Good blog post about running Emacs in daemon mode:
http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/emacs-daemon.html
Also a thread on how to cleanly shut the daemon down:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1167484/how-to-gracefully-shutdown-emacs-daemon
When I plug in an iPod into a machine running Ubuntu, the iPod auto-connects, but is not actually mounted. This is especially problematic when I am running under i3 or other window manager which does not have a system tray or other mechanism for listing connected devices.
[NOTE: I have found Paragon Backup & Recovery tool to be better fit for me, and really like it: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/]
Steps for setting up Clonezilla an a USB thumb drive:
go to http://tuxboot.org/download.php click Files on SourceForge download tuxboot*.exe (or other, depending on your currently booted OS) run tuxboot the defaults are good usually: clonezilla_live_stable chosen no Pre Downloaded images selected MD5 Check selected Type: USB Drive should be already the USB drive you have plugged in hit OK
This is an excellent site containing reviews of best freeware in many categories.
Some notable reviews:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anti-virus-software.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/top-freeware-picks-category-editors.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-firewall.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-cd-dvd-burning-software.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-pdf-writer.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-disk-de-fragmenter.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-imaging-program.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-portable-programs.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-non-adobe-pdf-reader.htm
This is a great website for getting at direct downloads of notable HW/SW patches, service packs, security updates, DirectX, etc.
http://www.softwarepatch.com
In my experience USB “thumb” drives are notoriously unreliable, but that’s something you find out only once you attempt to read back the data you’ve “written” to the device. Always check your medium before use.
I recently broke my favourite umbrella, the Totes classic black “Doorman” or “Gentleman” stick umbrella, and had a hard time finding a place to buy a replacement from.
A lot of approaches on the Net specify hacking the locale files; e.g.:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=813945
However, a far simpler and certainly less intrusive procedure is to simply modify default LC_TIME:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/6016/how-to-set-monday-as-the-first-day-of-the-week-in-gnome-calendar-applet
Specifically:
in /etc/default/locale add:
LC_TIME=“en_GB.UTF-8” log out, then log back in