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Ubuntu does not remove old kernel/initrd versions from boot out of box. This configuration causes your /boot to grow till there is no space left. Of course you can fix this by dropping to terminal: #sudo apt autoremove To fix that silently on every run of apt upgrade i changed /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades: // Do automatic removal of new unused dependencies after the upgrade // (equivalent to apt-get autoremove) Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";       Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates  

While downloading files is getting more and more comfortable with common browsers i still stick with the free downloadmanager because browser still miss the feature of resuming on connection errors. To get freedownloadmanager realy silent you have to activate following option (which i always forget where it has to be activated):

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ClickOnce deployment is crapy! too sad that ms dropped the setup projekt type. whatever...: here is the latest and probably last version of my open7x0client. Major updates: MP4 target format - looks great on my android MP4 Tags are now written (filled with EPG Infos from vdr.info ) Batch encoding of multiple selected recordings - aim and forget ;) More guifeedback while indexing the box (still a hack) download it from here: http://seeland.biz/blog/m740/open7x0OneClickDeployment/publish.htm

the disk of my vps is running out of space i had no idea what was the cause http://wiki.debian.org/FreeSpace gave me the hint to use ncdu. it was dead easy to find out a directory is using quite the half space i have in my vps. ncdu is great! thanks to Yoran Heling. by the way... the disk was filled by the podcatcher. i forgot podget which harvested some podcasts since 2010 ... i wrote about it http://debianisttoll.blogspot.com/2010/06/castget-podget-podcatcher-usable-with.html . podget is great.

If use some apps which create mediafiles which appear after some time in the mp3 player.... and just hitting play all stopped to make fun because it also plays non-music-mp3s... Solution - Exclude Directories from Media Scanner: Create in every Directory which you want to exclude a file with the name .nomedia . You can use something like es explorer to do that. or you can use http://market.android.com/details?id=ch.droida.nomedia after that you have to restart your phone to get your change recognized by your system (media scan should run on startup) in my case i had to clear the data of the application media storage: Go to settings. Click All Applications tab. Click Media Storage. Click Clear Data. Click OK.