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To disable Synaptics touchpad tapping, add the following to XF86Config or
xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Option      "TapButton1" "0"
EndSection

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To change bootloader wireless network, add kernel parameter netprofile.

   kernel ... netprofile=Airborne

where Airborne is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/Airborne.

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NVIDIA driver doesn't install OpenGL headers.  Check /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA*.
Will have to copy headers over or pass option.

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/dev/nvidiactl security errors.  The chmod and chown described in the README
don't last.  Check /etc/udev/permissions.d/*udev.permissions and change
nvidia's entry to 0666.

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GNOME panel and window minimizing.  If you delete the panel where minimized
windows went to, find a panel and follow right-click, Add Panel, Window List,
Add.

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Get a smaller console font by adding vga=791 to the kernel parameters in
/etc/grub.conf.

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Funny characters showing up in RedHat Linux.  Take off .UTF-8 from LANG.
LANG=en_US

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Crappy Actiontec modem can't do DNS resolution right.  Strip out router's
nameserver entry in /etc/resolv.conf but adding this to dhclient-script's exit
hooks.

#!/bin/sh

BAD_IP=192.168.0.1
echo `date`: checking dns ordering for actiontec woes
grep ${BAD_IP} /etc/resolv.conf > /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   echo removing actiontec dns entry
   grep -v -e "^nameserver ${BAD_IP}$" /etc/resolv.conf > /tmp/resolv.conf
   mv /tmp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
fi

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Ignore dependencies when installing rpm packages with:

   rpm --nodeps

I used this to install Lexmark's x386 driver on a 64-bit machine.  (I needed to
get at a cartridge alignment page.)

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List rpm packages version and architecture, which is not displayed by default:

   rpm -q --qf '%{ARCH}: %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' name1

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Rebuild rpm database.

   rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00[1-3]
   rpm --rebuilddb

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If your terminal gets messed up, try:

   reset

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Kept getting a message from ld on x86_64 saying:

   "skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libGLU.so when searching for -lGLU"

To fix it, I made a symlink in /usr/X11R6/lib64 from libGLU.so to the actual
library that was there (libGLU.so.1.3).

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I make a shortcut to open and place terminals for easy setup of my work
environment.

gnome-terminal --geometry 80x55+300+0
konsole -geometry +300+0 --vt_sz 80x52

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Sometimes while compiling I get a message like:

   cannot install lib***.la to a directory not ending in /usr/local/lib

In my case, I had run configure, make, changed configure, make (which
didn't change anything), and make install.  That second make really should
have changed something.  The solution was to run make clean and then run
make again.

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To mount a USB drive manually, run something like

   mkdir /media/my_usb
   mount /dev/sd[abc] /media/usb

The USB drive should be somewhere in /dev/sd*.

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# n - dry
# i - itemized file list
# r - recursive
# v - verbose
# c - check sum (if slow, use --size-only)

# Sync models with USB drive.
rsync -nirvc /media/disk/models ~/datasets/cj_data

# Sync USB drive with models.
rsync -nirvc ~/datasets/cj_data/models /media/disk