This was blatantly stolen from technovelty, kept here because I hate it when my bookmarks die. For some reason, people seem to get this quite wrong a lot of the time. Certainly one should not be playing with symbols that start with __ unless you really know what you’re doing with them. ianw@lime:~/tmp/override$ cat override.c […]
I found these “misuse levels” over at technovelty, which they originally ripped from Rusty Russel’s Bleeding Edge Page, which is a page you should definitely check out if you haven’t. Anyway, I found these “misuse levels” both hilarious to read and at the same time somewhat concerning, as I started thinking “Where does my code […]
If you have a harddrive password (most laptops do this) or full disk encryption, you might not feel the need for an additional login after your system boots. On most Debian-based systems, TTY’s 1 through 6 are available after boot, while TTY 7 is used for Xorg. Therefore, I like to put my auto-login TTY […]