One of the most frustrating things of using Ubuntu with my dual big monitors is that I couldn’t run compiz with it. Since I have an Intel 965GM card, due to some mesa driver bug, it won’t let you have a desktop bigger than 2048 x 2048 (summing up all monitors).
I had struggled with this [...]

Quick tip:
I recently moved my music library from the windows partition into the Linux one.
One of the things I had to do was remove those pesky ‘desktop.ini’ files windows creates for the cd thumbails.
Ends up using xargs as I wanted at the beginning didn’t work correctly because of the spaces in the directory names:

find . [...]

I was having some weird issues with git on my pet project:
Basically, git tried to automatically delete my ‘restful_authentication’ plugin everytime I did a “git add .”, even if my working tree was clean.
For instance, after a git pull (fully synchronized with origin):

~/projects/bushi2do master $ git pull
Already up-to-date.
~/projects/bushi2do master $ git status
# On branch master
nothing [...]