http://ark.asengard.net/blog Where Doves Kill & Ravens Die. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:41:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/08/19/luck/ By George Carlin, "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 ... http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/07/10/another-failed-mutation/ Nautilus "Open with" option and Mplayer don't seem to behave correctly when the file we want to open contains spaces. The dirty hack to solve it is: su vi /usr/share/applications/mplayer.desktop And replace "Exec=gmplayer %U" with "Exec=gmplayer %F" :D http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/06/19/mplayer-and-nautilus-open-with/ cd su rm -i .recently-used* chattr +i .recently-used.xbel ;) http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/05/30/disable-the-recent-documents-menu-in-gnome/ I just installed firefox3 beta and I realized that the little icon in upper right corner of the application (the titlebar) had just disappeared leaving a pretty sad spot in my eyesight. After symlinking a hundred of different images in $FIREFOX_DIR and /usr/share/pixmaps I finally discovered the right one: cd /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-3.0/ mkdir -p ... http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/05/30/mia-firefox-titlebar-icon/ Today I was returning home from university and I saw an old lady while she was wiping his little dog ass. Who is the pet now? http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/05/28/who-is-the-master/ 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 ;) http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/05/15/archlinux-ettercap-gtk-b0rk3n/ Today, out of the blue, my system freezed. So, once for all, I decided to enable Magic SysRq keys. 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 -> ... http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/04/28/raising-skinny-elephants/ If you are terminal vim users, I'm sure you have tried to copy/paste text into a file and thought "Wtf, this is pretty damn wrong" seeing something like this: void randomize (void) { struct timeval *tv = malloc (sizeof (struct timeval)); ... http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/02/28/vim-staircase-effect/ Download the source here. 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 /usr/src/modulescd /usr/src/modules Extract and move into it: tar -xzvf cd Compile and install: make && make install Remove eventually previous version of the module and load the new one: modprobe ... http://ark.asengard.net/blog/2008/02/27/trust-wb-1400t-on-ubuntu-linux/