DSK on AG-MX70.

Here's the step :
1. Connect the source of your DSK by using Composite or Component to "EXT IN" jack at the back of your AG-MX70 ("Key" for "Composite" and "Y Pb Pr" for "Component"
2. Next is the setup of your video mixer section, go to "Setup" setting by pressing the "Set up" button under the LCD and change the "Gen. Lock" -- "Ref In" into "Ext Key"
3. Next go to "DSK Fade" setting by pressing the "DSK Fade" button under the LCD and change the "DSK Source" -- "Key" into "EXT" and "Fill" into "BodMat" (this will make sure your text color match your desired color.
4. To change your text color just go to the "PATTERN" setting ("Mix" ussually for the church) by pressing the "Mix" button under the PATTERN setting , and change "Pattern Edge" -- "Color" into the color you want ("Yellow" for me).
Yes you can change the color into the color you desired.
5. To start using the DSK, send the text to mixer (i'm using Easy Woship from one computer connected to my video mixer by using S-Video to RCA cable custom build). The text must using black background.

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Installing Webmin on ubuntu

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that support tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, Squid, file sharing and so on.

Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.

Preparing Your System

You need to install the following packages

sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

Install Webmin in Ubuntu

You can use the above procedure but if you want to install latest version of .deb package you can download from webmin site under Download Section

Download latest webmin using the following command

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.500_all.deb

Now we have webmin_1.500_all.deb package you need to install using the following command

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

If your server complains that there is some library things does not find. Just run the following command

sudo apt- get install -f

You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL https://localhost:10000/

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kTouch E329 Mac OS X Driver

Yes, some of you may have been looking for ages - driver for kTouch E329 on MAC OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Yes after doing some searching and research, finally i got the driver. The installation is a bit tricky but overall it's not very hard.

Allright let's download the file here (make sure your kTouch E329 isn't connected to your Mac)

after installing the driver, now it's time to configure your phone :

1. Enter the engineering mode by pressing *#3641# (don't mess with anything else or you will break the phone).

2. Go to option no.6 "USB Switch".

3. And choose QSC (this will make sure every time you connect your phone, it automatically switch to "modem" mode.

after that connect your phone and there will be system preference window which asked you to configure your new modem.

choose kTouch E329 modem and use #777 as phone number and smart as username and password.

viola!!! now you have been connected

Notes : everytime you got asked when connecting your phone via USB repeat 1-3 step (configure your phone for QSC mode once again even though it's already QSC - just press "OK" on QSC mode. This is the bugs on this phone - hope the factory will repair it soon)

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How to Install Webmin in Ubuntu

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that support tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, Squid, file sharing and so on.

Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.

Preparing Your System

You need to install the following packages

sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl

Install Webmin in Ubuntu

You can use the above procedure but if you want to install latest version of .deb package you can download from webmin site under Download Section

Download latest webmin using the following command

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.500_all.deb

Now we have webmin_1.340_all.deb package you need to install using the following command

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

If your server complains that there is some library things does not find. Just run the following command

sudo apt- get install -f

You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL https://localhost:10000/

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SIS191 ethernet chipset problem on ubuntu

After 3 days struggling with Ubuntu 9.04 installation over one of our church desktop computer, finally we find the solution. (i'm using Asus P5S-MX SE motherboard which use SIS191 as it's ethernet chipset another computer which use the same chipset and probably get the same problem is Acer Aspire SA90)


The problem begin when i'm choosing to switch our church office desktop to switch to Ubuntu Linux 9.04, the installation going very smooth and everything seems going very well, but when i try to update the package manager... here's come the problem.. strangely the updater just like hangs... it can't get package from the internet... At first i assume that there's a network problem on our church.. but after do some investigation i find out that there's no problem with the network, and finally i try to do some network tools like ping, dig (to find out if there's a problem with my dns) and strangely.. everything just going well (the computer can ping and resolve domain name).
And finally after some reinstallations of Ubuntu 9.04 and some googling - i find out that there's a bug (i don't know if we've to call it a bug or problem with the SIS), the old kernel (2.6 kernel) just can't recognize the SIS191.

There's a solution for this problem on HowtoForge regarding to this problem, but it's just seems to complicated for regular users - so i decided to install some network card to my ubuntu (i'm using TP-Link PCI ethernet card which only cost me 4 bucks) and it's instantly recognized by Ubuntu and after that we do some upgrade to the distro, and viola.. it's just work again and we can remove the network card and use the onboard one. Read More...

