[Linux] Journal.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# [file system] [mount point] [type] [options] [dump] [pass]
proc /proc proc defaults [...]

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user@host “cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”

gDesklets is a really nice framework for desktop applets on gnome. Get it

$ apt-get install gdesklets gdesklets-data

I have the following displays running on my laptop:

$ gdesklets&disown;
$ gdesklets /usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/border-top-right.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/info.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/networkinfo.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/multitail/multitail.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/border-bottom-right.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/extern-ip/ExternIP.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/rss-grab/rssgrab.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/wireless.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/clock.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/GoodWeather-psi/GoodWeather-psi.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/meminfo.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/battery-hprofile.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/popmail.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/psi-small/diskinfo.display \
/usr/share/gdesklets/Displays/PalmSync/PalmSync.display

While setting up the mail on my new laptop I realise I have forgotten my mail account password. I cheated and just copied the saved encrypted password from my old laptop settings.

For mozilla thunderbird it’s in

mailbox://user@popserver
\=username=\
~
*\=password=\
~encrypted_password=

For gnome inbox monitor applet its in

<entry name=”remote_encrypted_password” mtime=”1092305305″
schema=”/schemas/apps/mailcheck_applet/prefs/remote_encrypted_password” type=”string”>
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I dearly miss the Silicon Graphics 1600SW flat panel back home across the ocean. I would like to ask mum to bring it when she comes visit. Carrying flat panel can be a risky business since it’s too delicate for shipping and too heavy for hand carry. So what you need to do is to [...]

Thunderbird has this annoying behavior of opening links in emails from a temporary local file location instead of the real URL. This becomes a real problem when I try to open links in that page with a relative path. Today I found the solution to this problem. In short, write a launch script for the [...]