Setting Up Sabayon Linux Part II

Aug 03 2009

If you want to make your system rock solid it’s a long process, but you have to do it sooner or later.

  1. This step is optional if you know how to edit USE flags. http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Euse
  2. add glibc-omitfp and nptonly to your USE flages in /etc/make.conf.                                        www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Optimise_glibc#Enabling_further_optimizations
  3. if your are keen and want to save 90% of the space taken up by localization settings and some compile time, edit the locales. nano -w /etc/locale.gen http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml
  4. delete unnecessary languages
  5. emerge glibc
  6. still staying very basic,  add -malign-double to your CFLAGS, and test it by emerging dillo. www.gentoo-wiki.info/CFLAGS_matrix

Type dillo at the console and press enter.

Tryout the powersave or “standby” in windows.
http://powersave.sourceforge.net/kpowersave/introduction.html#starting

If you still have time, you might like stable transparencies.
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Transparency

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Setting up Sabayon Linux Part I

Aug 03 2009

Do not use kuroo or emerge before completing the following steps :

Simply the console or terminal, type the commands, and hit enter.

su –

sabayon (sudo passwd to change)

emerge –sync

emerge portage

dispatch-conf

u (update)

layman -S

glsa-check -f all

dispatch-conf

u (update)

http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Tips

If you are bored with the above, start with detecting your hardware.

cat /proc/cpuinfo

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Detecting_your_Hardware

nano -w /etc/make.conf                NOTE: ^ is ctrl

http://gentoo-wiki.info/Safe_Cflags

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Firefox Cache

Jul 10 2009

Because accessing any file in a directory containing 100+ files in a folder 8 levels deep C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default. \Cache\ is going to be slow, moving the cache folder to C:\Cache would make it a lot faster.

  1. navigate to about:cache to check out your current cache usage and directory
  2. navigate to about:config
  3. create a new string browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
  4. a value of C:\ (preferably a separate partition) would put the cache directory at closest to the root

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Discovering the Golden Ratio

Jul 09 2009

Research says bing looks good, but why? It definitely has better results for a pair in the Fibonacci series.

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Notice I did make my web page viewing area exactly 987×610 using the firesizer extension. The exact specs for having a big back button and the bookmark toolbar is 121+610=731. Not amazing, but that’s what painters like Davinci and Mondrian did.

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Notepad++ Autocompletion

Jul 03 2009

There’s a handy feature in Notepad++ that’s not enabled by default.
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This works on Windows 7 or Vista, but the pop-up window blinks. Here’s the way to enable it:

  1. Settings -> Preferences -> Backup/Auto-competion
  2. check enable auto-completion
  3. right-click and edit properties for Notepad++

On another note, you can make it load faster by adding the -noPlugin flag to it:
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Minimal SearchJump

Jul 01 2009

If you are a fan of Google Docks (available in Chinese among other languages) or Windows Hoax (has been available in Beta or RC), then you might want to might want to install the MinSJ script, meaning Minimal Script Junkie. I actually thought it stood for Minimu Jumps for Searching, whatever.
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SearchJump Search Engines Highlights

Jun 28 2009

  • Bing uses technology from Powerset to display “related searches” and groups search results into categories such as product reviews, movie listings, weather, travel, and stock prices, among other new features.
  • Until computers are more powerful than human brains, people will be able to sell their idle brains to the companies and people who need the special processing power that they alone possess through marketplaces like ChaCha, a service where you can ask a question and get it answered in 3 minutes for free.
  • Clusty searches the results of other search engines and indexes, applies AI to pick out the major themes found within the results for each search, and organizes them into folders.
  • Deepdyve is a search engine designed by Human Genome Project scientists that uses DNA matching algorithms on search terms to search 99 percent of the web, while most search engines only crawl 1 percent.
  • Instead of looking up basic encyclopedic information, you can just go to WolframAlpha instead, where you will get a direct answer to your question, as well as a nicely presented set of graphs and other info.
  • Other search engines are put there to look nice (or just look nice)

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Turning on search engines in SearchJump

Jun 27 2009

  1. open the script either by through greasemonkey -> manage user scripts or by navigating through %appdata%/mozilla/firefox/… on Windows
  2. the search engines are all listed at the top use find and highlight “0,” to see all those that are turned off
  3. to turn it on, simply change it to “1,” and save

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SearchJump Improved

Jun 25 2009

If google’s still your way to find answers in the universe, try a greasemonkey script called SearchJump Improved. Also, you may be interested in some other website modifications.

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Google Sidenote

Jun 20 2009

If you ever wanted to take notes while you are reading, specially with the autocopy extension using firefox, try this trick

  1. bookmark a random site
  2. edit properties
  3. set address to http://www.google.com/notebook/ig?hl=__MSG_locale__
  4. check “Load this bookmark in the sidebar”
  5. click the bookmark

Note: to make this feature even more powerful, convert whatever file you have at zamzar.com to html

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