gnome-volume-control cannot remember alsa-settings

Easy solution on gentoo:

rc-update add alsasound default

OR (on other distributions) 

add alsactl restore to /etc/conf.d/local.start

echo “alsactl restore” >> /etc/conf.d/local.start

add alsactl store to /etc/conf.d/local.stop

echo “alsactl store” >> /etc/conf.d/local.stop

add local (if it isn’t already) to default startscripts

rc-update add local default

azureus checks again

If you’re not sure about the consistency of a file you downloaded with azureus and you already deleted it from the list you can open the torrent file again (with the same target-folder) and azureus will ask you wether it should check it again. This can be quite handy if you’ve overclocked a bit too much and unrar complains about failing CRC-Checks 😀

libGL.so

Problem:

libGL.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

In most cases a proper library exists(here libGL.so.1), but it is not found by the application.
Solution (as root):

cd /usr/lib/
ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so

UPDATE: better solution might be here