Back in my "Windows" times, I was a fan of Foobar2000 music player. One of my favourite plug-ins was "Alarm", which could turn user's computer on during "suspend" state. So, I could switch my laptop to "sleep" mode, and be awaken in the morning by music from Foobar's playlist :)
Is it possible to reproduce a similar trick in Linux? It depends on your hardware. Let's give it a try!

A very common problem in Ubuntu is "how the heck do I change the first day of week to Monday?". One can google and find a lot of solutions with locales "hacking". Is there a simpler way to do that?

The worst thing has happened: I have an unexpected drive failure. That's how my Easter has started :(

I was shocked receiving the "Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init" message. I've surfed the Internet for possible solutions - none of them helped. I had to remember everything I've changed in my system during past 3 months.
Finally, I remembered..