I've been using a lot of different machines lately and thus customizingFirefox on them, which means I've been playing around with Firefoxextensions a bunch more than usual (new environments are both a good wayto find out what I find essential and to play with things I'm not sureabout in an expendable setting). This makes it a good time to writedown my current set of them for future (and current) reference.

Essential extensions that I turn out to install everywhere:

All-

When the "best tool for the job" isn't argues that what we might think is the best tool for the job isn't. (I'mnot going to mangle its ideas by trying to summarize it more than that.)

This is an issue that I sometimes feel moderately acutely, since I useX Windows in preference to something like OS X, while the general viewis that Apples are the machines for people who want both Unix and adecent user experience (and there's a

How to to really irritate your successor sysadmin on a Solaris machine:

Set the machine's hostname not by changing /etc/nodename , but byhand-editing a ' hostname foobar ' into the /etc/init.d/network startup script.

Of course, you won't want to keep the machine current on patches either;otherwise, your successor might take a much longer time to find this,and have a much less exciting day.

Important caution: for the safest results, insure that you