Idea costs... nothing

Great quote from "T=Machine":

I’ve got an idea; I’ll give you 25%……if you:

• finish it

• and design it

• and build it

• and test it

• and refine it

• and launch it

• and sell it

• and market it

…for me.

Enable auto-completition in bash

To enable autocomplete in bash just add to ~/.bashrc this lines:

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
    . /etc/bash_completion
fi

Play sound in OSS applications, using ALSA

I just used GTick (metronome). But it supports only Pulseaudio and OSS. So, I configured it to OSS sound output and started with:

aoss gtick

It works well. And no more problems like "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy".

From man aoss: «aoss - Wrapper script to facilitate use of the ALSA OSS compatibility library.»

Firefox crashes, while opening file downloading dialog

My Firefox crashed, when I pressed Ctrl+Shift+Y. This key combination open "Downloads" dialog. I found, that error message was:

firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so: undefined symbol: gnome_vfs_unescape_string

So, I found solution that helped me and, hope, will help you. Just edit file /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf and comment line (write "#" before it): "file:file".

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Installing wine in Debian Wheezy (Testing)

I was surprised, when I didn't found wine in Debian Wheezy repositories. But I found some solution here.

So, try this:

ARCH=`uname -m | sed -e s/x86_64/amd64/ -e s/i.86/i386/`
wget -r -A "*_$ARCH.deb" http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ 
sudo dpkg -i dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/*.deb 
sudo apt-get install -f 

After you need to delete folder with wine packages if you don't need them:

rm -rf dev.carbon-project.org/

Ha-ha. It works! Thanks for nicolaselie

MPD and Volume widget for Awesome

Here are two small and simple widgets for Awesome WM.

MPD State: Shows now playing artist and song. Works with "Pause" and "Stopped" states. Depends on mpc.

Volume State: Shows current volume status. Works with "Mute" status. Depends on amixer.

Sources and setup instructions are on: github.com.

May be, someone need them. Commentaries and proposals are welcome.