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Nov/14Enable Backspace In Firefox On Ubuntu
Not sure why but the backspace keyboard short is disabled in Ubuntu. To enable it: type about:config into the address bar. Accept the warning. Find the key browser.backspace_action and change the value to 0. Enable Backspace In Firefox In Ubuntu … Continue reading
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Nov/14Firefox Interupts localhost To www.localhost.com
Firefox tries to be too clever and when the address doesn’t work, it tries to connect to sites on common patterns like adding .com or www. to the address in case the user accidentally forgot to put them in. For … Continue reading
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Jul/14Reduce SSD Wear By Moving Firefox Cache To RAM Disk
Overview It’s known that SSD have limited amount of read / writes similar to USB memory sticks. Drives usually come over provisioned so there are plenty of spare space to replace the bad sectors but it’s inevitable it will need … Continue reading
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May/14KeePass On Ubuntu
Overview I use KeePass as my password manager which works very well on Windows. Running it on Linux is not as easy but it has gotten better over the years for example in 14.04. Integrating it into browsers on the … Continue reading
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Sep/13Caret Browsing In Firefox
I noticed on my web pages a blinking iron (caret) on the page even when it’s not in a text/area box. It was like using a word processor but on a webpage. It turns out Firefox calls this Caret Browsing … Continue reading
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Nov/11KeePass Mini Review
Overview Software and services for password manager have been around for a long time. I was skeptical about using such products because I thought it was leaving “all your eggs in one basket”. Loose your key file and / or … Continue reading
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Jul/11WordPress – Your Browser Is Out Of Date
Never knew it was WordPress’s job to keep your browser up to date:
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May/11Web Server Basic Authentication = Weak
I’d like to point out that I knew Basic Authentication in web servers were not bullet proof but in fact the total opposite (pointed out in the energy@home documents). This was hammered home when I was inspired to do some … Continue reading