commonquail

• Overview
  • Regular usage
  • Situational usage
    • Generating key pairs
    • Transferring public keys
    • Changing a passphrase without modifying a key
• Configuration
• Questions
  • Which algorithm should I use?
• Do I need a passphrase?

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The following command generates a 20 character password from all visible ASCII characters (94) except '"|\ (90), which are problematic in some contexts, like embedding in (unversioned) source code, for approximately [128 bits of entropy (90²⁰ = 1.22e+39)][math]:

$ < /dev/urandom tr -dc [:graph:] | tr -d \|\\\'\\\\\" | head -c20 | xsel --clipboard 

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DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is a famous Blue Screen of Death error, often caused by a bad driver somewhere. The Internet is awash with reports of variants of this error.

This particular variant, L1C63x64.sys, was an occasional occurrence for me on Windows 7, but seemingly only while torrenting.

Upgrading to Windows 10 turned the error from occasional to frequent within the first few days,

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Idea for a Markdown preprocessor

Feature master list:

• Table of contents
  • {{toc}}?
  • ATX headers
  • two-pass processing for consistent stream
  • Ignore # in code blocks, quotes
• File transclusion

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This command recursively finds every file matching the glob pattern *.* (name.extension) in the working directory, excluding child directories whose names start with ..

This is useful for skipping various VCS directories, for instance.

find . -type d -path './.*' -prune -o -type f -name '*.*' -print

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#!/bin/bash
set -o errexit

# Neovim
sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable

# Git
sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:pdoes/ppa

sudo apt-get update

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#!/bin/bash
set -o errexit

ncursesw_dir=/usr/include/ncursesw

[[ -d "$ncursesw_dir" ]] ||
{
	echo "fatal: ncursesw not found at ${ncursesw_dir}" >&2
	exit 1
}

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You can add Windows shell extensions for launching MSYS2 Bash sessions in a target directory.

For right-clicking the background of an open folder, use the command

C:\msys64\usr\bin\mintty --icon /msys2.ico /usr/bin/env CHERE_INVOKING=1 /usr/bin/bash --login

For right-clicking a folder, use the command

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Installation

Disable the Unity overlay scrollbar, which causes rendering issues in Cinnamon:

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

Install Cinnamon from moorkaï's PPA:

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Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 include a tool that can convert .doc-files to .docx-files from the command line.

This will not get rid of the compatibility-mode message -- that requires opening the file and saving it as a new format -- but it does help with reducing file sizes and cross-platform compatibilities.

The tool is called Wordconv.exe and is located in the root Office folder, e.g. Office14.