Hide join/part messages in XChat
Nov 8th, 2009 by bolt
To do this, type /set irc_conf_mode 1
To re-enable join/part messages do /set irc_conf_mode 0
The setting is automagically remembered by XChat
Nov 8th, 2009 by bolt
To do this, type /set irc_conf_mode 1
To re-enable join/part messages do /set irc_conf_mode 0
The setting is automagically remembered by XChat
Nov 8th, 2009 by bolt
Short and simple: to allow automatically logging in on Windows 7, you need to press Win+R to open the run menu, then type “control userpasswords2″ without the quotes and run it.
May 31st, 2009 by bolt
To fix this issue, add the following lines between <config …..> and </config> in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> <return result="yes"/> </match> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown"> <return result="yes"/> </match> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot"> <return result="yes"/> </match>
May 28th, 2009 by bolt
Just a short reference:
Keep in mind: There is no longer a need to convert the filesystem to ext2 to resize it. resize2fs can handle ext3 just fine.
Apr 23rd, 2009 by bolt
The location of ~/.xsession-errors is, at the time of writing, specified in /etc/X11/Xsession in Debian Squeeze (testing).
ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors
To disable logging, change this to
ERRFILE=/dev/null
I use several computers with the same, networked, home directory, and having all of them output to the same file was a hopeless mess. However, this solved the problem for me:
ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors-$(hostname -s) rm -f "$ERRFILE"
This makes a separate .xsession-errors for each of my machines and also removes the file each time X is started so it doesn’t grow too big. If X itself crashes, the errors to to /var/log/messages anyway, so there’s no need to save the .xsession-errors for this.
Apr 22nd, 2009 by bolt
Both Wake on Lan and turning on after a power loss can be enabled on the Intel Mac Mini with the use of the setpci command. I stuffed this into my /etc/rc.local (to run them at boot time. yes, they need to be run on each boot)
# reboot on power loss setpci -s 0:1f.0 0xa4.b=0 # wake on lan setpci -d 8086:27b9 0xa4.b=0 ethtool -s eth1 wol g
Don’t ask me what they mean. I have no idea.
Note: this requires ethtool to be installed
Mar 4th, 2009 by bolt
One of my biggest issues with moving from Windows to Linux as my desktop is how the mouse is handled in xorg. In xorg, the mouse had (and still has, in Debian Lenny) two settings for mouse speed: acceleration and threshold. Simply put, what these do is that whenever the mouse is moving faster than the threshold, it gets accelerated by the acceleration value, and otherwise it’s unaccelerated.
While this may work for some people, I found it horribly annoying. Before anyone jumps up and bites me, I do know that I can set the threshold to 0 and get some sort of normal acceleration, but I hate that one too. Luckily, Simon Thum has come up with a solution. Continue Reading »
Mar 2nd, 2009 by bolt
A quick reference on how to compile Debian packages from source, and possibly patching them along the way. Continue Reading »
Feb 27th, 2009 by bolt
A howto stolen from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=101066 for later use. All credit to its writer, Iandefor. Continue Reading »
Feb 27th, 2009 by bolt
The ultimate .bat-file for completely resetting and fixing all sorts of stupid Windows Update errors Continue Reading »