Another *nix tip; this time, focusing on the mutt mail client
Archive of posts tagged linux
Firefox 3
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), then [...]
*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 users [...]
*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 into
(sudo echo [...]
