Daily Archives: September 7, 2008

Clearing BASH Command History 0

BASH (bourne again shell), the default shell used on many GNU/Linux distributions, keeps a history of all commands entered. This can be a great convenience. However, scrolling back, I saw a number of commands I would prefer gone in case somebody decided to snoop around my system. Especially the commands where I accidently entered the [...]

Gentoo: Spellchecking in GTK Applications 0

Since I last installed Gentoo, I noticed spellchecking in many applications wasn’t working – notable Pidgin and Xchat. It’s a necessity! You need to come off as someone who knows how to spell while chatting!
It seems the problem was with myspell – the English dictionary for some reason was not installed. So, it [...]