Something that always bugged me, was the speed of the /dev/urandom device, which provides random data. I needed it to benchmark some network devices and urandom just wasn't fast enough for that :-D
Anyway, openssl provides also a way to generate some random data, which is much faster ...

I've just received a PDF that I wanted to convert for my ebook-reader, but it was protected with a password + was restricted for printing. So I didn't have a chance to convert it into a suitable format for it. ahm... aren't there some tools around to decrypt ...

It's about time for a new post.. ;-)
Recently I've installed cygwin again on one of my Windows boxes, because I was in need of some essential *nix tools, especially netcat, whois, nslookup, dig, awk, grep etc.
Well, now that I ended up installing new apps every few minutes ...