• Enables you to access your mail anytime, anywhere.
• Does not slow you down. If we can improve the productivity of an e-mail user, we better do.
• Respects open standards and facilitate modern technologies. We value the vendor-neutrality that IMAP provides and are committed to be as interoperable as possible.
• Is efficient -- be it at conserving the network bandwidth, keeping memory use at a reasonable level or not hogging the system's CPU.
• Can be used on many platforms. One UI is not enough for everyone, but our IMAP core works fine on anything from desktop computers to cell phones and big ERP systems.
• Plays well with the rest of the ecosystem. We don't like reinventing wheels, but when the existing wheels quite don't fit the tracks, we're not afraid of making them work.

If my latest post on the topic did not tip you off, I am a Vim fan. So before some of you start stoning me, let me present you a list of "obscure Vim commands." What I mean by that is: a collection of commands that you might have not encountered before, but that might be useful to you. As a second disclaimer, I do not know which commands you might know and which one you find useful. So this list really is a collection of relatively less known Vim commands, but which can still probably be useful.

This is the channel for seminars, teaching and presentations connected with the ReTiS Lab.

webgen is a free, fast, powerful, and extensible static website generator.

Sometimes, all a geek needs is a quick way to generate a static site and put it up on a server or hosting service like Amazon S3 or GitHub Pages. Here it is list of static website generators that can be used for exactly this purpose.

Psychson - Phison 2251-03 (2303) Custom Firmware & Existing Firmware Patches (BadUSB)

Loesch, M.; Hufnagel, D. ; Steuer, S. ; Fabnacht, T. ; Schmeck, H.

A major component of the future Smart Grid is an adaptive demand side that allows to handle the fluctuating power supply based on renewable energies. In this paper, we present an evolutionary algorithm that allows for shifting electrical loads generated by heat pumps. Our approach is based on overheating the hot water storage in order to get a higher degree of freedom for scheduling. In our scenario, we assume time-variable price and load limitation signals as well as a prediction for local power generation from photovoltaic panels to incentivize the load shifting. Using these signals, we consider the future thermal demand to schedule the heat pump such that electricity costs are decreased. Our simulations show that heat pumps and hot water storages bear potential to shift loads over a time span of up to multiple hours, thus providing economical storage capacity. In doing so and based on electricity prices from the stock exchange, we were able to significantly decrease electricity costs for operating the heat pump.

Published in: Intelligent Energy and Power Systems (IEPS), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, time, or disk space.

git-annex is designed for git users who love the command line. For everyone else, the git-annex assistant turns git-annex into an easy to use folder synchroniser.

Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo. Like SSH secure shell, but allows mobility and more responsive and robust.

    First lets update the sources and grant sudo access to the default user. Also we are going to add "contrib" & "non-free" repositories that are not 100% FOSS as per the Debian Free Software Guidelines. "contrib" - repositories include packages which do comply with the DFSG, but may fail other requirements. For instance, they…

TextTest is an open source tool for text-based functional testing. This means running a program in lots of different ways from the command line, and using the text output produced as a means of controlling the behaviour of that application.

Tmux (short for "Terminal Multiplexer") lets us launch multiple terminals in a flexible layout on a single screen, so that we can work with them side by side. For example, on one pane we can edit some config files with Vim, while on the other we are using irssi to chat and on other pane, tailing some logs. Then open another window to update your system, and another to SSH to some servers. Navigating through them is just as easy as creating all these windows and panes. It is perfectly configurable and customizable so it can become an extension of your mind.