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su same user password questoin
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article ...'info su' [quote] If USER has a password, `su' prompts for the password unless run by a user with effective user ID of zero (the super-user). [/quote] Other than removing the user's password hash from /etc/shadow, the... more »
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Re (3): HOW2 macro-keys
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...The fact that it's not yet well documented 'HOW2flyLikeaBird' doesn't stop zillion of us 'would like to'. Following Henning Bekel's route with slight modifications got me the best results so far:-- ...The strings returned by 'read' aren't good for inputrc ...Yes, I want X > bash, so it's good.... more »
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tool to extract media from binary blobs?
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...Sounds and images tend to not to be embedded on Linux based systems, so are stored as separate files. These are easily identifiable using the 'file' command. If there is stuff embedded in a container, hopefully there are tools to unpack it, (as there are tools to pack it), but I haven't looked at... more »
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SQLite database browser...
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...A quick Google (you did try that before asking, right) search renders [link] as the first link. It seems to run on various platforms.
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Firefox 3.5.5 - clear private data options
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...[snip] ...The options you want are in the same area. More options are available if you select various options. Edit > Preferences Privacy tab History Firefox will > Use custom settings for history Put a checkmark in the box for Clear history when Firefox closes (enables a Settings button that has what you want)... more »
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