2008 November 07

Wireless Security Alert – Use AES

If you have a wireless network using WPA, read this. A PhD candidate recently discovered a way to compromise a wireless network using WPA. Fortunately, the attack only works against TKIP (the default from what I’ve seen). The fix is to switch to AES encryption, usually the second option when you’re configuring WPA. I had already selected AES just to be different. In this case it worked out nicely.

(via Lifehacker)

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Most Helpful Firefox Shortcuts

Here are the main Firefox shortcuts I use on a regular basis.

Tabs
Ctrl-t – Open new tab
Ctrl-w – Close active tab
Ctrl-Shift-t – Open last closed tab (you can do this over and over)
Ctrl-PageUp, PageDown – Cycle through tabs
Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-8 – Go to the first, second, third…eighth tab
Ctrl-9 – Go to last tab

Other windows
Ctrl-h – Open history sidebar
Ctrl-b – Open bookmarks sidebar
Ctrl-Shift-b – Open bookmarks manager
Ctrl-j – Download manager

Browsing
Ctrl-l / Alt-d – Put cursor in the URL field so I can type a shortcut or URL
Ctrl-k – Put cursor in search field, or if it’s not visible, open default search in current tab
Ctrl-Enter – Add www. and .com to the string in the URL bar (if you type google, it will take you to www.google.com
Shift-Enter – Add www. and .net to the string in the URL bar
Ctrl-Shift-Enter – Add www. and .org to the string in the URL bar
Alt-Enter – Open address in new tab. (For instance, hit Ctrl-l on current tab, type a URL then Alt-Enter to open it in new tab)
Ctrl-r / F5 – Reload page
Ctrl-Shift-r / Ctrl-F5 – Fresh reload (doesn’t hit cache)
Alt-Left-Arrow – Go to previous page in history
Alt-Right-Arrow – Go to the next page in history

Search
/ – Open up quick find dialog at the bottom of the window
‘ – Open up quick find dialog for links only (once you’ve found the link you want, hit Enter to go there)
Ctrl-g – Go to next occurrence of search phrase
Ctrl-Shift-g – Go to previous occurrence of search phrase

Misc
Ctrl-d – Bookmark a page
Ctrl-Shift-d – Bookmark all tabs
F11 – Switch to full screen mode (Hitting it again returns to normal mode)

You can find the rest of them here.