X Window joke

X window: The ultimate bottleneck. Flawed beyond belief. The only thing you have to fear. Somewhere between chaos and insanity. On autopilot to oblivion. The joke that kills. A disgrace you can be proud of. A mistake carried out to perfection. Belongs more to the problem set than the solution set. To err is X windows. Ignorance is our most important resource. Complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems. Built to fall apart. Nullifying centuries of progress. Falling to new depths of inefficiency. The last thing you need. The defacto substandard. Elevating brain damage to an art form. X window.

Password-less root shell in ubuntu

If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the following steps

1. Turn your computer on.
2. Press ESC at the grub prompt.
3. Press e for edit.
4. Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e
5. Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash
6. Press enter, then press b to boot your system.
7. Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.

Source

Signature in Evolution

You can have evolution to execute a script as your signature. I had set it so, but whatever I do:

#!/usr/bin/sh
echo "-- "
echo "Senthil"
exec fortune -s

Resulted in something like this:

-- Senthil BOFH excuse #261: The Usenet news is out of date

Finally figured out with the help of this post(thanks man!), that evolution is actually storing every compose action as HTML so

I would need to wrap it in HTML the output of my script to make it a legible signature.