From the blog aggregator planetsuse.org, Garrett LeSage posted about using the Compose key to enter different typographical characters such as —, ®, ©, ², ¿, ¡, ÷ etc
Interested? Read his posting to see how it works.
By the way, the post is for Linux only. Enjoy.
This Bash command does the job pretty well…
ps axo com,sz
So apparently Gmail knows I’m Chinese. Or so I think. In the past when I log out of Gmail, it will say “Please wait…” Recently, perhaps through some heavy-duty data mining, it told me to “请ç¨ç‰…” (Chinese for “please wait”) instead. I thought that I had turned some settings in Firefox to display Web pages in Mandarin or I revealed through my emails that I’m Chinese - in which case that would be a serious case of privacy invasion, I think.
And all of a sudden, it now speaks to me in English again. I thought it was a mistake on Google’s side. Turns out, it is! Another guy (Joe Shaw) who has entries in Planet SUSE’s blog aggregator also has a similar problem. Well, mine is seemingly resolved now. Hopefully Joe’s get resolved soon too.
Tip: If you are observant, you will see that when you try to login to Gmail’s site, the login page is SSL-secured. Once you log in though, the page is not transmitted through SSL. If you want to keep your connection SSL-secured, you have to login with this address:
https://mail.google.com
instead of http://gmail.com
Basically if you specify right at the start that you want SSL connection, Gmail will keep that for you.
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