Archive for the ‘Apache’ Category

I've finally put the (rather messy) source of jndcalx on Github for you to grab, fix, and improve on.
jndcalx runs on a computer with installed Lotus Notes (Mac OS X, Windows or Linux) and a Web server, and it creates iCalendar output (.ics) on the fly, without having to manually export and import your calendar. [...]

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 at 20:27 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, CLI, DomiNotes, MacOSX

Quite some time ago, I decided I wanted to see my IBM/Lotus Notes calendar entries in iCal, so I started tinkering with a small C program to do so. The initial results were quite promising, and I started adding features such as Todos and UTF-8 support. I also quickly found, that iCalendar unequal iCalendar — [...]

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 19:05 | 8 comments
Categories: Apache, CLI, DomiNotes, MacOSX

Not a lot of magic is needed to create a proxy autoconfiguration file (PAC) for use in a Web browser, and there is plenty of reference material on the net. Since I didn't find a cheat-sheet at the time, I thought it would be good to have one, and set about writing one over a [...]

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 20:27 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, DNS, Linux, MacOSX

The Snow Leopard updates takes 45 minutes or 3/4 of an hour, depending on how you watch the progress bar and, apart from a small breathless moment, it went off without a hitch. (In case you haven't read it elsewhere, 10.6.1 is being delivered to your doorstep as we speak.)
My machine feels dramatically speedier, so [...]

Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 09:00 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, MacOSX, MySQL
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One of our Web servers was rendered almost useless for clients because the Certificate Revocation List we have on it, expired. To avoid that happening again, I decided to implement a check for the CRL expiry as a Nagios (respectively Icinga) plugin.
I grabbed the OpenSSL source code, and in the apps/ directory, I used the [...]

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 12:06 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, CLI, Nagios, Security
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I have a requirement to create a set of tools as a Web application with forms built
on-the-fly, and that is easier said than done. (Actually the
"on-the-fly" bit is my own requirement: I don't want to spend
the rest of the year writing chunks of
HTML.)
After quite a bit of research, almost all of which ended in the [...]

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 16:41 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, Software
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There may be times when you want particular RSS feeds to not be loaded in your
feed reader. Reasons may include:

You don't want to be distracted by news of a particular site during working hours.
URLs of particular feeds shouldn't show up in a customer's logs.
You are obliged to use a caching proxy, and the feed can't [...]

Friday, April 17th, 2009 at 02:59 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, Linux, MacOSX
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Jason Blevis describes my thoughts quite precisely when we wrote:

It's hard to leave behind the comfort of a system that you are very familiar with, especially when you think about the time you'll spend pouring through manpages to do even the simplest thing in the new system. That was exactly the mental block that kept [...]

Sunday, March 8th, 2009 at 17:01 | 1 comment
Categories: Apache, Backup, CLI, Linux, MacOSX
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