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Stuff some guy always installs on debian

The stuff I always install on a Debian box « boltblog Sitting here installing a brand new box, I look through what I use on other machines and figure out a list of things I want to have installed on any box I'm on. Here's the list so far, in no particular order: vim - my favorite text editor  ssh - the secure shell server and client - a must.  realpath - gets the full pathname of a given file. very useful in scripts  autossh - keeps ssh connections open on its own. very useful for ssh tunnels.  sysstat - various performance tools, like mpstat to see the individual cpu usage in an smp setup sudo - allows normal users to execute things as root. mind-bogglingly useful  preload - tracks which applications are frequently used and tries to keep them in memory to improve startup times  lshw - prints way more information about your machine than you really need  sysv-rc-conf - a nice tool to set at which runlevels the machine should start and stop s...

Vandyke SecureCRT and correct emulation for Linux

Isn't it annoying, You've forked out the money for SecureCRT and linux ends up looking awful (compared to the free putty) when you run ansi graphics screens. The solution is simple. In SecureCRT 6.7 Bring up the session options, select the "Terminal" tree,  select "Appearance",  then change the Character encoding to UTF-8  In Secure CRT 4.0.9 Bring up the session options: Select the "Emulation" tree,  select "Advanced",  then change the Character encoding to UTF-8