T61p Ultrabay Battery Compatability with Linux

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=66941

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Ubuntu sound mixing problems. Sometimes flash steals the sound and never gives
it back.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

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After installing a new kernel you may get an error message when you try to
start Virtualbox saying something like "The vboxdrv kernel module was either not
loaded".

You need to recompile the Virtualbox kernel module for the new kernel.

Run as root: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

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If a terminal seems frozen, hit Crtl+Q (^Q) to unfreeze it.

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http://howtoforge.com/running-windows-programs-on-ubuntu-8.10-with-crossover-linux-pro-7.1.0

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modify firefox settings to be more proxy friendly, such as pipelining and stuff

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http://bashcurescancer.com/10-steps-to-beautiful-shell-scripts.html

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Improve Battery Life
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=729644

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iwl4965 kernel panics in 2.6.27

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=968792

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Magic Sysreq Key
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSystemCrash

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/StricterDefaults?action=show&redirect=UnsafeDefaults


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http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/


http://linuxgazette.net/issue65/tag/5.html

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Using curlftpfs

I wrote a script to ease mounting and unmounting things. My FTP was set up with mandatory SSL/TLS logins
on a self-signed cert, which is why i use the options ssl and no_verify_peer in curlftpfs.

The password needs to be placed in plaintext, sadly.
You might be able to put it into your Private directory and then use `echo pathtofile` in the place of putting
it in the script.

You might also need to add yourself to the fuse group. sudo adduser $USER fuse
And you might need to change the permissions on /etc/fuse.conf to g+rw. On Ubuntu 8.10, /etc/fuse.conf is set to
u+rw and g+r but seems fuse needs write permissions.

If you dont have the permissions Itll spit an error message at you, but the ftp sitll mounts anyway, so *shrug*
I guess dont change the perms unless you need to.

#!/bin/sh

#This script should be chmod'd to 600 to protect the password.

LOGIN=""
PASSWORD=""
URL=""
PORT=""
MOUNT=""

if [ $# = 0 ] ; then
	echo "Usage $0 [mount|unmount]"
	exit 1
fi

if [ $1 = "mount" ] ; then
	echo "Logging into $URL:$PORT with $LOGIN and mounting at $MOUNT"
	curlftpfs -o ssl,no_verify_peer ftp://$LOGIN:$PASSWORD@$URL:$PORT $MOUNT
elif [ $1 = "unmount" ] ; then
	echo "Unmounting $MOUNT"
	fusermount -u $MOUNT
else
	echo "Usage: $0 [mount|unmount]"
fi


http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/28/how-to-mount-a-remote-ssh-filesystem-using-sshfs/

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Encrypting a tar file using openssl
from http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2008/06/encrypting-tar-file-using-openssl.html

encrypt:
tar cvzf - passwd_info.txt | openssl des3 -salt -k some_secret_password | dd of=some_file_name

decyrpt:
dd if=the_file_name |openssl des3 -d -k the_secret_password |tar xvzf -
dd if=the_file_name | openssl bf -d -k the_secret_password
- bf for better security


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I don't like totem, so I removed the symlinks from two places,
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins

Here are the originals in case you want to put them back. This was taken from ls -l on /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so they are essentially symlinking to /usr/lib/totem/default/...
The other directory is the same.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    44 2009-01-16 17:55 libtotem-basic-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-basic-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    42 2009-01-16 17:55 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    44 2009-01-16 17:55 libtotem-mully-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    50 2009-01-16 17:55 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so -> ../../totem/default/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so


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sticky bits are important -- chmod 2750
http://www.zzee.com/solutions/linux-permissions.shtml#setuid

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rsync -avz -e "ssh --any-other-options" login@server:directory local


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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/SuspendResumeTesting

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check out http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/ubuntu-brings-advanced-screen-features-to-the-masses.ars

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EOG creates thumbnails: See https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/255030

Nautilus and eog are two different applications. Your assumption that they share settings is not a safe one. However, in gnome-2.24, the paranoid can use gconf-editor to set:

/desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_age
or
/desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/maximum_size

to zero, and all thumbnails will be deleted when you log out.

OR

symlink .thumbnail to /dev/null

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