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In the world of electronics, especially PCs, it is fashionable to call an outdated piece of equipment a "potato". My PC absolutely qualifies, but what makes it interesting is that you can trace its descent from a potato several generations older. This is a neat testament to what's possible to do cheaply with AMD stuff since they keep announcing new processors on old sockets. Here's what it's in and what's in it now:

I have recently got a 2008 Versa Note S, also known as a C11 or Tiida, and I've been driving it to work. It has been disintegrating a bit (the front suspension is very sloppy now) but okay, I'll deal with that, it's a 15 year old car. But what I couldn't deal with was the stereo, which was an in-dash 3 CD changer with no aux input.

I just rearranged some of my storage and wanted to automate this, and I was pleased enough that it worked exactly how I thought it should work that I thought I'd just share. This goes in /etc/profile.d on most Linux systems today.

I use a 1GB tmpfs on my Linux system, which causes problems with some installs which write their temporary files to /tmp. Here's a way to somewhat gracefully set TMPDIR for every user logging in:

Wow, some people try to make this crazy hard. Here it is from the CLI. Or as a .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"=dword:00000001
"DefaultUserName"="user"
"DefaultPassword"="password"

This seems to be available from at least Windows 8.1 on.