Gnome

Recently Yahoo changed the way in which we connect to the IM, which broke Pidgin clients in Debian Lenny and Ubuntu systems, specifically pidgin client version 2.5.7 and below. We can correct it by doing the following if you don't want to upgrade your clients to something latest,

Go to your yahoo account settings in Pidgin. You'll see two tabs at the
top. Go to the second tab(advance). There you'll find, "scs.msg.yahoo.com"
and a few other web addresses change it to *cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com*.

Thanks to Vipin M of AU-KBC who gave this piece of info via ILUGC mailing list.

I hit this problem when I was adding code to support storing encrypted passphrases in gnome-keyring for subversion. When we add a new key to the default keyring we are prompted for a password for locking/unlocking the default keyring. Sometimes I forget the password which I gave to this default keyring, which prevents me from viewing the default keyring and the keys associated with them, using the gnome-keyring-manager.

I found out that these encrypted passwords all those associated information about the keyrings are stored in the file '~/.gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring' in Debian based distros.