Funny Linux Errors
Just found these on Digg, and I will dig for more.
% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.% “How would you rate Bush’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.% Unmatched “.
Unmatched “.% [Where is Elvis Presley?
Missing ].% ^How did the sex change operation go?^
Modifier failed.% If I had a ( for every $ the politics spent, what would I have?
Too many (‘s.% make love
Make: Don’t know how to make love. Stop.% sleep with me
bad character% got a light?
No match.% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.% %blow
%blow: No such job.% (-
(-: Command not found.$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
How to open http links in your emails with Firefox
If you want your Thunderbird open http links in Firefox and not with Epiphany or Konqueror do:
- Go to your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/ folder
- Go to your profile directory (usually it has a random generated name like 7s37jl21.default)
- Check if a prefs.js file exists in that folder
- Create a new user.js file; if it does exist skip this step
- Open it with your preferred editor (like vi, emacs, nano, kate, gedit …)
- Type in the following line:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/usr/bin/firefox");
- Save & exit.
- Restart Thunderbird.
How to open mailto links with Thunderbird
If your Firefox won’t open mailto links with Thunderbird, follow this simple tutorial:
- Go to your ~/.mozilla/firefox folder
- Go to your profile directory (usually it has a random generated name like aev2b7wd.default)
- Check if a prefs.js file exists in that folder
- Create a new user.js file; if it does exist skip this step
- Open it with your preferred editor (like vi, emacs, nano, kate, gedit …)
- Type in the following line:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird");
- Save & exit.
- Restart Firefox.
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