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Ubuntu packages with fprintd are now available at:

https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint

Packages with fprintd, adding seamless fingerprint authentication integration into Ubuntu, can be found in this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint

PPA with fprintd and detailed installation instructions is here: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint

It turns out that this is actually a bug in the kernel. A patch has been prepared, and now it's being tested before getting committed.
Thank you, dwhitney67 and gmargo, for your suggestions.

inotify should support signal-driven notifications. This is what man 7 inotify says:


The following programme should get terminated by SIGIO once /tmp/testfile is modified. But it doesn't.

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The fan on Sony Vaio SZ laptops can be controlled with vaiofand.

beezwings: As regards vaiofand, if you install the Debian package from https://launchpad.net/~vaiofand/+archive/ppa, it will be started automatically upon boot.

mansonthomas, you can fully control the fan on your Sony Vaio laptop with vaiofand, see http://vaio-utils.org/fan/.

You can control your fan with vaiofand (http://vaio-utils.og/fan/).
There is also a very up-to-date guide for Sony Vaio SZ laptops and Ubuntu at http://doube.org/karmic-vaio.html

The fan on Sony Vaio VGN-S can be controlled with vaiofand.
Check out http://vaio-utils.org/fan/

There is also a PPA with mail-notification packages built with SSL support:

https://launchpad.net/~mail-notification-ssl/+archive/ppa

There is also a PPA with mail-notification packages built with SSL support:

https://launchpad.net/~mail-notification-ssl/+archive/ppa