Magazine for Audio Video on church

After several checking on what's the best free magazine for church, my choices turn to Worship Facilities and Lighting and Sound America - the first one (Worship Facilities) focus on design, construction, operation and maintenance magazine for today’s house of worship. You guys can subscribe for free at their website - for international user you guys can subscribe from their online subscription form (subscription is free for qualified church), and the other one (Lighting and Sound International) focusing on the entertainment technology industry with intelligence, wit, and professionalism, which is applicable to church audio video technology (i believe most of latest audio video technology targeted on church and congregations nowadays), you guys can also subscribe for free from here.

For online magazine i also reccomend TV Technology, Christian Video Magazine, Christian Computing Magazine, Church Production Magazine.

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Video DownloadHelper 4.0.2

The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.

Long Description

DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.

Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item

For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you'll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and others.

Since version 3.1, you can setup the extension to automatically convert the downloaded movies to your preferred video format.

When you are on a page containing links to images or movies, you can download some or all of them at once. Moving the mouse over the items in the menu will highlights the links directly in the page to make sure they are the ones you want to pick up.

DownloadHelper also allows you to download files one by one, so that you keep bandwidth to surf for other stuff to download.

To modify your preferences, like changing the download directory, right-click on the icon and choose "Preferences".

When you first install the extension, your browser is redirected to a welcome page with links to a user manual at http://www.downloadhelper.net/manual.php and a faq at http://www.downloadhelper.net/faq.php

This does not change your homepage setting and the welcome page won't appear anymore.

Support can be obtained from http://www.downloadhelper.net/support.php

Works with:

• Firefox: 1.5 – 3.2a1pre

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FLV Extract

Extracts video and audio from FLV files without decompressing or recompressing. The video is saved as AVI (H.263/FLV1 and VP6/VP6F) or raw elementary stream (H.264/AVC). The audio is saved as MP3, AAC (with ADTS headers), or WAV (PCM).

NOTE: If you simply want to convert FLV to AVI including audio, the FLV Input Plugin for VirtualDub (see below) is most likely a better choice. FLV Extract currently writes out separate video/audio files which you would have to join. Also, FLV Input Plugin is able to maintain synch in variable framerate videos by inserting drop frames. However, it doesn't yet support H.264 or AAC.

NOTE: The AVIs will not play unless you have the right decoders. ffdshow-tryouts can decode FLV1, VP6F, and H.264; make sure they're enabled in its configuration dialog.

NOTE: The extracted MP3s may appear to have an incorrect duration in your audio player. This is because FLV Extract doesn't generate a VBR header, but the files are perfectly valid nonetheless. To add a VBR header you can load an MP3 in foobar2000, right click on it, go to Utils, and click "Fix VBR MP3 Header".

Changes:

1.4.0 (2008-Nov-16):

• Supports H.264/AVC, written as a raw elementary stream.
• Supports AAC, written as .aac with ADTS headers.
• Extracts VP6 alpha channel to a separate file.
• Prompts before overwriting files.

1.3.0 (2008-Feb-26):

• Added dialog that lists the status of all files, replaces the message box that was shown for each file.
• Doesn't leave files open upon error.
• Better handling of incomplete files.
• Changed VP6 FourCC from FLV4 to VP6F.
• A few fixes for rare files.

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K-Lite Codec Pack

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:
- It it always up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
- It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
- It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs.
- It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.

There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: Basic, Standard and Full.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Basic contains only the most essential things. It contains everything you need to be able to play the most popular and widespread formats. It is small enough to fit on a single floppy. Also great for including on your movie CDs.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Standard contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for the various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.

Features of K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 FULL version :

