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  • DNS is dead… long live DNS!

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Most of us rely heavily (more heavily than we realise, and indeed should) on this rickety old thing called DNS (the Domain Name System), which was never intended to…

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  • Proof Gmail IMAP (Gimap) supports IMAP IDLE

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.So for those of you with capable mail clients (like OS X Mail.app), here’s proof that IMAP IDLE works for delivering push mail: $ openssl s_client -connect imap.gmail.com:993 -crlf…

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  • SSHKeychain 0.8.2 Post Install Problem on Leopard

    This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It seems SSHKeychain breaks on (recent?) Leopard builds because it wants to find a group for each user (eg samj:samj): #!/bin/sh chown -R $USER:$USER “$2/SSHKeychain.app” #chown root:admin “$2/SSHKeychain.app/Contents/Resources/TunnelRunner” #chmod…

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