From what I’ve heard other people say, its caused by fragmentation – possibly due to a partition that’s nearly full.

All you can do is just terminate the process or delete the script from your ~/ folder.

rm -rf ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata

Every now and then its a good idea to make sure that your home folder is not filled up past 90% or so.

sudo apt-get install ifstat

To display usage on eth0, with a 5 second delay, just once:

ifstat -i eth0 5 1

You can change the number of seconds, and the number of times you want the output displayed. If you don’t specify the count, it will go on forever until you ctrl-c out of it.

So here is a script that displays the download rates in MB/s and upload rates in KB/s every 5 seconds until you hit ctrl-c.

while :
do
# Press ctrl-c to exit
x=`ifstat -i eth0 5 1 | tail -1 | tr '\t' ' '`;  #tail -1 takes the DL and UL speeds in KB/S
x1=`echo $x | cut -d ' ' -f1`; x2=`echo $x | cut -d ' ' -f2`;
x1=$(echo "scale=3; $x1/1024" | bc); # Convert DL rate to MB/S
printf "D: %0.3f MB/s\t U: %0.3f KB/s\n" "$x1" "$x2"
done

Someone figured out that the google.xml file used in the search plugin was modified in the Mint distribution to create give the modified results. In order to get the original google results, just type in the following command lines:

cd /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/firefox/
sudo wget http://mxr.mozilla.org/firefox/source/browser/locales/en-US/searchplugins/google.xml?raw=1 -O google.xml.fixed
sudo mv google.xml google.xml.orig
sudo mv google.xml.fixed google.xml
sudo cp google.xml /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-US/google.xml

Restarting Firefox (maybe a few times) is required to get the google results in the plain old familiar format.

The above code was obtained from: Change Back Google Search in Linux Mint

kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

Nothing happens past that point. A solution or a workaround to this is to insert the nolapic acpi=off switch in the grub boot line. There are 3 ways to do this:

1: If you are starting a fresh install from a CD and the installation pauses at the kernel_thread_helper line, you need to restart your computer.

When you boot from your installation CD, choose F6 before you continue trying out the LiveCD. This give you boot option at the bottom of your screen.

At the very end of the line add nolapic acpi=off and hit enter to continue booting from LiveCD. In most cases this should work.

2. The same problem may arise when you do a distribution upgrade or even a kernel upgrade. In that case you need to change your grub.cfg file. Follow these steps:

sudo nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Enter your sudo password and it will bring you to your grub menu configuration.

Look for the section that read similar to this:

menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-11-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
 recordfail
 set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
 insmod part_msdos
 insmod ext2
 set root='(hd0,msdos6)'
 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 337e2841-fc82-61b3-84be-5a9c71ae43b8
  linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=337e2841-fc82-61b3-84be-5a9c71ae43b8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
 initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-11-generic
 }

You want to change the line that I have identified above to read:

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=337e2841-fc82-61b3-84be-5a9c71ae43b8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 nolapic acpi=off

After adding these switches to the boot menu option, press ctrl-X, then save and exit.

This is for a permanent change if you can boot using an older kernel.

3: If you cannot login to an older kernel or recovery mode because of the kernel_thread_helper error,  you have to press “e” (without the quotation marks)  to edit the boot options when you get the grub menu.

For the kernel you want to use, edit the end of the line that reads

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=337e2841-fc82-61b3-84be-5a9c71ae43b8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7

to

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=337e2841-fc82-61b3-84be-5a9c71ae43b8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 nolapic acpi=off

Press Enter and you should be able to boot.

To print the current image to postscript, all you need to run is:

print(‘-dpsc2′,’filename’);

To have multiple images appended within the postscript document, you need to use the -append switch.

print(‘-dpsc2′, ‘-append’, ‘filename’);

Your output postscript will have the name filename.ps

To convert the postscripts to pdf format, just run the ps2pdf command in the terminal window:

ps2fpdf filename.ps

The output of this would be filename.pdf

And you’re done.

