First time driving a manual car on the Highway

stick-shiftToday was my 5th lesson out of 10, learning how to drive a manual car.

My instructor took me up Bathurst, on to Highway 7 and then up the 404 Highway.

Even though I stalled the car once, it was awesome.

Driving with speed in the higher gears turns out to be much easier than getting started from a stop in first gear.

 

 

XRDP

Having recently discovered XRDP, I think this method of remote desktop into a Linux based system is just awesome!

It provides a ‘Microsoft Remote Desktop’ compatible Terminal server, which you can connect using the native Windows RDP Client.

Other options to remotely connect to a Linux Machine include:

  1. VNC
  2. X2GO
  3. NX – FreeNX
  4. X11 forwarding – though I have never tried this method before
  5. SPICE

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Arch Linux

 

Best known for its bleeding edge software packages, package manager, and online documentation, I will be taking a closer look Arch Linux soon.

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Google Reader to be discontinued starting July 1 2013

From Google’s Blog:

We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months.

 

While I have used Google Reader in the past, I really have not been using it regularly more recently. That said, I will probably miss the clean Google interface of Google Reader.

One of the best features of Google Reader was to get old blog posts simply by entering in the website URL since Google had already cached old entries, making it super easy to read old articles from any given blog.

 

This entry was posted on March 14, 2013, in Google.

Cat Karat Packet Builder

Just came across this Networking Tool. Look forward to trying it soon.

https://sites.google.com/site/catkaratpacketbuilder/

Cat Karat Packet Builder is a is a handy, easy to use IP4, IP6, IP4/IP6 tunnels, PPoE, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, VRRP, IGMP, ARP, DHCP , OAM, VLAN (Q in Q), MPLS, Spanning tree BPDU and LLDP packet generation tool that allows to build custom packets for firewall or target testing and has integrated scripting ability for automated testing .
This Packet Builder enables the user to specify the entire contents of the packet from the GUI. In addition to building packets. Packet Builder also supports saving packets to packet files and sending packets to network. It can be used at all kinds of network areas like traffic generator, packet generator or protocol simulator.
This project also provides a packet capture tool. It is designed for use by anyone who wants to inject packets into a network and/or observe packets exiting a network.Usually packet operation by following protocol stack is limited to command line interface. With this tool, all user have to do is clicking the screen, which almost everybody can do.

Migrating email from Gmail to Office365 using imapsync

To migrate email from Gmail to Office365, start by logging into Gmail, and hiding all the labels that are not to be migrated and enable IMAP access.

Create the Office365 account and obtain the IMAP server address, mine was pod51010.outlook.com,

Install imapsync using either: apt-get install imapsync   or yum install imapsync

Fill in the details below with the appropriate usernames and passwords and execute the command below:


imapsync --buffersize 8192000 --nosyncacls --subscribe 
--syncinternaldates --host1 imap.gmail.com --user1 
USERNAME@gmail.com --password1 GMAILPass --ssl1 
--port1 993 --host2 pod51010.outlook.com --user2 
OFFICE365User --password2 OFFICE365Pass --ssl2 
--port2 993 --noauthmd5 --useheader 'Message-ID' 
--skipsize