Configure Firefox to perform DNS lookups via proxy

If you've configured a proxy in Firefox it still may leak DNS requests. Type in:

about:config

in the address bar, and look for:

network.proxy.socks_remote_dns

Epoch Fail!

Epoch time 1234567890 is approaching fast, don't miss it!

cmihai@phobos:/home/cmihai$ date +%s
1234549466

cron your scripts so you don't miss it!

UNIX colors and tools

Just opened a new package of colored chalk so I'll write on my blackboard :-).



Can't really have fun without:

• OpenSSH
  
• GNU screen
• KornShell 93, AWK, 1003.1 Shell & Utilities
  
• Emacs, ed
  
• Mutt
• Midnight Commander (mc)
• Elinks
• Terminus font (sure, it's not a tool, but it sure as hell helps , especially during those 20 hour debugging sessions).

Emacs linum plugin + a 256 color TERMINFO entry + transparent putty can look pretty good:




256 colors _really_ do make quite a difference in Emacs (and vim) btw. Normal dtterm or xterm-color get you the first 8...



All you really need to do to get this working on AIX is to add a new TERMINFO entry (tic). You can easily grab the 256 color xterm with infocmp..

/usr/bin/tput colors
256

VIM looks pretty good too with a 256 color theme also (inkpot):