There’s a folder you can create on your desktop that allows you to see every possible thing you can do to your system, all in a single window under one big tree.

Changing hosting providers doesn’t have to be a big headache. I just moved my domains from one hosting company to another with just about zero downtime. I left the old server running after setting up the new one and waited for the domain name to redirect to the new ip address.

The script edits itself to increase the timer, but by increments so tiny that they should not be noticed right away. Depending on how addicted to “ls” the victim of your practical joke is, it may go on for days or weeks before they start to notice the delay.

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ou can edit the profiles and change things like cursor shape, text font, colors, etc. But where’s the option to make the cursor blink? Nowhere to be found, thats where. Making your cursor blink in gnome terminal is easy enough… you can do it graphically through gconf-editor, the ‘regedit’ like interface for modifying gconf keys, or there’s a simple one-liner to handle it.

There are a few hidden easter eggs in python. So next time you fire up the python shell try to import hello and this. I wonder how many other hidden gems there are.

Want a password hash that has a special word or set of characters in it just because? Why? Well, why not!? If you have access to a number of networked machines with shared ssh authorized_keys, you could give each one a nice cpu burn in test and try to find something complicated.