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Best description for aMSN package

Why is not this the description for the aMSN client package we see in all package managers!? It is the best I have seen yet.

aMSN lets Linux users communicate with associates on Microsoft instant messaging networks. In this article, we’ll show you how to Reach out to your friends in the empire.

From WINDOW TALK by Mirko Albrecht for Linux Magazine.

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Privacy awareness in Opera

A web-connected user-agent (a web browser) sends much information, that if you live in Sweden, now will be freely available to the military. Using content and transfer encryption has never been so important before.

This is a tip that will let you turn on a feature of Opera—the web browser—that will warn you every time you send data from a web form unencrypted. It will help rise awareness of just how much data you make available every day.

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Purging removed packages

Removing old packages is something you—or your package manager—does all the time. That does, however, leave an awful amount of configuration files that should have been purged, right? This simple command will purge removed packages:

# dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge

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Stupid thing to do: Run # cleanlinks

A mindblowingly dangourous thing to do is to run # cleanlinks on / as root on any Debian system. Basically, it inrevertably destroys one’s system by removing symbolic links that should not have been removed.

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