Divided we stand.
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Debugging Kerberos
If you need to debug Kerberos, check the time synchronization at the first place. In about 50% cases it is it. the ntpd (or chrony) should be presented in the process list they should really be configured correctly in case of the virtual host crony is preferable, with the ntpd time skew is possible Really nice crony/ntpd comparative chart: https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/comparison.html , “Summary” section is complete.
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Not to forget: ugly font and the Opera Browser
Might be interesting for non-English speaking users of the Opera: some font on some sites are really ugly and there is no way in the interface to disable them, because they’re not system fonts, but one that web page get downloaded. –disable-remote-fonts is the option to fix them forever. Such fonts usually contain normal English glyphs, bot other are ugly. To fix it in the Gnome Shell: cp /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop ~/.local/share/application Add…
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Not to forget useful vi and bash settings
.bash_profile .vimrc Not sure about ‘number’ setting, if interferes with the clipboard annoyingly, so I can turn them off.
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Simple way to fuck-up Gnome Shell in Fedora 25
Open Evolution New message Attach file from Web DAV disk PROFIT!
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FC 25 annoying auth bugs
Evolution keeps failing to connect to Google calendars if it works for more than one day. Restarting goa-daemon with does not always help. That is frustrating: why not always?
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I2P browser
https://c.na7.visual.force.com/500A000000Vn1HlIAJ
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Evolution mail signature workaround
Evolution mail application in the Fedora 25 has annoying bug: it freezes when trying to add/edit signature (although, you can delete old one). It’s a known bug fixed in upstream and you can actually edit signature files (it’s quite tricky), but you can add shell script that would generate signature for you. UPD: need to use “cowsay `fortune`”
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Today’s news on security
Article: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/
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Today I’ve learned…
My colleagues from the linux.org.ru board have found out one small flaw, so everyone including me stared to dance around PGP/GPG. So far I have found that among my systems: Linux works as it should: two mouse clicks and you are ready. Covers 100% of my work mail, 75% of my personal mail. Mac OS Sierra is not ready: GPG Suite has…
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Interesing “feature” of the Mediawiki
Just have a bit digged in the Mediawiki, that is quite popular Wiki engine 🙂 Found out that the articles are located in the “prefix_text” table, with all the changes, obviously. So changes are being stored as a new copy of the article: if you have 100kb article and you need to save a change in 1 symbol, there would be 100kb growth (plus additional data) of the table. No wonder that…
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