I wrote this article originally back in 2005. It was originally available at http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/DiskArchiver. The information you find below might be rather outdated now and I don’t plan to work on it further, but I put it in the blog for archival purposes on this particular date – Georg in June 2011.
Category: unix
xserver, reload xresources
If you have changed configuration setting for X programs, e.g. xfig, you have to reload it with
$ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
Switch PC-Speaker off
$ xset b off
Enable new features of gnuplot 4 in octave
In order to be able to interactivly change the plot in gnuplot (zoom, axis change etc.) you have to set the following in your ~/.octaverc:
gset mouse gset term x11
Howto generate crypt() passwords
$ openssl passwd -1