It's a simple matter of creating a bookmark for a URL with the 'variable' section of the URL replaced with '%s' - so the URL for a google search would be: 'google.com/search?q=%s'.
(And a google newsgroup would be: 'groups.google.com/groups?group=%s').
Using the bookmark manager, right-click upon the bookmark and select properties. Choose 'Keyword' - and enter 'gg'
Sorry I can't help you out here; but I do have a funny anecdote to, maybe, make you smile...
I recently was looking for a job; and I updated my CV to say 'decorative around the office'. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not.. but I did get a job that week;)
After all looking for a job is all about pimping yourself out, and touting your wares, right?
The GNUCash website has a big warning about the size and depencies upon it's front page - so I guess this is a known issue.
I spent a while looking around the site, and from the screenshot page I see they're using the word 'Druid' instead of 'Wizard' for lots of things - eg. "QIF Data Import Druid" that's great!:)
I've been meaning to get organized and look at putting my finances, mortgage, bills, etc online - I keep them all for years so I'd be able to see where my money goes
After reading this I decided to download GNUCash - imagine my suprize: 15Mb!
root@hell:/home/skx# apt-get install gnucash Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed:
bonobo defoma dialog gs gs-common gsfonts guile-common guile1.4
guile1.4-slib libbonobo2 libdate-manip-perl libdigest-md5-perl libefs1
libfinance-quote-perl libgal19 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libghttp1 libgimpprint1
libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgtkhtml20 libguile9
libguppi16 libgwrapguile1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl
libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libltdl3 libmime-base64-perl liboaf0
liburi-perl libwww-perl libzvt2 oaf slib The following NEW packages will be installed:
bonobo defoma dialog gnucash gs gs-common gsfonts guile-common guile1.4
guile1.4-slib libbonobo2 libdate-manip-perl libdigest-md5-perl libefs1
libfinance-quote-perl libgal19 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libghttp1 libgimpprint1
libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgtkhtml20 libguile9
libguppi16 libgwrapguile1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl
libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libltdl3 libmime-base64-perl liboaf0
liburi-perl libwww-perl libzvt2 oaf slib 0 packages upgraded, 38 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 15.7MB of archives. After unpacking 47.2MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort.
So if you've got 50 people there at the moment you've probably got a few servers for things like network sharing, and Exchange for email, right?
My advice would be to switch the servers over and then do the clients - installing Debian or something similar to become the companies NT login system will give you an immediate saving in terms of NT server licenses. (Or 200).
Once that's done - and it's been demonstrated that it's stable I'd attack the Exchange system, and setup a box to be the companies IMAP/POP3/NNTP server.
Basically I would want to switch the servers first - and then the clients. Mostly because that should be transparent to the clients, and I expect you'll always have to leave a couple of Windows clients around.
Once you've started the switch you can gruadually make things more functional by doing things like introducing a Squid cache for the company, or something similar.
I find as a sysadmin that the knowing about computers is far less important than knowing about people.
Granted I spend most of my day in front of a machine, either physically or remotely. But most of the challenges come from people - Like trying to explain to big bo$$ why we don't wanna switch to using Windows 2000 + MS Exchange for the companies mail, etc.
For run-time r00t holes, the biggest hole is that everyone uses IE's DLL to render HTML, even when the application (email, USENET, MP3 player) doesn't really need to render web content. It's so easy to hook into IE that most apps "just do it", and thus a hole in the engine exposes dozens of apps to exploits, not just the web browser.
Hello? zlib? Anybody home?
I know it's not the same but it's a similar thing - lots of Unix apps use shared libraries, and they're all at risk if that library turns out to have a flaw in it.
I can't honestly think of a widespread common library that allowed roots recently; but the zlib thing was scary to a sysadmin like me - even though it didn't look like it was exploitable if it were we'd have had a whole world of pain...
I do something close to this on the servers at work.
My crontab runs 'apt-get update' every two hours, and I have a perl script which filters out the results of 'apt-get -S upgrade' - which will send me an email when a new package is available.
I draw the line at actually installing things automatically; but I do know when something is available.
It's kinda OT, but is it even possible to run a non-interactive 'apt-get upgrade'?? I know you can run with --flag to 'automatically answer yes', but what about interactive configuration for things like exim? Will they hang waiting for console input, etc?
