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|[2010-09-20]||Various '''Go''' games (<tt>qgo uligo</tt>)||
|[2010-09-20]||Various '''Go''' games (<tt>qgo uligo</tt>)||
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|[2010-09-20]||'''Panda glGo 1.4.1''' ([http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/glGo/download.html])||Requires <code>libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0</code> ({{red|32-bit version! ie. package <tt>ia32-libs</tt>}}). Also:
|[2010-09-20]||'''Panda glGo 1.4.1'''||See [[Linux Software#Panda glGo|local page]
<source lang="bash" enclose="prevalid">sudo ln -s libpython2.6.so.1.0 /usr/lib32/libpython2.5.so.1.0</source>
Start <code>glGo</code>, and enter <code>/usr/games/gnugo</code> for location of gnugo
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|[2010-09-20]||'''Quarry''' (<tt>quarry</tt>)||Board games Go, Amazons, and Reversi
|[2010-09-20]||'''Quarry''' (<tt>quarry</tt>)||Board games Go, Amazons, and Reversi

Revision as of 22:31, 18 January 2011

Introduction

This is the configuration page for the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS (amd64) partition on NXL67002.

Configuration Files

All configuration files can be found here.

Installed Applications

[2010-05-03] Gnome DO (gnome-do)
[2010-05-10] Midnight Commander (mc) [2010-05-31] see reference page. Use vi as standard viewer/editor. Installed version from mc official repository to fix file highlighting issue.
[2010-05-10] Vim (vim, exuberant-ctags)
[2010-05-10] Opera (opera) [2010-12-21] v 11.00.1156 Use .pac file at http://localhost/proxy.pac to circumvent .pac file bug
[2010-05-10] VirtualBox 3.2.4 (virtualbox-3.2) [2010-05-26] Local settings. Updated to 3.2.4! — See VirtualBox
[2010-05-10] Samba (smbclient smbfs)
[2010-05-10] KeePassX (keepassx)
[2010-05-11] Privoxy (privoxy)
[2010-05-11] AutoSSH (autossh)
[2010-05-11] apt-file (apt-file)
[2010-05-11] SSH Tunnel script (sshtunnel.pl, libssl-dev) Thierry Walrant's Perl script sshtunnel.pl
[2010-05-11] GNU C/C++ compiler (g++)
[2010-05-26] UltraEdit 1.2.0.7 (uex)
[2010-05-27] MBR (mbr) To create VirtualBox rawdisk
[2010-05-27] Courier IMAP (courier-imap courier-doc courier-imap-ssl) Install instructions and local settings
[2010-05-28] SSH (ssh) Local settings
[2010-05-28] p7zip (p7zip-full p7zip-rar)
[2010-05-28] dlocate (dlocate)
[2010-05-28] Thunderbird (thunderbird)
[2010-05-28] Synergy Plus 1.3.4 (synergy-plus) [2010-06-09] Updated to Synergy-plus 1.3.4!
Reference page. Added /usr/bin/synergyc to /etc/suoders
Added quick alias to ~/.bashrc
[2010-05-31] Courier-POP3 (courier-pop courier-pop-ssl)
[2010-05-31] Courier-MTA (courier-mta courier-mta-ssl) so that mails are sent to Courier mailboxes
[2010-05-31] AutoFS (autofs) See local config
[2010-05-31] XSel (xsel)
[2010-05-31] LAMP (apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql) See local config
[2010-05-31] PHPMyAdmin (phpmyadmin) Install for apache2 + configure phpmyadmin database + see local config
[2010-06-01] Psi (psi) See local config
[2010-06-01] MS Truetype core fonts (ttf-msttcorefonts-installer)
[2010-06-01] Compiz config settings manager (compizconfig-settings-manager)
[2010-06-01] Ubuntu restricted extras (ubuntu-restricted-extras) shall install automatically libdvdread4
[2010-06-01] libdvdcss2 Installed via sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh (see also [1])
[2010-06-03] GVim (vim-gnome) To enable support of X clipboard
[2010-06-07] CUPS PDF (cups-pdf) Allow CUPS to access ~/PDF:
sudo aa-complain cupsd
[2010-06-08] Qiv (qiv)
[2010-06-09] Foxit Reader (qiv) Extracted tar.gz in /usr/local/bin
Icons in /usr/share/pixmaps/foxitreader.png.
Desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ + edited mime type in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list to associate with application/pdffiles
