LastPass Password Manager
I use LastPass to manage my passwords across all devices – note some features require a premium login, but even the basic free service covers a lot of use cases.
Archive of entries posted by james
IDN support in Firefox
IDNs allow domain spoofing in the location bar. If you use Firefox: 1. In the address bar, enter: about:config 2. Click “I accept the risks!” 3. Search for: network.IDN_show_punycode 4. Double click it to change it to true
Suffering performance problems with AEM Publishers?
Disable the Linkchecker. Do it now.
emacs tip of the week #7: local chord shortcuts
I like chord-mode to avoid emacs pinkie. If you want to bind say a quick double I to indent in python mode (and double U to unindent), do this: (add-hook ‘python-mode-hook ‘(lambda () (key-chord-define-local “II” ‘python-indent-shift-right) (key-chord-define-local “UU” ‘python-indent-shift-left)))
Getting a lot of spam from .tk domains – kill it with spamassassin
Seems they are cheap to set up, spammers set up domainkeys / SPF too! Here’s a spamassassin rule (don’t use it if you get valid mail from .tk): header NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD From =~ /@[a-z0-9\-\.]+\.(tk)/i describe NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD From address is from a naughty TLD (eg .tk) score NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD 2.8 UPDATE: Looks like the spammers get a free …
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Get a ping sparkline
Using pysparklines: ping -c 20 192.168.5.1 | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”[=]|ms”} {print $4}’ | sparkline
emacs tip of the week #6: right click for context menu
By default emacs uses ctrl-rightmouse for the context menu, if you prefer a more “standard” right click only put this in .emacs: (global-set-key [mouse-3] ‘mouse-popup-menubar-stuff)
Install pip on python 2 for cygwin
python -m ensurepip
Forgotten / lost your join token for kubeadm?
kubectl -n kube-system get secret clusterinfo -o yaml | grep token-map | awk ‘{print $2}’ | base64 -d | sed “s|{||g;s|}||g;s|:|.|g;s/\”//g;” | xargs echo Credit
gnome-terminal failing to launch on arch after upgrade to Gnome 3.22
With “Error creating terminal: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying” Try: sudo pacman -R –nodeps –nodeps vte3-notification sudo pacman -S vte3