links for 2010-12-20

• Using OpenSSL to securely connect to your IMAP account | Jaharmi’s Irreality
  A good quick article on how to manually connect to an IMAP SSL server.
  (tags: email ssl mail imap telnet)

Manually Connecting to an SSL IMAP Server

A good quick article on how to manually log into an IMAP Server using SSL is at:

http://www.jaharmi.com/2007/09/26/using_openssl_securely_connect_your_imap_account

The important part is:

As an example, here’s how you could log into an Exchange account, select the “Inbox” folder, and log out:

$ openssl s_client -connect server:port -crlf
? LOGIN username password
? SELECT Inbox
? LOGOUT

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links for 2010-12-10

• Best of VIM Tips, gVIM's Key Features zzapper
  A good concise list of vim tips.
  (tags: vim tips reference editor cheatsheet)

links for 2010-11-20

• ProxyCommand to the rescue ! « Arrfab’s Blog
  Indirectly access a host through ssh.
  (tags: firewall howto proxy ssh tips tunnel)

links for 2010-11-19

• Planet CentOS
  The official Centos Blog
  (tags: blog centos distro linux redhat sysadmin)

links for 2010-11-13

• Mersenne Twister: A random number generator (since 1997/10)
  A fast, good, random number generator with a link to C source.
  (tags: algorithm c mathematics random rng mersenne)

links for 2010-10-28

• SparkFun Electronics – News
  A place to buy interesting hardware toys.
  (tags: diy electronics hardware fun embedded store shopping robotics sensors)
• I2C Tutorial
  This is a good quick description of the I2C bus. The website also sells a bunch of good electronic toys for making robots.
  (tags: i2c hardware tutorial work)

A good quick description of the I2C bus

Here is a good quick description of the I2C bus:

http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/acatalog/I2C_Tutorial.htm

links for 2010-09-23

• Tunneling SSH over an HTTP-Proxy Server
  Corkscrew is an ssh proxy that will run through http.
  (tags: firewall linux network security ssh tunneling proxy tunnel http)

links for 2010-09-21

• OpenGL Rendering and State Cheat-Sheet
  A good quick OpenGL Cheatsheet
  (tags: cheatsheet opengl reference)
• 20 of the Best Free Linux Books – Part 1 – LinuxLinks News
  Free Linux Ebooks
  (tags: books ebook ebooks howto learning linux pdf sysadmin tutorial ubuntu)