Digital Identity
To begin with, the Samsung 305T is a fantastic screen, especially at the time it was introduced. It was just about the only competitor to Apple’s 30″ ACD and if you looked around a bit you could get it for quite a few bucks less than Apple’s version. It also beats Apple’s 30″ ACD hands down when it comes to specs.
However there are a few buts… Continued…
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– January 19, 2012
This post is about Apple + python, not apple pie though that would be a yummilicious post too. Continued…
– April 16, 2011
I recently had some fun reinstalling and rethinking my policies regarding to how I handle OS X, which files I use to modify behaivour etc.
While doing so I stumbled upon a file called ~/MacOSX/environment.plist. In this file you can add key’s which have strings as their pair to set environment variables.
– April 16, 2011
This always happens once every one to two years and always causes problems. So here’s how it needs to be done.
ssl_key_file = /some/path/to/a/domain.key.decrypted
ssl_cert_file = /some/path/to/al/dovecot-chain.pem
Because I use StartSSL I need to combine a few certificates to create a chain. I am class 2 verified so I need the local certificate and the Class 2.
cat domain.cert sub_class2.pem ca.pem >> /some/path/to/al/dovecot-chain.pem
Lighttpd annoyingly works just the other way around:
cat domain.cert domain.key.decrypted >> /etc/lighttpd/ssl/domain.crt
cat startcoom-root.pem sub_class2.pem >> /etc/lighttpd/ssl/startcom.crt
After that, you need the following in your Lighttpd configuration:
$SERVER["socket"] == "domain.tld:443" {
ssl.engine = "enable"
server.name = "domain.tld"
ssl.pemfile = "/etc/lighttpd/ssl/domain.crt"
ssl.ca-file = "/etc/lighttpd/ssl/startcom.crt"
}
If you’re using a wildcard certificate you can ditch the server.name directive.
– February 27, 2011
First, I don’t condone using any bittorent client for illegal activities such as breaching copyright. This post is not about that, it’s just about how to get deluge working. What you do with it is your business and I do not want to know nor do I care.
Deluge is one of the best torrent clients around with a multitude of options. It has a very pleasant design, that is, it start a true daemon where you can connect to through a console client, GTK UI or a web UI. Continued…
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– October 12, 2010
This post is going to be a rant because I really need to vent. If you are expecting a factual recount of the events that came to pass or have no feeling for the linguistic phenomenons known as irony and sarcasm this post is not for you so please leave this blog through the following link.
If not, please read on.
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– April 22, 2010
Recently we ran into a seriously weird problem at home.
Just to clarify our setup: we have a cable-modem that does about absolutely nothing, connected to a Debian Stable box with 2 interfaces that acts as our gateway, firewall. NAT.
First, DNS queries were randomly dropped or had serious issues trying to resolve which is extremely annoying as it slows down your internet experience quite a bit.
That turned out to be an issue we still haven’t figured out completely, it seems to have something to do with rtorrent opening a ridiculous amount of sockets and keeping those open so the kernel just kills or throws away other sockets it can’t handle anymore which turned out to be our DNS requests.
The other, far more troubling problem was that some sites, for no apparent reason were excruciatingly slow or just would not load at all.
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– April 11, 2010
We once built a small webapp for our home where we could keep track of who munched how many tosti’s and what those cost…
Looking at a recent SQL-dump we made for backuppurposes we came across this:
23:57 <@rem> the fuck did we do here
23:57 <@rem> INSERT INTO tostis (ID, User, Tostis, Cost, CostType, Time) VALUES
23:57 <@rem> (3, 2, 0, 5.22, 0x613a333a7b733a343a226b616173223b623a313b733a353a2262726f6f64223b623a303b733a373a226b657463687570223b623a303b7d, '2008-02-01 18:03:23'),
23:58 <@rem> ubersecure tosti's?
I lolled… That weird hexadecimal thing, that’s “kaas” also known as “cheese” in English.
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– January 5, 2010
Om maar weer eens pijnlijk duidelijk te maken: klok, klepel en falende support-artikelen die een helpdesk-medewerker voorgeschoteld krijgt.
– November 16, 2009
Though I am a fan of Debian and use it whenever I can in server environments it is sometimes frustrating that packages in Debian’s stable release are sometimes a tidbit outdated.
Though this generally isn’t a problem over at Inter-Actief we desperately need Python 2.6 on Debian Lenny, mainly due to the so much more excellent (and actually working) support for SSL.
After reading one hell of a lot of posts, blogs, looking around on the Debian Python project site and mail archives I concluded it would just be best and faster than actually waiting for packages by the Debian team to rebuild the python2.6 source-packages in experimental against de Debian Lenny base-system.
First and foremost I wish to express my gratitude and give credits to one of my fellow system admins at Inter-Actief and good friend Matthijs Kooijman for without his knowledge, patience and guidance it would have been one big hell for me to achieve this.
Now, let us begin… Continued…
– October 28, 2009
