Coda Missing File Browser
I'm probably one of Coda's biggest users. It's rarely ever closed and I have over 100 sites setup in it (site search box FTW). Unfortunately, this morning it quit working so I had to switch to my...
View ArticlePayFlow Pro POST Fields Encoding
I was editing the PayFlow Pro example API by Radu Manole (can't find link right now - check PDN forums) to add more fields to the authorization function and decided to redo this part: // body of the...
View ArticleApache Block Backup Files
A really simple way to "hack" into someone's site is by checking for common filenames with backup extensions. For example, check this google search for config filetype:php~Since backup files don't...
View ArticleOops - Downtime
Oops I managed to not check the results of "/etc/init.d/httpd reload" after setting up another site on the server. To avoid this in the future, I added the following two lines to the end of the reload...
View ArticleVerisign Which Certificate Chain
Verisign has 4 SSL certificate versions. Each one uses a different intermediate CA certificate. This is the SSLCertificateChainFile in apache httpd. Here's a two step method to finding which one you...
View ArticleOS X How to fix ABC, FOX, The CW, etc Episode Players
My new most hated company: Move Networks. <rant>You guys suck and it's no surprise you have an office in Ann Arbor. If you wanted real talent you'd be in East Lansing. TV shows were way better to...
View Articlegem install mysql OS X
After having trouble installing mysql support for python, I ran into similar problems with ruby. To fix, first I installed a new version of MySQL from mysql.com. I'm not sure if this is necessary since...
View ArticleLinux Routing Multiple IPs
I added some more IPs to a server today and it changed the default outgoing IP. Looking at route -n it became obvious that the gateway for the new IPs became the default gateway. This messed up a bunch...
View ArticleMySQL DNS Lookups
A couple days after xmas while I wanted to kill myself due to having the Norovirus I got a call that our database servers at servercentral were all down. Sweet timing. Working next to a puke bowl I got...
View ArticleOpenSSL unable to write 'random state'
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out adamyoung.net.key 1024 Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus .........................++++++...
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