echo 2048 >/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/max_user_freq
echo 2048 >/proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq

Reboot, and you should get better performance from things like mplayer.

Check out my 0install repository. You can run things like this:

sudo apt-get install zeroinstall-injector
0launch http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/repos/hank/0install/Processing.xml

There’s packages for all the popular distributions. Get it now! It’s awesome.

It shows my hostname, IP, uptime, screen window number and name, date and time, and load averages. Pretty cool, huh?

This is how you do it:

• First, create a .screenrc file and dump this in there:

hardstatus alwayslastline
backtick 1 60 60 /home/hank/.screen_hardstatus
hardstatus string "%{Gk}%H: %{+s y}%1` | %=%n: %t%= | %m/%d %c | %{+b}%l"

• Now, see the line that starts with backtick? That tells screen what program to run for assigning output to %1` in the hardstatus string. Let’s make the .screen_hardstatus file as well (make it in your own home directory).

#!/bin/bash
# Script to get run by hardstatus in screen.
# Prints customized single-line system stats
IP=`ifconfig eth0 | grep Mask | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d " " -f1`
UPTIME=`perl -pe 's/^(\d+).*/sprintf("%d", ($1\/(24*3600)))." days"/e' /proc/uptime`
echo -n "$IP | Up: $UPTIME"

I cheated and used perl, but all of this could safely be converted to sed/awk easily. All this does is print my raw dotted quad IP address, a pipe, and then the current uptime in days rounded down.

• Now, just run screen. You should see something similar to the first picture. I used this page a lot to customize the colors, etc.

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults

And all my problems were solved. A quick insert into .fluxbox/startup and
I was in business.

In other news, Edgy Eft Rocks. Just customized the default GDM theme so it
looks better. I think I might want to get a MacBook or a nice Powerbook G4
for my next laptop. Apparently, in Linux, you can make the touchpad act like
Synaptics with a driver hack to put it in raw mode. As far as I can tell,
this is merged in the newest Linux kernels. This allows for the kind of tap
clicking I like (1 finger for left button, 2 for middle, 3 for right), and
thanks to a broken left touchpad button on the Asus M6N I have, I’ve gotten
used to this style of clicking, and I like it now.

# chage -M 1 <user>
# chage -d 1 <user>

Make sure to set -M back to normal afterwards

# chage -M 99999 <user>

This makes it so easy. Too bad it’s named like saying ”’change”’ with a cold…

        Option          "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"

svn rm `svn stat | grep ! | sed -e 's/^\!\s\+//;s/$/ /' | tr -d '\n'`

That will remove all the entries from svn stat that start with !. Very handy. Took a few minutes to write (sed wouldn’t get rid of my newline, so I used tr …), but it’s worth it.