[2010-06-09] Grub2 Splash Image (ubuntu-splash-image) (from lucid-splash-image.deb) installed with sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture lucid-splash-image.deb
[2010-06-11] Racoon (racoon) For RSA key generation, see Crypto
[2010-06-14] GPG Agent (gnupg-agent) Added use-agent at end of ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
[2010-06-14] Rename utils (renameutils)
[2010-06-30] Ruby (ruby) ... for Vim plug-in snipMate.vim
[2010-07-07] LaTeX (texlive texlive-xetex latex2hml) Including XeTeX package
[2010-07-07] TeX Extra packages (texlive-plain-extra texlive-science) Soul package requires CTAN color package - see [2]
[2011-01-14] Added texlive-science.
[2010-07-14] gThumb (gthumb)
[2010-07-14] QIV (qiv)
[2010-07-30] Vim/Cscope (cscope)
[2010-08-09] Wine (wine) See Wine page
[2010-08-09] Nautilus Audio Converter (wavpack mppenc libmpcdec3 faac flac vorbis-tools faad lame nautilus-script-audio-convert) Enable script ConvertAudioFile (Menu PreferenceNautilus Scripts Manager). See Ubuntu Geek - Simplest way to convert audio file(s) on Ubuntu Linux
[2010-08-11] HTTrack (httrack)
[2010-08-11] C/C++ documentation (manpages-posix-dev stl-manual) Make SGI doc available at http://localhost/sgi :
ln -s /usr/share/doc/stl-manual/html /var/www/sgi
[2010-08-13] Meld (meld) Diff tool
[2010-08-31] Gnome Terminator (terminator) See Gnome Terminator
[2010-09-01] Google Earth (googleearth googleearth-data) Requires Medibuntu repository
[2010-09-03] Sage 4.2.1 Recovered from AndLinux. Restored old workspaces from ~beq06659/.sage and /root/.sage. See Sage
[2010-09-03] NTL (libntl-dev, libntl-5.4.2)
[2010-09-03] GMP (libgmp3-dev,libgmp3c2,gmp-ecm)
[2010-09-06] Flash Plugin 10 (flashplugin-installer) First need to enable Ubuntu partner repository (deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner). Next
sudo aptitude autoremove "flashplugin-*"
sudo aptitude install flashplugin-installer
[2010-09-13] tnef (tnef,ytnef) Parsing winmail.dat attachment
[2010-09-14] Evolution plugins (evolution-plugins-experimental) For opening Winmail.dat attachment in Evolution
[2010-09-14] Evolution RSS (evolution-rss)
[2010-09-14] Quicktime plugin (gnome-mplayer,gecko-mediaplayer) To play Quicktime content in Opera, Firefox
[2010-09-16] Recoll desktop search (recoll) See also Recoll page.
[2010-09-17] Macbuntu 10.04 theme See Macbuntu page. Check log + uninstall script in ~/.macbuntu. no wobbly windows, no hot corners.
[2010-09-17] pdftk (pdftk)
[2010-09-20] GNU Go (gnugo)
[2010-09-20] Various Go games (qgo uligo)
[2010-09-20] Panda glGo 1.4.1 See [[Linux Software#Panda glGo|local page]
[2010-09-20] Quarry (quarry) Board games Go, Amazons, and Reversi
[2010-09-21] MDF to ISO Converter (mdf2iso) CD image conversion utility
[2010-09-21] MountManager (mountmanager) ...to mount mdf CD images
[2010-09-22] X File Explorer (xfe)
[2010-09-27] Oracle/Sun Java JDK 1.6 (sun-java6-jdk)
[2010-09-27] Eclipse 3.5.2 Galileo (eclipse)
[2010-09-27] Eclipse 3.6 Helios local install in ~/eclipse
[2010-09-28] Javadoc Installed on http://nxl67002ux/. JDK 1.4.2 in /data/www/javase/1.4.2/docs; JDK 6u21 in /data/www/javase/6/docs
[2010-09-30] Gimp (gimp)
[2010-10-26] Graphical Disk Map (gdmap)
[2010-10-26] KDirStat (kdirstat)
[2010-10-26] Google Chrome (chromium-browser)
[2010-11-16] PuddleTag (puddletag python-qt4 python-pyparsing python-mutagen python-configobj python-musicbrainz2) [2010-12-23] v 0.9.11 See local page
[2010-11-26] PCSC Tools (pcsc-tools) For ATR_analysis.
[2010-11-26] Color Diff (colordiff)
[2010-12-12] gparted (gparted)
[2010-12-23] Diffuse (diffuse)
[2010-01-10] 4Pane (4pane) See Linux Software#4Pane
[2010-01-13] NoMachine NX Server (nxclient, nxnode, nxserver) v3.4.0-7. See NoMachine. Enabled CUPS printing.

