cmdline, online google shell :)

Nowadays, few times you find yourself staring at a site with a big "woooOOOWWW!!"

Just extremely cool (-:
http://www.goosh.org/

Eat that egg, Steve !

Ohhhh... divine justice! ... deep thanks unnamed Hungarian guy,
Heroe of the f*cked citizens whose government plays bed-games with M$
Enjoy. Plenty.
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/05/ballmer-egg-attack-video-is-here.html

debian openssl bug

It has been blogged everywhere ... but the problem it's not the bug itself , "errare humanum est " ... and that's ~fair enough.

What's irritating --AGAIN!-- is Debian attitude of not feeding patches back upstream, specially when messing with such security sensitive packages, doing this would have effectively caught the bug and --albeit some deserved flame-- would have void the current situation.

By this arrogant attitude, they break the very power of FLOSS: collaboration, cross-fertilization, moooore eyes on your source.

Another thing to note: let's push against monocultures, that is: the more different distros and FLOSS OSes ... the better!

And now: something [not] completely different ...


img source: kriptopolis.org

Remotely loadable NIC firmware, what a good idea! ...

, for remotely creating an ad-hoc hardware-level firewall.

Ohh ... wait! now there are two firewalls (?), guess which will win =)
http://www.links.org/?p=330

Behind The Scenes of Google Scalability

Cool tech details about the approach and tools
used at Google for handling such beastie amount of workload:

http://highscalability.com/behind-scenes-google-scalability

[en] when privacy concerns ... US doesn't differ from China

We all know how US sucks, specially when it comes to privacy (I wonder how much time will they be able to keep the hypocrisy of their freedom respect), and it's good to see it confirmed with actual metrics.

The bad news is that the planet if decaying altogether ... the good news is that my country is not so bad :-D (aguante, Argentina!).

From http://www.privacyinternational.org/ via
boingboing: Privacy State of The Planet:

Using mutt for gmail via IMAP

You use mutt, you love it. You hate the user interface "latency" of every other MUA, and the fact that no other MUA has "got" how to handle mail threading as mutt does.
BUT also you, a true road warrior, want mail(box) availabilty and plenty of storage.
Well, recently gmail added IMAP support, with a very good support of the standard AND a well thought mapping between gmail labels and IMAP folders ( "virtual" folders).

The good news is that you can link your beloved mutt to gmail, use IMAP folders and also use SMTP TLS authentication via smtp.gmail.com

Here is a copy of my .mutt/muttrc (obviously must change "username" and other stuff):

## ~/.mutt/muttrc
set from=username@gmail.com
set realname="JuanJo seC"
set reverse_name=yes
set reverse_realname=no
set imap_user = 'username@gmail.com'
set spoolfile = imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX
#set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp -C$HOME/.mutt/ssmtp.conf"
set smtp_url="smtp://username@smtp.gmail.com:587/"
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
#set record=+sent-mail-`date +%Y`
set record="+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"
# previously do:  mkdir -p ~/.mutt/cache/{headers,bodies}
set header_cache="~/.mutt/cache/headers"
set message_cachedir="~/.mutt/cache/bodies"
set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates 
set move=no
set delete=yes 
set edit_hdrs
set include
set reply_to
set abort_nosubject=no
alternates '(username|altusername)([-+].*)?@.*'
set hdr_format="%4C %Z %{%m/%d} %-15.15F (%4c) %s" # format of the index

hdr_order From: Date: User-Agent: X-Mailer To: Cc: Reply-To: Subject:
ignore *
unignore From: Date: User-Agent: X-Mailer To: Cc: Reply-To: Subject:
my_hdr Reply-To:

# setup gmail filters to apply the corresp. labels:
mailboxes ! =ml-lug-list =ml-lug-org =[Gmail]/Drafts "=[Gmail]/All Mail"

set editor="jed %s -l ~/.mutt/jed.mutt.sl"
set alias_file=~/.mutt/mail_aliases
source ~/.mutt/mail_aliases

send-hook . 'set realname="JuanJo seC"'
## hack to make  $reverse_name and 'my_hdr From:' work ok (eg mlists)
send-hook . 'set from=username@gmail.com'
send-hook . 'unmy_hdr From:'
###
send-hook . 'set signature=~/.signature'

#send-hook lug-list 'set record=+sent-lug-list'
send-hook lug-.+@lugmen.org.ar 'my_hdr From: JuanJo seC <username+mlist@gmail.com>
subscribe lug-.+@lugmen.org.ar

Very cool to experiment folder switching in mutt using:
'c' ("Open Mailbox")
TAB (will show all IMAP folders)
TAB (again: will show only the 'mailboxes' mutt var)

And here is my jed rc:

% ~/.mutt/jed.mutt.sl
% emacs keybinding for jed:
() = evalfile("emacs");  
% Find signature begin, position cursor there:
if (re_fsearch("^--")) {
 call("previous_line_cmd");
} else {
 % else search headers end
 re_fsearch("^$");
 call("next_line_cmd");
}
push_mark();

Yeahh... finally I can read mailing lists with an interface that doesn't suck! 8)
Enjoy!