So, you’re out of your secret lair and now you need to log in from a computer you don’t trust. After all, every computer you don’t administer is most likely full of viruses, malware and probably even a hardware keylogger somewhere along the keyboard cord, right? So you want to use a one-time password, so […]
Also, how to log on without activating Windows 🙂 Ghosted a machine to a new harddrive today, as the old one was failing. Windows activation pops up on the first boot, as is to be expected, but when I clicked “Activate”, nothing happened. The activation wizard simply wouldn’t continue. And of course I couldn’t get […]
To avoid having stuff like “ls” in my bash history, I added “ls” to the “HISTIGNORE” environment variable. However, on late nights, the result of this, and my left and right hand becoming out of sync with each other when I’m tired, is that the entry “sl”, which really doesn’t do anything, started showing up […]
Note: This information is now slightly outdated, as the patch is already in Debian Squeeze. One of my biggest issues with moving from Windows to Linux as my desktop is how the mouse is handled in xorg. In xorg, the mouse had (and still has, in Debian Lenny) two settings for mouse speed: acceleration and […]
A howto stolen from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=101066 for later use. All credit to its writer, Iandefor.
From version 4.3p2, sshd supports an interesting option called Match. At the time of writing, this is the version supplied with Debian Etch (stable).
So, you got your home directory encrypted, but you’re not sure what sensitive material could end up in swap? After a long day of running a whole lot of applications and processes, many interesting things could potentially wind up there. So here’s how to make sure that data is completely garbled after a reboot.
There are loads of irssi scripts which do this, but the truth is irssi actually supports these things very well out of the box. Here’s how. Start up irssi, then: /connect irc.freenode.net /nick MyIRCNick /SERVER ADD -auto -network freenode irc.freenode.net 6667 <password> (you may have to shutdown and restart irssi at this point for it […]
On machines which are set up to have no local mail and send all their messages to a smarthost, using e.g. exim4, the “No mail.” message at login is both unnecessary and annoying, because when things are set up correctly, there should never be any local mail in the first place. This can be remedied […]
Tired of seeing this? Linux ***** 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 6 22:22:11 UTC 2008 i686 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable […]