Montly archive for 2008-06

Privacy awareness in Opera

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-29

A web-connected user-agent (a web browser) sends much information, that if you live in Sweden, now will be freely available to the military. Using content and transfer encryption has never been so important before.

This is a tip that will let you turn on a feature of Opera—the web browser—that will warn you every time you send data from a web form unencrypted. It will help rise awareness of just how much data you make available every day.

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Purging removed packages

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-17

Removing old packages is something you—or your package manager—does all the time. That does, however, leave an awful amount of configuration files that should have been purged, right? This simple command will purge removed packages:

# dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge

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Stupid thing to do: Run # cleanlinks

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-12

A mindblowingly dangourous thing to do is to run # cleanlinks on / as root on any Debian system. Basically, it inrevertably destroys one’s system by removing symbolic links that should not have been removed.

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Get Opera 9.5 from Opera’s Debian repository

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-12

The Norwegian web browser Opera was released in version 9.5 yesterday. The new version focuses on security and speed, but also introduces a few new features. But what is a new release, really? Here is how to use Debian’s packaging system to always stay up-to-date with the latest release of Opera:

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