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Author: halfgaar
Making my USB webcam not the first sound card
When I booted my system with the webcam plugged in, it was sound device 0, instead of 1. This is annoying, so I added this to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf:
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A new Archlinux upgrade, a new unbootable system
It's that time again...
First my grub broke. So I had to type my config manually:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinux26 root=/dev/mapper/lvmopraid-root
initrd /kernel26.img
boot
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Making a bash script terminate when a command returns an error
#!/bin/bash -e
trap "echo ERROR HANDLING HERE." ERR
echo "Starting"
asdfasdf
echo "End"
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Chemical tin for circuit boards
For the record, about chemical tin PCB treatment:
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Making Linux less dumb about failed DNS servers
Whenever one of the servers in /etc/resolv.conf is unreachable, Linux/glibc/whatever isn't smart enough not to retry it for a while. This results in a lot of services becoming unavailable, because a lot of them do reverse lookups on all incoming connections (like SSH), which will hang for the time-out of the first DNS server query.
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Some links about Macbook sleep problems
My wife's macbook sometimes keeps waking up when you close it; it gets stuck in an endless sleep-wakeup loop. Here are some links about it that I've had in my e-mail forever:
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Getting munin to run every 10 minutes
Munin is kind of inefficient and on my P4 2Ghz, it running every 5 minutes is too often, and the munin processes keep dying because locks already exist. You can't increase the munin-cron script to 10 minute intervals, because then rrdtool will generate gaps.
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Adding a clock in screen to avoid your ssh’s from being killed
The world is filled with stupid routers, which kill all connections that have no activity for a while (even a very short while). I keep loosing my SSH sessions because of this. To fix it, I added a clock in my GNU screen bar:
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Converting all tables in MySQL DB to InnoDB
#!/bin/bash
exit 1
dbname="eorder"
echo 'SHOW TABLES;' | mysql $dbname | awk '!/^Tables_in_/ {print "ALTER TABLE `"$0"` ENGINE = InnoDB;"}' | column -t
echo 'SHOW TABLES;' | mysql $dbname | awk '!/^Tables_in_/ {print "ALTER TABLE `"$0"` ENGINE = InnoDB;"}' | column -t | mysql $dbname
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