Category Archives: tips and tricks

To quickly test an imap server using telnet

Posted on January 29, 2010 by adriano

telnet server 143 01 LOGIN username password 02 LIST “” * 03 SELECT mailbox Line 02 shows you all available mailboxes. To show the information about a mailbox: 04 STATUS mailbox (MESSAGES) Between () you can place one or more … Continue reading →

Posted in How To, Server, Unix, shell, tips and tricks | Tagged | Leave a comment

Nokia 5230 isync plugin

Posted on December 14, 2009 by adriano

Shockingly it doesn’t exist on the Nokia website and the telephone doesn’t appear in the list of the supported! The solution: 1- Download and unzip this: Nokia 5230 isync plugin 2- Place the bundle in “/Library/PhonePlugins/” (create it if it … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobiles, tips and tricks | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Using R for Introductory Statistics

Posted on November 27, 2009 by adriano

Data Quickly entering in small data sets is the c function: >typos = c(2,3,0,3,1,0,0,1) >typos [1] 2 3 0 3 1 0 0 1 Note: The assignment operator is a = and it can be a <- [1] indicates the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ph.D., Programming, tips and tricks | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Latex Test Post

Posted on November 21, 2009 by adriano
Posted in Programming, tips and tricks | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The ssl perfect guide

Posted on July 29, 2009 by adriano

Unfortunately this website doesn’t have a name, nerthless the explanations are really accurate: http://209.197.80.93/article/setting-ssl-certificates-apache

Posted in How To, Server, Unix, tips and tricks | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Configuring PostFix

Posted on June 30, 2009 by adriano

Once postfix is running… it is better to store the main.cf in a post! I spent to much time # See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version # Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first # … Continue reading →

Posted in Serveradmin, Unix, tips and tricks | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Accelerometers and Flight Dynamics

Posted on March 29, 2009 by adriano

    roll = -arctan2(acceleration.x, -acceleration.z);    pitch = arctan2(acceleration.y, -acceleration.z);

Posted in Mobiles, Ph.D., Programming, tips and tricks | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Dev Team releases free iPod touch 2G jailbreak

Posted on March 12, 2009 by adriano

Well, that didn’t take long — hot on the heels of the $15 NitroKey Slipstream iPod touch 2G jailbreak, the Dev Team’s released their free version. Continue

Posted in Apple, Work In Progress, tips and tricks | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Debian 5.0 Lenny released!

Posted on February 15, 2009 by adriano

Wow wow wow wow wow! A new release have been burned out… cool guys cool! We can’t wait to update our servers. Let’s take a look on what this release will bring us.

Posted in Unix, tips and tricks | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Connect POP3 account via telnet

Posted on February 13, 2009 by adriano

Ok… it happens sometimes we need to check our pop3 account and we don’t really want to configure our mail client. The solution is to just open our terminal and telnet it: telnet mail.scoditti.com 110 Trying 82.246.188.84… Connected to mail.scoditti.com. … Continue reading →

Posted in OS X, Unix, tips and tricks | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment