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Interesting security related read
Can be found here – BetterCrypto.org and ECRYPT II
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HP printer with FreeBSD
Install /usr/ports/print/hplip-plugin (in the past mirror for that one was quite unstable so it was difficult to download all files needed). After that install /usr/ports/print/cups-filters as well (have no clue why they are removed from normal cups installation but without them you might have lot of errors similar to “Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job”. Printer…
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If skype 4.2 doesn’t work with FreeBSD
and if there are lot of messages similar to kernel: linux: pid 64067 (skype): linux_sys_futex: op FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI not implemented remove port /usr/ports/audio/linux-c6-pulseaudio-libs and make sure /usr/ports/audio/linux-c6-alsa-plugins-oss is installed (last one might require tweaking /compat/linux/etc/alsa/pcm/pcm-oss.conf) FreeBSD 10.2 and latest ports Some manual installation is needed (follow instruction from here) – short: # pkg install linux-c6-pulseaudio-libs# cd…
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Manually trusting certificate in Chromium
To manually trust single certificate do certutil -A -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -t P -n description -i cert_fileTo add new trusted CA do certutil -A -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -t CT -n description -i cert_file
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How to type unicode character in GNOME (using its code)
Do CTRL + SHIFT + u then type its code and press enter when done.
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Changing file associations from command line
It can be done from command line using xdg-mime – might be useful if weird programs are started xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directoryThese associations are kept in /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, maybe also some other mime* file in those directories