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I decided to get Nox from gog.com

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

To install bootchart under fedora simply run

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.

Well I started to have some strange crashes from some programs and this morning my PC just turned itself off.

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 🙂

If you don’t like the big resize grip on emacs, firefox and many other applications you can disable them in Ubuntu 11.04.

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.

For some years I have been adding this code template to Netbeans.

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());