Removing Low Disk Space Checks (Windows XP)

That's it! It finally pissed me off to the point where I went online and found the way to disable that Windows' popup message to remind you that the disk space is low. I know myself when I am close to zero since I am the one who is filling up the hard drive. I agree that this message might be helpful to some newbie Windows users; however, I also believe that there should be a gui option to disable it - for those who do not touch registry too often and also who do not want the message to appear.

Here is how you can do it.

1. START -> Run...
2. Type 'regedit' and hit Enter
3. In regedit application, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> Explorer
4. Create a DWORD value named "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"
5. Double-click it and set its value to 1.
6. I haven't seen the message since then (Windows might need to be restarted first)

Update: Found another easy solution in one line. Read at Downloadsquad.

Usenet Etiquette

I've been using news groups for quite a while now. Out there people are quite picky about the format the messages are submitted in. Since there are a lot of 'newbies' in this area, there are quite a few webpages summarizing Usenet Etiquette. If you are not using it, once in while you'll get slapped back with a message suggesting you to do so, which becomes annoying in a sense as well. In my opinion, most of them make sense, giving you a better efficiency and making your point clear to everyone.

Here are couple of guides. If you go to one page, most likely it will link you to another one.

• Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting
• The art of Quoting (good manners in posting on Usenet)

Ubuntu - Mounting Windows Partitions

Here is a nice guide how to mount NTFS and FAT32 partitions under Ubuntu: http://www.psychocats.net/linux/mountwindows.php

Ubuntu 5.10 - Cleaning up the space

Here are some some ideas how to clean up the space.
1) Run the following command:
sudo apt-get clean

2) Clean up synaptic's downloaded files

3) To estimate file space usage, change directory to root and use du command:
cd / sudo du -hc --max-depth=1 
Here is example of what is printed for me:
48K     ./lost+found
14G     ./media
36M     ./etc
76M     ./var
90M     ./lib
2.4G    ./usr
4.0M    ./bin
7.7M    ./boot
2.9M    ./dev
732M    ./home
4.0K    ./mnt
507M    ./proc
23M     ./root
8.4M    ./sbin
72K     ./tmp
0       ./sys
4.0K    ./srv
4.6M    ./opt
4.0K    ./initrd
4.0K    ./debootstrap
4.0K    ./_F
1.4G    ./_D
4.0K    ./_C
37G     ./_E
2.1G    ./_sky7
12K     ./Xilinx
58G     .
58G     total

Useful FireFox Plugins

Today I came across a webpage that gives you some advices on essential extensions for FireFox browser. Here it is:
http://www.linuxpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=177104614&pgno=1

Some of the useful addons mentioned there are:

• Disable targets for downloads
• Tab Mix Plus
• Search Plugin Hacks
• History Menu
• Adblock Plus
• and Adblock Filterset.G Updater
• FasterFox

Updated (Oct 22, 2007):
The other ones I use are:

• del.icio.us buttons
• del.icio.us Bookmarks
• All-in-One Sidebar
• BlueOrganizer
• Email This! Bookmarklet Extension
• SmartLinks
  

Intro

Intead of keeping paper notes and updating Favorites of an internet browser, I've decided to keep an online version of the things I find out on the Internet, useful tweaks and anything relevant to computers and technology here, in one spot - not only for my personal use, but also for people who might find it useful.

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