Jumpcut is another very useful menu bar application. This one keeps an history of the text you have copied or cut. You can access it later with a configurable hotkey, even if you’ve copied another text in between.
Jumpcut is open sourced under the MIT License.
Caffeine is a cute little “menu bar” program that prevents your Mac from going to sleep when you don’t want it to, with just a click. No need to change all your screen saver and energy saver preferences any more!
Great when you’re using a media player or flash movie player that doen’t do it by itself.
The RHEL / Centos way:
edit /etc/modprobe.conf, and add :
alias <modulename> off
The Debian way:
Create a file ‘/etc/modprobe.d/<modulename>’ containing ‘blacklist <modulename>’.
Run ‘depmod -ae’ as root
Recreate your initrd with ‘update-initramfs -u’
/!\ Read http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModuleBlacklisting, then do not use ‘/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist’ and remove ‘/etc/modprobe.conf’ as it supersedes anything in /etc/modprobe.d/*.
source : Debian wiki
The Tobi way:
edit /etc/modprobe.conf, and add :
install <modulename> /bin/true
inspiration: DotMana
When running apt-get update with a lot of sources in your sources.list, you may encounter this error:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
Add this line APT::Cache-Limit "25165824"; to your /etc/apt/apt.conf, and run apt-get update again.
I’m returning to this excellent distro: Arch Linux
Synchronize the local package database with the remote repositories:
pacman -Sy
Install a package:
pacman -Sy package_name
Remove a package:
pacman -R package_name
Update the system:
pacman -Syu
There is not yet a xen-amd64 domU kernel for Lenny. There might not be one on release day. Discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.devel/browse_thread/thread/8940430a093bbda5/546883797d0cbdf9
Fortunately, someone builds a 2.6.26-xen-amd64 kernel.
Add this to your sources.list:
deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/waldi/xen-extra/ all main
Install these packages:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64
linux-modules-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64
Fix the “new Xen console” problem (xen now uses hvc0 for its console):
If you use pygrub, in grub.conf on the domU add these kernel parameters : console=hvc0 xencons=tty
title Debian 2.6.26
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 ro root=/dev/sda1 console=hvc0 xencons=tty
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64
If you don’t use pygrub, specify extra = “console=hvc0 xencons=tty” in your virtual machine xen config file.
Use at your own risk 
By the way, this fixed a nasty bug for me: php5-cli used to segfault a lot when using linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 under Lenny. It’s stable now.
Edit: linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 is now available in unstable 
Someone told me I had to make a sitemap for this blog…
This plugins does that all right: Google XML Sitemaps.
Easy to install and use. Extremely configurable. Will automatically update the sitemap when you add or modify something, and notify sitemap-aware search engines (Google, MSN, Ask.com and Yahoo are supported).
Well, now that I just had my first non-spam comment, I have to start improving my search engine referencing, right ?
I noticed that I had no description meta tag, and that google just used the beginning of the last post for a description. This is not right (and not sexy). The problem is the same for every single page (home, tags, categories, archives, single posts, etc.).
Wait, did I say ? Tags, categories and archives ? Search engines index all of these pages ? So every post must be indexed at least 3 times. Doesn’t looks good either, does it ?
I just installed a new plugin that promises to adress all of these problems : all-in-one-seo-pack. At once. Really cool. Optimizes titles, generates META tags automatically, avoids duplicate content, very configurable (but still easy to install: you don’t have to fine-tune everthing, just enter a title and a description. The default config is OK in most cases).
I had this one in one on my Firefox tabs for a few weeks, and I just took the time to create an account. Let’s see where it goes…
I also installed the Twitter for Wordpress plugin.
http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/
Does most of what Hardware Monitor, Temperature Monitor, MenuMeters and MenuCalendarClock iCal do, but in just one app : mini calendar, memory, disk, network and cpu usage, fan speed and power consumption, tempratures and much more!
Easy to install and configure, excellent design, like always from islayer.
Screenie:
And yes, I configured it to look like MenuMeters…