• Player :
- Media Player Classic [version 6.4.9.1 rev. 85]
- Media Player Classic Home Cinema [version 1.2.972.0]
• FFDShow :
- ffdshow [revision 2624]
- ffdshow VFW interface
- extra plugins
• DirectShow video filters :
- XviD [version 1.2.0 build 2008-01-10]
- DivX [version 6.8.5]
- On2 VP6 [version 6.4.2.0]
- On2 VP7 [version 7.0.10.0]
- MPEG-2 (Cyberlink) [version 8.1.0.1608]
- MPEG-2 (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- MPEG-1 (MainConcept) [version 1.0.0.78]
• DirectShow audio decoding filters:
- AC3/DTS/LPCM/MP1/MP2 (AC3Filter) [version 1.51a]
- Vorbis (CoreVorbis) [version 1.1.0.79]
- AAC (MONOGRAM) [version 0.9.5.0]
• DirectShow audio parsers:
- MusePack (MONOGRAM) [version 0.9.1.2 | 0.3.1.2]
- WavPack (CoreWavPack) [version 1.1.1]
- FLAC (madFLAC) [version 1.8]
- Monkey's Audio (DCoder) [version 1.0]
- OptimFROG (RadLight) [version 1.0.0.1]
- DC-Bass Source [version 1.2.0]
- AC3/DTS Source (AC3File) [version 0.5b]
- AMR (MONOGRAM) [version 1.0.1.0]
• DirectShow source filters:
- AVI splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.9]
- AVI splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- Matroska splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- Matroska splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.3.0]
- Ogg splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- Ogg splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.1]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- FLV splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.5]
- CDXA Reader (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.2]
• DirectShow subtitle filter:
- DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.39]
- DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.33]
• Other filters:
- Haali Video Renderer [version 1.9.42.1]
• VFW video codecs:
- XviD [version 1.2.0 build 2008-01-10]
- DivX [version 6.8.5]
- x264 [revision 1024]
- On2 VP6 [version 6.4.2.0]
- On2 VP7 [version 7.0.10.0]
- Intel Indeo 4 [version 4.51.16.2]
- Intel Indeo 5 [version 5.2562.15.54]
- Intel I.263 [version 2.55.1.16]
- huffyuv [version 2.1.1 CCE Patch 0.2.5]
- YV12 (Helix) [version 1.2]
• ACM audio codecs:
- MP3 (Fraunhofer) [version 3.4.0.0]
- MP3 (LAME) [version 3.98.2]
- AC3ACM [version 1.4]
- Vorbis [version 0.0.3.6]
- DivX ;) Audio [version 4.2.0.0]
• Tools:
- Codec Tweak Tool [version 2.2.9]
- GSpot Codec Information Appliance [version 2.70a]
- MediaInfo Lite [version 0.7.7.8]
- VobSubStrip [version 0.11]
- GraphStudio [0.2.9.0]
- Haali Muxer
- FourCC Changer
- Bitrate Calculator

Changes from K-Lite Codec Pack 4.4.5 FULL to K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 FULL :

- Updated Media Player Classic Homecinema to version 1.2.972.0
- Updated ffdshow to revision 2624
- Added option to use experimental MT version of ffdshow. That has better H.264 decoding performance on multi-core processors
- Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.9.42.1
- Updated Ogg splitter (Gabest) to version 1.2.972.0
- Updated MPEG splitter (Gabest) to version 1.2.972.0

Features of K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 STANDARD version :

• Player :
- Media Player Classic [version 6.4.9.1 rev. 85]
- Media Player Classic Home Cinema [version 1.2.972.0]
• FFDShow :
- FFDShow [rev. 2624]
• DirectShow video decoding filters :
- MPEG-2 (Cyberlink) [version 8.1.0.1608]
• DirectShow source filters :
- AVI splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.9]
- AVI splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- Matroska splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- Ogg splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- FLV splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.5]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.4]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
• DirectShow subtitle filter :
- DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.39]
• Other filters :
- Haali Video Renderer [version 1.9.42.1]
• Tools :
- Codec Tweak Tool [version 2.2.9]
- MediaInfo Lite [version 0.7.7.8]
- VobSubStrip [version 0.11]

Changes from K-Lite Codec Pack 4.4.5 STANDARD to K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 :

- Updated Media Player Classic Homecinema to version 1.2.972.0
- Removed regular version of MPC
- Updated ffdshow to revision 2624
- Added madFLAC (version 1.8)
- Added CoreWavPack (version 1.1.1)
- Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.9.42.1
- Updated MPEG splitter (Gabest) to version 1.2.972.0
- Removed AVI splitter (Gabest)
- The "Auto-load VSFilter" setting for Haali Media Splitter is now enabled by default

Features of K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 BASIC version :

- ffdshow [revision 2624]
• DirectShow source filters:
- AVI splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MP4 splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.5]
- Matroska splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- Ogg splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- MPEG PS/TS splitter (Haali Media Splitter) [version 1.8.122.18]
- FLV splitter (Gabest) [version 1.0.0.5]
• DirectShow subtitle filter:
- DirectVobSub (a.k.a. VSFilter) [version 2.39]
• Tools:
- Codec Tweak Tool [version 2.2.9]

Changes from K-Lite Codec Pack 4.4.5 BASIC to K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3 :

- Updated ffdshow to revision 2624
- Updated Haali Media Splitter to version 1.9.42.1
- The "Auto-load VSFilter" setting for Haali Media Splitter is now enabled by default

Important Note :

- The K-Lite Codec Pack works only on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.

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Smart Defrag 1.10

Smart Defrag
The World’s Most Efficient Defragmenter

What’s the primary cause of slow/unstable PC performance? It’s disk fragmentation. Smart Defrag helps defragment your hard drives more efficiently than any other product on the market –– free or not.

This powerful, award-winning free defragmenter is 100% safe and clean with no adware, spyware, or viruses.

