debian

thinkfan - t420s

superb program to gain control over your thinkpad fan.

http://thinkpad-wiki.org/Thinkfan

Debian ffmpeg mit lame (mp3-support)

Lame-Pakete sind (dank Sony BMG) nicht frei und deshalb nicht über die normalen Repositories für eigentlich jede Linux-Distri zu installieren.

Für Debian gibt es schnelle Abhilfe:

http://debian-multimedia.org/
danke.. :)

Eventuell muss ffmpeg neu installiert werden, damit die lame-libraries berücksichtigt werden.

unmount samba-filesystems before shutdown

To avoid error messages like

CIFS VFS: server not responding
CIFS VFS: no response for cmd 50 mid xxx

use this commands to proper unmount samba-filesystems on shutdown:

ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh
ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh

comfortable runlevel-editoring by sysv-rc-conf

I found a tool to comfortably edit runlevels by console.

It's called sysv-rc-conf.

I just used it in kubuntu, but according to the description, it should also do the job in other distris. (gentoo doesn't work, tested it.)

 

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