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When using numbers in a boolean (implicit conversion), remember that only zero evaluates to false.

Recently I had to do some testing which resulted in a lot of log data.

The Gherkin keyboard is a 30% (actually a 30 key) keyboard kit.

Recently I was debugging connection issues with a system that uses connman as it's network management software.

In this snippet I'll show you how to place your C++ template definitions in a seperate .cpp file.

In this snippet I'll show you a variadic template to write to a file.

Recently I discovered a firefox extension that converts any website into a dark version.

To gain a better understanding of C++ templates I'm playing around with them.

In this article I'll show you how to use a variadic template in C++.

In this quick snippet I'll show you how to create and write to a csv file.

In this series of articles I'll cover old computer advertisements.

On systems that use systemd-resolved for DNS you will see the 127.0.0.53 IP address in dig output. dig is a tool to do DNS lookups, and for troubleshooting it's usefull to see which server is being queried.

This site is generated with my self-written open source static site generator named ingsoc (named after 1984).

Bash Bits are small examples, tips and tutorials for Bash (Scripts).

Bash Bits are small examples, tips and tutorials for Bash (Scripts).

Bash Bits are small examples, tips and tutorials for Bash (Scripts).

This guide shows you how to test a server's TLSv1.3 connection and use specific ciphersuites with the command line s_client client from the OpenSSL project.

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.ipk packages are used by a variety of embedded linux systems, like routers running OpenWRT and appliances running on OpenEmbedded (Yocto).

Dropbear is a lightweight SSH server and client implementation, often used on embedded systems and routers.

Simple log analyzer for pygopherd.

On Ubuntu 18.04 and up, when you login via SSH you are greeted with some news via motd (message of the day) that includes advertisements and messages from Canonical (via motd.ubuntu.com).

I've made some new improvements to this website, you can now view raymii.org on Gopher!

On Reddit, Josh (from SpaceCat) did a valentines day action, 10% off your entire order.

mutt is my email client at work.

Recently I was asked to get one value from a json object using only shell tools.

Recently I switched to a new phone.

A split keyboard is weird at first, but once you get used to it, you will never want anything else.

This is an overview of all the servers in the Sparkling Network, mostly as an overview for myself, but it might be interesting for others.

On hackernews I saw a Microsoft blog post stating that Windows Server 2019 now includes OpenSSH.

With PHP Network Weathermap you can create a birds-eye view of network components from your monitoring system (like LibreNMS, Cacti or anything else with an RRD database).

Last week I received several newsletters from Nitrokey.

Recently I had to deploy a few machines in a network where outgoing network access was forced through a Microsoft Forefront TMG proxy.

This small tutorial will show you how to use the openssl command line to encrypt and decrypt a file using a public key.

This is a small tip, to find specific files in tar archives and how to extract those specific files from said archive.

Someone liked my Reddit post regarding a few old CD's I found of Caldera Openlinux 1.2, including source code and floppies so much they gilded it.

The NGINX blog recently had a nice article on a new feature of NGINX 1.15.2, $ssl_preread_protocol.

OpenVMS 7.3 was the last version for the VAX architecture.

This guide shows you how to build an RK05 bootable system disk with OS/8 on it for the PDP-8, in the SIMH emulator.

This is a guide to get started with the Nitrokey HSM (or SmartCard-HSM).

This is a guide that shows you how to add an apt repository to Debian and Ubuntu using Ansible.

This tutorial shows you how to set up strong SSL security on the nginx webserver.

This tutorial shows you how to set up strong SSL security on the lighttpd webserver.

This tutorial shows you how to set up strong SSL security on the Apache2 webserver.

These are quick and dirty notes on generating a certificate authority (CA), intermediate certificate authorities and end certificates using the OpenSSL command line tools.

One of my Raspberry Pi's would not boot up after a reboot.

This ansible playbook example helps you execute actions only if you are on a certain distribution.

This is a simple page with a form which you can use to generate OpenSSL commands to, for example, create a CSR or a self signed certificate.

This Ansible tutorial shows you how execute actions only if another action has changed.