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev

After installing libbz2-dev this error is corrected.

Solution is to create a copy of that file that has an index recreated and remove the original and save the copy and all the usual replacement methods.

mencoder -idx files1.avi -ovc copy -oac copy -o file2.avi

Here file1.avi is the input file, and file2 is the output file with corrected index.

If you have gotten comfortable with Ubuntu and want to continue using Gnome as the main environment, you can do so by using Linux Mint 11 (Katya). It has the same repositories as Ubuntu and you can even use the ubuntu-restricted-extras and build-essential packages which lets you obtain some of the fonts, codecs and libraries that Ubuntu fetches for you.

Ubuntu is starting to put more emphasis on making their release into an eye-candy, at the cost of reduced functionality. Having used Ubuntu since Dapper Drake days, its sad to ditch it for another distro. IMO Ubuntu 10.04 was the cleanest distro they put out – things have been going downhill after that. Linux Mint on the other hand picked up at the point when Ubuntu started to go dysfunctional. It has everything that Ubuntu should have been. There isn’t much to write about Mint 11. Its very similar to Ubuntu 10.04, has a newer kernel 2.6.38.xx, clean graphics, and the same repositories as Ubuntu. The transition is very easy, and things look a lot more neater in Mint.

To recap: If you are currently using Ubuntu and are afraid to upgrade to the 11.10 release, your fear is quite justified. Make a backup of your /home folder and go for a clean install of Linux Mint instead. I moved to Mint about a month ago and have had a rather smooth sailing so far.

For your xstartup file in ~/.vnc (the “.vnc” folder in

your home directory), you need the following:

#—————————–

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

# unset SESSION_MANAGER

# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

xsetroot -solid grey

vncconfig -iconic &

xterm -geometry 80×24+10+10 -ls -title “$VNCDESKTOP Desktop” &

gnome-session &

# twm &

#————————

instead of uncommenting the lines as the script suggests, you change the window manager to gnome-session

make sure restart vnc4server

The line which got Gnome working was “gnome-session &”

========================================

Now for all the steps involved (works in Karmic Koala Alpha 2, Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.30-10)

1. Install ssh server, ssh client, VNC viewer, VNC server, and xinetd

sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client vnc4server xinetd vncviewer

2. Setup the ssh password for your login

ssh-keygen

3. Test out the ssh server by typing in

ssh localhost or ssh your_login@your_ip_address

4. Then create a vnc password

sudo vncpasswd ~/.vncpasswd

5. Edit the xstartup file in ~/.vnc directory

For your xstartup file in ~/.vnc (the “.vnc” folder in

your home directory), you need the following:

—————————–

#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:

# unset SESSION_MANAGER

# exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

xsetroot -solid grey

vncconfig -iconic &

xterm -geometry 80×24+10+10 -ls -title “$VNCDESKTOP Desktop” &

gnome-session &

# twm &

————————

instead of uncommenting the lines as the script suggests, you change the window manager to gnome-session

6. Create a VNC desktop

vnc4server :1 -geometry 1024×768

7. Then to tunnel into your VNC desktop, first create a SSH tunnel by logging into SSH with the comand:

ssh -L 5901:your_ip_address:5901 your_username@your_ipaddress

8. Finally, load up your VNC desktop

vncviewer localhost:1

And now you are ready to use connect to your machine remotely and use administer the computer remotely.

P.S: If you are using a firewall (hardware or software, you need to get enable port forwarding and unblock ports 22 and 5900-5999 on the Ubuntu machine to allow SSH and VNC to be accessed.

You can install it on RPM or Debian based distribution from the GNU Parallel repository. Install the binary that fits your flavour of Linux. Please note that even though the latest release of GNU Parallel has a flavour of Linux associated with it, it runs on most of the older AND newer distributions. For instance I was able to install the April 21st 2011 release of amd_64 RPM on a RHEL5 machine, and it ran just fine for that 8 core machine.

