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Continuing my series on Mission Control Desktop, this post covers some enhancements I made for configuring email accounts in Thunderbird.  The mail.* branch is one of the largest group of preferences you can manipulate using autoconfig.  Setting up the right combination of mail.account,  mail.server, mail.identity and mail.smtpserver is just a little tricky. With the exception [...]

Suppose you have two Solaris machines and you want to bring them to the same patch level.  Or you are troubleshooting issues on two machines that are supposed to be identical.  I wrote a perl script that compares patch levels on two machines. It shows something like this: malfunction % patch_diff sr-host-01 sr-host-02   Patches [...]