Debian GNU/Linux
Most of this stuff is deprecated, at least. Use at your own discretion.
Setting up sshfs:
# aptitude install fuse sshfs # adduser USER fuse Edit /etc/fuse.conf to contain user_allow_other # reboot Usage: $ mkdir mount-dir $ sshfs "user@host.ip.address:[dir]" mount-dir Unmount: $ fusermount -u mount-dir
Disable/enable service:
# update-rc.d -f SERVICE remove
# update-rc.d SERVICE defaults
CUPS
CUPS Home: http://localhost:631 Add user to (at least) lp group. Optionally to lpadmin to be able to configure printing without root privileges. Printing straight to PDF: Install (at least) cups-pdf package. $ lp -d PDF file
Kernel compiling
# aptitude install kernel-package fakeroot build-essential ncurses-dev
$ mkdir ~/BUILD && cd ~/BUILD
$ wget -c http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.6.tar.bz2
$ tar jxvf linux-3.6.tar.bz2
$ cd linux-3.6
$ cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
$ make menuconfig
$ make-kpkg clean
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-vanilla kernel_image kernel_headers
$ cd ..
# dpkg -i linux-image-* linux-headers-*