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mount windows share

faltufund — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:35:48 +0000

This worked on Debian to mount a windows share.

sudo aptitude install smbfs
sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=faltu,uid=1000,gid=1000 //mx2/shared /media/mxsh2

sudoers nopasswd

faltufund — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:42:05 +0000

how do you get it to stop asking for the password for me on my single-user laptop? the sudoers manpage was written by someone who was very fascinated by grammar and not by clear explanation. but this seems to be working:

%sudo ALL = NOPASSWD : ALL

for now…

i3 container

faltufund — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:32:59 +0000

using the very nice i3 window manager and asked something today on the irc channel, found that you can have container moving by copying /etc/X11/i3/config to ~/.i3/config and changing the lines so that

bindsym Mod1+Left wch
bindsym Mod1+Down wcj
bindsym Mod1+Up wck
bindsym Mod1+Right wcl

debian-multimedia GPG error

faltufund — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:03:31 +0000

well I’ll see if this fixes the error that’s been breaking my nightly cron-apt.

sudo su
gpg --keyserver hkp://pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-keys 07DC563D1F41B907
gpg --armor --export 07DC563D1F41B907 | apt-key add -

it doesn’t work. now just tried:

sudo aptitude install debian-multimedia-keyring

if that works its definitely superior.

installed debian packages sorted by size

faltufund — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:18:37 +0000

aptitude search ~i -O installsize -F”%p %I”

wicd-client –no-tray for ion3

faltufund — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:08:24 +0000

i use ion3 as my window manager, and it doesn’t have a tray, and wicd-client assumes you have a tray… couldn’t get wireless working until i saw a post somewhere where someone mentioned you could do

wicd-client -n
or
wicd-client –no-tray

which is exactly what i needed. somehow for gui-based apps i don’t rtfm, probably because generally tfm has nothing useful, but this time i see the manpage is great.

Don’t do anything when closing lid

faltufund — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:57:41 +0000

I have a 17″ desktop-replacement type laptop which I’d like to be able to close from time to time and use the lid as a writing surface. But when I close the lid, I don’t want any kind of suspend etc since I have a separate monitor and keyboard so I can still use the machine while the lid is closed. So far what worked was to edit /etc/acpi/lid.sh and put in “exit 0″ at the top, which prevents acpi from doing anything at all when a lid event occurs. I can see the lid events in /etc/acpi/events/lidbtn seem to just execute /etc/acpi/lid.sh so i think this might continue to work for a while.

How to keep less from clearing the screen

faltufund — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:48:10 +0000

I was finally getting desperate with R’s history() command clearing my screen after showing me my history, totally useless. After some puttering around, i found that history() just ends up calling $PAGER, which for me was less. Typing h into history() confirmed that I was looking at less. So then googling how to get rid of less’s behaviour turned up this page:

http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/noaltscreen.html

which gave the magic key as

export LESS=”-X”

in .bashrc. this prevents less from opening an “alternate” screen when it runs. helps with manpages also. i don’t know who or why anyone came up with this alternate screen nonsense.

PasswordMaker and FoxFilter

faltufund — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:44:39 +0000

To make PWM not enter a password into the “Allow website” form from FoxFilter, you

Add a new account to PWM.
It needs to use chrome://foxfilter* to calculate generated password
Automatically populate should be unchecked
I also have a (perhaps unnecessary) autopopulation pattern chrome://foxfilter*,
Under Advanced Autopopulate you need field TextPassword, type text, value blank

I hope I never have to figure that out again. Probably better to just use LeechBlock for what I was trying to do anyway.

Bye bye flash, hello gnash

faltufund — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:11:07 +0000

This afternoon I was finding my computer really bogged down. I was averaging 1.5 loads or so. After a bit of poking, I found the culprit (again), xulrunner. Killed it, was thinking Firefox was junk. Tried out midori and epiphany, they’re nice, but I can’t survive without vimperator anymore. Sad but true.

Then I realized that it’s probably less Firefox and more flash. Uninstalled flash and installed mozilla-plugin-gnash on Debian testing. Youtube was dead. Though I don’t like to admit it, this is a big problem. Did some more poking, found some “greasemonkey” scripts that are supposed to fix the problem etc, installed that, no dice. Then I went on a chat room and someone pointed me to

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#gnash-youtube-broken

Basically says to kill all your cookies and block www.youtube.com from putting in cookies since there’s some kind of bug with that. Then I turned off greasemonkey by clicking on the icon, and the video was playing but no sound! So I finally uninstalled the greasemonkey scripts and greasemonkey itself, restarted, and voila!

So now when the fix the bug, then presumably it will get all screwed up again.