Install and setup irssi and oidentd on Debian

This is how I install xfce4 on a new Debian.

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

Here's a how-to for building a recent Linux kernel on your Debian GNU/Linux box: You will need to do all this as root. It's serious business building new Linux kernels :) su - The dash after the su command makes it behave as if you had logged in as root directly, a full login environment is applied. Make sure you have the required tools and libraries installed: apt-get install build-essential module-init-tools initramfs-tools procps libncurses5-dev kernel-package fakeroot git-core screen zlib1g-dev Use git to clone Linus' latest git repo: cd /usr/src git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git This will take a long time: Cloning into 'linux'... remote: Counting objects: 2725713, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (412816/412816), done. remote: Total 2725713 (delta 2286272), reused 2725359 (delta 2285962) Receiving objects: 100% (2725713/2725713), 559.28 MiB | 3.30 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (2286272/2286272), done. Once you

Recently some guys from my flying club were circulating an email filled with FUD about the latest incoming Microsoft virus. Here is the response I sent them: Why not just use an operating system that doesn't require participation in the Microsoft/Norton/McAfee virus racket to start with? I've made a career out of replacing virus ridden Microsoft software with free open source Linux software. I don't have a "high up" Microsoft status like "Dave's brother", nor would I ever want one. In fact I'd imagine Microsoft thinks of me and my kind as enemies of the state. And that's fine.. meanwhile I never have virus infestations because I simply don't use broken M$ software that is vulnerable to virus attacks. Don't get me wrong, I do use some Windoze-only software.. RealFlight for example. But I only do this using Wine, a free open source Windoze emulator that runs on Linux. As a result I've never purchased or ran any Norton or McAfee products or participated in the virus protection racket at all. Un

If you're using a flavor of *nix that has an rc.local file, and then you start using Debian GNU/Linux, you might be wondering where your rc.local file is. Quite simply, it's not there. Here's how to add it. Create a new file named /etc/init.d/local like this: #!/bin/sh # put startup stuff here Make the file executable: chmod 755 /etc/init.d/local Add it to startup: update-rc.d local defaults 80 You should be seeing something like this: Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/local ... /etc/rc0.d/K80local -> ../init.d/local /etc/rc1.d/K80local -> ../init.d/local /etc/rc6.d/K80local -> ../init.d/local /etc/rc2.d/S80local -> ../init.d/local /etc/rc3.d/S80local -> ../init.d/local /etc/rc4.d/S80local -> ../init.d/local /etc/rc5.d/S80local -> ../init.d/local

Here's a command to install lots of games on your Debian box: yes | \ for x in `apt-cache search game \ | sort \ | awk 'BEGIN { FS = " - " } { print $1 }'`; do \ apt-get install $x; \ done