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I’m beginning to lose my mind with the amount of information I have to remember. This includes the passwords for nearly 200+ accounts that I have for my personal and web hosting business that I maintain.

Now, I could have setup a fancy database and encrypt the data using DES but that’s too much work and I want to be able to carry the data securely with me. So, what’s the answer? Enter IronKey.

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$78 for the 1GB version got me a USB key that has a built in Crypto chip that protects data using the same encryption algorithm as many governmental agencies. I wish that they would have developed the Linux drivers as well. It seems that they’re working on it but no news on when it’ll be released. Update: Core functions now available in Linux.

Note: Remember to carry it with you and don’t leave sitting around in the office. This has a threshold of 10 attempts for the account log-in, so try 10 times and you’ll erase everything permanently!

Of course, your other alternative is PassPack but you won’t have a cool all metal USB key that’s practically indestructible.

If you’re a Linux geek in the San Francisco bay area, then you should contribute to installfest.

Easy:

$ find [path] -user [user] -print | xargs rm -Rfv

Evidently the IT guys at Paris in Vegas don’t believe in upgrades:

This is actually very neat.

crap! Plesk with Qmail has some small bugs. To correct this particular issue, run the following command:

$ find /var/qmail/mailnames -type d -name ‘.*’ -a -not -name ‘.spamassassin’ -exec touch ‘{}’/maildirfolder \; -exec chown popuser:popuser ‘{}’/maildirfolder \;

Give it a few minutes…

Really easy! If you have an SSL certificate, you can setup pop3s, imaps and smtps by editing the following:

POP3: /usr/share/courier-imap/pop3d.pem
IMAP: /usr/share/courier-imap/imapd.pem

First, backup the existing files, then (use vi) remove the KEY And CERTIFICATE and replace them with your own. Once you’ve done this, run:

$ service courier-imap restart

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