I’m frequently required to quickly get a hold of a random password. I’m either resetting password for a client or I’m testing something and I need a throwaway set of credentials. There are many ways to generate a random password (using DuckDuckGo, online password generator, password manager, etc.
I remember using the web feeds (RSS and Atom) in Mozilla Firefox in the early 2000s. It was the time before social networks such as Facebook and Twitter took the web by storm. Sharing, liking, and retweeting didn’t exist at the time, and “following” certain blog or news site boiled down to bookmark the site.
I’m by no means a Python developer, but as a sysadmin, I’m constantly interacting with Python - my scripting language of choice. My preferred text editor is Vim, which I’ve been using for as long as I can remember.
I’ve never been a fan of bloating applications with unnecessary plugins and modules, and Vim is no exception.
Tesseract OCR package is available for CentOS 6 via EPEL yum repository, but unfortunately, at the time of writing this article, the latest available Tesseract version in EPEL is 3.0.4.
Installing Tesseract 4.0 from source is possible, but with some extra effort as CentOS 6 doesn’t come with Leptonica 1.
Dovecot is great POP3/IMAP mail server but its internal search mechanism falls short when dealing with large mailboxes. Search is not only super slow, but also extremely resource intensive on both CPU and disk IO front.
Offloading mail indexing and search to Apache Solr is not only recommended, but a must in such scenarios.