The Site With the Lamp: August 2005 Archives

Setting up a certificate authority

August 30, 2005

Having had yet another run in with Apache SSL (mod_ssl) and being very disapointed with the service of Thawte, I decided to have a go at setting up a certificate authority. Setting up a CA doesn't really serve any purpose...

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An even better file uploader

August 29, 2005

Rad Upload keeps getting better with each release. But the last release was exactly two months ago. So it's just the right time to come out with version 2.11. What's new in the new version? there is a boring bug...

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Apache2 SSL

August 26, 2005

My last run in with Apache SSL wasn't very pleasent. But that was with apache 1.3 where SSL support is not built in. Version 2.0 has built in support thanks to the export restrictions been done away with. So it's...

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Ramblings

August 25, 2005

So Google is starting an instant messaging service. The really wonderfull news is that it is based on Jabber. Three cheers for open source and four for jabber. While still on google, I finally signed up for a gmail account,...

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Trust Thawte?

August 22, 2005

Thawte proudly says everywhere on their site that 'it's a trust thing'. The question is can they be trusted? Recently I signed up with thawte's reseller program. The sign up process was protected by SSL. These guys after all are...

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more FC4 woes

August 21, 2005

Fedora Core 4 does not install the kernel sources as it should. It' probably time to switch to Debian but in the short term I need to make qemu work but that looks like a lot of hard work. As...

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Hello Python

August 18, 2005

The last time I learned a new programming language was in 1999. That was fortran. I was working on a quantum mechanics research project at university and Fortran is the language of choise when complex numbers are involved. Unlike almost...

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Qmail, Vpopmail and Binc

August 15, 2005

Two and a half years ago, when I first installed qmail, I can't say I did it properly. The reason for that is the over abundance of information on installing qmail. In the end I took a shortcut and followed...

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Qemu on FC4

August 13, 2005

Since upgrading to FC4 kqemu the, accelerator could not be used (since it's not compatible with the new kernel). That effectively means Qemu cannot be used at all because with out the accelerator the emulator is too painfully slow. Unfortunately...

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Apache 2

August 11, 2005

Though Apache 2 has been around for a long long time, I have been using apache 1.3 upto now, primarily because PHP can only be used with the Prefork model. But the time has come to move on or get...

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FC4: Hey where is my menu

August 10, 2005

After overcoming several pitfalls I successfully managed to boot up my Fedora Core 4 installation. Unfortunately it seems the worst is still to come. My first reaction after KDE started up was "Hey what have you done with the menu?"....

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Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4

August 9, 2005

Just completed an upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 4. The upgrade wasn't uneventfull. Things got off to a bad start when the CD device didn't get off well with the media but that was easily overcome. The...

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Applets and Native methods

August 5, 2005

Finally created that article on mixing JNI and applets that I have been threatening to write. It's the first update to the site in months and I am sure many people will find the article usefull. As I pointed out...

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