To log in to another host without carrying all your keys acorss you can do ssh -a host or to make it permanent, whack the following line in your .ssh/config file ForwardAgent        no

edit /etc/default/grub and change the following line;  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text" then run sudo update-grub startx will start the gui

use update-rc.d to change runleevels, in a similar way to chkconfig on centos eg; sudo update-rc.d nxserver disable this removes all symlinks from /etc/rc2.d/S* and renames them to /etc/rc2.d/K*...

diff -rq --exclude=.svn dir1 dir2 recursively (-r) diffs a directory, listing files only (-q) and excluding any files with .svn in the path (ie. subversion directories)

mythtv-backend also needs mythweb old backups restored via mythrestore and hostname changed vie instructions here nginx nightmare getting backuppc to work with nginx.. still not ideal. ...

run ‘unset LS_COLORS’ from the terminal to remove the annoying blue in putty. colors putty colours color colour

running CPAN shell via perl -MCPAN -e 'shell' change options via o conf this lists out all config options. set a particular one like so (example http_proxy) o conf init http_proxy o conf use...

$ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. start up the ssh-agent $ eval `ssh-agent -s` Agent pid 17715 Try it again, it should work $ ssh-add Enter passphrase for /h...

run this script; #!/bin/sh echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/send_redirects /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQUERADE...

( from here: http://www.tbsdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=7511&start=10) if reinstalling, remove first by searching for install pkg via dpkg -l then removing. remove the driver files a...