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Being a Internet pack rat has its downsides, you squirrel away all these links in your del.icio.us account over time and then you check on a link one day and find out that it is dead.

Fresh delicious is a neat tool that remedies exactly such a situation. Fresh delicious is written in Java and runs on any platform that supports JVM. Once you enter your username and password fresh delicious will check each and every link in your collection and report back on pages that have been moved. This is the best tool that I have seen so far that allows you to organize your bookmarks and weed out ones that don’t work anymore. The official del.icio.us Firefox extension should have a feature like this.

The Nintendo Wii with its new controller scheme is all set to blast the competition into oblivion. Now that Resident evil 4 has been re-released for the Wii maybe other game development companies will follow . There are a few games that really capture your imagination and stick in your mind, Here is a list of such PC games that would really jazz up the Wii.

1. Commandos

2. Diablo II

3. Blood II

4. Carnivores

5. Doom (This game is here to answer all the questions about “but does it play doom?”)

6. Sanitarium

7. Call of Cthulhu

8. Unreal

9. Half life

10. and the old favorite Quake.

cant wait for the summer releases am sick and tired of playing Redsteel .

I was running low on disk space so I went and downloaded baobab a visual tool to show how muh space is being occupied by various directories on the file system. I saw that the /var/cache/apt/archives was using up a lot of space and since most of the directory  contents were .deb files I decided to delete this files, the next day I tried running apt and got the error

“E:Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.”

To fix this error make sure you recreate the archives folder as well as the partial folder. open a console window and type

1. cd /var/cache/apt

2. Type ls check to make sure archives folder is displayed in case you dont see the archives folder create the folder

 sudo mkdir archives if you already have the archives folder then skip this step.

3. type cd archives , create the partial folder by typing sudo mkdir partial

4.   type sudo apt-get autoclean to make sure apt is working properly.

Thats it you should now be able to get apt to work properly.

After using Ubuntu over the last 30 days without any errors or problems I encountered an error “User’s $HOME/.dmrc” file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permission. User $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users” after logging in today.

I tried googling for a fix, most sites asked me to change the file permissions to 644 as stated in the error message. I tried this fix and it did not work. After some more searching I came across this French site which had the solution.

To fix this error try the following

1. open a console window and at the prompt type the following to change the file permissions and hit enter

chmod 644 ~/.dmrc

2. type the following command to change the ownership of the file and hit enter

sudo chown your_login_name /home/your_login_name/.dmrc

3. The final step is to assign permissions on the home directory such that it is accessible only to you ( this step is very important)

sudo chmod 700 /home/your_login_name

This should fix the problem and you should never see the error message again.