The default password encryption on CentOS or Fedora is pretty weak. If your shadow file were to be compromised it would not take long to get your passwords. The command below will allow you to change your encryption to be the much stronger sha512 encryption.
authconfig –passalgo=sha512 –update
If you are like me you write a lot of code in vim. I have noticed by default some distros don’t install vim with automatic syntax highlighting.
If you know there is an update out but your phone doesn’t see it yet, you can force your phone checkin and download the update by dialing the following phone number:
*#*#checkin#*#*
After using Arch for a while and installing and removing applications you are bound to accumulate orphaned packages… which are just packages that were install as dependencies but now that the original program has been remove they are no longer needed. An easy way to remove them automatically is to run the following command:
pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qqdt)
This will do a query of orphan packages and then dump that right into the command to remove them.
Harptabs.com is now fully up and running. I am working on customizing the forum to fit the rest of the website but I have been taking a little break from doing it since I spent the entire weekend working on the site. I hope to get the forum looking like everything else by the end of the week (I hope sooner).
