To reposition menu bar in Thunderbird back to the top of the window

https://www.askvg.com/tip-how-to-move-menu-bar-at-top-in-mozilla-thunderbird/

Change date format in Thunderbird

If the normal SETTINGS > GENERAL . LANGUAGE&APPEARANCE . DATE&TIME&FORMATTING doesn't work then do;

SETTINGS > GENERAL . CONFIG EDITOR and type;

intl.date_time.pattern_override.date_short

Select string type and add the format, for example dd-MM-yyyy

Save and restart.

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Slackware timezone

 /usr/sbin/timeconfig

C++ Pointers (AGAIN AGAIN) and passing by value or reference.

Different revision information showing when running "svn info"

HTML mouse over hover text

The following examples should work;

<td title="Look at me" >Hover Over me</td>

<p title="Look at me" >Hover Over me</p> 

// We can also use php in there, like the below; 

<td title="<?= get_message_text($row['MESSAGE_NO']) ?>"><?= $row['MESSAGE_NO'] ?></td>

Convert asf format videos using ffmpeg and ffprobe in Linux

Basic conversion would be as below;

ffmpeg -i input.asf output.avi

If we wanted to change the resolution, we would first do;

ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width,height -of csv=s=x:p=0 input.asf

which would show us the original resolution, we could then set the resolution of the output as below;

ffmpeg -i input.asf -vf scale=704x506 output.avi

MySQL paging or scrolling

We can use the following to prevent query results from scrolling to the end of the results;

\P /usr/bin/less

or alternatively;

pager less -S

This will act like grepping a file to less (cat somefile | less)

\n or nopager will return to normal.

Additionally, we can use the \G at the end of a query to output results vertically, say we have too many columns. For example show slave status\G;

Linux Routing Table

From route -n

monit summary showing "error connecting to the monit daemon"

I've had this several times and while it's been an issue, it's never really bothered me enough to investigate. I have however since found this to be a result of there being no "lo" interface up. when running ifconfig it was missing, so simply bringing this up by ifup lo resolved.