You can press Ctrl+N to open a new window, but the new window loads with your home page. What I’ve found myself wanting to do is to open a copy of the current page in a new window. The way I figured was to click History in the menu bar and then Shift+Click to load the page on the top of the list (assuming the page you want is actually on the top of the list… if that’s not what you want keep looking down the list!).
Category Archives: Internet
How to allow a restricted port in Firefox
By default Firefox complains about access to non-standard ports and blocks access. You can override this behaviour by following these instructions. Basically add the comma separated list of allowed ports to the network.security.ports.banned.override string via about:config.
Apache HTTP Proxy Header Manipulation
Found this:
<Location /jira> RequestHeader unset Authorization ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass http://jiraserver/jira ProxyPassReverse http://jiraserver/jira </Location>
Over here. Wanted to keep a note of those settings.
Tufte CSS
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Check out Tufte CSS…
Greasemonkey and the file: URI scheme
Today I learned about extensions.greasemonkey.fileIsGreaseable… a way to get Greasemonkey to process file-system documents… for scripts to work with file:// paths, you need to open about:config and set extensions.greasemonkey.fileIsGreaseable to true.
Network sockets
Reading about network sockets…
ProgClub web statistics for May 2015
So earlier this week ProgClub’s website traffic mysteriously doubled. It seems to be holding out at this new rate, too.
Fixing Firefox/Iceweasel restricted port
Today I ran into this warning from iceweasel when I tried to access a web service on port 101:
This address is restricted
This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Iceweasel has canceled the request for your protection.
I found this article which said:
- Open about:config
- Create network.security.ports.banned.override if it’s not there
- Set that setting as, e.g.: 101-104
- Refresh the page
Disable Password Authentication for SSH
See How to Disable Password Authentication for SSH.
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Then:
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no PasswordAuthentication no UsePAM no
Then restart the SSH server:
service sshd restart
Configuring DCC port range in Irssi
To specify a port range for DCC:
/set dcc_port 6000 7000
Make sure your NAT router has DMZ or port forwarding for the nominated ports and that your firewall has those ports open.
Your config file will look like this:
jj5@honesty:~/.irssi$ grep -R 6000 .
./config: "irc/dcc" = { dcc_port = "6000 7000"; };