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PROBLEM
Once in a while I am unable to delete an email message on my iPhone. It throws an "unable to move message to trash" error message. I use the normal iPhone Mail app and have an MS Exchange mailbox that syncs with my office email.
While this problem was well-documented for IMAP mailboxes, I could not find a solution for MS Exchange mailboxes.
SOLUTION
Turn off the mail sync, then turn it back on.
* Settings
* Mail, Contact, Calendars
* Touch your Exchange email account. You'll see a list of the things it syncs (e.g. Mail, Contacts, Calendars, etc.).
* Turn off the mail sync.
* Open the Mail app to confirm that your Exchange mailbox is no longer there.
* Return to the settings and switch the mail sync back on. Your mail will be re-synchronized with the Exchange server and the troublesome messages will disappear.
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ISSUE
MS applications like Outlook sometimes show garbled video when scrolling through emails, etc. Internet Explorer may garble the video when working in Citrix.
SOLUTION
Disable hardware graphics acceleration in the affected application(s). Step-by-step for two applications is explained below.
Internet Explorer
1. Click the gear icon, then Internet options.
2. Advanced tab.
3. Check "Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering" under the "Accelerated graphics" section.
Outlook
1. File, Options, Mail.
2. Editor Options button (under the "Compose messages" section).
3. Advanced (on the left).
4. Check "Disable hardware graphics acceleration."
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My company's firewall enforces NTLMv2 proxy authentication, which kinda sucks for some Linux hosts since I can't pass that authentication directly on the command line. Maybe I'm dumb, but every command format I found didn't work. But this did work...
1. Install CNTLM package: apt-get install cntlm
2. Configure username/password in /etc/cntlm.conf.
3. Restart cntlm service: /etc/init.d/cntlm restart
4. Try this format: http_proxy='http://127.0.0.1:3128/' apt-get update
CNTLM does the authentication for you, so you can relax and think about more important things.
NOTES
* Enable remote hosts in cntlm.conf to allow other hosts to use this child proxy.
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Make sure the partclone package is installed.
apt-get install partclone
Create an empty image file.
touch image-file.img
Restore the clonezilla files into the image file.
cat sda1.ext3.ptcl-img.gz.* | gzip -d -c | sudo partclone.restore -C -s - -O image-file.img
NOTES
* This is 3 commands on 1 line with pipes.
* Be sure to include the lone hyphen in the last command. That's not a typo!
Mount the image:
mount -o loop -t ext3 /folder-path/image-file.img /mnt
If you converted an NTFS partition, it probably won't mount. Try this...
Mount the image - NTFS:
ntfs-3g /folder-path/image-file.img /mnt
Special thanks to this very helpful forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=872832
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