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I'm sure you have wondered at all those cipher suits SSL supports and watched in wonder as to what the hell does all those weird abbreviation mean. To find out what all cipher suits your openssl installation supports try, $ openssl ciphers -v ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH     Au=RSA  Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH     Au=RSA  Enc=AES(256)  Mac=SHA384 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AES(256)  Mac=SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA    SSLv3 Kx=ECDH     Au=RSA  Enc=AES(256)  Mac=SHA1 ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA  SSLv3 Kx=ECDH     Au=ECDSA Enc=AES(256)  Mac=SHA1 SRP-DSS-AES-256-CBC-SHA SSLv3 Kx=SRP      Au=DSS  Enc=AES(256)  Mac=SHA1 S...

I f you have a HP printer at your office or at your home and if you are a vivid user of Ubuntu, then you definitely might have tried to install the printer driver for the same. I have been trying to do that for a couple of years! Alas but things didn't worked for me, mainly because of the fact that hp doesn't provide drivers for the printer in the cds, but rather asks to use a utility called hplip (an abbreviation for HP Linux Imaging and Printing). For one thing in Ubuntu one can install hplip using the package manager apt . You can install hplip using this command in an Ubuntu Box. sudo apt-get install hplip-gui After successful installation of hplip, one can run the program hplip form command line by the command hp-setup . The first window looks like this, where-in one have to select the type of connection with the printer. I have a network printer attached, hence I optionally selected to input the IP address of the printer. After hplip has obtained the i...