Tech@Sakana – A sysadmin’s blog

Firefox will load whatever URL is in the copy-paste buffer in the page if you middle click somewhere on a page. My mouse’s wheel also serves as the middle button, and I found it really annoying that when occasionally middle-clicking while scrolling the page, Firefox would try to load another page …

You can control this behaviour with this about:config property middlemouse.contentLoadURL. Set to true, the middle-click on the page will load the URL (if it is one) in the page, set to false it won’t.

Thanks Ayman !

Finance::Quote is a Perl module which can be used to obtain stock information from various internet sources. I thought I’d rather share this code snippet as an example showing how easy it is to use, before I turn it into a bloatware with an SQL backend to compute average price per share and what not

So here is a simple snippet demonstrating how to get the price of a stock :
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If there’s a file installed on your disk for which you’d like to know what package provided it, you can use the equery command like below :
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If you’ve got a VirtualBox VM already installed and you wish to clone/copy it, follow the steps below :
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If you need to export ZFS volumes through CIFS, follow this simple step by step procedure.
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