Completely wipe Chrome data on Mac

1. find ~/Library/ -type d -name 'Chrome' -exec rm -rfv {} \;

Chromecast tricks

1. is casting a tab
1. don't do full screen
1. instead, shrink browser window to size of original video
1. what is put on the screen is relative to the window size
2. seems to save on bandwidth
1. passed through your wireless router
2. less broken stream therefore

Building latest collectd on Amazon Linux server in AWS

1. yum install byacc flex automake libtool libgcrypt-devel glib2-devel libtool-ltdl-devel perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
1. comments below imply this may be necessary: apt-get install bison
2. git clone https://github.com/collectd/collectd.git
3. cd collectd
4. ./build.sh
5. ./configure
6. make 

 Some helpful libs, start over to use them

1. yum install lvm2-devel net-snmp-devel liboping-devel libpcap-devel libesmtp-devel libcurl-devel libmnl-devel

Dated: Nov, 2013

Openbox: monitor laptop battery via CLI and notify-send

while (true);do acpi -b | perl -n -e 's/.*?(\d+)%.*/$1/;chomp;print "$_...";if ($_ <= 15) {`notify-send batalert:$_`};';sleep 180;done

Would like a beep, but can't get one, no PC speaker on MacBook Air and mplayer buffers.

Change X / Openbox screen brightness on CLI

1. sudo apt-get -y install xbacklight
2. xbacklight +10
3. xbacklight +10
4. xbacklight +10
5. xbacklight -10
6. xbacklight -10
7. xbacklight -10

Recover wireless of Ubuntu on MacBook Air 4,2

1. sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source
2. sudo modprobe -r b43 ssb wl brcmfmac brcmsmac bcma
3. sudo modprobe wl

Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source

wicd: Could not connect to wicd's D-bus interface

I don't know why, she swallowed the fly.

After

1. Wicd needs to access your computer's network cards
2. Could not connect to wicd's D-Bus interface

Do

1. sudo mv -v /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.backup
2. sudo ln -s /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
3. sudo rm -v /var/lib/wicd/resolv.conf.orig
4. sudo service wicd start
5. yum -y install wicd-gtk
6. wicd-gtk

Taken: http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=10995.0