The easiest and best way to set proxy information on your Linux/Unix machine is with the http_proxy environment variable in your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or whatever your favorite shell’s configuration file is. Set it like this: http://user:password@proxy-server:portnum In my brief bit of experimentation, the follow important (to me, at least) command-line tools use http_proxy: wget Python easy_install curl I’ve been a Unix user for 14... Read More
A older friend of mine stopped me in church a few weeks ago. He said their granddaughter’s laptop was broken. It starts up and it just beeps. The laptop isn’t a big deal, but the files on there are — it’s all of her files for her graduate degree.
I know these people well, and I [...]
Some thoughts on how to completely erase a hard disk and then a simple recommendation on something that does it.
I found this post at LifeHacker to be a good list of stabilizing Windows. I knew somethings already, but some of the items were surprising to me. The list tries to prove, or disprove, any misconceptions you may have. Some of my thoughts:
Who knew that Microsoft Security Essentials was really that good? I would [...]
