Reduce firefox URL bar dropdown size
Go to about:config and change this value browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
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Attach from Clipboard – thunderbird addon
Create file attachments directly from the system clipboard. Source: Attach from Clipboard
Webextension compatible extensions for Firefox 57
Now FF 57 (Quantum) has been released, old style extensions are no longer supported. Here are replacements that I’ve found: Feed RSS mini icon on Bookmarks Button – Awesome RSS DownThemAll – Download Star Click-to-Play Manager – ??? Copy Plain Text 2 – Copy PlainText FireGestures – Foxy Gestures PrefBar – ??? Might require multiple …
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions eBook: Brian Christian, Griffiths: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store Just got this book – very interesting.
Building remacs (rust emacs) on Fedora
The equivalent to install the dependencies is: dnf install texinfo libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel giflib-devel libXpm-devel gtk3-devel \ gnutls-devel ncurses-devel libxml2-devel
How to migrate virtualenvs when system python version changes
eg from 3.5 to 3.6 Not foolproof, but a quick hack # In your old virtual site-packages directory # with your new virtualenv activated pip install `find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | egrep -v “(info|egg)$” | egrep -v “(pycache|pkg_resources)” | sed -e ‘s#./##g’`
Installing variety wallpaper changer on Fedora 25
The rpm-sphere rpm doesn’t work for me. First install some packages, you may need more, these worked for me: dnf install libindicator-gtk3 libdbusmenu-gtk3 libappindicator-gtk3 python-appindicator \ webkitgtk3 intltool Then create a python virtualenv & activate it. mkvirtualenv –system-site-packages -p $(which python2) utils Download the variety & python-distutils-extra tarballs & untar. Install both packages into your …
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nrpe systemd socket activation
If you’re using nrpe socket activation and don’t have a template file, try this in /etc/systemd/system/nrpe@.service : [Unit] Description=nrpe socket service Requires=nrpe.socket [Service] User=nrpe ExecStart=-/usr/bin/nrpe -c /etc/nrpe/nrpe.cfg –inetd StandardInput=socket StandardOutput=inherit StandardError=journal [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target You’ll also need /etc/systemd/system/nrpe.socket : [Unit] Description=Nagios Remote Plugin Executor Documentation=http://www.nagios.org/documentation Before=nrpe.service Conflicts=nrpe.service [Socket] ListenStream=5666 Accept=yes [Install] WantedBy=sockets.target Then systemctl start nrpe.socket
CAA DNS Records
CAA Mandated by CA/Browser Forum – Network Security Blog | Qualys, Inc. Interesting – a new type of DNS record to restrict which registrars can issue certificates for your domain.
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.