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If you can pull up a window name from a window list; switch focus; shift field focus and stuff keys; then you can do this. Problems may arise with, for...

Here's one way to get a unique ID, bash:



unique_sequential_id() {
local dplaces=${1-2}
local j=$(date +%s.%N);
local k=$(echo $j | cut -f1 -d'.');
echo $(( k / 84600 )).$(( k %...

Is there a way to tail a log file and send each line as a syslog event to a remote server?

I need to use an HTTP proxy to reach the Internet!

How do I configure apt-cacher-ng to use an http proxy? It seems to not do that...

Simple enough question.

I'm thinking of toying with ptrace() and I'm wondering about its limitations. I specifically want to ptrace() literally anything and have my process pick up all syscalls and soft interrupts. I...

Is it possible to dual boot the EeePC 900 16G solid state with Ubuntu and the default OS?

Also the Atheros chipset should work out of the box, or do I need to rebuild the driver still?

The wear...

Anyone remember the Firefox plushes that used to be available at the Mozilla store? I mean, of course, these...

http://www.bibi.org/box/2004/agosto/firefox_plush_toy.jpg

Mozilla has a bug...

Haven't got the time or skill myself... skill is no problem (I'd like to take up something to learn python or whatnot, although I can't stand perl or ruby); time is a showstopper. Trying to move to...

If the main dev has gone MIA, you can always fork. My main perogative is to determine if there is passive or active desire for such a thing, and stir up the community to see the reaction; my life...

I've had a chance to use Reconstructor now.

I tried removing Evolution and Mono ("Novel software"), and OpenOffice, and adding OpenSSH server. Also removed the Win32 software. It came back with...

This should be an interesting topic...

Many people still use WEP and rely on disabling their Wifi beacon and MAC filtering to protect their Wireless networks. What if we actually had the default...

Heh, people totally ignore my ad-hominem "I think the developers brute-force it all the way" statement too. Each cycle, they debbootstrap it a system and build a LiveCD from scratch; it's apparently...

Now make a Fluxbox based CD from that ;) Xubuntu as a base maybe? Strip it down to Ubuntu-Minimal? Start without the LiveCD, and build the official LiveCDs from scratch?

I'm still amazed at the...

I'm still waiting. Creating a LiveCD still looks like this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

Sorry, I'm too lazy. My boss isn't going to do this. My cousin was going to,...

The default theme is nice, but the color scheme ... first brown, now orange? Seriously, Ubuntu's got about the ugliest color scheme of any distro I've ever seen, the first order of business I have...

Wow, that's a big file. Have to toy with it and see what happens.

Nope. I'm talking about keeping the same window border theme ("Human"), but changing its color. What can be done through themes are as follows:

1. Change the window border ("Human" etc)
2. ...

I hear there's a way to change the color of GTK+ themes, so that you can take a green theme and make it a grey theme or a brown theme and make it a blue theme.

Ubuntu's default themes-- especially...

Lorenzo's doing a good job of that. :)

Having a PaX-enabled system work out of the box is easy enough; you just have to make sure your packages come with properly marked binaries for whatever...

Been using ProPolice in Hardened Gentoo for a while. It's also in OpenBSD and Adamantix.



ProPolice symbols are in Gentoo glibc. I never notice any performance detriment from SSP-- which is...

1. Date: 21 Sep 2004

IBM Stack Smash Protector is older than that. It's several years old.

Furthermore, this has been in OpenBSD, Hardened Gentoo, and Adamantix for quite a while.

2. ...

What kinds of extra security should go into Ubuntu Linux? I'm looking for transparent security, anything that doesn't bother the user. SELinux policies are already going in, but they're easy to...