Current Favorite quote

"I, for one, will not look to the past and blame it. Rather, I will look to the future and claim it."

I'm pretty certain this is attributable to me as I made it up. I like it so much I want to make sure I never forget it.

Vista, Windows 7 doesn't have telnet - so get PuTTY

Get PuTTY
Here's how to use plink to test a port, like port 25:
plink -telnet your.domain.com -P 25
(Ctrl-C to quit)
or for interaction, PuTTY, in telnet mode.

gnome-do won't start

starting from command line, get:
waiting for write add-in database lock

My solution:
find and remove
~/.local/share/gnome-do/plugins/addin-db-001/fdb-lock

RoboForm for Chrome Not perfect, but...

OK, it's better than nothing. That's not saying much. But!!! it's ultra portable. That is to say, you only have to install the plugin and get your sync'd logins. And it's cross platform. Works equally on Linux.

Recover your Roboform Online Password

This does NOT recover your Master Password. This is only valuable for recovery of your Roboform Online connection password.

1. Assume your Roboform application has ever synced and still does (right-click on Roboform, tools, Sync Roboform Data ... should be successful).
   
2. www.snapfiles.com/get/asteriskkey.html
   
3. right-click on Roboform, options, User Data Change Sync Settings (open the window but DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING).
   
4. recover password from the asterisk recovery tool

Replace Dansguardian 2.8.0.6 binary for SmoothWall Express 3

To fix the iTunes 9.1/dansguardian bug (at your own risk, though I don't think it should break anything. If it does, you have the dansguardian backup file, right?):

Assuming you have already installed http://smoothwallmods.googlecode.com/files/DGAV-SW3-2.8.0.6-6.4.4.2-i686-b012.tgz in SmoothWall Express 3.0

1. Back up /usr/sbin/dansguardian
   
2. obtain http://www.gwy.org/dansguardian
   
3. replace /usr/sbin/dansguardian
   
4. chmod +x /usr/sbin/dansguardian
   
5. at the minimum, you could dansguardian -q; dansguardian
   

now the malformed URL issue won't show up and iTunes 9.1 will work with dansguardian 2.8.0.6.

If you want 2.10, you'll have to compile it yourself.

Change sound for Google Mail Checker Plus

find notify.mp3 and replace it in:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\gffjhibehnempbkeheiccaincokdjbfe\1.1.7