So the installer says something like: Setup has experienced an error. Please do the following: – Close any running programs – Empty your temporary folder – Check your Internet connection (Internet-based Setups) Then try to run the Setup again. Error code: -6003 What do you do to solve this? Why, erase any folder with a […]
To avoid having stuff like “ls” in my bash history, I added “ls” to the “HISTIGNORE” environment variable. However, on late nights, the result of this, and my left and right hand becoming out of sync with each other when I’m tired, is that the entry “sl”, which really doesn’t do anything, started showing up […]
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
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.
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>
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. First, unmount the filesystem in question, unless you have and trust online resizing (I can’t subscribe to either). Then check it for errors like this: # e2fsck […]
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 […]
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 […]
Note: This information is now slightly outdated, as the patch is already in Debian Squeeze. 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 […]
A quick reference on how to compile Debian packages from source, and possibly patching them along the way.