How to auto-mount eSATA devices
By default it seems that eSATA devices are treated as evil foreign things that only super users can mount. Thunar will bork with somehting like this:
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <— (action, result).
I am toor and I expect to be able to do things like this, therefore do the following:
In /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy, modify (change no to yes) [See this]
Code:
<action id="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
<description>Mount file systems from removable drives.</description>
<message>System policy prevents mounting removable media</message>
<defaults>
<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>yes</allow_active>
</defaults>
</action>
In /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf, add:
Code:
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
<match user="your-user-account">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
</match>
[Also see this]
Fix Songbird: failed to load libgstpulse.so
sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-plugins
Steam Client For Linux 
Phoronix confirms that Valve are working on a linux port for their Steam client!
SSH User Identities
Here’s a great article that explains SSH key based authentication verbosely and shows some neat tricks in setting this up.
Linux, Operating System of Bad Mother Fuckers everywhere
Em Emalb in /. comments:
“Reprising his role as Jules from Pulp Fiction:
Jules: [Jules shoots the man on the couch, who turns out to be Steve Jobs, turns to talk to Bill Gates] I’m sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn’t mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What’s the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Linus Torvalds look like?
Bill: What?
Jules: What OS do you run?
Bill: What? What? Wh - ?
Jules: “What” ain’t no OS I’ve ever heard of. They have a usable command line in What?
Bill: What?
Jules: Usable command line, mother fucker, do you have one?
Bill: Yes! Yes!
Jules: Then you know what I’m sayin’!
Bill: Yes!
Jules: Describe what Linus Torvalds looks like!
Bill: What?
Jules: Say ‘what’ again. Say ‘what’ again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!
[end scene, fade out with Linux, Operating System of Bad Mother Fuckers everywhere]”
Ubuntu 4GB Ram Limitation and Solution
Take advantage of a PAE enabled kernel to access more than 4GB RAM on a 32bit computer.
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#! Crunchbang Linux
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The elementary project was started in January of 2008. It takes it roots from the Macesque icon set developed by Daniel Fore. In response to the ever popular oxygen and appeal projects for KDE, Fore…
Flash player for Linux 64-bit
Thank you Adobe, thank you!
Works like a charm.
Poor VMWare performance on XFS
I run a number of VM’s on my über-linux box at home and I decided to make use of XFS because itsa fast, reliable and modern file system. I also want to get some hands-on experience with it before OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ comes out with it as its default filesystem.
Even though I’m running really fast Samsung Spinpoint F1 drives with 32MB cache I had experienced really slow VM disk performance.
Fast FS, Fast drives — hmmn. something isn’t right here.
I started by checking if Nvidia made special motherboard drivers for the NForce 780i that supported Linux x64 - no luck there.
The only thing I hadn’t used before was XFS. I Googled a bit and found this thread where someone else was having the same problem as me.
For a start, I enabled the ‘nobarrier’ option in my fstab and its suddenly a whole lot faster. I’ll try the other tweaks later on, but the performance is back to what I’d expected.