Un-installed applications (by uninstall date):

[2010-09-16] Mac4Lin Gnome theme [2010-09-17] Uninstalled (theme too dark, Macbuntu theme is much better + Opera much better).
See Mac4Line page. Installed in ~/mac4lin. Used MakeTechEasier version + Opera user stylesheet fix.

none

Automatic Updates

  • [2010-05-03]Kernel — (linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic, replacing original linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic)

Simple Settings

  • GRUB — Added to file /etc/grub.d/40_custom: (Not needed anymore since VirtualBox boots Windows directly, so no risk of booting host again)
    set default="Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on /dev/sda2)"
    
  • CRON - cron script for automatic backup of wikis on Noekeon's (see config files).
  • PROXY - script for automatic setup of network environment (proxy, ssh...) (see config files).

Detailed System Settings

1st install

  • 1st install on [2010-05-03]
  • Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS amd64
  • Installation method: Net boot install from Internet using GRUB
  • Language: English
  • Location: Europe, Belgium Time
  • Computer name: NXL67002UX
  • Keyboard layout: USA, USA
  • Name: beq06659
  • Login name: beq06659
  • Update: Install security updates automatically
  • Software to install: Ubuntu Desktop
  • Partition: see main page

File System

  • For details, see /etc/fstab.
  • Windows partition:
    • C: → do not mount automatically. Risk of corruption if mounted while VirtualBox is running!
    • D: → mount as /win/d.
  • File system structure:
/:                                        
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      boot/       # /dev/sda3
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      data/       # /dev/sda8
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      net/
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      sage -> /data/sage-4.2.1/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      smb/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      win/
/data:
  drwxr-xr-x altran    altran    altran/
  drwxr-xr-x beq06659  beq06659  beq06659/
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      home/
  drwxr-xr-x beq06659  beq06659  sage-4.2.1/
  drwxr-xr-x www-data  root      www/
/home/beq06659:
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  Documents -> /windows/d/Profiles/beq06659/My Documents/
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  Maildir -> /data/beq06659/Maildir/
  lrwxrwxrwx beq06659  beq06659  backup -> /data/beq06659/backup/
/net:
  # NFS autofs
/smb:
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      mnemosyne/   # SMB autofs
/var:
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      www -> /data/www/
/win:
  drwxr-xr-x root      root      c/           # /dev/sda2
  lrwxrwxrwx root      root      d/           # /dev/sda7

Network

  • Edited /etc/hosts (added names for intranet)
  • Added to /etc/apt/apt.conf:
Acquire::http::proxy "http://localhost:8118/";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://localhost:8118/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://localhost:8118/";
  • Added to /etc/environment:
http_proxy="http://localhost:8118/"
ftp_proxy="ftp://localhost:8118/"
https_proxy="https://localhost:8118/"
NXP network
sshproxy
  • Connect to NXP proxy with sshtunnel (with NTLM auth. if needed)
  • Forward IMAP/SMTP ports
  • Opens a SOCKS5 proxy
privoxy
  • Forward to ssh SOCKS5 proxy.
  • Provide http proxy server.
apt-get, wget, browsers
  • through privoxy (through environment variables or .pac file)
ftp
  • Direct connection (no solution...)
HOME network
sshproxy
  • Direct connection
  • Forward IMAP/SMTP ports
  • Opens a SOCKS5 proxy (not used)
privoxy
  • Direct connection
  • Provide http proxy server.
apt-get, wget, browsers
  • through privoxy (through environment variables or .pac file)
ftp
  • SAMBA/NFS CLIENT - Mount mnemosyne shares as NFS autofs (see [3]) and as SMB autofs
    • Enabled/created the following automounters in /etc/auto.master:
    • /net           /etc/auto.net
      /smb/mnemosyne /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne
      
