[Ilugc] A Free ebook on Free Software

2015-05-06 Thread Shrinivasan T
Happy to release a Tamil Ebook on Free Software by RMS and Amachu. Get your copy at http://freetamilebooks.com/ebooks/free-software/ -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get

[Ilugc] Dangers in copy/paste from websites to shell

2015-05-06 Thread Manokaran K
If you, like me (till today), are used to copy pasting commands from websites into your shell, pls read this: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste >From now on, I'm going to either inspect the html or paste it to my editor before I paste it in my shell! Cheers, mano

Re: [Ilugc] Dangers in copy/paste from websites to shell

2015-05-06 Thread Manokaran K
Also this scary one: https://davidben.net/copy-test.html On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:07 AM Manokaran K wrote: > If you, like me (till today), are used to copy pasting commands from > websites into your shell, pls read this: > > http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste > > From now on, I'm

Re: [Ilugc] Dangers in copy/paste from websites to shell

2015-05-06 Thread Manokaran K
Re the last link I posted, no point in inspecting the html. Latest browsers provide a clipboard event that can be subverted. Safe option is to paste it in your editor and inspect it thoroughly before pasting in your terminal. Cheers On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:09 AM Manokaran K wrote: > Also this

Re: [Ilugc] Dangers in copy/paste from websites to shell

2015-05-06 Thread Arun Khan
Thanks for the heads up. Indeed a lot of us do copy/paste complex commands from blogs. Yeah, text editors rock! At times I use vim.tiny (the very basics). -- Arun Khan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mail

Re: [Ilugc] Dangers in copy/paste from websites to shell

2015-05-06 Thread Ashish Yadav
Hi, On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Manokaran K wrote: > Re the last link I posted, no point in inspecting the html. Latest browsers > provide a clipboard event that can be subverted. Safe option is to paste it > in your editor and inspect it thoroughly before pasting in your terminal. > > I agr