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

NFS share with write access

Unless you are running NIS to share your logon information you have to
all_squash access on the server to a known server uid/guid

Server(/etc/exports): /<nfs_share>
192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,async,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000)
Client(/etc/fstab): <server_ip>:/<nfs_share> /mnt/<mount_point> nfs
defaults,users,rsize=32768,wsize=32786 0 0

install nvidia's package drivers with a compiled kernel

cd /usr/src
CC=gcc SYSSRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.26 SYSOUT=/usr/src/linux-2.6.26 sh
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1.run
startx

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