Just be sure to get the latest update from http://support.apple.com/downloads/AppleWorks_6_2_9_for_Mac

Also, if you have problems running the update (hang/freeze), try running it with all network connections disconnected.

-> gconf-editor
apps->nautilus->preferences
Uncheck “media-automount”

http://www.pubbs.net/201002/opensuse/27474-opensuse-disable-automount-for-dvd-drive.html

http://darkk.net.ru/redsocks/

via http://wiki.przemoc.net/tips/linux#making_socks_proxy_transparent

#!/bin/bash
 
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
  echo "Syntax: $0 debfile"
  exit 1
fi
 
DEBFILE="$1"
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/deb.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1
OUTPUT=`basename "$DEBFILE" .deb`.modfied.deb
 
if [[ -e "$OUTPUT" ]]; then
  echo "$OUTPUT exists."
  rm -r "$TMPDIR"
  exit 1
fi
 
dpkg-deb -x "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"
dpkg-deb --control "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN
 
if [[ ! -e "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control ]]; then
  echo DEBIAN/control not found.
 
  rm -r "$TMPDIR"
  exit 1
fi
 
CONTROL="$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control
 
MOD=`stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"`
vi "$CONTROL"
 
if [[ "$MOD" == `stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"` ]]; then
  echo Not modfied.
else
  echo Building new deb...
  dpkg -b "$TMPDIR" "$OUTPUT"
fi
 
rm -r "$TMPDIR"

via HOWTO: Easily modify dependencies of a .deb file – Ubuntu Forums.

via Ralink 3090 driver : Markus Heberling.

Driver for the cheap Ralink wireless in the Acer Aspire Revo.

I’ve been running a Windows server in a kvm VM just to be able to run uTorrent. This was overkill, had a crazy amount of overhead, and was unstable (downloading to a share on my Samba server). Today I decided to attempt a more efficient solution: uTorrent in Wine. (Yes, there are other BitTorrent clients, and even… NATIVE Linux clients, but I’ve found none of them match the speed of uTorrent for my connection except for kTorrent. However, I don’t have an Android and/or iPhone app to remote control kTorrent.) Wine is a supported platform, according to the uTorrent website, however I wanted to run it on a headless OpenVZ container, and not on a standard desktop Linux distro. Should still be pretty simple, but knowing me, I might forget something next time I try and set this up, so I’ll document it here.

1. Create a fresh VZ container. I used the Proxmox Debian 6.0 (squeeze) – standard i386 template.
2. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a fast mirror in Canada (iweb!)
   deb http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
   deb http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/debian-security squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
3. run an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
4. apt-get install wine sudo xterm openbox tightvncserver
5. adduser matt
6. add google repo: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html
7. install Google Chrome
8. wget http://download.utorrent.com/2.0.2/utorrent.exe
9. From another PC: ssh -Y matt@openvz-container
10. wine winecfg
11. run vncserver and set a password.
12. run wine utorrent.exe
13. Enable Web UI

Next steps:

1. Set up Dropbox for easy adding of torrents: http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall
2. Make uTorrent and VNC server run on container startup
3. Create a VZ mount script so that torrents download outside of /vz area.

seems the key directive is

usershare allow guests = yes

Ubuntu:

#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]
 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
 passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
 obey pam restrictions = yes
 map to guest = bad user
 encrypt passwords = true
 passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
 passdb backend = tdbsam
 dns proxy = no
 server string = %h server (Samba)
 unix password sync = yes
 unix extensions = no
 workgroup = WORKGROUP
 os level = 20
 syslog = 0
 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
 usershare allow guests = yes
 max log size = 1000
 pam password change = yes

Debian:

#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]
 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
 passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
 obey pam restrictions = yes
 null passwords = yes
 encrypt passwords = yes
 public = yes
 passdb backend = tdbsam
 passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
 unix extensions = no
 dns proxy = no
 server string = %h server
 unix password sync = yes
 workgroup = WORKGROUP
 os level = 20
 security = user
 syslog = 0
 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
 max log size = 1000
 pam password change = yes

Why this hasn’t been fixed yet is beyond me.

A handy gui to MacFUSE – user-space filesystem for Mac OS X

Today, I wanted to PVR the Vancouver 2010 opening ceremonies in HD, but was dismayed to find that Windows Media Center does NOT support ATSC if your region is set to Canada. Fortunately resourceful users have found a workaround patch. See link above.