Category: Technology

Generating an SSL CSR and key

To generate an SSL certificate signing request (CSR) with key you can do this: openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout bla.key -out bla.csr Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 week ago, on May 10, 2012, at 15:05 | No comments

Creating a drbd for an existing Xen domain

I needed some VMs to be available on a backup node, which I accomplished with the distributed remote block device, or DRBD. My host machine is Debian 6. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 weeks ago, on May 01, 2012, at 18:05 | 1 comment

Internet Explorer in VirtualBox 4.1 in Ubuntu 10.10

I've been needing IE for testing payformystay.com for some time now, but now I'm studying and I need it to work with some interactive Silverlight stuff. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on April 16, 2012, at 14:04 | No comments

What all programmers must know about character encoding

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By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on April 12, 2012, at 15:04 | No comments

Fixing mailscanner insecure dependancy

Mailscanner cut out on me, without errors in the log. It was only after turning on debug (which prevents backgrounding and it then only processes one batch) that it showed me. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 months ago, on February 25, 2012, at 15:02 | No comments

Commenting fixed for blog.bigsmoke.us

To my great surprise, thanks to Tobias Sjösten, I found out that commenting was broken on blog.bigsmoke.us. I couldn't pinpoint the exact problem, but it must have been introduced with some WordPress upgrade somewhere along the line. I never noticed it because it did work for logged in users. (If I must really guess, I suspect a silent ReCaptcha version compatibility problem.) Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 months ago, on February 04, 2012, at 13:02 | No comments

MediaWiki ConfirmEdit/QuestyCaptcha extension

Since I moved my LDAP wiki over from DokuWiki to MediaWiki, I've been burried by a daily torrent of spam. Just like with my tropical timber investments wiki, the ReCaptcha extension (with pretty intrusive settings) doesn't seem to do much to stop this shitstream. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 months ago, on January 17, 2012, at 15:01 | No comments

Safari: don’t give gzipped content a .gz extension

Yesterday, while helping Caloe with the website for her company De Buitenkok, I came across the mother of all stupid bugs in Safari . Me having recently announced payformystay.com, I loaded it up in Apple's hipster browser only to notice that the CSS wasn't loaded. Oops! Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 months ago, on January 16, 2012, at 00:01 | No comments

Announcing payformystay.com

Januari the first, a very good day to announce a new project that I've been working on this past year. Which I did, on Facebook and Twitter. Now, five days later, it's time te repeat the announcement to give it some much-needed link-juice. I know that normal people don't follow this blog. (I don't even follow this blog!) But it does have PageRank. And it does have 4000 monthly visitors. Time for some link-whoring! Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 months ago, on January 06, 2012, at 23:01 | No comments

Setting max memory of a Xen Dom0

I've had some issues with Xen crashing when I wanted to create a DomU for which the Dom0 had to shrink (see bug report). Therefore, it's better to force a memory limit on the dom0. That is done with a kernel param. Read More »
By halfgaar, 8 months ago, on September 07, 2011, at 10:09 | 2 comments