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If you want to use the NM (especially the nm-applet) in Gentoo or ArchLinux, you have to grant the user to access the NM. Therefor you create the following file # cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [nm-applet] Identity=unix-group:plugdev Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes Thats necessary because polkit-auth was removed from the policykit package. Also you must add the user [...]

GCC (4.5.3) flags for * Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 * Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 * Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -msse4 -mmmx" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" USE flags USE="64bit X a52 aac alsa apng bash-completion bluetooth chroot connection-sharing consolekit dbus dhcpcd dts dvb dvd [...]

Sometimes its necessary/pleasanter to use the Acrobat Reader for some PDF files like forms… Enable the multilib repository # cat /etc/pacman.conf [...] [multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [...] # pacman -Sy Install necessary packages # pacman -S lib32-libxml2 lib32-gtk2 lib32-gdk-pixbuf2 Maybe there are some more packages still missing on your system! Download and install Acrobat Reader [...]

I’ve found a very nice tool pv… $ dd if=/dev/sda1 | pv | dd of=backup.img 359MB 0:00:05 [75.3MB/s] [ <=> ]

Because libvirt self is using the qemu monitor to mange the guests, it is not available for the user. Since version 0.8.6 [1] its possbile to send a command throught libvirt to the monitor. virsh qemu-monitor-command <domain> <command> The problem is that you must use the QMP format to send a command like $ virsh [...]

aka Firefox, DNS lookups and IPv6 (under Arch) Since my laptop is running with Arch, sometimes my Firefox makes me crazy when i’m trying to open a new page because it show a message like Looking up heise.de… for minutes ! After googling a few seconds i’ve found someting that is working for me… Go [...]

force reboot $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq $ echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger force shutdown $ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq $ echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger

If you’re trying to boot the Archlinux 2010.05 CD/DVD/Netinstall and getting the message ERROR: boot device didn’t show up after 30 seconds … try this one to fix the problem $ udevadm trigger $ exit

If you getting errors like this one $ /path/to/program /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available you need a libcrypto.so and a libssl.so with version information. Here are some information about the problem. openssl has evolved to a very important library in Linux distribution. A lot of cryptographic applications link to it including system libraries like pam [...]

$SERVER/deploy/messaging/messaging-service.xml <attribute name="ServerPeerID">${jboss.messaging.ServerPeerID:0}</attribute> For clustered environment each jboss node need a unique ServerPeerID which must be a valid integer.