Author Archives: nocnokneo

Patching and PPA'ing

Posted on July 11, 2010 by nocnokneo

I do this so irregularly that I can never remember the proper steps and haven’t been able find a simple source that has all the information I need, so here it is. Get the source with apt-get source PACKAGE && … Continue reading →

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Lifestyle Creep

Posted on March 31, 2010 by nocnokneo

As far as I know, this Mint blog post coined this phrase, but I actually like this post from diveintomark.org that covers the same topic of happiness through simple living. Things like shedding material attachments.

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Debian/Ubuntu Package Installation Shortcut

Posted on January 16, 2010 by nocnokneo

Alt-F2 then type apt:packagename Simple, quick, and should work in any window manager. Just remember that package names are case sensitive and almost always lowercase. Here’s an example where I install XBMC: Then just click Install: This example is with … Continue reading →

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Synergy for HTPC control

Posted on January 16, 2010 by nocnokneo

Synergy. Great app. Synergy for HTPC control. Great application. Setup is pretty simple, but the Synergy HOWTO on the Ubuntu Community Documentation was pretty horrendous. I decided I’d give back a little and did a major clean up/rewrite of it … Continue reading →

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Waking Up is Hard to Do

Posted on January 15, 2010 by nocnokneo

Since I couldn’t possibly write it any better, this is plagarized from the user page of a random Gnome developer: 2:00 AM: Set alarm for 10 am (physical switch) 2:03 AM: Tape piece of paper over alarm with the text … Continue reading →

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Better FOSS QA Testing

Posted on January 13, 2010 by nocnokneo

I just had a random thought when I came across the following in the Changelog for VirtualBox 3.1: Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don’t interpret mouse wheel events as left click (bug #5049) This seems like something basic that … Continue reading →

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Easy, automated backups with rdiff-backup

Posted on January 12, 2010 by nocnokneo

Let me start by saying rdiff-backup is exactly the tool I set out to find when looking for a backup solution. It makes use of librsync so you get all the goodness of the rsync remote-delta optimization algorithm, plus incremental … Continue reading →

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Ugh… Why the paranoia, Transmission!?

Posted on December 15, 2009 by nocnokneo

Just wasted an hour because of the janky configuration setup for an otherwise great BitTorrent daemon, Transmission. Basically, the default configuration for Transmission that ships with Debian has RPC authentication turned on in two places. Finally discovered this by reading … Continue reading →

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Installing Flash on PortableFirefox

Posted on April 20, 2009 by nocnokneo

Lifehacker and many other blog postings which turned up in a Google search for “portable firefox flash” seem seem to have outdated information, about where to place the flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll files. It cost me over an hour of trouble … Continue reading →

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Easy remote torrent queuing with trasmission, zenity, and a dab of glue

Posted on March 14, 2009 by nocnokneo

Here is just a dab of glue that takes two very cool projects, Transmission and Zenity, and makes something very usable. Open a text editor as the root user (gksu gedit) and copy and paste this script: #!/usr/bin/env bash targethost=$(zenity … Continue reading →

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