[the] Code Girl (aka UnrulyGrrl)

I got tired of all the little script kiddies banging away at my SSH server 24 hours a day, so I run ssh on a different port than the default of 22. I setup CVS on this server as well, and wanted to check in/out some files remotely but didn’t know how to handle the alternate port issue.

Just like you would do with CVS over SSH on the standard port, you would include this in your ~/.bashrc file:

export CVS_RSH='ssh'
export CVSROOT=':ext:user@server:/path/to/cvsroot'


to get around the alternate port issue, use the ~/.ssh/config file. It’s this simple:

Host my.hostname.com
Port 12345


Not only does this make CVS work for your remote server, you no longer have to always specify the port number from the command line when SSHing to the server (I wish had known about this months ago)

Think you can’t run Linux on an old pc you have laying around because of the bloated KDE/Gnome desktop “environments”? Luckily there’s a great alternative: Fluxbox + pypanel. I’m running it on an old P2 450 Mhz laptop. It’s not super speedy, but it’s perfect for web browsing, email, etc.

First off: You DO NOT NEED KDE OR GNOME! They are both nice looking with tons of eye candy, but all that “wow that looks cool!”-type stuff is sucking up all your ram and some of your CPU cycles. Toss it. All you need is a window manager (do you see that bar at the top of each of your windows, the one with the title in it and usually “X” and “_”…..thats the window manager doing that). However, if all you have is a window manager, you have a blank desktop and will probably feel a little lost. I know I did when I first dropped Gnome.

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  Given a task, there are essentially

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<Files file2Lockdown>
AuthType Basic
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Require user bob
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• Mail::Webmail::Gmail - An interface to Google’s webmail service - search.cpan.org
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• Syndic8.com - Service List
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  The XML-RPC endpoint is http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php.

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For all of you who love running things from the command line, check out this series of articles on Linux.com:
http://www.linux.com/search.pl?tid=89

alias dot='ls -ldF .[a-zA-Z0-9]*'

i have always wondered if there was a way to view JUST files and dirs that start with a “.”

• HantsLUG Wiki: LinuxHints/ConvertFromMboxToMaildir
  This article describes how to convert from mbox to Maildir format. Maildirs have quite a few advantages over mbox format, especially when you have a lot of users with large mailboxes. Another big advantage is that with dovecot and Maildirs, users can crea
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• freshmeat.net: Project details for apt-cacher
  apt-cacher is a CGI script which can be used by apt-get to request downloads of Debian packages (and release files) from the Net. Each downloaded file is cached into a directory, so subsequent requests for the same filename are filled from the cache. This
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