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
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Suffering performance problems with AEM Publishers?
Disable the Linkchecker. Do it now.
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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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
Systemd programming, 30 months later [LWN.net]
Some time ago, we published a pair of articles about systemd programming that extolled the value of providing high-quality unit files in upstream packages. The hope was that all distributions would use them and that problems could be fixed centrally rather than each distribution fixing its own problems independently. Now, 30 months later, it seems …
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Google introduce a new TCP congestion control algorithm
This commit implements a new TCP congestion control algorithm: BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT). A detailed description of BBR will be published in ACM Queue, Vol. 14 No. 5, September-October 2016, as “BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control”. BBR has significantly increased throughput and reduced latency for connections on Google’s internal backbone networks and google.com and YouTube …
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Scalable and secure access with SSH | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code
Facebook leverages signed certificates with principals for scalable, reliable security access. Source: Scalable and secure access with SSH | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code Interesting article on large scale authorization & key management.
Emacs For Chrome Books
The Chrome Web Store has a DevEnv app with Emacs built into the development environment (it also has gcc, make, and other tools one would use to write software). Source: EmacsWiki: Emacs For Chrome Books