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I’m observing an strange firefox behavior when I scroll the page using the mouse wheel. It goes back and forth through search history. So I googled a little bit and found that the KVM switch that I’m using it’s producing bogus key press event that firefox misinterprets. If you are running Linux the solution is simple as you can modify the X server configuration to ignore those events. But I cannot find a suitable solution for Windows. ...

Today I received this error message when issuing a cvs import to the cvs repository cvs [import failed]: received broken pipe signal after googling a little bit I found this mail thread that led me to the following entry in the cvs manual about loginfo: Note that the filter program must read all of the log information or CVS may fail with a broken pipe signal. so I took a look to the CVSROOT/loginfo and the line there was ...

If you are getting ls: reading directory /cygdrive/c: No such file or directory it’s probably because you installed Altiris Sofware Virtualization (SVS). The solution is to uninstall Altiris or use ProgramIgnoreList feature of Altiris. Read the following messages to the cygwin mailist list to know more. original message solution Take a look to this altiris forum post also if you need more information about the issue

My Compaq Evo has two internal speakers, the PC speaker (the one responsible for beeps, etc) and another conventional loudspeaker connected internally to the sound board. One would expect that conecting the headphones to the headphones jack will automatically shut off/disable the internal speaker but it doesn’t. You must first go to the Volume Control at System -> Preferences -> Volume Control and then click Edit->Preferences and enable the Headphone Jack Sense checkbox. I wonder why it is not enabled by default.

I’ve you tried beryl or compiz you probably had notice that the Super key (the windows key, also known as Meta key) is used a lot. By default in my Fedora Core 6 installation the Windows key is not enabled, I had to add Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win" to the InputDevice section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to activate it. This is how the InputDevice section look like now: ... Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "es" Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win" EndSection ... via Noiesmo’s GNU/Linux Site

After reading the tip I mentioned in my previous post I made some changes to my `~/.bashrc` to enable bash history alias e32="$HOME/eclipse/eclipse321/eclipse" alias e33="$HOME/eclipse/eclipse33M4/eclipse" alias nb="$HOME/netbeans-5.5/bin/netbeans" JAVA_HOME=$HOME/jdk1.6.0 PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin: export PATH HISTFILESIZE=1000000000 HISTSIZE=1000000 HISTCONTROL=ignoredups shopt -s histappend INPUTRC=~/.inputrc and to my `~/.inputrc` "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward “\e[A”and"\e[B"` being whatever your terminal uses for up & down. And with the following simple command I can see the commands I use most: ...

Very useful tip to analyze you bash history.