infotage.net

I think du may be the most intolerable command in linux. The info is sometimes so important but it can take hours to get. So in a search for something better I came across enh-du which does seem faster but not by enough.

So another day devoted to traffic shaping, particularly as it relates to voip. That means playing with traffic shaping rules, often with a distinct lack of documentation, and then testing to see if they make a difference. So today I learned about HFSC after reading a quote in a discussion about HTB CBQ [...]

I know ekiga is pretty well known but I was trying some different problems (after being frustrated with certain aspects of ekiga) and I stumbled on twinkle which I’m liking a lot better.  Not only does it work better than ekiga and other free and open source softphones that I’ve tested, it also has security [...]

I added the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor experimental-0.1.1.x-breezy main
More details can be found on the tor wiki page TorOnDebian.

This has caused me problems for sometime as the gaim-silc-plugin is not available in Ubuntu (or Debian). Finally I found a way to get it to work

These extensions will speed up Firefox by blocking ads and flash content and by tweaking internal Firefox settings.

While investigating personal finance software for GNU/Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular I installed the demo version of the commercial software Moneydance.

I’ve had to get java applets working in Firefox when using Ubuntu a couple of times recently; it’s easy to do but worth noting.

A basic yet essential skill to have when using Ubuntu is how to install packages. Here are a couple of ways to do this.