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I believe he follows pep8 ;)

For viewing active network connections along with traffic stats, give iftop a try.

It was there previously? Sorry I missed it. In any case, I wouldn't call the action I mentioned malicious. There is no hack involved, no improvisation either. Simply using a built-in feature of `less`.

Please add 2014 to the submission title. Also, Since Arch is a rolling release distro, it is encouraged to always refer to the latest documentation over at the Arch Wiki.

You can give vimpager a try. It even supports vimrc. But I have felt it to be considerably slower than less.

  for sysadmin: if sysadmin sees "less somefile.log" in bash history, he knows the user just read the log. If he sees "vi somefile.log" then he doesn't know if the user has also changed the log file (maybe not even knowing it).

In case you didn't know, you can invoke an editor from within less by pressing 'v'. And that wouldn't get registered in the shell history ;)

Hmm.. but the Mint team does a fairly good job of customizing KDE.

Yes, because if nothing else, it almost eliminates failed login log messages (talking specifically about ssh here).

I think you are forgetting Linux Mint KDE. It is updated regularly and is fantastic to work on.

Great app!

For me Thunderbird didn't trigger any test. K-9 Mail triggered the Meta refresh test (but asked me to choose the browser, perhaps because I have multiple browsers installed).

off-topic: It's been a while since I visited an octopress based site! I thought it had died or something.

- Shadow profile (So that I don't have to waste energy creating one) -

  True, and I also find it BETTER. It actually came when Atlassian bought out BitBucket[1].

Wow, I never knew that. I thought Atlassian created BitBucket. Thanks for the link.

Though there is no indication on the web page, the "Last Modified" tag says 4/29/2000, 4:45:46 PM.

I believe that should be mentioned in the title of this post. Because the following text from the page felt misleading.

  "The first IRC server (and still running) was tolsun.oulu.fi .."

I wonder how many poles would be needed if everyone starts to use a bicycle like this!

Wow that was a nice surprise! And a funny but fantastic journey from being unaware of su to being the author of an important implementation of the same.

As for sudo being preferred on Macs, it's the same in Ubuntu world. In fact the default Ubuntu install doesn't even create a password for the root account, as a result I tend to use sudo on Ubuntu and derivates and su on RHEL based distros. Also as far as I know, sudo these days can do everything that su can.

"language of the year award."

Any decent browser will display a certificate error for a Mitm attack. But yes, if you are using other programs/apps over an untrusted network, you can never be sure.

Holy cows, I got a very strong sense of Deja Vu, just after reading the first few paragraphs. I immediately jumped to the "posted" field and realized that I had already read it earlier, most likely through the same link that you have posted.

I have always felt that a lot of designers tend to copy stuff. But then again, perhaps coders copy code too. I guess, it's just easier to spot copied designs than copied code.

> India had a relatively peaceful transition, considering what it could have become.

You are probably ignoring the Hindu-Muslim riots that took place during partition and the immediate Indo-Pak war after that. These were a result of the british policies.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

And so do Adblock Plus and Adblock Edge. The reason I am interested in this is because of much lower resource consumption than either of those.

I haven't tried Bluehell Firewall though. Can you comment on its performance as compared to Adblock Plus/Edge?

I believe that their cover was blown early and not enough data is available to analyze their intents.

Now, it could simply be click fraud or it could have been the initial steps for a longer running disinformation program, but it is difficult to tell with the limited data available.

I don't know what he meant, but from what I have seen, most cheap Android phones use Android 2.3, and so they aren't good on the security front.

I think a better example would be Btrfs. Facebook hired the lead Btrfs devs and they are still contributing to Btrfs development. And this is because Facebook is very interested in Btrfs themselves.

Quite a long article, with different types of monitoring methods and scenarios mentioned.

In the end, we can only do so much to shield ourselves.

Granted, we can and should stop posting personal/sensitive information all over the internet (even on supposedly private forums), but with new and improving tracking technologies (both in the virtual and the physical world), we cannot have total control over our privacy.

Grml is a bit of an unorthodox rescue/live distro, as - if I recall correctly - it offers i3 wm as an option. It also uses zsh instead of bash. Its zsh config is quite nice, so much so, that it was included in the Arch Linux live media (at least in the past).

Sorry to be pedantic, but if you are pretty sure, then how come you end your sentence with a question mark?

And you switched to emacs due to RMS ;)

Jokes aside, during the 1 or 2 weeks that I forced myself to use emacs (a few years back), I felt that I would get RSI because of the painful default keybindings. Of course, I didn't know of evil back then, so I returned back to using vim.