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I don't have a ton of systems to admin, but for SSH I use a key that requires a passphrase, then I can use it for 3 hours (configurable, but that's a reasonable number for home use.) using the information at http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/

Is that really such a bad trade off? I can authenticate once and for three hours I can access any of my machines without using a password again.

That was a new one on me; I hadn't encountered that award before. Would something like:

<REPORT_NAME sed 's/[^a-z0-9,.-]//gi' > REPORT.out

be preferable in this instance?

Personally, I'd go with sed 's/[^a-z0-9,.-]//gi' REPORT_NAME > REPORT.out, but maybe that's just the version of sed I'm using?

That was a new one on me; I hadn't encountered that award before. Would something like:

<REPORT_NAME sed 's/[^a-z0-9,.-]//gi' > REPORT.out

be preferable in this instance?

Not 100% sure if/how self-signed certs might differ from this, but we made our own certification authority for internal use using these instructions then it's possible convert the root certificate from X509 to DER format like this:

openssl x509 -in ROOTCERT.pem -outtype DER -out ROOTCERT.der

... and now it can be opened and installed on your Symbian phone.

It's necessary to specify the trust level of the certificate after install to say for purposes you want to trust the certificate (to authenticate secure web sites, email, application installs, etc.) The method of doing this will vary by phone but IIRC my S60v3 phone prompted me at the moment of install, whereas my 9300 Communicator required setting manually in the security settings in Control Panel.

If you want to serve DER files from a web server, they should be delivered with mime type application/x-x509-ca-cert.

To install local CPAN modules, see:
http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/non-root /

Don't use kill -9
info
more info

Useless use of cat

There's a set of tutorials at http://sial.org/howto/openssl/ for things like making certificates, signing requests, and setting up a CA using OpenSSL. It has a makefile script to automate certificate signing.

yup, another one who fell into the useless use of cat trap!

Tsk. Useless use of "cat"!

cat office.doc | word2opendoc > opendoc.doc

Remember. "cat" means "concatenate". If you're not concatenating, don't use cat.

I will assume that I am not being trolled and attempt a meaningful response. I know there are several methods for setting up automounts on OS X and I *don't* use amd. I use the Automount via File method described here. I find this way let's me use the same maps in both the linux and OS X labs (although I do add the -P flag on OS X to make it use a "secure" port).
I can't truly troubleshoot your amd problem, but I can make a guess that the Finder was your real problem and not OS X. The Finder is in many ways the most frustrating leftover from OS 9. Would you do me a favor and try to repeat your AMD lockup? I bet you that you can ssh into the OS X box while the Finder's giving you the SBBOD and issue a 'killall Finder'. If you can browse the amd mountpoint from the CLI, then you know it's the Finder. I very infrequently resort to power cycling any Mac running OS X. No more often than I'd do for my Linux lab. Your post reminds me of one of the professors that asked to test out a linux box from me. He came back the next day and had this proud look on his face as he told me that he'd *crashed* linux. Of course, he'd done nothing of the sort. He just didn't know how to restart the X Server! Of course, I do long for virtual consoles on OS X- $deity forbid we be without another box to ssh from to rescue the hung Mac :-(
To sum up- I wouldn't compare OS X to Solaris. Solaris has been refined many times over as a server OS while OS X is aimed at the desktop (where I feel it really trounces the Solaris desktop). You are however, using anecdotal evidence from one application to judge an entire OS unstable and I think you need to reevaluate that before you draw any other rash conclusions from it. Pardon the gruff tones at the end- it's late here and I'm too tired to soften my language for general consumption.

Here is your useless use of kill -9 award.

Heck, the original had subtitles in it.

And the original was in German, too-- "Aus Pass!" and a gun usually learned one which button to hit...

Outlook Express does support SMTP AUTH, assuming you have the version from '98 or later, SPA turned off, and configured your mail server properly.

I know, as I have clients using Sendmail to relay; the main problem is that SMTP AUTH setup is not easy, as you have to compile SASL, sometimes OpenSSL, recompile sendmail with support for the previous, add configuration for the support, and configure SASL support and optionally generate SSL certificates.

Check out my sendmail site, or this other one (Sendmail w/ PostgreSQL support) for various SMTP AUTH/Sendmail related resources, they might help you get SMTP AUTH working right.

Okay, others who had those camera thingies have uploaded some of the pictures taken:

http://www.premier1.net/~rwkramer/

http://www.sial.org/sklyarov/ - mirror of above site, maybe more as others get posted.