MacInDell

 Posted on October 12, 2005  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  19 words  |  

Just how would it look if Mac were to come with Dell laptops.

The screenshot might give some picture.

New SSH Session in Konsole

 Posted on October 2, 2005  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  2 minutes  |  355 words  |  

Some quick steps to create an Option for “New SSH Session” under Konsole which includes keychain and ssh-agent for password-less ssh logins. I’m using a Debian system but majority of the steps should be common across all distributions. Install keychain and openssl-client programs (ssh-agent is part of openssl- client package under Debian) rrs@laptop:~ $ apt-get install keychain openssl-client Add the following lines to your .bashrc file For SSH For now I’m gambling the linux session for ssh-agent. [Read More]

POP3 SSL && Fetchmail

 Posted on October 2, 2005  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  3 minutes  |  592 words  |  

Small HOWTO on configuring POP3 SSL with Fetchmail. Here I assume that the server’s SSL certificate is a Self Signed Certificate openssl s_client -connect mail.logicalwebhost.com:995 -showcerts Execute this command to fetch the details of the server and also the certificate. The output will be something like below: rrs@laptop:~ $ openssl s_client -connect mail.someserver.com:995 -showcerts CONNECTED depth=0 /C=US/ST=CA/L=San Jose/O=Some Internet Hosting Services/OU =Automatically-generated POP3 SSL key/CN=mail.somehost.com/emailAddress=postmaster@researchut.com verify error:num=18:self signed certificate verify return:1 [Read More]

Open Source Is SHIT

 Posted on July 2, 2005  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  1 minutes  |  118 words  |  

Yes, that’s rightly mentioned in the title. I’m not a fucking good speaker but this link might be good enough for explanations on why ESR and his open source fundas are shit. Follow the facts, not the hype. Free Software has always been about user rights and RMS has done great job. For me personally, it’s been FSF because of which today what I am. Being a dumb chap from a rural town in a rural state of India and born in a complete business family, I had never dreamt of becoming a computer professional anyway. [Read More]

Why Debian

 Posted on April 25, 2004  (Last modified on March 12, 2011)  |  19 minutes  |  3866 words  |  

The following talk is all about Debian for which I was made to speak at the ILUGD meet held on the 18th of April 2004. Most of the references in this talk has been taken from Manoj Srivastava’s (Lead Debian Developer) talk. /* Begins Why Debian Debian – Philosophy, Merits and Key Features Philosophy ** ** Philosophy is the most durable differentiating criterion between the operating systems we are considering. Performance numbers change. [Read More]
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