23 security fix, javascript performance improved, GPU acceleration and more…
I’ve just upgraded it in my Slackware (thanks to slackbuilds.org) and.. WOW! It’s faster than ever!
Plus, i like the new setting interface tab, instead of the popup window.
I think they could add a search bar in the password manager, too…
A disappointing thing: There’s still the upload image bug, chrome crash when you click on an image to upload it.
WTF, It’s a bug know from a year or so… and they don’t do anything. ok.
You can avoid the crash by submitting the path to the image instead of directly click on it.
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Google Chrome 10 is out
Thunderbird 3 and Google Chrome (or another browser)
Thunderbird doesn’t want to open links in Google Crome… why???
That’s because in Thunderbird 3 you need to set your browser in
Edit -> Preferences -> Attachments
instead of the network.protocol-handler.app.http(s) config var,and leave those ones empty.
Linux: use a file as an encrypted partition with losetup
On my notebook i’ve decided to have a / partition and a cripted home for my user, automagically mounted at boot.
That’s what you need to do, after a fresh Slackware 13.1 installation:
Create the user:
adduser username
then the file to mount as home partition:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/cryptedfile bs=1k count=5000
load the cryptoloop module:
modprobe cryptoloop
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Rsync via ssh and Warning: Identity file ~/.ssh/id_rsa not accessible: No such file or directory
You can easily use rsync encrypted in a ssh session, with:
rsync -avP -e "ssh -i /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa" remoteuser@remoteserver.com:~/directory/to/sync .
Use the complete path of the ssh key, if you put ~/.ssh/id_rsa you’ll have this error by rsync:
Warning: Identity file ~/.ssh/id_rsa not accessible: No such file or directory
Delete/clear bash history
Simply do:
rm ~/.bash_history
and clear the history library data in mem with:
history -c