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tmux - where have you been all my life?

May 19, 2016 • command line, linux, screen

Yesterday I discovered tmux - what an awesome command line tool! So powerful, yet so easy to use (and configure!). If you haven't heard of tmux before, but have used GNU screen then tmux is basically...

Using expect-lite to automate a Shibboleth 3 IDP deployment via ansible

October 7, 2015 • ansible, expect-lite, linux

I was automating the shibboleth 3 IDP installer in Ansible and came across expect-lite (apt-get install expect-lite). It's a minimal wrapper around expect - a tool used for automating interactive comm...

Ghetto startup services using screen

November 19, 2013 • daemon, fedora, ipython notebook

Screen is one of my favourite Unix/Linux command line tools. In a nutshell it lets you spawn an interactive terminal session, disconnect from it, and connect back to it at a later date (particularly u...

Shibboleth SSO for small business

August 14, 2012 • java, linux, shibboleth

Recently my team completed a Single Sign On (SSO) project - we used an Open Source SSO implementation called Shibboleth. In total it took about 8 weeks to get this into production. Rather than list co...

mod_pam/winbind apache authentication

July 2, 2010 • linux, pam, samba

Introduction/Pre-requisites The Winbind NTLM Authentication configuration for squid and apache approach to AD authentication is good and all, but it does not work in IE8 over https. An alternate metho...

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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
A vibe-coded Adobe suite written in Rust, cross-platform with GPU acceleration. I am going to have to give these a try.
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
OpenAI's announcement for GPT-6, rolling out across ChatGPT alongside what it calls Intelligent UI: responses that arrive with clickable buttons, forms and charts instead of plain text. The notable shift is the model composing an interface on the fly rather than just answering in prose.
'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death
404 Media visits Jonathan, the Seychelles giant tortoise who has lived on St Helena since 1882 and was already mature when he arrived, putting his age at around 190 years. The piece looks at what researchers hope a creature that has outlived every human record can tell us about longevity.
BIGWORDS.PAGE: Turn any screen into a sign
Type a message and it fills the entire screen of whatever device you point at it: phone, tablet or TV. Pitched for welcome signs, timers and Wi-Fi passwords, with no app, no account and no cost. The kind of single-purpose web tool that earns its bookmark.
Hacking This BYD Was Too Easy
Four Corners finds a passwordless way into the BYD Shark 6, then remotely plays with its lights, locks, wipers, speakers and microphone. Damn it—this was going to be my next car.
neat-annotations: Hand-drawn CSS annotations
Hand-drawn arrows and handwritten callouts for the web, all in one CSS file. No JavaScript, no build step—just a little personality for your page.
Telstra Outage: The Night a Network Decided the Year Was 2006
One bad GPS clock, one NTP timing loop, and Telstra's network thought it was 2006. Certs, DNS, time—the sysadmin trifecta strikes again, with time taking the lead.
Bonsai 2 27B
Another model for the local-AI shortlist: PrismML says ternary weights shrink Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB while retaining 98.2% of its benchmark score.
My AI Agent That Loves to Talk to Scammers
Scammers have AI callers now, so Paul Nevin built an AI honeypot to keep them talking and map their playbook. Some things never change—only the tools.
fugleramme: E-Ink Bird Frame for Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi identifies garden birds by sound using local AI, then displays them on e-ink as hand-cut 19th-century illustrations. Delightful.