Sure, but what happens when all current browsers are fully standards compliant?
Development isn't just going to stop, is it?
(I can see that there will be future standards which will need to be implemented - but still, in order to differentiate themselves one of the browsers will add something new; and the others will add it too [If it's useful].. starting a vicous-bloaty-cycle.)
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Spellchecker and thesaurus
Look's like that spellchecker is a little broken;)
This is the sort of news that makes me think that things really are getting better and improving.
I think the same, but for a quite different reason.
The competition in browsers is a good thing but to be honest in the past competition tends to lead to feature bloat. Remember when we had Netscape vs IE - and we had to put up with them competing against each other all the time? (Can you say <BLINK>).
The reason I think this is good is that it's another high profile company writing shareware software for Linux.
This sends out a message to other software companies that Linux users are a viable market - and that contrary to some peoples beliefs they are prepared to pay for stuff.
The caveat being that the stuff has to be good - because if it isn't they have the vast array of OS stuff to use instead.
(I've not used Opera - Mozilla's good enough for me - but I could see my sister using it)
Recently I've started getting a lot of spam from Indian companies offering to outsource development for me.. Going through my 'junk' folder I've had four of these offers in the past week.
I'm in the UK which, I believe, is considered cheap compared to the American pay standards so I don't have personal experience of doing this; but I have a gut feeling that it would be a bad idea...
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Or if you take advantage of the hidden God mode ;)
I really shouldn't have tried that out mid-way through reading this page...!
Rather than having .kids.us, and then later .teens.us it would seem much more sensible to have .xxx, or .rude
Granted this would stand no chance of ever happening but it's a much more sensible approach - isn't it?
It's a simple matter of creating a bookmark for a URL with the 'variable' section of the URL replaced with '%s' - so the URL for a google search would be: 'google.com/search?q=%s'.
(And a google newsgroup would be: 'groups.google.com/groups?group=%s').
Using the bookmark manager, right-click upon the bookmark and select properties. Choose 'Keyword' - and enter 'gg'
Now you can use 'gg foo' to go search for foo.
There's good documentation online here
I don't have any real background in this area - but I go through a cyclic obsession with CA's every few years.
I think this all started when I read Steven Levy's 'Artificial Life' book at university.
Looks like this is something else to go on my wishlist...
People who download .exe's from filesharing systems are kinda asking for trouble, aren't they?
Well I've just left my previous job, (gonna be starting a new one at the start of next month ;), but at that place the machine was:
Did I mention I was the bofh? Mwahahah ...
Sorry I can't help you out here; but I do have a funny anecdote to, maybe, make you smile...
I recently was looking for a job; and I updated my CV to say 'decorative around the office'. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not .. but I did get a job that week ;)
After all looking for a job is all about pimping yourself out, and touting your wares, right?
I find most of your suggestions very good, and fairly standard - but the idea of adding comments to the end of closures seems a little .. pedantic.
Surely most coders use a decent editor - to make comments like that entirely superfluous?
I use DOC++ on my C++ code, after falling in love with JavaDoc several years ago. You can see an example of a fairly complex application documented :
Sure they're not expensive; but I've got better things to spend my cash on .. If I want sexy computers I use the ones at work ;)
I would .. but I guess I'm running on older, and smaller hardward than you people.
The biggest thing I have on this box is Mozilla - but that was worth it...
Nope I'm just using a Cyrix 233 processor in a box with a 1Gig hard drive .. almost full, I might add...
(Hence the name of the machine 'hell' cos it's hellishly slow ;)
OK - replying to myself here.
The GNUCash website has a big warning about the size and depencies upon it's front page - so I guess this is a known issue.
I spent a while looking around the site, and from the screenshot page I see they're using the word 'Druid' instead of 'Wizard' for lots of things - eg. "QIF Data Import Druid" that's great! :)
The code was big ? LOL!
