For the last several weeks, I’ve noticed excessive CPU usage whenever GMail (GAYD-hosted email, specifically) is open in Firefox. By turning off add-ons one at a time, I found that this is caused solely by Better GMail 2.
Firebug, FireGPG, Greasemonkey (on which Better GMail relies), and AdBlock Plus all had no effect on CPU usage.
After updating to Ubuntu 8.10, I started to get tearing artifacts. This crop up especially badly during scenes that involve panning.
The MythTV Wiki explains the fix for tearing:
echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq
Well, it works for me, anyway. I just keep forgetting what to do when it crops up.
As usual, I sped through the VMware Server installation, just using default settings. I then found myself unable to log in to the VMware Server Console. I would always get an error:
You do not have permissions to login to the server.
Some searching turned up a solution which is to log in as root and set a password (root has no password by default on Ubuntu). This is an ugly solution, so I re-ran VMware Server configuration. That’s when I noticed this question:
The current administrative user for VMware Server is 'root'. Would you like
to specify a different administrator? [no]
Answering yes allows you to specify the local account which will be administrator for VMware Server:
Please specify the user whom you wish to be the VMware Server administrator
[root] fitzsimjUsing fitzsimj as the VMware Server administrator.
The command-line oddities of Mac OS X’s BSD heritage drive me insane. I much prefer the behavior of the GNU toolchain, as provided by Ubuntu Linux.
To begin, first install MacPorts.
With several MacPorts packages, the +with_default_names variant may be specified. This causes package contents to be installed without the default “g” prefix. For example, without +with_default_names, find would be installed as gfind.
1) Use MacPorts to install the bash-completion package:
sudo /opt/local/bin/port install bash-completion
2) Edit ~/.bash_profile to load the correct autocompletion script:
if [ -f /opt/local/etc/bash_completion ]; then /opt/local/etc/bash_completion fi
Open a new terminal window, and commands should auto-complete according to the GNU specification.
The GNU version of find helpfully assumes that, if no arguments were given, you wish to search the current directory. The OS X (BSD) version has no idea what to do without a directory specification.
sudo /opt/local/bin/port install findutils +with_default_names
This package includes find, gfind, glocate, goldfind, gupdatedb, gxargs, locate, oldfind, updatedb, and xargs.
This vaguely-named package provides a large number of standard GNU tools.
sudo /opt/local/bin/port install coreutils +with_default_names
In order to call the MacPorts-installed tools by default, your path will have to be updated to include /opt/local/libexec/gnubin/. I added the following to ~/.bash_profile:
export PATH="/opt/local/libexec/gnubin/:$PATH"