Archive for July, 2003

How to disable the power/suspend key

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

This tip allows you to disable the power key (top right corner) to avoid powering down your machine by accident.

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Easy headers for your cron

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

If too often you forget the field order of the crontab file and need to take a look at man pages, this tip would help.

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Privilege separation in Portage (from gentoo.org)

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

One nice feature of Portage is that it can drop privileges and compile as a less privileged user. It can also sandbox most phases of the installation. This tip shows you how to enable these features of Portage to increase the security of your system.

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Viewing ISO image content

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

This trick explains how you can view an ISO image just as if it were part of a regular filesystem in GNU/Linux. This will allow you to share the files, check its content, etc…

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