    • Created configuration file /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne
    • Created SMB credential files /etc/auto.smb.mnemosyne.* (see man mount.cifs)
    • Created path for mount points:
    • sudo mkdir /net
      sudo mkdir -p /smb/mnemosyne
      #ls /net/mnemosyne
      #sudo mkdir -p /mnt/mnemosyne
      #for i in /net/mnemosyne/volume1/*; do sudo ln -s $i /mnt/mnemosyne/$(basename $i); done
      
  • NXP Wired (see Linux Admin#Network Manager - Search Path)
    • Added local domain name be-leu01.nxp.com to /etc/resolv.conf
  • NXP Wireless (see Linux Admin#Wireless Network)
    • Network name (SSID): WLAN-WBI
    • Wireless security: Dynamic WEP (802.1x)
    • Authentication: TLS
    • Identity: michael.peeters@nxp.com
    • User certificate / CA certificate / Private key: imported from Windows (NXP Enterprise CA 1 for Client Authentication, Secure Email, serial 2F DF 1F D4 00 00 00 00 5E 1C)

Preferences

  • Theme
  • The mighty Macbuntu 10.04 theme! Reverted changes:
    • Fonts — see below.
    • TerminalColors select Use colors from system theme (was set to Gray on black built-in schemes). Keep transparent background 95%.
    • Panel — add back System Monitor. We don't add back the bottom task panel.
    • In Configuration Editor, /apps/metacity/general/button_layout: menu:minimize,maximize,close
  • Appearance
    • (before Macbuntu) Fonts — ApplicationTahoma 9; DocumentSans 8; DesktopSans 8; Title → Sans Bold 9; Fixed widthMonospace 8
    • (after Macbuntu) Fonts — ApplicationLucida Grande 9; DocumentLucida Grande 9; DesktopLucida Grande 9; Title → Lucida Grande 10; Fixed widthLucida Console 9 (originally Lucida Console 10)
    • Fonts — rename ~/.fonts.conf to ~/.fonts.conf.macbuntu to disable macbuntu hinting settings override.
  • Appearance
    • Isabelle Hires Noir&Blanc crop-despeckle 936x1200.png, in ~/etc.
  • Keyboard Layout (System-Wide)
    • Layout: Belgium (default) + USA, no separate layout
      Custlayout Belgium (file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be) to allow AltGr-; → '<' and AltGr-: → '>', and support Greek letters with AltGr-Shift.
    • Options: Capslock affects all keys, Alt+CapsLock or Right Ctrl+Right Shift switch layout, right alt chooses 3rd level.
      (because Alt+Shift,Left Ctrl+Left Shift prevents ctrl-alt-shift shortcuts to work, Right Ctrl conflicts with VirtualBox)
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Shortcut Action Remark
    Super-E Home Folder Hack Super is mapped to Win keys not needed anymore it seems
  • Window List Panel (see here)
    • Window List Content → Show windows from all workspaces
    • Restoring Minimized Windows → Restore to native workspace
  • Fonts
    • System fonts (/usr/local/share/fonts):
    Added BitStream Vera 1.10
    Added jsMath fonts (Linux variant, darkness 20 file, see here)
    Added all jsMath extra fonts (dark version from this page)
    • User fonts (~/.fonts):
    Added Tahoma
  • Compiz
    • General Option - Move Window: SuButton2
      because AButton3 is used in OpenOffice to move columns / rows
    • Static Application Switcher: Use AAlt for Next Window (current workspace)
    • Scale: Multi-Output ModeOn all output devices, darken background, Emblem for overlay icon
    • Ring Switcher: Enabled + Use SuTab for Next Windows (All Workspaces) + Allow Mouse Selection
    • Enhanced Zoom Desktop: Disabled
    • Negative: Disabled
    • Desktop Wall: enabled Edge Flip Move.
    • Put : disabled Put Pointer, enabled Put To Next Output (Superz) selected Avoid Offscreen.
    Frequently used Compiz shortcuts (bold are custom ones)
    Shortcut Action Remark
    SASpace
    SuButton3
    General Options - Window Menu
    CALeft
    CARight
    Desktop Wall - Move
    SCALeft
    SCARight
    Desktop Wall - Move with window
    SSue Expo Key
    AF7 Move Window
    Suz Windows Put To Next Output
    AF8
    SuButton2
    Resize Window
    SuTab
    SSuTab
    Ring Switcher (All Workspaces)
    Suw
    Sua / TopLeft / TopRight
    Scale windows Current viewport
    All windows
    ATab
    SATab
    Static application switcher Current viewport

