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Microsoft's Mac OS X Exchange client, Entourage, operates in a syncing cached mode where it downloads server-side data, stores it locally, and occasionally synchronizes that data with Exchange. This setup in effect provides a local backup of your Exchange data that you can read when offline. At the university for which I provide computer support, I have seen more than one case where server-side issues have made the local backup of contacts and calendar items look very useful. Unfortunately, Microsoft does not provide any way to export or restore from cached Exchange data in Entourage.

If you find yourself in a similar situation, here's a workaround that takes advantage of Entourage's integration with Apple's Sync Services:

This method is for use when a user has an Entourage identity with an Exchange account that contains locally cached contact/calendar data that differs from and is preferable to the server-side Exchange data. This method will restore the locally cached Exchange contacts and calendar to overwrite the server-side Exchange data.

I recently took the crazy plunge of installing Fedora 8 on my new MacBook Air. It was an interesting experience given the utter absence of community documentation for running Linux on this brand new computer. I'm hoping to fill some of that void by offering some of my experiences here:

This article on the Mactel Linux website was the closest I could come to getting help on installing Fedora 8 on a MacBook Air:
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Fedora8OnMacBookSantaRosa

The Santa Rosa MacBook (MacBook 3,1) and the MacBook Air (MacBook Air 1,1) share many similarities. It turns out, however, that just enough things are different to cause several headaches.

After I upgraded to Fedora 8 on one of my Linux servers, I decided to install wine and try playing some Steam games from the Orange Box I purchased a few weeks ago. It took me a hell of a lot of searching, but I finally figured out how to solve an issue where none of the Steam games would launch. Steam installed fine, but when I tried to launch a game, it displayed the normal driver out of date message, then showed a loading dialog, which disappeared and did nothing else. When running wine from the command line, I could capture the following error:

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x603dd520 at address 0x603dd520 (thread 005e), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x603dd520 in 32-bit code (0x603dd520).

There was a bunch of other error dump lines after this, but essentially it just didn't work. After scouring the Internet for a few days, I finally came upon the following forum discussion: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4509275.html

I have been a happy user of BackupPC for at least a couple years now. It makes backing up my various servers quite painless and worry free. Recently, an RPM for BackupPC version 3.0.0 was added to the Fedora 7 updates repository. Since Fedora 7's launch, version 2.1.2 of BackupPC was the only option. Personally, I was thinking the upgrade to BackupPC version 3 would be one of the sticky points when I upgrade to Fedora 8 in a couple months. Fortunately, the BackupPC package maintainer has been testing version 3 for some time now and just deployed it as stable to the updates repo.

UPDATE: For what it's worth, this sounds exactly like my issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.1...

This is a quick one, to make Fedora systems act like the Debian and Ubuntu's default of not putting duplicate commands in ~/.bash_history, add the following line to /etc/profile:

HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

For those of you who don't know, the router and gateway for my home's internal network is a computer running Fedora 7. It also acts as the DNS server for the computers on the network to provide hostname resolution for each of the machines, which keeps me from having to type IP addresses all day long. Up to now, though, I did not have this router computer configured to query its own DNS server, so I still had to use IP addresses when using it. Here is what I did to have the router query its own DNS server.

First, edit the resolv.conf file:
sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf

I made some more modifications to my MythTV system.

It is now running Openbox as its window manager...much lighter than metacity and all the gnome accessories. I mostly followed the guide here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Server/Frontend

With the new Openbox config, I had to find a different way to enable a vncserver for remote access to the gui. I did this with x11vnc. To get it running, I followed some pieces of
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/x11vnc

I made some modifications to the lirc configurations for my MythTV system. These changes are finally allowing me to get the full functionality of my MythTV system with just the remote. The following config files are attached for future reference:

/etc/lirc/lircd.conf
and
~/.mythtv/lircrc