Since I always have my thunderbird running and I really love a clean desktop, I want my thunderbird accessible in tray.

You have different tools for doing this, but there aren't to many that work on my linux box.

I found a few solutions. After testing these, there was only one left:

moztraybiff. It has one downside: it disables the new message pop-ups, but they are working on it.

Just download, install it and off you go. If you want to change the preferences, you have to go to the add-ons window.

Let's say you have already run some kvm virtual machines, and you just upgraded your virt-manager to a version that supports Qemu/kvm. Wouldn't it be nice that those machines could be monitored by
your virt-manager?

Of course it is,so here's how to do it:

Just start to install a new virtual machine with the disk file of your already existing qemu-kvm image. ( Here you can download some qemu-kvm images.)

And when install starts, just stop it. Next time you start that machine again you'll find your pre-existing machine. An other benefit of this is that you don't have to worry about the bridging stuff, it's all done for you.

For stopping the install:
killall qemu

Next time you open virt-manager, the new machine is there and when you run it, it is accessible from all your other guests and your host.

Sometimes you want to log everything what happens in your terminal.

If you use konsole or gnome-terminal, you can change history or scroll settings, but you don't have output to a file.

There are a few simple tools for just doing that, but always with a bit difference:

Like tee. Explained here by my colleague raskas. This is nice, but you aren't able to do manual input.

Therefore you use script. You just create a log file of your terminal sessions, even typo's :) if you log a shell script where manual input is required.

Start logging with:
script [-a] [-c COMMAND] [-f] [-q] [-t] [file]

End logging with:
exit

Read log file:
cat

Indeed, this is my first blog post on my first blog ever.

In future you'll find all kinda stuff about things that keeps me busy.

This is it for now. :)

Cheers,

Raf