First, some background for the non-technical among you. A window manager is a piece of software that controls the windows on your computer. It will do things like placement, drawing, keybinding, et cetera. If you’re on Windows or Mac OS X, you have a window manager built-in to your operating system and cannot easily change [...]
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*nix Tip of the $TIME_PERIOD: mutt
Another *nix tip; this time, focusing on the mutt mail client
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), [...]
*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 [...]
