jrwarwick

# just keep running count of seconds gone by, printing to console periodicially.
# Useful as rough "stopwatch" when you need to prove to your netadmin that your ssh sessions are getting disconnected regularly.
BEGIN=$(date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S") ; while [ 1=1 ] ; do echo "$(( $(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S') - $BEGIN ))" ; sleep 300 ; done

# Quick and dirty terminal-based test of (HTTPS) SSL connectivity and get the cert expiry properties
echo | openssl s_client -showcerts -connect foohost.bardomain.tld:443 | openssl x509 -noout -dates

## Thought: what belongs in here versus .profile as an alias/function? 
## Probably anything that you aren't going to call often enough to warrant spending neurons on memroizing even the alias/func name.
## in which case most of what follows should actually go elsewhere.

IISResetMe

using namespace System.Net.Sockets
using namespace System.Net.Security
using namespace System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates

function ConvertFrom-X509Certificate {
    param(
        [Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]
        [X509Certificate2]$Certificate
    )

boredzo

/*skew takes an array of six angles:
 *x along y
 *x along z
 *y along x
 *y along z
 *z along x
 *z along y
 */
module skew(dims) {
matrix = [

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000