Computers
Scary stuff
Submitted by pwnell on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 11:03My new MacBook Pro 17" i7 laptop is faster in the SunSpider benchmark than my Mac Pro that is 2 years old (275ms vs. 307ms). Single Quad Core i7 2.66GHz 8GiB vs Dual Quad Core Xeon 2.8GHz 18GiB RAM.
When your new CRT SSL certificate does not load
Submitted by pwnell on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 07:44I had this error when I tried to install an SSL certificate a client gave me:
[Thu Aug 12 17:30:37 2010] [error] Unable to configure RSA server private key
[Thu Aug 12 17:30:37 2010] [error] SSL Library Error: 185073780 error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch
The reason for this was me that was brain dead. But I am posting this so that you can see how to compare the .crt file and the corresponding .key file:
Server Certificate:
Cannot connect to a network share by netbios name?
Submitted by pwnell on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 09:37I recently had the odd situation where trying to connect to a shared printer on a Windows XP workstation, a member of the AD domain, did not work. It failed to connect. However, connecting using the IP address of the host worked just fine.
DNS entries were all registered correctly for the netbios name, and pinging the host from the server resolved it just fine. No firewalls were blocking file/print sharing ports, file and print sharing was turned on...
Ubuntu 10.04 x64 and Sun JDK 1.6
Submitted by pwnell on Sun, 05/23/2010 - 22:49If you are in the same boat as I am, upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 you will find Sun's JDK not to be present after the upgrade. Trying to apt-get it does not work since the package is not present in the default sources.list. I usually download it from http://www.java.com/, and use
sh jdk-6u20-linux-x64.bin
to execute it. In my case I received this error:
Office 2010 Professional Plus on Win 7 breaks Excel file associations
Submitted by pwnell on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 17:48I have just removed Office 2007 Professional and installed Office 2010 Professional Plus RTM on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine. I chose the x64 bit version of Office.
However, all my .xls and .xlsx file associations were missing. And it did not help going to File -> Properties -> Change association as no matter what I did, I could not add Excel to the list of applications. No amount of Repair / etc worked.
How to remove a file in unix with a leading dash in it's name?
Submitted by pwnell on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 10:33That was the question I asked myself recently when I had a file called --exclude in the root of my filesystem. These commands all failed:
rm --exclude
rm "--exclude"
rm \-\-exclude
rm ??exclude
So I found the solution - so simple it embarrassed me. Just add the full path:
rm /--exclude
or tell the command line parser to stop interpreting options:
rm -- --exclude
Easy!
