So, I got bored this weekend and installed Firefox 3 (beta 5, if it matters to you). It works pretty well — it’s certainly faster than Firefox 2. However, there are a couple of annoying bugs that I’d like to post the solutions to for posterity: If you use a dark theme (like I do), [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2008
*nix Tip of the Day: Sudo
I’ve mentioned sudo in these tips before. It’s a neat little utility for executing commands as somebody else. Well, today I bring you a handy guide I found on using sudo. I already knew most of the stuff, but some of it was new, and it looks pretty good as a starter for new users. [...]
Debian OpenSSL
Sorry readers, no *nix Tip of the Day today. Just a brief word about the recent Debian OpenSSL vulnerability. I’m sure you’ve heard about Debian’s OpenSSL “Disaster”. The short of it is that while fixing a questionable line in the OpenSSL/OpenSSH key generator, the Debian maintainer accidentally removed most of its entropy generation ability. Debian [...]
*nix Tip of the Day: tee
tee is a handy little utility that probably all of you know about, but I just found this year. Consider the following scenario: you’re maintaining your Gentoo Linux system and you need to add a line to /etc/portage/package.unmask. So you type sudo echo “sys-kernel/gentoo-sources” >> /etc/portage/package.unmask right? Nope! The way shell parsing works, that turns [...]
*nix Tip of the Day: rxvt-unicode and terminfo
An important part of a *nix system is a good terminal emulator. For some, this means the classic xterm. The same xterm that’s happy to use 7 MiB of resident memory for each instance. Or perhaps you run a full DE like Gnome and are happy to use gnome-terminal and enjoy 19 MiB of resident. [...]
