“We’re so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody’s going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven’t learned how to care for one another. We’re gonna save the fuckin’ planet? . . . And, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin’ great. It’s been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn’t goin’ anywhere, folks. We are! We’re goin’ away. Pack your shit, we’re goin’ away. And we won’t leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we’ll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.”

su
vi /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop

And replace “Exec=gmplayer %U” with “Exec=gmplayer %F”

cd /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-3.0/
mkdir -p chrome/icons/default/
cp icons/default.xpm  chrome/icons/default/default.xpm

If the same problem happens while you’re using the normal Firefox just change /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-3.0 into /usr/lib/firefox

Who is the pet now?

Yes, it’s broken.

arkham ~  $  ettercap-gtk 
ettercap-gtk: error while loading shared libraries: libltdl.so.3: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ABS Solution:

mkdir -p ~/builds

cp -r /var/abs/extra/ettercap-gtk ~/builds

cd ~/builds/ettercap-gtk

makepkg -c

pacman -U ettercap-gtk-NG_0.7.3-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

If my system would ever freeze again, I will start raising skinny elephants…

R -> put the keyboard in raw mode
S -> sync the disk
E -> terminate all processes gracefully
I -> kill all processes
U -> umount all filesystems and remount them read only
B -> reboot the system

In a sentence:

Raising
Skinny
Elephants
Is
Utterly
Boring

void
randomize (void)
{
       struct timeval *tv = malloc (sizeof (struct timeval));
            struct timezone *tz =
                  (struct timezone *) malloc (sizeof (struct timezone));
                 gettimeofday (tv, tz);
                      srand (tv->tv_usec);
                           free (tv);
                                free (tz);
                            }

That’s called vi staircase effect.

The solution is to type:

:set paste

before pasting and

:set nopaste

after finishing.

Alternatively, just add to your ~/.vimrc:

nnoremap <silent> <F12> :set paste!<CR>

to press F12 for toggling between paste and nopaste conditions.

Now open a root terminal and create the folder:

mkdir -p /usr/src/modules

Move the package to the new folder and move into it:

mv <gspcav1_package> /usr/src/modules

cd /usr/src/modules

Extract and move into it:

tar -xzvf <gspcav1_package>

cd <gspcav1_folder>

Compile and install:

make && make install

Remove eventually previous version of the module and load the new one:

modprobe -r gspca && modprobe gspca

Plug-in the webcam, and you should see something in dmesg.
Now you can just test with

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=352:height=288:device=/dev/video0

or using programs like xawtv, camorama, amsn or skype. Have fun