Detailed Application Settings

Courier IMAP

  • Install (reference here):
    • Create directories for web-based administration
    • SSL Certificate: /etc/courier/pop3d.pem, /etc/courier/imapd.pem
    • Postfix configuration: local only
    • System mail name: nxl67002ux.wbi.nxp.com
    • Created /etc/courier/userdb, and kept entries for root, localuser and beq06659
    • Use password from /etc/courier/userdb (method authuserdb).

Firefox

  • Theme: macfox3 1.1.4
  • Extensions:
    • AutoPager 0.6.1.12
    • Cycle Input Focus 1.0.0
    • Delicious Bookmarks 2.1.072
    • Fast Dial 2.23b1
    • FireGestures 1.5.7
    • Live HTTP headers 0.16
    • User Agent Switcher 0.7.2

Gnome DO

  • Autostart, Quiet mode, notification icon, Glass theme
  • Launch key: <alt>+space (! disable first Gnome global shortcut for Activate the window menu)

LAMP

Install the servers:

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql
# --> Defined password for MySQL root user
sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
# --> Added lines at line 32:
#     #MIP CUSTOM
#     ServerName "nxl67002ux"
# Restart apache server to activate php module...
sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

# Move www root dir to /data disk
sudo mv /var/www /data
sudo ln -s /f /data/www /var/www

Apache configuration file is at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

By default, Apache root http directory is /var/www

Create databases that will store local copies of cryptokiwi and mikiwiki wiki, and of mikido:

MYSQL_HISTFILE=/dev/null mysql --user=root -p mysql
mysql> CREATE DATABASE cryptokiwi;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cryptokiwi.* TO kiwi@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikiwiki;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikiwiki.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> CREATE DATABASE mikido;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mikido.* TO miki@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '********';
mysql> quit

Nautilus

  • Default view: List View
  • Display, date format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
  • List View: zoom 33%
  • Icon View, Compact View: zoorm 66%
  • Preview: all set to Never, and only for files smaller than 500kB (to prevent thumbnailing PDFs...)

Psi

(recovered from previous settings on Gryphon at ~/.psi)

  • Gnome: Added Psi as startup program (Psi, /usr/bin/psi, Communicate over the jabber network).
  • OptionsEventsEnable popup notifications (all notifications)
  • Modify Account... → Changed resource to work-ux
  • Modify Account...Automatically reconnect if disconnected
  • Modify Account...Proxylocalhost:8118

SSH

  • Installed SSH-Tunnel
  • Files recovered from other installation (ssh-tunnel v2.26 + patch):
/usr/local/bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-agent-refresh_andlinux.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-agent-refresh.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ssh-tunnel.pl
  • User beq06659 - configuration file in directory ~/.ssh:
    • id_rsa || id_rsa.pub || authorized_keys || config* || proxy.conf* || clbanner.txt
  • Disabled SSH Key Agent from Gnome Startup Applications

Terminal

Vim

  • Added ~/.bash_complete from [4] (modified to also take alias v=gvim)

