OpenSSH’s SOCKS forwarding

Sunday, 01. 18. 2009  –  Category: stash, web

It’s always great to discover a feature in a tool you use everyday. Someone pointed out to me that, in addition to local and remote port forwarding, OpenSSH also offers what it calls dynamic application-level port forwarding. Put more simply, OpenSSH can act as a local SOCKS proxy punting the traffic out the remote end […]

DIY Avocent / Cyclades DB9/RJ45 serial console adapters

Sunday, 04. 20. 2008  –  Category: all, stash

These are quite pricey if you buy them pre-made. Depending on how fast you can make them up you can save money. The self-wire kits I found have the RJ45 connections fixed but let you decide the DB9 pin assigments. The Avocent needs a crossover which means the wiring isn’t one to one. It’s detailed […]

Truncated and borked Thunderbird attachments

Friday, 02. 8. 2008  –  Category: all, stash

Fixed thus: mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks to false From here. Unsure if the break is local or on the mailserver, a reasonably normal Courier IMAP deal.