I've been meaning to get organized and look at putting my finances, mortgage, bills, etc online - I keep them all for years so I'd be able to see where my money goes
After reading this I decided to download GNUCash - imagine my suprize: 15Mb!
root@hell:/home/skx# apt-get install gnucash
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bonobo defoma dialog gs gs-common gsfonts guile-common guile1.4
guile1.4-slib libbonobo2 libdate-manip-perl libdigest-md5-perl libefs1
libfinance-quote-perl libgal19 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libghttp1 libgimpprint1
libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgtkhtml20 libguile9
libguppi16 libgwrapguile1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl
libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libltdl3 libmime-base64-perl liboaf0
liburi-perl libwww-perl libzvt2 oaf slib
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bonobo defoma dialog gnucash gs gs-common gsfonts guile-common guile1.4
guile1.4-slib libbonobo2 libdate-manip-perl libdigest-md5-perl libefs1
libfinance-quote-perl libgal19 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libghttp1 libgimpprint1
libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgtkhtml20 libguile9
libguppi16 libgwrapguile1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl
libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libltdl3 libmime-base64-perl liboaf0
liburi-perl libwww-perl libzvt2 oaf slib
0 packages upgraded, 38 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.7MB of archives. After unpacking 47.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
So if you've got 50 people there at the moment you've probably got a few servers for things like network sharing, and Exchange for email, right?
My advice would be to switch the servers over and then do the clients - installing Debian or something similar to become the companies NT login system will give you an immediate saving in terms of NT server licenses. (Or 200).
Once that's done - and it's been demonstrated that it's stable I'd attack the Exchange system, and setup a box to be the companies IMAP/POP3/NNTP server.
Basically I would want to switch the servers first - and then the clients. Mostly because that should be transparent to the clients, and I expect you'll always have to leave a couple of Windows clients around.
Once you've started the switch you can gruadually make things more functional by doing things like introducing a Squid cache for the company, or something similar.
I hope that helps a little..
I find as a sysadmin that the knowing about computers is far less important than knowing about people.
Granted I spend most of my day in front of a machine, either physically or remotely. But most of the challenges come from people - Like trying to explain to big bo$$ why we don't wanna switch to using Windows 2000 + MS Exchange for the companies mail, etc.
(Poor example as we do - but you get the point).
Hello? zlib? Anybody home?
I know it's not the same but it's a similar thing - lots of Unix apps use shared libraries, and they're all at risk if that library turns out to have a flaw in it.
I can't honestly think of a widespread common library that allowed roots recently; but the zlib thing was scary to a sysadmin like me - even though it didn't look like it was exploitable if it were we'd have had a whole world of pain...
I do something close to this on the servers at work.
My crontab runs 'apt-get update' every two hours, and I have a perl script which filters out the results of 'apt-get -S upgrade' - which will send me an email when a new package is available.
I draw the line at actually installing things automatically; but I do know when something is available.
It's kinda OT, but is it even possible to run a non-interactive 'apt-get upgrade'?? I know you can run with --flag to 'automatically answer yes', but what about interactive configuration for things like exim? Will they hang waiting for console input, etc?
No, seriously - thank you!
Sure, but what happens when all current browsers are fully standards compliant?
Development isn't just going to stop, is it?
(I can see that there will be future standards which will need to be implemented - but still, in order to differentiate themselves one of the browsers will add something new; and the others will add it too [If it's useful] .. starting a vicous-bloaty-cycle.)
Look's like that spellchecker is a little broken ;)
I think the same, but for a quite different reason.
The competition in browsers is a good thing but to be honest in the past competition tends to lead to feature bloat. Remember when we had Netscape vs IE - and we had to put up with them competing against each other all the time? (Can you say <BLINK>).
The reason I think this is good is that it's another high profile company writing shareware software for Linux.
This sends out a message to other software companies that Linux users are a viable market - and that contrary to some peoples beliefs they are prepared to pay for stuff.
The caveat being that the stuff has to be good - because if it isn't they have the vast array of OS stuff to use instead.
(I've not used Opera - Mozilla's good enough for me - but I could see my sister using it)
Of course it is; that's why Debian has a non-free section ;)
A good example of a Linux closed-source application would be the Opera browser - which was mentioned on /. today.
Recently I've started getting a lot of spam from Indian companies offering to outsource development for me.. Going through my 'junk' folder I've had four of these offers in the past week.
I'm in the UK which, I believe, is considered cheap compared to the American pay standards so I don't have personal experience of doing this; but I have a gut feeling that it would be a bad idea...
Couldn't this have been posted under the Star Wars topic for those people like me who couldn't care less..?