Just going to leave this here...

pianobar

Commands for pianobar


+ love current song
– ban current song
a add music to current station
c create new station
d delete current station
e explain why this song is played
g add genre station
h song history
i print information about current song/station
j add shared station
m move song to different station
n next song
p pause/continue
q quit
r rename current station
s change station
t tired (ban song for 1 month)
u upcoming songs
x select quickmix stations
b bookmark song/artist

redirect all traffic to another

I used this to make sure traffic to my old blog goes to my new blog. Placed an .htaccess file in the root directory

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://blog.xybrcode.com/ [L]

ubuntu pptp vpn server

Using ubuntu 10.04

sudo apt-get install pptpd

edit conf file , local ip should be the ip of the server on the local network, remote ip should be a range of ips for the pptpd server to assign to users remoting in

sudo nano /etc/pptpd.conf

edit pptpd-options and put hostname of the server in the file

sudo nano /etc/ppp/pptpd-options

assign users in the file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, passwords are cleartext in the file format:

username  pptp-server-hostname    password    ip-address

use * for any ip address, example :

john         mypptpserver       mypassword          *

setup ip masquerading , add following line to /etc/rc.local above the exit command

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERAADE

uncomment the following line from /etc/sysctl.conf

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

open port 1723 for TCP and GRE on your firewall and reboot

increase partition size

1. Boot from gparted live cd
2. Extend partition with gparted
3. reboot
4. Login
5. run resize2fs /mountpoint size

turn off horizontal scrolling for magic mouse

defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseHorizontalScroll -bool NO

triple boot

UPDATE: If you are using a large hdd then use this method to install REFIT

1.Download the rEFIt installer and copy the efi folder and its contents into the root directory of the OSX partition.
2. Open Terminal and run the following commands:
$ sudo bless --folder /efi/refit --file /efi/refit/refit.efi --labelfile /efi/refit/refit.vollabel --setBoot
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WOW that was nutz! After googling and reading for days about how this process is like "banging my head against a wall" I have to say I agree completely. It finally works though. I will try to provide as much details as I can in hopes that the next poor soul that tries to accomplish this task has an easier time of it.

MacBook Pro Mid 2009 (5,1)(i think)

First off this is what did first and it did not work...
1. Installed a fresh copy of lion 200G Partition / 1TB HDD
REBOOT
2. Bootcamped Windows 7 200G partition and installed bootcamp drivers.
REBOOT
3. Installed rEFIt
REBOOT
4. Installed xubuntu 11.04 x86, during install i created a 100G partition EXT4 (no swap, i was going to create that partition afterwards or use a swap file)
REBOOT
5. used partition tool in refit to sync boot mbr and gpt
6. selected linux in rEFIt boot menu

This is where the problem started. Windows booted...argh! An interesting note here is that rEFIt was showing a label for windows as "Boot Windows from partition 4" and for linux showing "Boot linux from HD", I was assuming rEFIt was not picking up my linux partition. After several attempts at reformatting and reinstalling i finally deleted the original partition
and
deleted the LION RECOVERY HD partition(mmmmm....)
and created a new linux partition EXT3. Previously my partitions looked as follows...

/dev/sda1 - EFI
/dev/sda2 - Lion
/dev/sda3 - Lion Recovery HD
/dev/sda4 - Win 7
/dev/sda5 - Linux

It now looks like this

/dev/sda1 - EFI
/dev/sda2 - Lion
/dev/sda3 - Linux
/dev/sda4 - Win 7

and it works perfect with the new partition and filesystem and the recovery partition gone. Also rEFIt now says "Boot linux from partition 3" like I thought it should have. I have no idea which of the changes or if all of the changes made the difference. Below is the output from the Partition Inspector that comes with rEFIt. Maybe someone can make some sense of it.




*** Report for internal hard disk ***

Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
2         409640    391034639  Mac OS X HFS+
3      783190016    978502516  Basic Data
4      392304640    783190015  Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
# A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
1              1       409639  ee  EFI Protective
2         409640    391034639  af  Mac OS X HFS+
3      783190016    978502516  83  Linux
4 *    392304640    783190015  07  NTFS/HPFS

MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable

Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af  Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 783190016:
Boot Code: GRUB
File System: ext3
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data
Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 83  Linux

Partition at LBA 392304640:
Boot Code: Windows BOOTMGR (Vista)
File System: NTFS
Listed in GPT as partition 4, type Basic Data
Listed in MBR as partition 4, type 07  NTFS/HPFS, active