Xubuntu...

Switched to using Xubuntu 11.10 - first time running non stock Ubuntu in almost 5 years.
Things so far:

Enabling SMB and network browsing. I actually like using FUSE much more than Nautilus own (gnome-based?) vfs.

Triming video with ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i video.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:04 trimmed_video.avi


source.

Fixing window buttons in Ubuntu

How to get them on the right hand side where they belong.

Setting up git push hook for html publishing

If you want a a simple Git push hook to publish out html static content.

Matrix Snippets

How to use Matrix Snippet as Global keyword.

More Android Development

How to properly setup udev on Ubuntu so that adb works with real android devices ( Answer from: jerichod Level 1 10/11/10)

Installing 2.6.34 kernel fixes 'eclipse random freezing' issue on ubuntu 10.10 - NO it doesn't!

Moving Postgresql data

So the volume attached to the EC2 instance where I was running a test instance of Squiz Matrix ran out of room.
Luckily this proved to be pretty straight forward:

1. using AWS web console, create a new volume and attach it to my instance (while instance is shutdown) - the new volume is attached as /dev/sdb
2. start up the instance, ssh in and format new volume: mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb
3. mkdir mount point, eg /pgdata
4. vim /etc/fstab, adding:
   /dev/sdb        /pgdata         ext3    defaults        1 1
5. mount /pgdata
6. chown postgres:postgres /pgdata/
7. refer to this handy blog post
8. service postgresql stop
9. cp -R /var/lib/pgsql/data /pgdata/
10. Wait...
11. vim /etc/init.d/postgresql  and setting PGDATA to /pgdata
12. service postgresql start