Some hints and tips foor doing SSL related things:
This command lets you connect to a SSL server (a-la netcat):
cat request.txt | openssl s_client -connect server:443
This is a single command to generate a self-signed certificate:
openssl req -new \
-newkey rsa:4096 …This article tries to supplement the nginx documentations regarding the auth_request module and how to configure it. In my opinion, that documentation is a bit incomplete.
The documentation for this module says, it implements client authorization based on the result of a subrequest.
This …
This is the least you need to know to get to use a Python virtual environment.
At its core, the main purpose of Python virtual environments is to create an isolated environment for Python projects. This means that each project can have its own dependencies …
Want to share your family photos after your death, but take your search history to the grave? All that and more is possible with Google's Inactive Account Manager.
It's not nice to think about, but one day, you will die, along with …
If you often mount and access a remote NFS share on your system, you will probably want to know how to improve NFS file access performance. One possibility is using file caching. In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables file caching for network file systems such …
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Server patching is one of the important task of Linux system administrator to make the system more stable and better performance. All the vendors used to release security/vulnerabilities patches very often, the affected package must be updated in order to limit any potential security risks.
Yum …
Losing your job to robots is no longer a sci-fi fantasy.
Some estimates say, robots may take over more than five million jobs across 15 developed countries. Machines could account for more than half the workforce in places like Cambodia and Indonesia, particularly in the garment industry.
While such information …
We use it for receiving junk e-mails (i.e. for those times where we need an e-mail address for sign-up to a service).
E-mails are of the form:
Extend postie:
Before posting we insert all the header information …
Since now I have a Android TV I put away my HTPC and with that the capability to view DVDs or listen CDs directly.
So I converted my entire CD and DVD library to media files and stored in my home NAS.
Since we are talking hundreds of DVDs and …
During my last vacation I wanted to move how we manage our personal finances away from the ad-hoc spreadsheet that we had been using for the past few years. I envisioned something server side, so I wouldn't need to add software on my wife's computer. And initial quick run through …
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In Microsoft Outlook has the option to tag e-mails with a sensitivity tag. Technically this is fairly meaningless. However sometimes I like to use them.
The confidential tag is quite self explanatory. I always confuse what is the difference between private and personal. So here is one possibility...
In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables
file caching for network file systems such as NFS. FS-Cache is built
into the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and higher. In order for FS-Cache to
operate, it needs cache back-end which provides actual storage for
caching. One such …
This one is an interesting site.
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Testing, code coverage, style enforcement are all check-in and merge requirements that can be automated and driven from Git.
If you're among the rising number of Git users out there, you're in luck: You can automate pieces of your development workflow with Git hooks. Hooks are a native Git mechanism …
This tutorial describes how to use the alarm manager to set alarms and how to use the notification framework to display them. In short, the sequence goes like this:
I am still to test this recipe
First of all, we must install the following components:
This article is about integrating OpenSSH in a kerberos environment. Allthough OpenSSH can provide passwordless logins (through Public/Private keys), it is not a true SSO set-up. This article makes use of Kerberos TGT service to implement a true SSO configuration for OpenSSH.
First off, you'll need to make …
This article describes how you creeate hyperlinks within Wordpress. There are a number of ways to do this, depending on the configuration and the types of data we are linking to.
This actually works whether or not Permalinks are active. Using the numeric values found in …