StartCom is the certificate authority providing StartSSL certificates: unlimited 1-year domain-validated single-site SSL certificates for free (“Class 1″); unlimited 2-year domain-validated single-site, UCC, or wildcard certificates after paying $39.90 to further validate your account (“Class 2,” which necessitated photo IDs and a phone call, and is good for 1 year); 2-year EV certificates for $149.90 [...]
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Posted 03 November 2009
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Efficient Editing With vim This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of vim — insert mode, command mode, loading and saving files, etc. It is intended to help vi novices develop their skills so that they can use vi efficiently. (Posted mostly for my own reference, though I thought it might be of use to anyone [...]
When I was first learning structured programming, I used an IDE (TurboPascal). Since then, I have rarely used an IDE outside of specialized language development environments like VisualBASIC. Mostly, I use a text editor that I link up with a good sftp program to edit remotely or that I use in conjunction with subversion. For [...]
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Posted 12 November 2008
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The reworking of my site that shows comparative statistics on every site based on the code from LiveJournal is now up and live and at a new URL: http://lj-stat.2718.us/. Moreover, there are now graphs of the data over time. The data is updated at noon and midnight central time (U.S.). One of the things that [...]
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Posted 22 October 2008
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I’m currently working on an overhaul of LJ-Stat. It looks like there’s some issue in using curl_multi_exec() in PHP with too many requests at once causing some requests to fail strangely, potentially accounting for the lack of data from several sites that are clearly not down and clearly provide stats.txt. My current workaround is to [...]
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It appears that there are now demonstrated exploits of PHP apps that use mt_rand() and/or rand() as a result of issues of seeding in one application affecting the PRNG stream in another application that used the PRNG to generate passwords or similar such things. From mt_srand and not so random numbers: … it is strongly [...]
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Posted 31 August 2008
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Tagged: /dev/random, /dev/srandom, mersenne twister, mt_rand, password, php, prng, pseudo-random number, pseudo-random number generator, pseudorandom number generator, rand, random, random number, random number generator, rng, security
In case anyone was still curious following my previous headache post, it is possible to integrate WP2.6 and bbPress 0.9.0.2. I say “possible” because while I’ve got it working as far as I can tell (without having modified core code in either WP or bbP), I haven’t really tested it and it’s a mess. More [...]
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Posted 16 August 2008
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Now, I’m really big on *not* complaining about new versions of things and I especially dislike the practice of complaining about how a new version of WordPress broke some plugin that is of dire importance to someone’s website, but WordPress 2.6 is starting to give me a headache. I’ve already posted thrice about issues with [...]
So, as a followup to parts 1 and 2, per WordPress Trac ticket #7001, WordPress 2.6 has split up the login cookies into three parts: what was the one and only login cookie in 2.5 is now limited to /wp-admin there’s a copy of that one that’s just limited to /wp-content/plugins, for backward compatibility with [...]
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Posted 03 August 2008
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A List Apart is probably one of my favorite sites about web design. Their 2008 survey of web professionals is running now.