VMware machine on Linux over NTFS

When you get any VMware host software on Linux (Server or Workstation) running any guest on NTFS filesystem, you get ntfs-3g to 100% CPU usage on a regular basis.

This can be overiden by setting

• mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

in the .vmx definition file.

This gets 'mount.ntfs-3g' CPU usage back to manageable levels... 3~10%.

Pidgin home dir

What once was '%GAIMHOME%', while Yahoo did not do their thing, now on Pidgin is '%PURPLEHOME%'.

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Firefox 3 disable extentions compatibility checks

• Type about:config into Firefox's address bar and click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
• Right-click anywhere. Choose New>Boolean. Make the name of your new config value 'extensions.checkCompatibility' and set it to 'false'.
• Make another new boolean pair called 'extensions.checkUpdateSecurity' and set the value to 'false'.
• Restart Firefox.

Multiline paste for Firefox 3

Type "about:config" in the location bar. In the "Filter" field type "singleline." You can set the value to 2 for editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines, which will allow pasting of multiple lines to input boxes.

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Windows XP Single to MultiProcessor patch

To switch to Multiprocessor support need to modify some system files.
There are three files involved in this in your \Windows\system32 directory:

• HAL.DLL
• ntoskrnl.exe
• ntkrnlpa.exe

The versions you need may be found in \Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386:

• halmacpi.dll
• ntkrnlmp.exe
• ntkrpamp.exe

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Adding missing GPG key for custom repositories

Option 1:

wget [URL].gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Option 2

#!/bin/bash
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv $1
gpg --export --armor $1 | sudo apt-key add -

HTC Hack - Show Date and Time in Title Bar

Browse to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\'

Create a binary value named "TBOpt" and set its value to "13 00 00 00".

Navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\overrides'
Change (or create string) value of "SSDte" to the date format :"dd-MMM "

It is important you add 3 spaces at the end!!

Save any unsaved document and reset your Pocket PC.