VirtualBox

  • Installed with apt, version 3.2.0
  • VirtualBox is launched as user root (because it seems that only the current user and root can access PulseAudio in a same X session — see [5])
  • Create vmdk to boot windows partition /dev/sda2. Update the MBR code to remove GRUB. Repeat this every time the partitions change:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=opensource.mbr bs=512 count=1
sudo apt-get install mbr                                 # For command "install-mbr"
sudo install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 opensource.mbr
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl67002-sda2-mbr.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative -mbr opensource.mbr
  • Allow user beq06659 to launch VirtualBox through user root. Add to /etc/sudoers:
beq06659	ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/VirtualBox
  • Helper script to add to e.g. ~/bin :
#First allow user vbox to connect to X11
#xhost +SI:localuser:vbox
#sudo su vbox -c /usr/bin/VirtualBox&

#New config - run VirtualBox as root to allow sound
sudo /usr/bin/VirtualBox&
  • Host-only network vboxnet0
    • IPv4 address/mask 192.168.11.150/255.255.255.0 (same as AndLinux)
    • DHCP Server address/mask 192.168.11.1/255.255.255.0, Lower/Upper address bound 192.168.11.2/192.168.11.99
  • Virtual machine NXL67002
    • Base Memory 1536 MB, 2 cpus, VT-x/AMD-V enabled, Nested Paging enabled
    • Video memory 48 MB, 2 monitors, 3D accel enabled, 2D accel enabled
    • Audio host driver PulseAudio, controller ICH AC97
    • Network PCnet-FAST III, bridged, eth0
    • Network PCnet-FAST III, Host-only adapter, vboxnet0
    • Machine folder: permanent, full access, /windows/d as d
    • Default layount: seamless mode, extended desktop (windows taskbar on external monitor, gnome taskbar on primary monitor, workspace switcher panel on top bar)

Wine

See Configuration NXP Dell Latitude E6500 - Wine.

To Do

  • Try avahi for ZeroConf name resolution and get rid of /etc/hosts.
  • Issue - ssh disconnects after some time, autossh can't reconnect. Even doing a simple ssh does not work anymore. Might be due to broken ssh-agent
    • Disable auto-run of Gnome ssh-agent, enabled back my ss-agent script
  • Issue - synergy unstable. Sometimes CTRL key does not work anymore in the client...
    • Look for alternatives: Synergy+ (SynergyPlus), or x2x (see Synergy page on wikipedia).
  • Issue - VirtualBox - UE slower gui refresh since update to VirtualBox 3.2.4 (previous version was 3.2.0)
  • Issue - Wireless continuously connect / disconnect. It seems I'm not the only one.
  • ToDo - look at Compact Human Theme (see Delicious)
  • ToDo - look at Legacy font hinting engine (see Delicious)
  • Issue - udevd eats CPU resource! Same problem as [6]. Bug reported here. More here. Partial workaround:
sudo service udevd stop
sudo service udevd start     # After this unfortunately there is no battery state icon anymore (unless reboot, or maybe suspend)
udevadm monitor              # Check that there is no events triggered
  • IssueMidnight Commander does not colorize different file types. Check here.
    • SOLVED — Use mc official repository instead. See MC page
  • ToDo - Try to make Nautilus more space efficient. Look at Idea #23573. Try Thunar or PCManFM, or Xfe (the latter does not use gtk theme)
  • Also for Eclipse:
  • ToDo - Adapt the search path in /etc/resolv.conf depending on the current network (for now, we statically append be-leu01.nxp.com, when actually this should be done only when on NXP network).
  • Issues - Serious interferences from Privoxy:
    • Reject URL like .../advies/... and .../ADV_AUTH.CAB (work-around: disable Privoxy AdBlocking via http://p.p).
    • Interference with Altran Timesheet. ActiveX / ASP.NET controls do not work in (Wine) Internet Explorer 6.
  • Pieces of software to try:
  • IssueVirtualBox - ksoftirqd/0 taking 10-20% CPU. Possible work-around is to add nohz=off to kernel command line, i.e. in /boot/grub/menu.list) (see [8] and [9])
  • IssueVirtualBox - BT dongle not reconnecting after suspend. It used to work correctly in the past. Is it due to an update?
  • IssueOpera 11 - v11 does not support my autoproxy .pac file anymore.
  • To Do — Have a look at Brain Fuck Scheduler, a new kernel scheduler with much better latency for desktops (see [10])