Greg's House of Treats

Goal:  Virtualbox + solaris + X on debian.  There seem to be no "uber-newbie" tutorials out there.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5634

This is not virtualbox related, but looks interesting:

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/

When I pop in a CD on my debian box, it fires up Sound Juicer.  Yuck.  So, I removed Sound Juicer.  But now it fires up something else!  How to disable this puppy?  There are three possibilities discussed in various web pages:

1. System -> Preferences -> Removable drives and media
2. Applications -> System tools -> Configuration editor -> Apps -> Nautilus -> Preferences
3. Desktop -> Gnome -> volume_manager

It seems #2 is the correct option.  See also this site, for information how to do #2 by the command line.

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1266047

This may be useful for streamripper
http://freshmeat.net/projects/libscheduler

This is an example of how to mount the usb stick on OpenSUSE.  Why doesn't it automount?  Even debian does.
http://www.suseblog.com/quick-usb-stick-mounting-tip-for-suse-linux

Apparently I'm not the only one who has this problem:
http://forums.amd.com/devforum/messageview.cfm?catid=390&threadid=120456

Here is the OpenCL page:
http://developer.amd.com/GPU/ATISTREAMSDKBETAPROGRAM/Pages/default.aspx

I've been looking around for CD ripping solution for linux.  Look no further than "The Art of the Rip":

https://thomas.apestaart.org/thomas/trac/wiki/DAD/Rip

Go into the file nsswitch.conf located at /etc/nsswitch.conf. Find the Line "hosts: files dns". It's missing wins so make it like this "hosts: files dns wins". Then you can ping by NetBIOS name.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/susenovell-60/enabling-wins-lookup-463012/

You need to install /lib/libnss_wins.so, which is in the winbind package.

What does [NOTFOUND=return] in nsswitch.conf mean? Briefly, [NOTFOUND=return] means that the name service whose entry it follows should be considered authoritative (so that if it's up and it says such a name doesn't exist, believe it and return instead of continuing to hunt for an answer).

http://www.unixguide.net/sun/faq/4.03.shtml

Apparently this change requires a reboot (!) as well:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-0715/ch06s01.html

Welcome to the 21st century, Greg.  ScribeFire is a Firefox plugin for doing blogging, which is already much better than the web interface.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730

It even lets me edit previous posts which I made using the web interface.

By default, it adds tracking cookies to your web site.  Probably you want to turn these off:

http://blog.coldtobi.de/1_coldtobis_blog/archive/242_scribefire_inserts_zemanta_web_bug.html

Solution (debian):

1) dircolors --print-database > ~/.dircolors
2) Add the following line to .bashrc
  eval `dircolors $HOME/dircolors`

Also, note the problem with ls hanging on orphan references:

http://blog.wompom.org/index.php/2008/01/26/ls-color-considered-harmful/

Tried to set up dual boot on my brand new Windows 7 partition. The new way to do this is to use a utility called bcdedit. For example:

http://www.iceflatline.com/2009/09/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-linux-using-bcdedit/

However, I got the error "boot configuration data store could not be opened". This is solved using the following method:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7install/thread/a9ce0d39-e13c-4b77-982f-66aff94e5d17

Got this from slashdot. Best meta-torrent sites.

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/peersharing/f/torrentsearch.htm

On google you can do this:

"artist name" intitle:index.of mp3 -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls

What does the . do?  Match a single character?