Dropbox and SELinux

Since the number of computers I'm using is drastically increasing in the last couple of years ( both private and business ) the need to share data across those systems increased as well.

Dropbox is the perfect solution for me to solve this issue.

Though there have been discussions about the privacy of your data on dropbox, I can live with the explanation dropbox gives.

The silver bullet of dropbox to me is the fact that I can sync my data across all my systems, being Windows, Android and Linux ( though still no client for my Bada phone, guess I'll have to face the music and buy me a new phone ).

I must admit I did have some problems getting the Linux client software to work. It would not install properly, stopping at 97% when it tries to download the daemon. Apparently SELinux had something to do with it. Luckily I came across this excellent article, which helped me fix this.

Tibco documentation now online

Yeay! Good news to all those that occasionally want to have a peek in Tibco's documentation (don't ask me why, sometimes it just..... hapens ), but can't.

Tibco opened up ( what looks like all ) it's product documentation at http://docs.tibco.com.

Adding programs to Windows Run-menu

I like to use my keyboard as much as I can. Having to switch to my mouse to start a program started to annoy me. I know one can add programs to his personal folder ( c:\documents and settings\ ), but that doesn't work for all apps. You can't install everything in c:\documents and settings\, right?

Using shortcuts is the answer here. With one caveat: when creating a shortcut with the windows wizard, it uses the full name as shortcut name. So a shortcut to putty.exe for example would result in a putty.exe(.lnk) (the .lnk extension is there, though it is hidden)
Shortcuts created in this way cannot be started using the run menu.

The solution here: strip the extension!

Create a shortcut (.lnk) in c:\documents and settings\, press -R, type and presto!