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WordPress upgrade
30 Sep 2007Today I upgraded WordPress, the system I use to host this blog. The current version is 2.3 – the upgrade was nice and smooth, just as described . Nothing more to say than: I am happy to have some security issues fixed.
Finally WLAN bridge with WPA
24 Sep 2007Ten days ago I installed my new Linksys Router WRT45G router and set up a wireless bridge for my home network. I had some problems with getting everything working like I wanted it to – see my post. Today I took another attempt and was successful. Now I got a secure wireless connection in bridge [...]
Securing mysql installations
In: Security
17 Apr 2007While installing the MySQL database for my blog I found out that securing a MySQL installation got much easier. I remember setting the password for root and removing the anonymous login manually but there is a script to do this, just call mysql_secure_installation answer some questions. See MySQL documentation for more.
Bugzilla insecure dependency problem
1 Mar 2007Lately I experienced problems with some bugzilla installations. For example when users tried to receive their password they got the error message Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Mail/Mailer/sendmail.pm line 17. It seems that this problem has something to do with conversation between different encodings used in special language templates (german, [...]
Requiring a client certificate
10 Feb 2007If you want to secure your web site you can configure your apache2 server to require a client certificate. You do this by adding the following to options to the ssl host configuration: SSLCACertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/CAcert.pem SSLVerifyClient require SSLVerifyDepth 10 To create a client certificate use the following commands openssl genrsa -out client.key 1024 openssl req [...]
Creating openssl certificates
10 Feb 2007I got so much response on my post about the certificate problems with apache2 and Firefox that I decided to post a howto about creating valid certificates with openssl. I am using an Ubuntu 6.10 server but there is no big difference to other distros except the directory structures. First you have to install openssl [...]
secure wireless lan
In: Security
2 Nov 2005On saturday I had to install another wireless lan and I used a D-Link DI-624+ router.When I searched for a method to generate a WEP or WPA password I found a very good page about the configuration of this router (its in german). It contains a link to software from a ct’ article that allows [...]
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- tompson: Hi Roman, my main class is a groovy class [...]
- Roman Gonzales: Hey quick question: your main class is a java class that calls the groovy classes or is your main [...]
- Nathan Rodriguez: i am only using free virus scanners like avast and avira but they seem to be great tools though:;` [...]
- sim4000: Yay, it works. Thank you! [...]
- Ewan Matthews: there would be a great demand for mobile browsers in the coming years that is for sure.;'- [...]
- Create executable jar package with dependencies
- Issues with Mylyn and JIRA 4.1
- Equals and HashCode and Hibernate
- Using twhirl with StatusNet
- Problems connecting with jconsole to linux jvm
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express and facebook app
- Error code 1920 when installing VMware converter
- tightvnc messes up keyboard layout after Ubuntu upgrade
- The old Bold and the new Bold
- Windows Media player streaming problem
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- RT @ceoSteveJobs: Game Center was almost called Pong. LOL
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