May2009
My favorite new features coming to Fedora 11
mmm, features…
Cat your logs backwards to preserve the date order
cat files backwards to preserve the date order.
How do you answer Secret Questions for password resets?
My suggestion is to come up with a system that makes sense to you. If it asks for your favorite pet’s name, maybe the answer could be “nail biting” or “chocolate lab”. You just have to remember how you translated the secret question.
Bitfrost Security Platform for the OLPC XO Laptop
The model has strong principals, but the goals blow my mind. I’ll explain in a minute, check out the principles first.
Install phpMyFAQ from scratch
There’s a few packages you might not have installed that you’ll need before php phpMyFAQ will install. On a basic, headless virtual machine, I don’t install a web server, php or databases by default. So I’ll start from there.
Free the fish
There’s a hidden easter egg in Gnome. This will work on Ubuntu and Fedora at least.
Install ccache to build code faster
Install ccache to speed up compile times for compiling c and c++ code. Installation on fedora is simple.