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Couldn't get sound going on my work PC with onboard audio card. Found on ubuntuforums.org:
pulseaudio --kill
rm -r ~/.pulse
rm ~/.pulse-cookie
pulseaudio --start

From http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1158939

Quite a useful little script:

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/string1/string2/g' {} \;

For GoDaddy web hosts, follow the following:
http://drupal.org/node/305111
http://help.godaddy.com/topic/418/article/1475

Other than the total available disk space in your Shared hosting account, we do not set any FTP upload limit. However, by default, PHP limits uploaded files to 8 MB. To change the value of your uploadable file size limit, edit the following values in your /php.ini or /php5.ini file:
memory_limit = 50M
post_max_size = 8M
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 192M

The above settings change your PHP upload limit, allowing you to upload files up to 8MB in size.

Found these commands very useful. I needed to change a directories and all it's subdirectories to 755 permission and all the files as well to 644. Found this:
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755 # For directories
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644 # For files
from http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/chmod-all-files-.... Thanks to 'General Failure'.

Use seahorse to manage saved passwords.

To backup a mySQL database from a remote machine to your home (linux) machine, use the following:

mysqldump –-host=the.remotedatabase.com -u yourusername -pyourpassword yourdatabasename > /Users/rick/backups/foo.sql

From http://www.rickhurst.co.uk/2005/12/23/mysqldump-of-remote-database-to-lo...

Assuming you have System -> Preference -> Appearance set to advanced. You then install CompizConfig Settings Manager sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager and you can configure and setup cool things like the desktop cube and many other effects.

What you can do next is install beryl-emerald themes by sudo apt-get install emerald which is a theme/window manager.

Next, I installed Compiz Fusion Icon which lets you easily change themes, change window manager, etc. sudo apt-get install fusion-icon.

You can then go to www.gnome-look.org and download the various Beryl Emerald themes submitted by users.

From FC at http://drupal.org/node/2450:

Blogger to Drupal
FC - March 26, 2009 - 22:26

I had to transfer a Blogger blog to Drupal for a client, so I thought I would share my end-solution here.

For starters, there seems to be no module to date that can handle the task. WordPress, however, offers a means of importing Blogger content into itself. Unfortunately, a WP.org Blogger import is notorious for failing. The importer in WP.com works, however. Here's my solutions to date:

- Go into the Blogger Settings and Export your blog to the XML (Atom) file it provides.
- Create a WP.com account.
- Create a temporary blog within your WP.com account.
- Go into the WP.com Site Admin section, and select Tools from the panel down the left-hand side.
- Select "Import" from the expanded menu Tools item from the menu down the side.
- Import the XML (Atom) file from Blogger.
- Export your WP.com blog.
- Install the the wordpress_import module (http://drupal.org/project/wordpress_import) to your Drupal site.
- Import the file that WP.com created on Export into this module.

This should get you the Blogger data into your Drupal install. I exported from WP.com to a WP installation, then out of that into Drupal. I'm assuming that that extra step isn't necessary.

- design layout in Photoshop
- create all the assets: image files, logos, favicons
- start using HTML test page CSS to create layout and fonts
- test for varying lengths of content
- download and install Drupal CMS on webhost
- create new theme, convetring your test HTML page to a tpl.php file
- this guide is very useful: http://drupal.org/node/313510
- download and install a few of the basic modules
- in my latest site I used "path redirect", "pathauto", "global redirect" and "fck editor"
- also to add, is a very nice module for menus called "nice menus"
Note: Don't forget to use a test user to test your theme. This should be different from the main administrator user. You must be able to always login. The link to login is ?q=user/login.

When installing Drupal 6.* and running the install script, and you receive the error above, you must create a php.ini file with the following line. If there is already a php.ini file, just append the line to the bottom of the file.

register_globals = off

More information here: http://drupal.org/node/222343