Posted on Thu 21 August 2014 in FreeBSD • Tagged with Nginx, openssl, ssl, tls
The guys from bsdnow.tv did a great job by putting together a tutorial with some more details on a proper Nginx configuration and a very good choice for SSL parameters. There where some parts I didn't know neither and the tutorial is create as always.
If you want to …
Posted on Sun 17 August 2014 in Linux • Tagged with KDE, Fedora
A quite useful extension for my KDE application is **yakuake**. In my default configuration this shows a terminal window by pressing F12 button and hides the windows by pressing it again. This is widely known as the Quake terminal style from the game which had this behaviour included for its …
Posted on Tue 29 July 2014 in Blogging
This post is mostly about the blog itself. As you may noticed I am migrated the blog to full HTTPS the last week. This now should allow you to access the site without any certification warnings over HTTPS. All contents should be migrated. There should be a working redirection mechanism …
Posted on Mon 26 May 2014 in Fedora • Tagged with dualboot, Fedora, Grub, Linux, UEFI
Yes it is possible! Even with secure boot enabled!
On my workstation I use a dual boot configuration for some games and my Linux based development and testing. Since I am using a UEFI only configuration it was quite easy to use a dualboot …
Posted on Sun 06 April 2014 in Linux • Tagged with Fedora, FLAC
If you want to rip your cd without loosing quality you can use the flac format to do so. K3b comes with a FLAC plugin but the flac encoder itself was missing on my Fedora 20 machine. Just install it and you will be able to rip your cd to …
Posted on Sun 06 April 2014 in CentOS • Tagged with Fedora, MQTT, yum
Since I played with some publish and subscribe protocols in the last months, I came to an idea to speed up the notification and delivery of software updates over the existing mechanism while reducing, or better optimizing, the needed resources.
Here a graphic to show what I try to implement …
Posted on Sun 06 April 2014 in MQTT • Tagged with C++, MQTT, Paho
This post describes how to build the Paho MQTT library on Mac OS X with MacPorts openssl.
You need Xcode or the Xcode command line utils. If you're not sure if they are already installed open a terminal and try to run the gcc …
Posted on Sat 05 April 2014 in Development • Tagged with Mac, Ruby
Since I experimented with some Ruby web application stuff the last weeks, I want to share some of my conclusions how to setup a development environment which is working for my two major platforms, Mac and Linux. This post will cover the setup of an easy to use development environment …
Posted on Sat 15 March 2014 in Windows • Tagged with openssl, Windows, Microsoft
If you run your ssl services like Email or internal Websites with self signed certificates you may want to get rid of the certification warning because your certificate is not signed by an official authority.
First generate a certificate which can be imported by Windows from your CA file:
openssl …
Posted on Fri 21 February 2014 in FreeBSD • Tagged with pfSense
On an appliance I reinstalled with pfSense I was facing a problem booting the system from an usb stick.
The system was not able to mount the partition correctly because it wasn't present at that time. For me this looks like a timing Problem. The system booted without a problem …