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

The screenshot might give some picture.

Today, I’m quite happily influenced by blogging. Different people have different ways of defining and using this new trend.

For me, it was always difficult to store small documents for system configuration and tips for making life simpler with computers. Earlier I ended up with having multiple documents in my machine.

With blogging, I can dump all my small documents in my blog and have it readily available when and where required. The other beauty is that it is well open for others who could find it useful.

At times, for people like me who use a heterogeneous set of packages, it becomes necessary to put certain packages on “hold” so that nothing breaks.

The plain dpkg way of putting packages on hold is very very simple.
I’ll be taking a package named “foo” as an example. Here are the steps:

**pre >1) dpkg –get-selections foo > selections.txt

**
This will give you the package and its state on your system. The output written to selections.txt would be something like this:
**pre >foo install

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.

1. Install keychain and openssl-client programs (ssh-agent is part of openssl- client package under Debian)
   rrs@laptop:~ $ apt-get install keychain openssl-client

2. Add the following lines to your .bashrc file

   For SSH

   For now I’m gambling the linux session for ssh-agent.

   I’ll have to find a better way in the future. 30/09/2005

   if [ $TERM == linux ]; then

   [Read More]

Small HOWTO on configuring POP3 SSL with Fetchmail.
Here I assume that the server’s SSL certificate is a Self Signed Certificate

1. 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
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 return:1

Certificate chain 0 s:/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 i:/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

Just think what all this small piece of code can do

while x <= 100:
… temp = urllib2.urlopen(address+prefix+str(x)+suffix)
… data = open(prefix+str(x)+suffix, ‘wb’ )
… data.write(temp.read())
… data.close()
… temp.close()
… x +=1

Now I understand, why even though staring carelessly for the past 5 years, my health has not gone bad.

Staring at women ’s breasts is good for men’s health and makes them live longer, a new survey reveals.

Staring at women’s breasts is good for men’s health and makes them live longer, a new survey reveals. Researchers have discovered that a 10-minute ogle at women’s breasts is as healthy as half-an-hour in the gym. A five-year study of 200 men found that those who enjoyed a longing look at busty beauties had lower blood pressure, less heart disease and slower pulse rates compared to those who did not get their daily eyeful.

#!/bin/sh

if ! [test -f /dev/chick] echo “Forgetting something?” exit 1;
fi

mv /dev/chick ~/bedroom
touch chick/breasts
unzip chick/dress
rm -f chick/bra chick/panties
clamscan chick/*
rm ~/pants
cat ~/penis » chick/mouth
cat chick/mouth | grep -v cat ~/penis > chick/mouth # To take it out…
cat ~/bedroom/nightstand/condom » ~/penis
mount ~/bedroom/chick
fsck && fsck && fsck
umount ~/bedroom/chick
while [ -f ~/bedroom/chick ]; do sleep 5
done

… but this is from the guy who has /dev/acd0 symlinked to /dev/chick so he can giggle every time he uses his cdrom

How has your life been going ?
Ever asked this question to yourself. Do you ever feel yourself lonely; missing ?
Two days of the weekend “silenced” being ended up with Sci-Fi movies and Mugs of Beer at a dark cosy Peecos.
Does it mean life ? Oh! Yes. No dependencies, no nothing. Just bindaas

Our kernel who art in the protected memory areas hallowed
be thy interfaces (syscalls). thy init(8)/init(1M) come.
thy will (memory protection and processes scheduling) be
done on the userspace as it is done where thou reside.
and give us our regular time quanta and forgive us our
memory trespasses (violations) as we forgive to the
meatware (and the software developers). and lead us
not into a fault but deliver us from the SIGSEGV. amen.