Wednesday, December 22, 2010

HOWTO add headers to the Django test client

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To mess with the HTTP headers used by the Django web test client, make your request with your custom headers in a dict. From inside a django...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Import multiple vcf files into gmail

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You can import contacts into gmail - it currently accepts csv files or vcf files. Unfortunately you can only upload one file at a time. If...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

HOWTO: Convert a darcs repository to mercurial

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It seems the "easiest" way to convert a darcs repo to a mercurial repo is via git =( This uses darcs-fast-export , git-fast-import...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Generate SSL certificates for openvpn with easy-rsa

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Easy-rsa is distributed with openvpn (on Ubuntu anyway), and makes generating SSL certs a lot easier. Here is typical usage: cd /usr/shar...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

HOWTO rotate large numbers of images in Ubuntu

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I needed a way for my wife to rotate a whole bunch of JPEG images.  It had to be simple to use (i.e. GUI not command line). I stumbled acr...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Apache and client side SSL certificate verification

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To require client SSL certificate verification, add this to your apache config: SSLVerifyClient require SSLVerifyDepth 1 SSLCipherSuite HI...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Commercial SSL certificate untrusted - what did I pay for?

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I recently bought a commercial SSL certificate, and was slightly mystified as to why the browser was calling it untrusted. How could they p...