My experience with Ubuntu blogged

My internet connection is by A1 (formerly Telekom Austria) and I wanted to use opendns as my custom dns service.

My current firmware version is 4.8.3.DWVV_TAU_5.1.6.

To change the DNS go to the web interface (http://10.0.0.138) and login with the following credentials (root):
Username: XQvfPUoO19_ai64j
Password: GtwdTdMRgfUIMFwoAU5m

Go to this URL: http://10.0.0.138/index.cgi?active_page_str=page_conn_settings_ppp0 and click “Einstellungen” (Settings). Change your DNS as you like and click “Anwenden” (Apply).

There you go.

Source:
http://forum.adsl.at/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=50854
http://tpirelli.blogspot.com/2011/06/root-zugriff-fur-a1telekom-austria.html

At work I have to use Windows 7 with Outlook 2003. We needed a solution to add the reply-to header to all outgoing mails. As out server uses Exchange 2003, Transport agents to change smtp headers are not supported.

So I had to code a client (Outlook 2003) solution, because the add-ins cost about 50 $ per user.

Add Reply-to header to all outgoing mails

1. In Outlook open your Visual Basic Editor (<Alt>+<F11> or Extras → Macro → Visual Basic Editor)
2. I did this in german, so the names may vary a bit: In Project1 (VbaProject.OTM) open Microsoft Office Outlook Objects → ThisOutlookSession
3. Enter the following Code

   Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
   
       'add reply-To address
       Item.ReplyRecipients.Add "office@example.com"
       Item.ReplyRecipients.ResolveAll
   
   End Sub

4. Save it

Activate the macro

Because macros are “dangerous” you have to set the security level down.

1. Open Extras → Macro → Security.
2. Change the security level from high to medium (or low which is not recommended)
3. Click OK.

Further suggestions

• You can sign you macro and always trust macros from yourself, so that you do not have to activate macros every time you start outlook (when you are on the medium security level)
• For deployment I recommend you to sign the macro and then copy the the file %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook\VbaProject.OTM to the new computer (this overwrites all macros on the new computer with the macros from the source computer). On the new computer you should install the signature (In the security warning on Outlook startup click Details → Show Certificate → Install Certificate and then restart Outlook and always trust the macros from that source.

Sources: Change reply recipient dependent on the mail domain (german)

While I updated ubuntu from 10.04 to 10.10 my keyboard stopped working. Then I saw that the window borders were missing. So it seemed that metacity crashed. But how can I restart metacity without a keyboard?

In your main menu click: System > Preferences > Appearance and change your Visual Effects from the current value to something else.

That worked for me. Metacity restarted and the keyboard resumed its work.

Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Metacity