Angelo’s Notepad

A lot of people use the same password for everything. This is a bad idea. If someone discovers the password to one thing, then they have the password to everything. But it’s hard to make a different password for every login that you use. That’s why I create 4 passwords or variations upon them to be able to remember while keeping things fairly secure. I also have one “insecure” password that I use for things that are unimportant and use insecure connections. Different levels of passwords for important data:

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My little AWStats configuration to keep track of rotated logs. Takes a little more time, but helps ensure nothing is missing.

LogFile=”cat /var/log/maillog.1 /var/log/maillog | /opt/awstats/tools/maillogconvert.pl standard |”

“As a matter of history, the opposite is true. The idea of natural rights of authors was proposed and decisively rejected when the US Constitution was drawn up. That’s why the Constitution only permits a system of copyright and does not require one; that’s why it says that copyright must be temporary. It also states that the purpose of copyright is to promote progress—not to reward authors. Copyright does reward authors somewhat, and publishers more, but that is intended as a means of modifying their behavior.”
By Richard Stallman of GNU

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Every time I booted my Debian installation, my sound volumes were reset to an undesirable level (zero). The way I fixed this was by installing alsa and alsa-utils. Then after setting my desired levels using a mixer, I ran:

alsactl store

as root.

I set up a couple of the nodes for my cluster. It took me a couple of days to set up the node I named “justice” which was my first. Today I did “courage” using what I learned from setting up the first one.

I used ParallelKnoppix to boot, and installed it with the knx2hd command. Then I setup the node on the cluster network in /etc/network/interfaces, and /etc/resolv.conf. I removed kdm, installed gdm, and then with ssh X forwarding, I ran gdmsetup to allow XDMCP connections.

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