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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, 9 years ago, on May 10, 2012, at 15:05 | Comments closed

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, 9 years 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, 9 years ago, on April 16, 2012, at 14:04 | Comments closed

What all programmers must know about character encoding

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By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on April 12, 2012, at 15:04 | Comments closed

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, 9 years ago, on February 25, 2012, at 15:02 | Comments closed

Why doesn’t he just…

You know the conversation. You had the conversation: “Why doesn't he just …” Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 years ago, on February 04, 2012, at 19:02 | Comments closed

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, 9 years ago, on February 04, 2012, at 13:02 | Comments closed

Psychopathic Saturday

I'm trying to pump up myself to write a piece of text about psychopathy. All three other group members already wrote their part. We're making a scientific poster titled “Is there a psychopath hidden in your brain?” But, do I even want to know? It's all very close to home, with a mother who's been accusing her ex-husband (my dad) of being a psychopath for, like, forever, and, simultaneously, this monkey in my brain, pointing it's accusative little finger straight at me. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 years ago, on January 21, 2012, at 14:01 | 5 comments

I am naked and feeling very vulnerable

There are many clever ways to tell you this. There are many ways to deceive. But in the end I feel that more often than not the deception merely serves to reinforce that image of a very vulnerable naked man. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 years ago, on January 20, 2012, at 00:01 | Comments closed

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, 9 years ago, on January 17, 2012, at 15:01 | 10 comments