Since so many websites use flash, and most computers you come across have adobe flash installed, this vulnerability is kind of a big deal due to the sheer volume of potentially affected computers. Install Google’s Chrome browser. It’s faster than your browser, and while you’re at it, head over to youtube with this link, and try youtube through html5.

You can list the contents of an rpm without installing it first. If you’re not going to build your own from source, you should at least check an rpm before installing it to see what it’s going to install.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks
John Gruber must get a lot more hits than me, because he’s really fired up about copy & paste hijacking.
When you copy some text and paste it somewhere else, do you expect to see the exact text you’ve copied? 5-10 years ago, you would say uh, yes. But today, the …

99% of the time you can just use the local address to talk to yourself. This is just an example to show you how wrangle the ip address using awk. Rewrite the hosts file so the host itself can use it’s external address by name. Write out the basic stuff in hosts that doesn’t change then write out the current IP address.

What if there’s no open file to be found, then what? If you were looking for some sort of media file, it might be easy to use a memory based distro with tools like photorec

10 tips, each summarized in a sentence or two. Speed up your WAN, Build a lab, know your apps, virtualization pitfalls, speed up backups, and more.

With rpmbuild, you can make custom packages for any architecture, but what if there’s no difference between the architectures in what you’re building. If you’re copying around something like scripts, docs or other text files that have nothing to do with 32 vs 64 bit or endianness, it’s easier and more efficient to create a single noarch package and just keep one copy of it in a repository.

This faq is the most useful pygtk resource you will find. The full documentation is great for looking up which methods to use or what’s available in one class or another, but it’s the little nooks and crannies that are always left out by most pygtk resource sites that I …

In udev rules, the %k, %b, %n variables are nice and all, but you can also use the variables you’re comparing and setting such as ID_FS_TYPE, KERNEL, SUBSYSTEM, PHYSDEVPATH, etc. When you run a command in a udev rule, there’s nothing stopping you from calling a shell and executing a few commands without actually calling a standalone script to do the dirty work. If you write out the array of environment variables from inside an external program, you can get a better understanding of just which part of the device discovery is matching your rule and getting processed.

Today, the logo on Google’s homepage changed to their first interactive doodle - a playable game of Pacman, and you don’t even need flash to play it. Yet another nail in the flash coffin? Hit Insert Coin again and you can play as Mrs. Pacman with the WASD keys while player 1 uses the arrow keys!