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On your local machine:

ssh -ND 3333 username@remote_server_data_is_proxyed_through

Then just set up your browser with a Socks5 proxy to 127.0.0.1:3333

Found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1465712

Add the following to ~/.gtkrc-2.0

style "gtkcompact" {
GtkButton::default_border={0,0,0,0}
GtkButton::default_outside_border={0,0,0,0}
GtkButtonBox::child_min_width=0
GtkButtonBox::child_min_heigth=0
GtkButtonBox::child_internal_pad_x=0
GtkButtonBox::child_internal_pad_y=0
GtkMenu::vertical-padding=1
GtkMenuBar::internal_padding=0
GtkMenuItem::horizontal_padding=4
GtkToolbar::internal-padding=0
GtkToolbar::space-size=0
GtkOptionMenu::indicator_size=0
GtkOptionMenu::indicator_spacing=0
GtkPaned::handle_size=4
GtkRange::trough_border=0
GtkRange::stepper_spacing=0
GtkScale::value_spacing=0
GtkScrolledWindow::scrollbar_spacing=0
GtkTreeView::vertical-separator=0
GtkTreeView::horizontal-separator=0
GtkTreeView::fixed-height-mode=TRUE
GtkWidget::focus_padding=0
}
class "GtkWidget" style "gtkcompact"

I’m using the theme Ambiance, I edited its file directly at:

/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

style "menu-item" = "menu"
{
        xthickness = 0
        ythickness = 5

        engine "murrine"
        {
                roundness = 0
        }
}

To:

style "menu-item" = "menu"
{
        xthickness = 0
        ythickness = 0

        engine "murrine"
        {
                roundness = 0
        }
}

Installed the following packages:
texlive-base
texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended

Found this awesome makefile for Latex at

http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/u/mairas/UltimateLatexMakefile/

Simply drop it into your folder with your tex documents and run ‘make pdf’ I changed ‘latex’ to ‘pdflatex’ in the script
so that I’d only have to run ‘make’

Based on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/Howto/Creating_a_Netboot_Image

apt-get install live-helper
apt-get install nfs-kernel-server # You need the package nfs-kernel-server. Apparently, nfs-user-server does not work with netboot
apt-get install dhcp3-server
apt-get install tftpd-hpa
apt-get install xinetd

ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1

mkdir /srv/debian-live
echo “/srv/debian-live *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)” >> /etc/exports

mkdir mydeblive; cd mydeblive
lh_config
lh_config -a i386
lh_config –binary-images net
lh_config –net-root-path “/srv/debian-live”
lh_config –net-root-server “192.168.0.1″

lh_config –binary-images net \
–net-root-path “/srv/debian-live” \
–net-root-server “192.168.0.1″
lh_build

cp -R binary/ /srv/debian-live
mv /srv/debian-live/binary/live /srv/debian-live

cp -R tftpboot/* /var/lib/tftpboot
mv /var/lib/tftpboot/boot-screens/* /var/lib/tftpboot

iptables -t nat -F
# eth0 is outgoing internet connection (NOT the LAN iface for the netboot machines)
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

edit /etc/default/tftpd-hpa to make sure
RUN_DAEMON=”yes”

vim /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

service tftp
{
protocol = udp
port = 69
socket_type = dgram
wait = yes
user = nobody
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = /var/lib/tftpboot
disable = no
bind = 192.168.0.1
}

/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

or just run

in.tftpd -l -a 192.168.0.1 -v -v -p -s /var/lib/tftpboot/

You can place any executable scripts in:
config/chroot_local-hooks

Which will be executed when the image is being created, if you add more
scripts in here or change them, make sure to run lh_clean before lh_build, otherwise
they will NOT be run.

Useful script to go in:

#!/bin/bash
echo “I: update password”
echo “root:nopasswd” | chpasswd

Rather than manually creating the authorized_keys file in the ‘.ssh’ directory on the host computer
you want to set up public key access for, you can instead use:

ssh-copy-id -i rsa.pub user@host

Which will use the rsa.pub public key and automatically create the file
in the correct users directory.

If you get ‘???????? no permissions’ after running ‘adb devices’

In /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules you need to add
SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”0bb4″, MODE=”0666″

Then:
./adb kill-server
./adb start-server

The following if my preferred C formatting, created with the GNU Indent command:

indent -linux -brf SRC.c -cli8

e.g.

void main(int argc, char ** argv){
<tab>printf(“bonjour”);
<tab>switch(2){
<tab><tab>case 2:
<tab><tab><tab>printf(“2″);
<tab><tab><tab>break;
<tab>}
}

By making use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk I was able to obtain large quantities of random numbers generated by people.

I used http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ to obtain 310 bytes of random numbers obtained from radioactive decay. The following text shows various statistics obtained using a program called ‘ent’.

Entropy = 7.256475 bits per byte.

Optimum compression would reduce the size
of this 310 byte file by 9 percent.

Chi square distribution for 310 samples is 282.93, and randomly
would exceed this value 25.00 percent of the times.

Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 130.4645 (127.5 = random).
Monte Carlo value for Pi is 2.901960784 (error 7.63 percent).
Serial correlation coefficient is 0.071475 (totally uncorrelated = 0.0).

The following shows the entropy of 310 bytes of random numbers based on those from humans.

Entropy = 7.322698 bits per byte.

Optimum compression would reduce the size
of this 310 byte file by 8 percent.

Chi square distribution for 310 samples is 253.20, and randomly
would exceed this value 50.00 percent of the times.

Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 116.3226 (127.5 = random).
Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.294117647 (error 4.86 percent).
Serial correlation coefficient is -0.017168 (totally uncorrelated = 0.0).

wget -e robots=off -r -l1 --no-parent -A.<file type> <URL>

<file type> – e.g. mp4, exe, …