Wouldn’t it be useful, if any shell, python or any other kind of script you edit with vim was set to be executable automatically? Given the file starts with a shebang line, the following vim script does this automatically for you.
In my humble opinion, xscreensaver is quite ugly. Even worse, xscreensaver doesn’t support theming without recompiling. Jamie Zawinski, the main developer of xscreensaver, justifies his design choice with security concerns. There were indeed some security vulnerabilities for gnome-screensaver, etc. in the recent years, which allowed to bypass password authtification. Anyways,…
Using a secure connections, fetchmail compares the fingerprint of the server’s certificate with one specified in the configuration file. If those fingerprints do not match, the connection will fail with: fetchmail: $SERVER fingerprints do not match! fetchmail: SSL connection failed. So, what’s the fastest way to get the server’s certificate…