Cutting a hanging SSH connection loose

Here is something useful I learned a couple of weeks ago. To cut a hanging SSH connection loose and to free the terminal only requires the following characters/keystrokes:

[Enter]~.

However on some keyboard layouts e.g. sv/fi, the tilde needs an space so the keystrokes are:

[Enter][AltGr]~[Space].

Preparing for change, simple free Spotify playlist export

If the uppcomming changes to Spotify will happen I guess a lot of people, including me, wish to save their Spotify playlists.

If the only thing you need to save is artist and track name as text in a list, then it's easy:

The only thing you need is OpenOffice.org but apparently also MS Word works.

In Spotify:

1. Select one track by clicking on it.
2. Press Ctrl-a
3. Press Ctrl-c or press the right mouse button and in the popup menu select Copy HTTP Link.

In OpenOffice.org:

1. Create new empty Text Document.
2. Press Ctrl-v or press the right mouse button and in the popup menu select Paste.

Thats it.

I find this change really disappointing since the free version of Spotify has been an innovative and useful service, a radio station with commercials but where you as a listener can select the music. Spotify has been excellent way to explore old music and to find new still fairly unknown artists.

Lost without DNS

Every now and then I encounter a misconfigured lan or wlan network with nonworking DNS. This usually happens when I'm in a hurry to get a connection and have no time to figure out the correct DNS server.
There is a solution!
Two simple, free, public, and foremost, easy to remember DNS servers are hosted by Google:

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

It may not be wise to use these all the time e.g. for privacy reasons, but for quickly getting things to work these are great.