It’s handy, fast, and convienient to you mysql on the command line.
Lately, what I’ve been using it most for is to back up and restore
databases. I don’t do it often enough to have the commands committed to
memory, but everytime I need it I go searching for it again. Rather
than trying to find my [...]

Now you can have GPG encryption of your Gmail. This becomes pretty powerful when combined with portable firefox. Even Google would have a hard time cataloging and data mining your email. It works nicely.
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Was looking into some Growl like apps for linux.
I found mumbles while looking for this howto over here.
Sports a nice list of extras
Update: Geyser at first glance seems similar, well the author of mumbles is offering to work together.
Another Update [4-7-2008]: Found this dbus hackery using python. And the I found specto listed over [...]

This one I pretty much followed what this link said to do. I’m poting it here so it’s easier to find later.
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Recently I wanted to upgrade (plop in a bigger) my hard drive in my laptop. Currently I have Ubuntu 7.10 installed with whole disk encryption. The only change I was making was the size of my hard drive. I wasn’t sure how I’d mount an encrypted partition managed via LVM. But [...]