cd ~
mkdir .wine-nox
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-nox/ wine ~/setup_nox.exe
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-nox/ winecfg

and configure the wine desktop as exactly 1024×768

Start nox

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-nox/ wine ~/.wine-nox/drive_c/Program\ Files/GOG.com/NOX/NOX.EXE

After the intro go in to the settings and change the game screen size to 1024×768.

Now everything is running

Nox Menu

Nox Screenshot

I created a bash script to start nox next time

#!/bin/bash
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-nox/ wine ~/.wine-nox/drive_c/Program\ Files/GOG.com/NOX/NOX.EXE

I created the desktop file ~/.local/share/applications/nox.desktop as this

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/home/username/sbin/nox
Icon=/home/username/.wine-nox/drive_c/Program Files/GOG.com/NOX/NOX.ICO
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Game
Name=Nox
Comment=Nox

Additional info:

• kernel 3.2.2-1.fc16.i686.PAE
• wine 1.3.37

yum install bootchart

Once installed you simply need to enable a grub entry to call it.  You just need to add the init=/sbin/bootchartd string to the end of the kernel settings.

I actually copied the existing kernel entry and added it (incase I mistyped something)

title Fedora (3.1.6-1.fc16.i686.PAE) with bootchart
    root (hd2,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-3.1.6-1.fc16.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/md126 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM    LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 \
          KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rhgb \
          quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau \
          init=/sbin/bootchartd
    initrd /initramfs-3.1.6-1.fc16.i686.PAE.img

Now when I reboot and select this grub entry a bootchart file is written to /var/log/bootchart.tgz

Then run the bootchart command to generate an image of the results.

I really expected it to be a memory problem so I needed to enable memtest86+ on my new fedora installation.

I quickly found http://fooninja.net/2011/05/05/loading-memtest-from-grub-fedora/

This is still valid.

Simply append

title Memtest86+ (4.10)
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel --type=netbsd /elf-memtest86+-4.10

to the end of the /boot/grub/grub.conf and reboot

Voilà errors now I just need to figure out which memory to take out

See
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/disable-the-resize-grip-in-ubuntu-11-04/

You simply need to add

style "default-style"
{
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 0
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 0
}

class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"

to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.

private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(${classVar editable="false" currClassName default="getClass()"}.class.getName());

You can add this by going to Netbeans->Tools Menu->Options->Editor->Code Templates dialog.

Edit @ 29/08/2011
In newer Netbeans you must ensure that the “On Template Expansion:” is set to “Reformat text” else it gets extra new lines added in the code template.

${no-format}private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(${classVar editable="false" currClassName default="getClass()"}.class.getName());

After a little searching I found

• http://www.worthytips.com/14681/easily-disable-overlay-scrollbars.html
• http://www.matbra.com/en/2011/04/28/remover-ou-desabilitar-a-barra-de-rolagem-overlay-ubuntu-11-04/
• and many more.

Simply add the string “export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0″ into the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars file.

E.g perform the following as root

echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars

What a Party!

Borderlands What a party! Achievement

For the What a party achievement you need to collect “Collect 3 panties, 5 fish in a bag, and 15 pizzas”

Image of ingame pizza

Image of ingame panties

Image of ingame clap fish

The Lubricator

Borderlands The Lubricator Achievement

For The Lubricator achievement you need to “Find 25 Oil Cans”

Image of ingame oil can

Bobble-Trap

Borderlands Bobble-Trap Achievement

For the Bobble-Trap achievement you need to “Collect 15 claptrap bobbleheads”

Image of ingame bobblehead

Its so realistic

Borderlands It's so realistic! Achievement

For the Its so realistic achievement you need to “Collect 5 3D Glasses”

Image of ingame 3D glasses

The Collector is easy to complete for Tannis, but after I had completed playthrough 2 and hadn’t got any of the others. I spent ages in the Hyperion Dump killing claptraps and never got anything apart from Gears and Motherboards.

I then gave up and realised I had missed some of the SDU missions.   I started to do playthrough 1 of the Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution, but being LV 69 it was very easy.

Once I got to the Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap (MINAC) I killed it silly fast.

Then I had the idea of farming the MINAC area for claptraps, they keep respawning so fast and the MINAC could barely touch me.

I got my fastest Combat Rifles which had a large magazine size.

Once you get to the MINAC take out all the guns and rocket launchers on the MINAC, once you have done this the fun starts.

There are only about 5 places where the MINAC stops and only a few routes it takes across the map.   At the start just follow the MINAC around, get close to the doors at the front and wait for them to open (try not to get run over but that is not really important, just annoying).  Once the doors open just fire your combat rifle in burst as the clap traps spawn.  You can kill about 10 quite quickly and they start to drop the loot.  Don’t bother picking things up yet, just keep following the MINAC around, and kill as many clap traps as you can once the doors open.

After a while you have piles of loot all over the place.   Then just run around and collect them all.  Hold X and you collect massive amounts in one go.  It took me about 30 mins to get all the collection based missions.

Doing this when you hit LV 69 is easy but I expect you can do it at lower levels too.

Also see these links for more information

• http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lubricator
• http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Bobble-Trap
• http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/It%27s_so_realistic!
• http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/What_a_party!

The photographs are available here

Monty, Coz, Ben, Steve, Woody, Woodys Dad and I went. La Tania is a great place to stay in 3 Valleys.

Lego 8052 Container Truck

Lego 8053 Container Truck Box

Amazon shouldnt take long to deliver it.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239782

http://markmail.org/message/u6js6hblklqy3ei4

This is how I use thunderbird

I have disabled the “Automatically mark message as read” functionality so that I have to set messages as read.  If I don’t do this many emails were being marked as read when I hadn’t really finished reading them or replied to them.

In my case I classify an email as read when I have replied to it or clicked the read button (they require no reply)

I just want Thunderbird to set the read flag when I reply to the email.

Also I normally view the email in the “Message pane (F8)”

After installing

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/changequote-en.html

I get exactly what I want.   Thunderbird now sets emails as read, when I reply to the email.