personal reminder

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.

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:

“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.

Toggling bluetooth (on a Lenovo ThinkPad X200s / Ubuntu 10.x) via rfkill: rfkill list rfkill block 0 rfkill unblock 0 …until https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/linux/+bug/395358 is fixed…

Not brand-new but also not completely outdated: Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1041574.html http://www.dufault.info/blog/hotswap-a-scsi-sas-or-sata-drive-in-linux/ http://serverfault.com/questions/5336/how-do-i-make-linux-recognize-a-new-sata-dev-sda-drive-i-hot-swapped-in-without In short: # rescan: echo "0 0 0" >/sys/class/scsi\_host/host/scan # remove: echo > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/:0:0:0/delete

rsync -e 'ssh -ax -c blowfish' \[-a --partial ... (--relative ...)\]

$ ufraw-batch --out-type=jpeg --out-path=/home/itsme/Pictures/export --compression=85 --size=1280 /media/Data/home/itsme/Pictures/MyPics/*.nef For more details cf. http://otype.net/2008/08/convert-nikon-nef-to-jpg-with-ufraw/

…for future reference: 1. apt-get source (-t testing) PACKAGENAME 2. apt-get build-dep (-t testing) PACKAGENAME 3. cd PACKAGANAME-version 4. OPT: vi debian/rules (e.g. to activate some experimental features) 5. OPT: vi debian/patches/00list (to enlist a patch that should be applied) 6.