After installation you can try it out on a sample directory by running:

ls -d */ | sed ‘s/\///g’ | parallel zip -r -q {}.zip {}

This will recursively zip all the directories within a given folder, in parallel. By default, it will use up the maximum number of cores, but you can check the man pages of parallel to check how to employ N number of processors to run the task in parallel.

ls *.jpg | parallel convert {} -resize 75% -quality 80% {}

If you have imagemagick installed, you could save a whole bunch of space by converting some of the high-res images to a slightly lower resolution. The above example will resize the images to 75% of their original size with 80% quality. The original images will be overwritten by the resize and downsampled ones. While this is running, you can fire up htop in another terminal window to watch all the processors working in parallel.

Matlab code:

psc=((signal-mean(signal))./signal).*100;

If we are making a mask for hippocampus, first we save that mask from WFU Pickatlas. Then to make it 79x95x68 voxels, run the following small script.

x=load_untouch_nii(‘hipp.img’);
x=x.img;xdim=[1:6 86:91]; ydim=[1:6 102:109]; zdim=[1:11 80:91];
origin=[40 57 26]; datatype=16;
x(xdim,:,:)=[]; x(:,ydim,:)=[]; x(:,:,zdim)=[];
nii=make_nii(x, [2 2 2], origin, datatype);
save_nii(nii, ‘boxedhippo.nii’)

We can then use these masks for signal extraction or any further processing.

Script for normalizing the T1-weighted structurals to the template:

Registering T1-structural to MNI152

bet my_structural my_betted_structural
flirt -ref ${FSLDIR}/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm_brain -in my_betted_structural -omat my_affine_transf.mat
fnirt –in=my_structural –aff=my_affine_transf.mat –cout=my_nonlinear_transf –config=T1_2_MNI152_2mm
applywarp –ref=${FSLDIR}/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm –in=my_structural –warp=my_nonlinear_transf –out=my_warped_structural

Registering functional data to MNI152 (via structural scan)

bet my_structural my_betted_structural
flirt -ref my_betted_structural -in my_functional -dof 7 -omat func2struct.mat
flirt -ref ${FSLDIR}/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm_brain -in my_betted_structural -omat my_affine_transf.mat
fnirt –in=my_structural –aff=my_affine_transf.mat –cout=my_nonlinear_transf –config=T1_2_MNI152_2mm
applywarp –ref=${FSLDIR}/data/standard/MNI152_T1_2mm –in=my_functional –warp=my_nonlinear_transf –premat=func2struct.mat –out=my_warped_functional

ssh -R 10002:localhost:22 middleuser@middle

This will open port 10002 for listening and forward all future connections to port 22 at destination. This connection must remain on the entire time to ensure that you can access your destination computer whenever you want.

Now if sshd is set to use GatewayPorts you should be able to connect with this:

ssh destinationuser@middle -p 10002

If you are not sure if GatewayPorts is on or you don’t have the access to change it use the following method to connect:

First connect to the middle computer how you would normally.

ssh user@middle

Then connect to the localhost of the middle computer on port 10002.

ssh user@localhost -p 10002

Note: The port 10002 is arbitrary you can use any port you want.

You should now be remotely logged into your computer behind the NAT/Firewall. Enjoy.

Content copied from :http://www.marksanborn.net/howto/bypass-firewall-and-nat-with-reverse-ssh-tunnel/

One option I used recently is spoofing the MAC address of your device. Its done by editing the hardware address to match the MAC address of the device that’s allowed on that ethernet jack.

If you are using Linux, make a note of your current IP address in a text file.

sudo ifconfig -a | grep eth0 > ~/Desktop/netaddressbak.txt

Run the same command on the device that’s attached to the network to find its MAC address: Lets say its – 01:82:39:B2:41:30

Before you attach your new device to the ethernet cable, change its MAC address to the one listed above.

sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 01:82:39:B2:41:30
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr

This should now list the address as 01:82:39:B2:41:30.

You can now attach this device on the network to gain full connectivity (unless there are some programs that are supposed to ping every once in a while).