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To get the GCALDaemon up and running at startup in Ubuntu, check out http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4473753&postcount=5
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Still trying to find the solution to the damn CIFS error whenever you reboot or shutdown Ubuntu, which is all to do with shutting down the network before trying to unmount the shares. Have been told that the following works:
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh
&& sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh
Will have to wait and see.
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You can append the following after vga= on a distro line in /boot/grub/menu.lst to change the font size of the CLI console:
| 640×480 | 800×600 | 1024×768 | 1280×1024 | 1600×1200 | |
| 256 (8 bit) | 769 | 771 | 773 | 775 | 796 |
| 32,768 (15 bit) | 784 | 787 | 790 | 793 | 797 |
| 65,536 (16 bit) | 785 | 788 | 791 | 794 | 798 |
| 16.8M (24 bit) | 786 | 789 | 792 | 795 | 799 |
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In my upgrading of my laptop to the new Ubuntu Jaunty, I’ve found the PC speaker very, very loud.
Not to worry. To shut it up, type modprobe -r pcspkr. And, to make that permanent, add the line /sbin/modprobe -r pcspkr to /etc/rc.local.
As one who does web development from time to time, Xenocode’s website is an absolute gem of a find! The site allows you to virtualise and access all the major web browsers to check your code – for free! Brilliant! 
Instructions here, but basically, install ssl-cert and then use the command:
sudo make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/ssl/certs/selfsigned.pem
There’s more information at this great site on how to create self-signed certificates and then set up Apache to support them.
Enough stuffing around with manually managing versions. I’m looking into SVN and have found this article talking about how to set up Subversion on Ubuntu. Also going to play with integrating TortoiseSVN into Visual Studio as per this story on CodeProject. Will let you know how I get on.
I’m still working through the kinks on this one, but this post on Ubuntu forums seems to give good instructions for setting up one of the servers in my house as the only one to download update packages for apt, while the others point to it (saving me bandwidth costs).
I’ll post more as I figure it out, but this line is key for the other machines:
echo 'Acquire::http::Proxy "http://hostname:3142";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy
Seems like a silly little thing, but I do a lot of copying and pasting from Visio and other graphical apps into Word and other Office apps. So, I’ve started to write some macros to speed this up. Here’s the one for PowerPoint:
Sub PasteEMF()
ActivePresentation.Slides(ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.SlideIndex).Shapes.PasteSpecial (ppPasteEnhancedMetafile)
End Sub
