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How to shred files from Gnome/Nautilus

Thu, 18/02/2010 - 08:13 — Avi

With your favourite text editor,
create a file ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/shred
with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash


# "Shredder" secure file delete for Nautilus



  
    
        

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  backup with rsync

      Thu, 12/11/2009 - 14:02 — Avi
  
  
    To sync (backup) the /home/avi/ subtree from host charon to the /home/avi/charon_files/ on the current machine:
  

  
    
        

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  Firefox: change the location of the cache directory

      Sun, 18/10/2009 - 19:45 — Avi
  
  
    Open about:config in Firefox. Right click in an open area and create a new string value called browser.cache.disk.parent_directory. Set the value to, e.g., /tmp.
  

  
    
        

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