Key Benefits

Extremely Easy to Use

Install it and forget it. This powerful, free defragmenter works continuously, automatically and quietly in the background on your PC. Its intuitive interface makes Smart Defrag the ideal utility for complete computer dummies.

Exceptionally Efficient Defragmentation

Smart Defrag has the world’s fastest defragmenting engine. It’s been specially designed for modern, large hard drives, so it eliminates long waiting times.

Optimize Disk Performance

Smart Defrag doesn’t just use simple defragmentation. It also streamlines your file system, places the frequently used files and directories into the fastest area of the disk, enabling your computer to run at top speed with the most stability.

Always-on to Work Automatically

Smart Defrag works automatically and quietly in the background, so it continually and constantly keeps your computer fragment-free.

Data Safe and Reliability Guaranteed

Smart Defrag uses the commercial-level standard to move data and does not damage any file in your disk. Besides, unlike other "Automated" Defragmenters, Smart Defrag does NOT constantly perform analysis and defragment, which does damage your hard drive and shorten its life. Smart Defrag has a "Safe Intelligence" technology that can assure the health of your disk by deciding When and How to start defragmentation.

Free Defragmenter Forever

Smart Defrag is 100% freeware. Download, use, and update it absolutely free for your personal computers, business or enterprise servers –– it won’t cost you a penny.

Designed for Windows Vista, XP, 2000. and Windows 7

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Thunderbird - Best Email Client

Still using old way to get your email inbox?
Now get your email to your computer and read it whenever you want without have to open your web browser.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2 is reloaded and more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.

Keep Your Vital Information Organized

Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.

Advanced Folder Views

Thunderbird 2 offers a variety of ways for you to organize and display your folders, whether by favorites, recently viewed or folders containing unread messages. As always, you can also set up RSS and newsgroup folders to stay on top of news and your interests. Thunderbird 2 also allows you to maximize your message view pane by opting for a folder drop down menu instead of the traditional sidebar.

Message Tagging

Thunderbird 2 allows you to “tag” messages with descriptors such as “To Do” or “Done” or even create your own tags that are specific to your needs. Tags can be combined with saved searches and mail views to make it easier to organize email.

Message History Navigation

Thunderbird 2 offers message history navigation that allows you to click “forward” and “back” much like in your Web browser. You can now quickly toggle between messages and folder views.

Improved Search

Thunderbird 2 features a find as you type pane that speeds up searches within displayed messages. Thunderbird also offers quick search, which starts showing search results as soon as you start typing in search terms.

Saved Searches

Do you find yourself searching for the same subject or message content over and over? Thunderbird 2 saves you time by allowing you to store this search as a folder. Rerunning the search is just a matter of clicking on the saved search folder in the folder pane.

Stay Informed

Thunderbird 2 has been updated to provide more informative and relevant message alerts containing sender, subject and message text for newly arrived messages. Folders provide a pop up summarizing new messages in that folder.

Easy Access to Popular Web Mail Services

Thunderbird 2 makes it even easier to integrate and use various Web mail accounts from one inbox. Gmail and .Mac users can access their accounts in Thunderbird by simply providing their user names and passwords.

Secure and Protect Your Mail

Mozilla has bolstered Thunderbird’s acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. It’s like having your own security guard online.

Phishing Protection

Thunderbird protects you from email scams which try to trick users into handing over personal and confidential information by indicating when a message is a potential phishing attempt. As a second line of defense, Thunderbird warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different Web site than the one indicated by the URL in the message.

Robust Privacy

Thunderbird 2 offers improved support for user privacy and remote image protection. To ensure a user’s privacy, Thunderbird 2 automatically blocks remote images in email messages.

Cutting Out the Junk

Mozilla has updated Thunderbird’s popular junk mail folders to stay ahead of spam. Each email you receive passes through Thunderbird's leading-edge junk mail filters. Each time you mark messages as spam, Thunderbird “learns” and improves its filtering so you can spend more time reading the mail that matters. Thunderbird can also use your mail provider's spam filters to keep junk mail out of your inbox.

Open Source, More Secure

At the heart of Thunderbird is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security.

Automated Update

Thunderbird’s update system checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Thunderbird on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 30 different languages.

Get Your Mail, Your Way

Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.

Outfit Your Inbox

Thunderbird users can increase Thunderbird’s functionality and appearance using hundreds of add-ons. A Thunderbird add-on can let you manage contacts, place voice over IP calls, listen to music, and keep track of birthdates all from your inbox. You can even change the appearance of Thunderbird to suit your tastes.

Message Templates

Thunderbird 2 allows you to easily set up message templates to save you time – especially if you have to send the same mail message repeatedly.

Add-ons Manager for Extensions and Themes

The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Thunderbird 2. Install, uninstall, enable and disable your add-ons in a single place.

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