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Open source curl is one of best & stable http client tool as well as library. In this article, we’ll see how can we use libcurl library as well as curl command line utility for two way client authentication.
Using libcurl library for HTTPS client authentication:
Here are the basics steps for the client setup before going […]

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This article covers to setup both client and server for SSL authentication.
Consider we have java server and keytool utility comes with java sdk.
To create a server certificate follow these steps:
    1. Create the keystore.    2. Export the certificate from the keystore.    3. Sign the certificate.    4. Import the certificate into a trust-store: a repository of […]

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Before going into any details of SSL, best thing is to know the following terminology and file formats. HTTP(s) is basically used for secure transactions in HTTP like payments etc.
HTTPS : HTTP protocol on Secure shell which is encrypted to outside for any communication exchange. That way, it is quite secure in HTTP communication.
Keystore : […]

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Legend goes that King Veeraballa of Vijayanagara once lost his way in forest. Hungry and tired, he came upon a lone hut in the thick forest where he met an old woman.When he asked for food, she gave him baked beans (’Benda Kalu’ in Karnataka).The King found this humble meal taste better than the richest […]

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 One of well known novels of Jeffery Archer would be ‘Paths of Glory’, a biography of a world renounced mountaineer, George Mallory. Mallory is the first person to target Everest as per the known resources. The mysterious disappearance of George Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine at 1924 Everest expedition - is still a […]

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1. Firmware update ?

Download the latest firmware based on the player model from the url http://www.sandisk.com/DriverDownload/index.asp .
Then, connect the device to the PC and then, you see a new drive E:\sansa e260R.
Drag and drop the firmware unzipped file to this drive.
Disconnect the device and restart player. Verify the firmware version through settings.

2. Put Sansa […]

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When you are working with an MNC, it’s pretty common to have interactions with onsite team Vs offsite teams. Problems comes when your calender tool not properly convert the appointments between the time zones. These are the very common Time conversions used perticularly by professionals from Indian Sub Continent.

Time Zone                      Standard Time & […]

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Firefox has awesome features as everybody knows and one of which is this search plugin. Creating search plugin doesn’t take more than 2 minutes in firefox. Just follow the steps below blindly.
0. Basic requirement you should have firefox installed in your system.
1. Navigate to the searchplugins directory of you firefox installation.
2. open a file called […]

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It’s been a while updating my blog, I know. Of course, ups and downs are common in any life cycle whether it is human beings or a software development or a blog too. Ya, I know that’s too much of philosophical for nothing. Yes yes, now i understand the cost of shifting one company […]

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free ebook downloads
flazx.com
holyplanets.com
http://ftp.anyhost.ru/books/www.krf.bsu.by/
Placement questions
http://www.cracktheinterview.com/adfaqpublish.html
Latex
Using ttf fonts with latex
http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm
Online C reference
Programming in C UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C.
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/
Probability of Theory: The logic of science
Statistical Natural Language Processing: Reading list
Statistical Data Mining Tutorials by Andrew More from CMU
Graphical Models Reading group
Information Theory (Short and good one, gives enough information about entropy and diffferent kinds of […]

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