this time a short one, as i just stumbled upon the url again: i find robin’s extensive list of commonly used ports really useful. it lists both tcp and udp ports in the whole range up to 65535. although iana’s list holds the official reservations of public ports, i believe that robin’s list is more up-to-date (i.e. backdoors don’t register ports - they plain use them).
i, as a native-speaker of german, tend to use my desktop o/s in a localized manner. this does not apply to my servers, where i usually use posix-c as a locale.
anyway, when setting the locale to de_DE.UTF-8 on solaris 10 1/06, something strange happens: the almighty box appears!
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where does it come from? what is it good for? well, it's entitled "Htt IM status". as far as i found out, using this box you can set FILL TEXT HERE. as this is supposed to help you, it's merely annoying - as it is placed under nearly (not all!) every window on screen. actually it's just a misplaced user interface item. the sun developer network (sdn) (why is it there? it's a user problem, isn't it?) has a nice faq-page on this topic. the thing is, that it's incomplete. it lacks some command and just applies to individual user-settings. what to do if you're a sysadmin and what set it system-wide? here you go:
the problem splits into two, as the box will appear for motif and gtk+ applications. making them disappear from one, does not mean it disappears from the other.
first, to remove the box from gtk+ apps, you have to set some gconf values, making them mandatory for all users. gnome's guide for system-administrators tells you how. before making it mandatory for all, check the actual command first. here comes the relevant entry for our box-problem, as stated on the sdn-page:
but you have to set another interface-option as well, which is 'gtk-im-preedit-style'. so here's the real command:
firing this as a user removes the nagging box from gtk+ applications, but just for this one user. what if we want to set the recommended gconf-values system-wide? the gnome document mentioned above tells us how. here's the command:
okay, now all gtk+ apps should come without this freaking box. let's get rid of it in motif apps as well!
