There's a bug written in the Ubuntu tracker (and in Fedora too, I think) about running dnsmasq and libvirt at the same time. Basically, libvirt runs an instance of dnsmasq, and if you install the system dnsmasq it tries to bind to all ...
As I mentioned in the last post, I've switched to the i3 window manager. After fixing the Caps Lock key, the next order of business is getting the audio keys on my multimedia keyboard to control audio output. (It's nice to be able to quickly mute or pause ...
Background: I just built a new computer, and "upgraded" to Ubuntu 12.04. I've been a fan of Ubuntu for a long time (first Debian, then Ubuntu because of the faster / more predictable release cycle). But you can add me to the list of people unimpressed with the "Unity ...
The auth.log on one of my servers (really, on all of the servers I have access to) is full of stuff like this:
Dec 8 03:19:33 localhost sshd[4718]: User root from 10.1.2.3 not allowed [...] Dec 8 03:19:35 localhost sshd[4721]: Invalid ...
My ISP has apparently made no progress whatsoever with IPv6, but I've got an IPv6 enabled VPS.
SSH makes it trivial to use that VPS as a SOCKS5 proxy. Just do:
ssh -D 8080 myvps.example.com
Then set your browser's SOCKS proxy to localhost:8080. In Firefox ...