Auxiliary files can account for a lot of space in a long running Linux installation.

Update (2024): I now use altgr-weur, which is shipped with most Linux distributions. I have also switched to the US keyboard layout, mainly because US keyboards are more widely available.

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The Mercurial MQ extension does not store the creation date of a patch by default. This behavior can be changed but what about existing patches? If the patch queue is under version control it might be possible to restore at least some information.

Last Saturday I finally got my RaspberryPi (model B). Right from the beginning it was clear that I will be using at least two operating system. One with OpenELEC as a home entertainment system (I don’t really like this term). The other one with Raspbian for development stuff. For both of them the first act was to connect via SSH to see what is going on. Of course, they have assigned different hostnames as they serve a completely different purpose. While the first connection to openelec (by the way, dns search suffix FTW!) worked like expected, the following error message occurred when I tried to connect to raspbian:

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Warning: the ECDSA host key for 'raspbian' differs from the key for the IP address '192.168.11.62'
Offending key for IP in /home/zapster/.ssh/known_hosts:57
Matching host key in /home/zapster/.ssh/known_hosts:59
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes

There are many articles and blog entries out there about ssh-agent and what is the best way of using it. The start script I am using is a slightly modified version of the code proposed in this Cygwin mailing list post.

For a long time I did not really care about DNS search suffixes. Suddenly, a few months ago, I realized that it would be nice if I could use the same URL (bookmarks, etc.) to reach my laptop, no matter which local network I am currently using.