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

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 […]

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

Cleaning up my ‘dump’ directory, I found this aging script I got from somewhere, which will check the current CPU usage of a program and kill it if it uses too much. This is useful if you are for some reason forced to run buggy, closed source software which get stuck in endless loops when […]