20 Feb 08 Entering Symbols in Linux
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.
Tags: tips
06 Feb 08 Getting Specific Memory Usage Per Process
This Bash command does the job pretty well…
ps axo com,sz
Tags: memory usage
06 Feb 08 Gmail Knows I’m Chinese?
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.
