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OpenSSL unable to write 'random state' 4 Apr 2009 | 12:07 am
The Fix: There's a .rnd file that OpenSSL needs to write to. You should change the ownership to the proper user and group. Typically it's in the $HOME directory: If this doesn't work, check $RANDFIL...
MySQL DNS Lookups 21 Jan 2009 | 02:41 am
A couple days after xmas while I wanted to kill myself due to having the Norovirus I got a call that our database servers at servercentral were all down. Sweet timing. Working next to a puke bowl I go...
Linux Routing Multiple IPs 21 Jan 2009 | 02:18 am
I added some more IPs to a server today and it changed the default outgoing IP. Looking at route -n it became obvious that the gateway for the new IPs became the default gateway. This messed up a bunc...
gem install mysql OS X 23 Nov 2008 | 03:17 pm
After having trouble installing mysql support for python, I ran into similar problems with ruby. To fix, first I installed a new version of MySQL from mysql.com. I'm not sure if this is necessary sinc...
OS X How to fix ABC, FOX, The CW, etc Episode Players 15 Nov 2008 | 05:39 pm
My new most hated company: Move Networks. <rant>You guys suck and it's no surprise you have an office in Ann Arbor. If you wanted real talent you'd be in East Lansing. TV shows were way better to watc...
Verisign Which Certificate Chain 10 Oct 2008 | 12:12 am
Verisign has 4 SSL certificate versions. Each one uses a different intermediate CA certificate. This is the SSLCertificateChainFile in apache httpd. Here's a two step method to finding which one you n...
Oops - Downtime 9 Oct 2008 | 09:47 am
Oops I managed to not check the results of "/etc/init.d/httpd reload" after setting up another site on the server. To avoid this in the future, I added the following two lines to the end of the reload...
Apache Block Backup Files 9 Oct 2008 | 02:19 am
A really simple way to "hack" into someone's site is by checking for common filenames with backup extensions. For example, check this google search for config filetype:php~ Since backup files don't a...
PayFlow Pro POST Fields Encoding 7 Oct 2008 | 10:27 am
I was editing the PayFlow Pro example API by Radu Manole (can't find link right now - check PDN forums) to add more fields to the authorization function and decided to redo this part: to something a ...
Coda Missing File Browser 18 Sep 2008 | 02:58 am
I'm probably one of Coda's biggest users. It's rarely ever closed and I have over 100 sites setup in it (site search box FTW). Unfortunately, this morning it quit working so I had to switch to my alte...
