Emacs Visible Bell Work-Around on OS X El Capitan
After I upgraded to OS X El Capitan, I started having random display issues with my build from source version of Emacs. After a while I realized that it was...
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Configuring Apache for SSL Client Certificate Authentication
Once you have a CA configured, you need to setup the Apache Web server to use it. The process of requesting the certificate from the browser and verifying th...
Client Certificate CA Setup and Signing
Previously, I wrote about the promise of using Client SSL Certificates for authentication. With this post, we start down the road of actually putting this in...
In Place File Editing With P̸e̸r̸l̸ Ruby
Ever had to change the URL in 50 files? What do you do?
SSL Client Certificates Work!
Holy crap! You can use SSL client certificates to easily authenticate user logins!
Validating Rails Forms “without” a Model
Sometime I want all of Rails’ form bells and whistles for something that isn’t a database backed model. For example, I use this as a handy way to get form va...
diceware.rb Revisited
A while back I wrote about Diceware, a system for generating password using dice and a word list. I also include a Ruby script that use virtual dice.
UNIX User Management
This is one of the blog posts to set something in my mind that I’m always looking up. Linux has lovely tools for adding and managing users, but I can never r...
Unix Timestamps Explained
Every wondered what the timestamps on files on UNIX sytems mean?
xargs
How to you take a list of files and do something with them in the UNIX shell? xargs is the key.