The Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combo, which allowed killing the X server is now disabled by default in many major Linux distributions. Here's how to enable it in KDE.

Keith Packard has just made available the first release candidate of X Server 1.8 and confirms that its release schedule is still on track. Snapshots and the Git code for X Server 1.8 go back to last year, but with a planned release by the end of March, Keith has now started working on release candidates.

"This post sets a challenge; the goal is to come up with a bash one-liner (which can include multiple statements, pipes, etc. to arbitrary level) which removes "incriminating" lines from the .bash_history file, without looking too incriminating itself [...] feel free to leave your offerings in comments to this post..."

It's arriving about two months later than originally scheduled (and didn't arrive in 2008 like Intel wanted), but X Server 1.6 has been officially released this afternoon and it wasn't 212 days late like the infamous X Server 1.4.1 release.

"... thought I would throw this out there as I have spent some time recently getting this working. I had used the stumpwm binary built with the configure && make dance, but it does not run swank in the background so the fabulous facility of running slime-connect and hacking the live window manager was not available. That and having read about clbuild I wanted to get it working.

Part four of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.