Ahmed Sajjad Zaidi

Just realised that Linux doesnt support SD cards due to NDA issues. More waste.

Got the iPaq h3850 on Saturday from Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku. They were only selling iPaqs at their ‘outlet’ store on the 8th floor. Im not sure what that means, but they might be used/display models. The TLUG meeting went pretty well. I specially liked the first part by Simon Cozens who talked about his […]

Ive been meaning to buy a PDA for quite some time now, but shy away at the last minute. I think it will be a big help in organizing my life (actually, I just need a new toy). This past week, I tried to order the iPaq H3950 from Murauchi‘s site, but had to go through so much […]

Mozilla seems to be getting slower and slower on my machine. I am hoping for both an upgrade and a faster machine soon, but for now, Ill have to settle for an alternative. I was a big fan of Opera and paid the $35 registration fee, but more than once Ive caught it using more […]

Someone had this to say about Linux and Windows on the TLUG mailing list today which I thought was great: “To me, the difference between Linux and Windows is like the difference between a restaurant and a party at someone’s house. If you’d prefer to hang out in the +kitchen at a party, watching, helping, tasting, interfering […]

With Exim 4, getting SMTP Auth to work is as simple as putting these lines in the ‘AUTHENTICATION CONFIGURATION’ section: plain: driver=plaintext public_name=PLAIN server_condition=”\ ${if crypteq{$3}{\ ${lookup {$2}lsearch{/etc/exim/users}{$value}{failed}}}{yes}{no}}” server_set_id = $2 login: driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN server_prompts = Username:: : Password:: server_condition=”\ ${if crypteq{$2}{\ ${lookup {$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/users}{$value}{failed}}}{yes}{no}}” server_set_id = $1 Then create the file […]

Finally managed to have a system where I can login to my home machine, with a private IP address, from outside. The trick is to create an ssh tunnel to a machine with a global IP address. I did it using this command: ssh -f -R8008:localhost:22 sajjad@global_machine ‘while true;do sleep 100000;done’ This creates a reverse […]