Keepass
Like most people these days, I have a number of Internet accounts, all of which really should have a separate and complex password. This burden weighs even more on me because I also run a server for my domain and each service on the server is secured with a strong password, in addition to the log in. Needless to say, remembering a dozen or more passwords that are in this style quickly proves impossible. The solution to this is to find a password manager, a program which saves all your passwords in an encrypted database which can be accessed through...
Weird Ebuild Problem
Today I was battling with my system again, in my attempt to make my dvd drive automount. At one point, I needed to recompile my system, to allow a new use flag to be compiled into my system. Too bad I hit an error, specifically ERROR: dev-python/libgnomecanvas-python-2.28.0 failed:. This error prevented anything else from being able to compile. After doing some research, I discovered that an unstable package for libpng12.so had gotten into the stable packages for Gentoo rendering many things unable to compile. A little more reading revealed that running the script /usr/sbin/libpng-1.4.x-update.sh would fix the problem. To be...
The Hunting of the Quark
The Hunting of the Quark follows the development of particle physics, tracing from the development of the concept of the atom through to the first evidence of the quark. Probably the most noticable thing about this book, is it is not a book which should be read without some prior background in the subject matter, or at least taking a large number of notes. It is very easy to get lost in the discussions of the large number of different subatomic particles, even before the book begins to discuss quarks (which add another level of complexity - you had better...
A Crontab Alarm Clock
At first glance, the idea of setting up a alarm clock in Linux using cron probably seems very simple to most long term Linux users, and for the most part it is an easy and simple project. Unfortunately, there are a few hangups to creating the system, the main one being that many distributions of Linux require you to launch a terminal for the program to play in (if it is in command line, as in this guide it will be) and to specifiy in which display it appears (this may also have to do with which version of cron...
Settings Keybindings in Gnome
For most people, the default key bindings in their system might be more than adequate. But for others, whether it happens to be because your mulitmedia keys don’t work with a certain player, or there is a command that you run over and over again and want to program it into a key you don’t use for anything else, for those people it turns out to be a simple process to setup these key bindings. On my current system, Gentoo, there were three things that convinced me to customize my key bindings. The first and most pressing of the three...