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(A letter to J. D. Hayworth)

Here in Phoenix, the traffic reporters have started speaking strangely. Instead of reporting an accident on U.S. 60, they say it’s on “the” 60. Huh? You get your kicks on Route 66, not “the” 66. And people have picked that up and now say they are on “the” 101 instead of Route 101… I guess now I live a the corner of “the” Hayden and “the” McDowell in “the” Scottsdale? Wacky.

At first I thought this was all, like, dude, you know, umm, like, some Valley Girl Speak, gag me with a spoon. But now I wonder if it’s not the subtle Hispanicization of English.

Instead of “Here comes Immigration” we have to say “la” Migra… “Here comes *the* Immigration.” What’s next?

Yours sincerely,
“the” William

How to

• Disable touch-to-tap
• Enable/disable right-side vertical-scroll region
• Enable two-finger scrolling like on a Mac
• Enable circular gesture vertical scrolling
• Enable touchpad lockout to minimize interference while typing, yet still keeping touchpad available when you’d like it

http://dt.in.th/2008-02-17.synaptics-touchpad-tweaks.html

This specifically applies to Centos 5.x

# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Preferably do this on a second login if you have to do this on a remote system… and keep the one of them open! All you have to do is locate the line “PermitRootLogin yes” and change it to:

PermitRootLogin no

Then restart SSH:

# /etc/init.d/sshd restart

on the server, in /etc/exports:

/home/somedirectory 192.168.1.0/24(no_root_squash,rw,nohide)

then after editing /etc/exports, refresh the NFS server with:

# /sbin/exportfs -a

Explanation on Softpedia

• Boot tweaks
• Speed up GRUB
• Stop unneeded startup programs
• Hard drive writeback
• Tune “swappiness”