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Sometimes it can be helpful to list the crontabs of all users. Eg. to find out why your server periodically has a load of over 80%...

Now you can search all crontabs that are done on the time of your load peak.

In order to benefit from drupals amazing functionality concerning multisite capability, you have to do some extra-stuff in your plesk-config, more precisely in your vhost-config.

Example scenario

You administer 50 customer drupal sites on your plesk-server. Every time a new drupal release comes up, you have to update every single one of this 50 installations (we didn't even talk about the modules).
No question: enormous waste of time and disk space.

Let's dare an approach

Extras - AutoKorrektur Optionen - Wortergänzung - Wortergänzung aktivieren

1. Install some 32-bit libraries.
   (x)ubuntu
   sudo aptitude install ia32-libs lib32nss-mdns

   gentoo

   emerge ia32-libs lib32nss-mdns
2. Download cisco_opt.tar.gz (find below) and unpack it to /opt. After that you should have a directory /opt/cisco.
   
   wget http://guldener.net/sites/default/files/cisco_opt.tar_.gz
   tar -xzf cisco_opt.tar_.gz
   sudo mv cisco /opt/
3. Now, in order to get the libraries needed, download firefox for 32bit:
   Download it from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html

    

hilarious tool to reset your vista or xp password or/and enable or/and disable users...

http://trinityhome.org

to load videos on your iphone or ipod, the video must have the right format.

since video-converting under linux is not that trivial, mvPod is a gread solution to bypass this especially for iphone and ipod.

http://mvpod.sourceforge.net/
installation is easy, follow the guide.

after converting the vid, you can load your movies and videos on your portable apple device.

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.)

yee, my iphone's here.

to register it, itunes is needed. didn't get it quickly to work with wine, so i tried with vmware xp.
installing itunes in my guest xp was no problem. but plugging my iphone and enabeling it in vmware resulted in a fancy bluescreen. yay!

searching the web gave me the solution:

http://blog.zenone.org/2008/02/test-lab-iphone-ubuntu-and-xp-in-vmware.html

OLE!

how to automatically disable the synaptic mousepad.

the magic command is called syndaemon
to see options:

syndaemon --help

:)

Example to just disable the mousepad for a long time (eg. when you have another mouse plugged)
syndaemon -i 20000 -d

for scping large files, its very comfortable to let them run in the background.

especially when you are at home and want to turn off the pc and let the servers do their work over night.

how to:

execute the normal scp command, eg:

after confirming the key and authentificating (if necessary), you can "stop" the job by pressing : ctrl + Z