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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]

Python Fun

Posted on September 19, 2005 (Last modified on January 22, 2011) | 1 minutes | 34 words |

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

An Eyeful a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Posted on September 5, 2005 (Last modified on January 22, 2011) | 2 minutes | 238 words |

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. [Read More]

*nix fun

Posted on August 14, 2005 (Last modified on January 22, 2011) | 3 minutes | 481 words |

#!/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 [Read More]

A general weekly life

Posted on August 8, 2005 (Last modified on January 22, 2011) | 1 minutes | 55 words |

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

Kernel Prayer

Posted on July 27, 2005 (Last modified on January 22, 2011) | 1 minutes | 74 words |

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. [Read More]

Who says GUI Programming in shell is difficult ?

Posted on July 7, 2005 (Last modified on January 22, 2011) | 2 minutes | 380 words |

Today, I wanted a quick utility to help me enter passwords for encfs during mount. I was looking for something plain, simple and userfriendly. At the end I ended up to use the shell for it. Yes, using dialog/Xdialog you can be a GUI programmer in minutes. If the text is scrambled, you can download the script here. Cheers! #!/bin/bash 1. encfsmount - A simple frontend for encfs 2. (C) Ritesh Raj Sarraf July 2005 1. [Read More]

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