Using DMCrypt to create, create an encrypted filesystem, mappable and mountable filesystem and mount same.

StartSSL offers free 1 yr SSL certs with 256-bit encryption capable for web/email/other servers. These are convenient (free!) useful and FREE! (and they work in all current browsers I use save Opera).

Little command-line utils to find deferred/bounced/lost emails to specific providers

A quick reminder/tutorial on downloading track information from a Garmin ETrex Legend.

Someone asked how to set this up quickly and easily… the idea being:
1) you have a host somewhere on the interwebs that’s accessible via SSH and runs a squid/proxy for you
2) you have a macintosh
3) you don’t normally do unix-y things
4) you’d like a command-line quick and easy setup to allow you to proxy your traffic (web/chat) through your ssh host and sqiud

So, after a period of time your GPG key will expire, if you want it to expire, that’s good news. If you happen to still be using it, not so good news. Simple un-expire instructions follow.

Postfix has a bunch of queues, and a bunch of stats through other packages, how about some simple shell things if you have multiple instances running?

I can never remember how to do this, I always have to try the 10 versions of perldoc help then resort to google searches… So, documentation in a common place seems like a nice idea.

GnuPG and PGP are public key encryption programs, they are nice and convenient and helpful at avoiding sending ‘important’ content in the clear in email (SMTP is plain-text you remember, right?) Often console-based email clients can be fussy to setup to use this software. Here’s a quick guide, stolen from someone else (Stolen-content).

Once you make your new kernel, how do you put it into use?