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Hide join/part messages in XChat

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

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Windows 7 autologin

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.

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XFCE: Unable to perform shutdown

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>

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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.

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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 [...]

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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

# [...]

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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 [...]

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A quick reference on how to compile Debian packages from source, and possibly patching them along the way.

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Enlightened XFCE4

A howto stolen from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=101066 for later use. All credit to its writer, Iandefor.

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The ultimate .bat-file for completely resetting and fixing all sorts of stupid Windows Update errors

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