KDE Tip – Middle-Click to Close Tabs in Konqueror

To close tabs in Konqueror with a middle-click, run this command:

kwriteconfig –file konquerorrc –group “FMSettings” –key MouseMiddleClickClosesTab –type bool true

More cool tips can be found at the KDE Wiki : Hidden configuration page.
UPDATED: For KDE 3.5.8, remove the quotes around FMSettings.

kwriteconfig –file konquerorrc –group FMSettings –key MouseMiddleClickClosesTab –type bool true

How Long to Crack WPA?

Trolling through websites, I found an interesting link on this aircrack-ng tutorial page – a calculator to estimate the amount of time it would take to brute-force the WPA keys, based on a variety of parameters.
The calculator is HERE – you will need to turn on JavaScript if you are using No-Script (IE users, just [...]

Kismet and D-Link DWL-G122 USB WLAN Adapter

I decided to try out kismet today. I had a D-Link USB wireless adapter handy (a DWL-G122 version B1), but no driver. Some quick Googling turned up the RaLink Linux support web site, but I had trouble compiling the drivers there (I tried both the RT2501USB(RT2571W/RT2671) and the RT2500USB(RT2571/RT2572) (source Code)). So [...]

Firefox Bolt-On – Tab Mix Plus

I tried this out, and while it has a *lot* of configuration settings (making it easy to cause your browser to misbehave, but nothing you cannot undo), it is also extremely cool. I was able to ditch several other addons (fewer is better, in my book), all associated with tab preferences and opening closed [...]

Microsoft Patch Badness – Who Is To Blame?

Talk about timing. I just did a write-up on product quality from Microsoft, and right around the corner is a nasty zero-day bug that even affects Vista. Today, after Microsoft releases a patch, it is revealed that the patch BREAKS THINGS (specifically, Realtek audio and Ethernet devices seem to be most affected – [...]

Zero-day for Microsoft – Three Months Warning Not Enough?

Today, SANS went to InfoCon YELLOW, due to an exploit involving how Microsoft Windows OS’s handle malformed ANI files. It seems to affect nearly any OS Microsoft makes, so long as they are at the latest patch levels. This includes Vista, and includes IE7. IE7 on Vista in Protected Mode seems to [...]