Gnome 3 Tweaks and Extensions | 1N73RNET

Change touchpad delay after typing This has been super annoying because the default delay for the touchpad is 2 seconds! Here’s how to set it to whatever delay you want.First, turn off the “disable touchpad when typing setting” in your system settings and then open a terminal and enter the following command. syndaemon -d -K …

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Tabbed terminals on windows

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long as an early adopter of gnome-multi-term (RIP) on Gnome but I’ve finally looked into tabbed terminals on windows. For putty, there is tty+ and putty manager.  Putty Manager seems better, but tty+ also works with kitty. For cmd.exe shells as well as cygwin bash shells, there is …

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Tips for GNU Emacs on Windows

(Emacs 24 assumed). First of all, add the marmalade repo to your .emacs. (require ‘package) (add-to-list ‘package-archives ‘(“marmalade” . “http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/”)) (package-initialize) Then with list-packages, install color-theme Put these in your .emacs to make a life a little more attractive: ;; change font (set-face-font ‘default ‘”-outline-Consolas-normal-r-normal-normal-14-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1″)) (add-hook ‘before-make-frame-hook (lambda () (set-frame-font “-outline-Consolas-normal-r-normal-normal-14-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1”) )) ;; change color-theme …

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Fix “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” for Oracle Enterprise Manager

If you cannot view Oracle Enterprise Manager in IE, but can in other browsers, chances are you’ve hit the MS IE ssl keysize patch. A patch does exist for this (the problem is due to OEM using a 512 bit cert) but if you like you can frontend EM with Apache. Put this inside the …

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Launch gnome-terminal from emacs

Add this to your .emacs to allow shift-f1 to launch a gnome terminal (defun launch-gnome-term () “launch gnome-terminal” (interactive) (shell-command “gnome-terminal”)) (global-set-key [(shift f1)] `launch-gnome-term) The good thing about this is it launches the terminal in the directory of the file you are working on… ready for diff’ing, scp’ing etc. Obviously this can be customized …

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Best linux distribution for a Geode CPU

As found in the Viglen MPC-L: CrunchBang Linux 10 (i386). Important! Specify these two options to the kernel at boot (tab to edit) on installation: cdrom-detect/try-usb=true (presuming you are installing from USB key, may already be there) pci=noacpi Once you have installed, on first boot you should tab edit the grub line again and put …

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Can’t connect to Yubikey Admin server with IE?

Probably because MS update 2661254 has broken connecting to small privatekey sizes. For each yubikey RADIUS server you should do the following: Create a new PEM file with a 2048 bit key size – eg yubi.pem Copy the PEM file to /etc/webmin on each yubi box edit /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf set keyfile=/etc/webmin/yubi.pem /etc/init.d/webmin restart  

Create a separate Apache log for netscaler heartbeat

If you are running your Apache instances through Netscalers and want to avoid cluttering your logs with Netscaler heartbeat calls, try the below: # Dont log netscaler heartbeats and log ns requests from the CLIENT-IP header and not %a (via combinedtimens) LogFormat “%a %l %u %t \”%r\” %>s %b \”%{Referer}i\” \”%{User-Agent}i\” %D” combinedtime LogFormat “%{CLIENT-IP}i …

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