Transparent SSH

It will create an id_rsa and id_rsa.pub in your .ssh directory. Copy the id_rsa.pub into your authorized_keys on the target machine.

	ssh-keygen
	ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa

Select no passphrase. Double check that authorized_keys has permission to 400.

Timeout

	ServerAliveInterval 59

SSH Timeouts making you craaazy? add to the bottom of your /etc/ssh_config where the integer is seconds. your client will send a packet to keep the connection alive.

Entropy

Running out of randomness on your system? It's actually happend to us. It was the the darndest thing. Try this cryptographically sound random number generator called LavaRnd.

MySQL

Using dump files on MySQL. Can't ever seem to remember these commands.

MYSQL dump

	/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -u root -p --opt dbname > dboutfile.dump
	mysqldump -h hostname -u user -p databasename > filename.dump

     
MYSQL load a dumpfile

	mysql -h hostname -u user -p databasename < filename.dump

Searching

	filegrep
		find . -type f -exec fgrep -i -H 'Module::Name::Here' {} \;

	files modified in n minutes
		find -type f -mmin n

SVN

Setting file types to binary for SVN:

	svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream 'filename'

FireFox

Contextual or left click popup menu. In the location bar:

	about:config
search for 
	ui.click_hold_context_menus : true