The problem: the GNOME screensaver needs a way to be disabled because maybe someone wants to run xscreensaver instead.

My question to you: which would you think of first to solve this problem:

1. Go to the preferences for the screen saver and look for a check box that reads, "Enable screensaver" and then uncheck it.
2. gconftool-2 --type boolean ( Read more... )

How to make GRUB go again after an event (hard drive replacement, Windows pissing on the MBR, etc.):

1. Mount (or cause to be mounted) the target root filesystem.
2. Become root enough (if you're not there already) to issue this command: grub-install --root-directory=/media/thenewdisk '(hd0)'

(where /media/thenewdisk is the root of the target ( Read more... )