Thunderbird is a nice email client and calendar management software. iCloud calendar is the native calendar cloud service in Apple devices such as iPhone. So far there is no native support from Thunderbird to support iCloud calendar, excepting reading the read-only public iCloud calendars which has privacy concerns as long as lacks of editing functionalities.
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Release Notes For Linux v2.0
Posted onThis is the release notes for linux release v2.0 (source code: linux-2.0.tar.gz) with format adjusted by removing/replacing tabs/spaces/new lines/formatting marks. This notes document can give us an understanding of the early development of the Linux kernel. The original ASCII formatted version is at the end of this post. Intro This document contains a list of
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How to flush STDOUT buffer in Python?
Posted onHow to flush the STDOUT buffer in Python so that the content wrote to STDOUT is shown immediately? Call the flush library function on sys.stdout which is the STDOUT: import sys sys.stdout.flush() From python doc: flush() Flush the write buffers of the stream if applicable. This does nothing for read-only and non-blocking streams. If you
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Why are keys overlap in SST files at Level 0 in LevelDB system?
Posted onAs is known, keys may be overlap in SST files of level 0 in LevelDB. I am wondering why it needs to be overlap? An sstable is read-only after being written to the disk from a memtable. Accumulated K/Vs in the log up to a certain size are organized as a memtable and written to
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Un-exporting an Exported Variable in Bash in Linux
Posted onHow to un-export an imported variable in Bash on Linux? For example, first, I export a variable MODE like export MODE=debug but I want to unexport the MODE (not turn to be `””`, should be truly non-defined). You can export -n MODE or unset MODE For your reference (from the [`bash` manual](https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-bash/)): export [-fn] [name[=word]]
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Get error message on usb2 stick – READ ONLY FILE SYSTEM. What should i do?
Posted onCant read or write to files on usb stick or move or copy them. Could you provide the dmesg output? It will help to understand your question. If it is formated on Windows, you may need to install the ntfs-3g package to write to the usb disk.
Mount Ext4 Partitions in Windows in read-only mode
Posted onHow to mount Ext4 partitions from Linux in Windows in read-only mode? Read-only is required to ensure safety. Mounting is required so that traditional programs can use the partition without any changes. Ext2Fsd is a great tool for this. Ext2Fsd is a file system driver which allows accessing (both reading and writing) ext2, ext3 or
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Emacs Tips and Howtos
Posted onWith Emacs, I feel happy. I love the rich functions of Emacs, such as compiling, quickly jumping to the lines with compilation error and debugging with gdb, and more. I ever wrote small tips posts about Emacs before. But it is a good idea to put them together and keep adding new ones. Here comes
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Setting Up a Git Server Using Gitosis
Posted onUpdate: Since gitosis is not maintained and supported, please check out gitolite for setting up a new git server. (see the comment from Sitaram Chamarty, the gitolite author, the author of gitolite.) Gitosis is a piece of software writen by Tommi Virtanen for hosting git repositories. It manages multiple repositories under the same user account.
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