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It took me some time to find out how to do this, so I’ll post it here hoping that someone will find it useful.
First of all, “fidsk -l” won’t show all your FreeBSD disklabels, you’ll have to do “cat /proc/partitions” to find the partition you wan’t to mount. If the Kernel has support for disklabels […]

When you have accounts in dozens and dozens of servers, it could be hard to replicate and keep track of all your configuration files (aka. rc files). To be honest, that’s the reason why I never used rc files in the past, and always tried to stick with the default behavior of programs. But, for […]

Have you ever ssh’ed into a remote server and wondered if you could run a program using the connection from that remote server in a transparent and easy way?
Well, you can and it’s quite simple. Here’s the recipe for Linux.
1. Install tsocks using your Linux distribution package manager (preferably) or compiling from source.
2. Add a […]

Beware of the whois service. There’s a lot of people in the world spying whois queries to steal domain names.
Back in August I was looking for a cool name for my company, and the domain name was the starting point. To tell you the truth, insophia.com was not the first one at all, although I’m […]

Email obfuscation techniques are used to hide email address from spammers. They’re used to show email addresses in web pages without the risk of exposing them to spam bots which constantly crawl the web harvesting for them.
In this article, I’ll describe 3 techniques I’ve used to obfuscate email address.

It is over, but not in a traditional sense. I mean, I still receive loads of junk mail daily but they all go straight to the “Spam folder” so I never get to see them, pretty much as if I had never received them. Spam is just something I don’t care anymore.
For me, it’s quite […]

Today, while working on a project at Insopha, we were parsing some HTML code using BeautifulSoup for screen scraping purposes when we faced a maximum recursion depth exceeded runtime error. At first we thought it was caused by some bug in the BeautifulSoup library, but then we realized that the Python interpreter was detecting […]

Are you using Mutt and wondering whether it’s better to use mbox (mailbox) or maildir for mail storage?. I hope this post will help you decide.
Here I publish a simple benchmark results of the time it takes mutt to read/open a folder with 28.000 emails.
First, some notes about the tests:

software: mutt 1.5.13 compiled with […]

Have you ever stumbled upon a semi-frozen Linux server without being able to reboot it because of some processes waiting in uninterruptible sleep for some I/O, while still being able to login through SSH?
I have. More than once. So why not just force a hardware reset, writing some garbage to restricted I/O ports or memory […]

This is a pretty simple PHP script that allows you to access your (OpenVPN-based) VPN status (such as connected hosts, received/transferred bytes, etc) through a web page. It fetches the information using OpenVPN management console and displays it in a web-friendly way.