Openssl / gnutls & Emacs on Windows
If you want this to work (for example for https elisp repositories) I strongly recommend you use the version of Emacs that is bundled with Cygwin.
Archive of entries posted by james
Command Line tools
Here are the tools I use to live my life on the command line: Mail Client: Mutt Filtering: procmail, imapfilter Search: mairix General Web Client: Lynx, Links, Elinks, w3m Tools: wget, aria2c, curl Web Services Toodledoo: toodledo (ruby gem) Misc search engines: Surfraw Google Calendar: gagenda Ebay: esniper BBC Iplayer: get_iplayer Google Drive: gdrive Google …
Check your shell history for passwords
Leaving passwords in your shell history is a security issue. I wrote a tool to help check: checkhistory. Feel free to send me pull requests / patches with additional regexes to match.
Cipherli.st – Strong Ciphers for Apache, nginx and Lighttpd
Cipherli.st – Strong Ciphers for Apache, nginx and Lighttpd.
Commandline IMAP Mail check & Screen
I wanted a commandline IMAP mailbox checker so I wrote one: imapchkr Normal output for this is as below: ➜ ~ [jamespo: 0/190] [gmail: 0/80] But I decided I wanted to embed it in my GNU screen hardstatus so expanded it to offer a short output option (imapchkr -s). See bottom left corner for output. …
Can’t log in to samba on centos 7
Can’t log in to your samba server with tdbsam back end? Have you added the user with pdbedit? See docs here.
gnoMint | Certification Authority management made easy
gnoMint is an X.509 Certification Authority management tool. via gnoMint | Certification Authority management made easy. Very easy to use and in the Ubuntu repositories.
Prometheus
An open-source service monitoring system and time series database. via Prometheus.
“Invert” a dict in python
If you have a list/tuple in python and you want to use the items in there to return an index of the position of the item, you can do so like this: a = (‘archive’, ‘audio’, ‘document’, ‘video’, ‘executable’, ‘image’, ‘misc’, ‘parity’) lookup = { v:k for k,v in enumerate(a) }
Warn your clients before disabling SSLv3 on Apache for POODLE
With POODLE, everyone is hurrying to disable SSLv3 on their webservers. However some sites still have clients that for whatever reason have not updated from XP / IE6 (it’s only been out 13 years, what’s the rush?) Instead of immediately locking them out you might like to give them a few days warning with some …
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