Louisville, KY
Greg is a retired neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky, with a long-standing interest in computers and programming, beginning with Fortran IV in the 1960s. When Linux and open source software came along, it kindled a commitment to learning more, and eventually contributing. He is a member of the Scribus Team.
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One might argue that HTML is a subset of XML. Trying to read an XML file with a browser and have a pleasing result requires creation of a XSL file, to tell the browser what to do with various XML tags.
Having said this, I've noticed that Firefox now will not use an XSL file if you direct it to an XML file in your home directory on your computer. What you need to do is to set up a localhost by running httpd, then put these files into /var/www/html/, and then direct your browser to localhost/
Here's a short shell script I use to generate passwords:
for ((n=0;n<12;n++))
do dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | uuencode -m - | sed -ne 2p | cut -c-12
done
This uses uuencode to generate twelve 12-character passwords (change as you like), which include lower and uppercase letters, numbers and special characters.
Often I will only use part of the 12 characters, and may change some if it makes a password easier to remember or type.