Acquire
{
        Queue-mode "access";
        http
        {
                Dl-Limit "20";
        };
};

It should be placed in a file in /etc/apt/apt-conf.d/. For more info, consult the apt.conf man page.

Error loading plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so: plugin declined to load

I was trying to setup a custom transcoding script. That required to load the ‘ssc-script.so’ plugin first.
When increasing the log level, it gave a more descriptive hint to what is going on:

No codectypes specified for script transcoder.
Error loading plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so: plugin declined to load

After uncommenting the following line in /etc/mt-daapd.conf:

ssc_codectypes = ogg,flac,alac

…it showed no error messages anymore:

Loaded plugin /usr/lib/mt-daapd/plugins/ssc-script.so (ssc-script/svn-1696)

/home/me/public_html/cakesite/.htaccess
/home/me/public_html/cakesite/app/webroot/.htaccess

Add the following line to these files, just below the line stating “RewriteEnginge On”:

RewriteBase /~me/cakesite/

For example, the first .htaccess file will look like:

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteBase /~me/cakesite/
	RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
	RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</ifModule>

Bonus notes with instructions for Debian/Ubuntu systems
You should have mod_rewrite enabled:

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

To make sure the use of .htaccess files is actually allowed. In the Directory section of your apache configuration, there should be a line like:

AllowOverride FileInfo

Also, be sure to force-reload Apache after making this change.


% create a matrix with random values:
>> noise = 2 * rand(90 * 60 * 44100, 2, 'double') - 1;

% write the wav file with a sample frequency o 44.1kHz
>> wavwrite(noise, 44100, 16, 'noise.wav');

This process takes a while and it consumes quite some of your system RAM.

More efficient, in bash:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom count=5400 bs=176400 | sox -s -c 2 -r 44100 -t raw -w - noise.wav

This took only 2 minutes!

#!/bin/sh

source=$1
dest=$2

echo copying virtual machine
cp -rv $source $dest

vmxsourcefile=`ls $source/*.vmx`
vmxdestfile=`ls $dest/*.vmx`

grep -v displayName $vmxsourcefile > $vmxdestfile
echo displayName = \"$dest\" >> $vmxdestfile

exit 0

#!/bin/bash

# A small example program for using the new getopt(1) program.
# This program will only work with bash(1)
# An similar program using the tcsh(1) script language can be found
# as parse.tcsh

# Example input and output (from the bash prompt):
# ./parse.bash -a par1 'another arg' --c-long 'wow!*\?' -cmore -b " very long "
# Option a
# Option c, no argument
# Option c, argument `more'
# Option b, argument ` very long '
# Remaining arguments:
# --> `par1'
# --> `another arg'
# --> `wow!*\?'

# Note that we use `"$@"' to let each command-line parameter expand to a
# separate word. The quotes around `$@' are essential!
# We need TEMP as the `eval set --' would nuke the return value of getopt.
TEMP=`getopt -o ab:c:: --long a-long,b-long:,c-long:: \
     -n 'example.bash' -- "$@"`

if [ $? != 0 ] ; then echo "Terminating..." >&2 ; exit 1 ; fi

# Note the quotes around `$TEMP': they are essential!
eval set -- "$TEMP"

while true ; do
        case "$1" in
                -a|--a-long) echo "Option a" ; shift ;;
                -b|--b-long) echo "Option b, argument \`$2'" ; shift 2 ;;
                -c|--c-long)
                        # c has an optional argument. As we are in quoted mode,
                        # an empty parameter will be generated if its optional
                        # argument is not found.
                        case "$2" in
                                "") echo "Option c, no argument"; shift 2 ;;
                                *)  echo "Option c, argument \`$2'" ; shift 2 ;;
                        esac ;;
                --) shift ; break ;;
                *) echo "Internal error!" ; exit 1 ;;
        esac
done
echo "Remaining arguments:"
for arg do echo '--> '"\`$arg'" ; done

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Then you might think that you need this command for removal:

$ sudo apt-get remove mysql-server

However, this is not the case. The mysql-server package is a sort of meta-package that makes sure that the latest (and greatest) available mysql server version will be installed. Currently, this means that you actually installed mysql-server version 5.0. Above command will only remove the meta-package, while mysql server 5 happily continues running on your system. To de-install the mysql-server, remove the package, the meta package pulled in:

$ sudo apt-get remove mysql-server-5.0

To also remove the configuration and the binary data, use instead:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server-5.0
# and for ubuntu Gutsy:
$ sudo apt-get purge mysql-server-5.0

Now that mysql server is ‘really’ gone, you can start over and install the mysql-server package:

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

HOSTCOLOR="31m"
PS1="\u@\[\e[${HOSTCOLOR}\]\h\[\e[0m\]:\w\n\[\e[33m\]\!\[\e[0m\] \$ "

It will print out the current working directory on the first line and the actual bash prompt on the second line. Making it less likely that your command will wrap lines after the first few typed characters.
It changes the command prompt from:

….into:

The login prompt now shows the following info:

• username
• hostname in red (in my bash script, it will print red for one group of servers and blue for other servers)
• current working directory
• command history number, ie: use !520 to execute the previous command

#!/bin/bash

xcffile=$1

layers=`xcfinfo $xcffile  | awk '{ print $NF }'`

destdir=`dirname $xcffile`/layers
mkdir $destdir

for layer in $layers
do
        echo saving $layer to $destdir/$layer.png
        xcf2png -o $destdir/$layer.png $xcffile $layer
done

exit 0

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface ra0 inet dhcp
pre-up iwconfig ra0 essid default
pre-up iwconfig ra0 mode managed
pre-up iwconfig ra0 channel 1
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="mysecretpassphrase"

auto ra0

So, no additional drivers / modules, just choosing the right encryption was the trick to get this card working. This was one of the posts that where very helpful.