Global Voices Advocacy / Corporations Agree to Standards for Internet FreedomThe small and difficult to read fonts in Firefox 3: here is how to fix this:
Go to about:config in Firefox. To do so type about:config in the address bar.
Navigate to layout.css.dpi by typing layout in the filter bar.
Double click it and set to 0. By default it is -1
Restart Firefox.
Done.
Now all the options under [...]
Tags: Firefox, LinuxTo invoke Firefox from Thunderbird under Linux you need to add these to user.js in thunderbird’s directory (adjust to your Firefox executable):
user.js
// invoke Firefox as web browser
user_pref(”network.protocol-handler.app.http”, “/usr/local/bin/firefox”);
user_pref(”network.protocol-handler.app.https”, “/usr/local/bin/firefox”);
user_pref(”network.protocol-handler.app.ftp”, “/usr/local/bin/firefox”);
PLEASE NOTE: Do not add them to prefs.js because it is overwriten by mozilla. user.js contains personal preferences and mozilla should never overwrite it.
By default [...]
Here is how to find all broken links and backup files on your Linux system. Run as root:
#find / -type l ! -path “/proc*” | (while read FN ; do test -e “$FN” || ls -l “$FN”; done)
or
#find / -type l ! -path “/proc*” | (while read FN ; do test -e “$FN” || echo [...]
Shell script for setting up stateful firewall based on iptables.
Suitable for personal use
Protects your computer from outside world attacks
Handling packets based on connection state (ESTABLISHED, RELATED)
OS Linux
Shell script entry:
#!/bin/sh
# Shell script for stateful firewall based on iptables
Version=1.0.1
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
ME=$(basename “$0″) # program name as invoked
IPTABLES=’/sbin/iptables’
# Must be root
if [ "$(/usr/bin/id -u)" != 0 ] ; then
[...]
When you download files with wget and must login you need to specify username and password. This can be done:
As command line options –ftp-user=username –ftp-password=password
In the URL itself ftp://username:password@domain/directory/file
In .wgetrc file
First two methods are insecure, because they reveal your password to everyone who runs “ps” command . Last method is secure from this point of [...]
Tags: LinuxIf you try to install package under Debian and get message similar to the following:
Reading Package Lists… Done
Building Dependency Tree… Done
W: Couldn’t stat source package list ‘ftp://… Packages’ (/var/…) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
E: Couldn’t find package …
Chances are that [...]
In my Linux operating system I have divided disk space generally with two independent purposes: system data and user data.
When I do potentially dangerous tasks, such as change important system settings, re-install all system, re-partition disk and so on I used to backup data. This is done as root:
#tar -cvPf /home/root/Backups/backup.tar /bin /boot /etc /lib [...]
The simplest way I know for creating disk images under Linux is using dd command. The disk is treated as regular file. Because this is raw coping, it works the same way regardless of disk format, filesystem and data. Disk is copied sector by sector.
For example (in my case), run as root:
#dd bs=8M if=/dev/hda3 of=/home/root/Backups/hda3.img
The [...]
