dropbox without nautilus

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/10/15/using-dropbox-without-gnome/

Nvidia custom driver install using module assistant

First after a clean install, just leave the stock kernel and do NOT
install nvidia-glx

1) apt-get install module-assistant gcc nvidia-kernel-common
2) m-a update
3) m-a prepare
4) m-a auto-install nvidia (accept all the additional packages it
needs to install)
5) IMMEDIATELY AFTER: apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-`uname -a` (remove
the kernel module you just built, this was to prepare the latest
NVIDIA driver to build)
6) Download NVIDIA's latest drivers here :
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_177.82.html
7) Run the installer, it'll have to build a kernel module and it
should complain about the XLib path, but everything should be okay

At that point it should all be ready to go just copy the X config from
the other machine and it should be fine

- A.C.

Distcc/avahi daemon failed to parse host lists file

edit the avahi daeamon config file and set use-ipv6=no

apt-get returning package errors for valid packages

make sure your /etc/apt/preferences file is legit