Archive for December, 2008

Today using the version of Pidgin that came with Fedora 10 I received the following certificate prompt:
Accept certificate for ows.messenger.msn.com?
The root certificate this one claims to be issued by is unknown to Pidgin.
The majority of cases of unknown certificate issuers are due to the chain of trust breaking down. This break down in the certificate [...]

Virtualmin & suEXEC

15, Dec 2008

If by chance you have installed the Webmin module Virtualmin at some point you may have come across the following error message when setting up the module:
Failed to save enabled features: The Suexec command on your system is configured to only run scripts under /var/www, but the Virtualmin base directory is /home. CGI and PHP [...]

Sometimes I had the climate system blower in my BMW X5 slow down so it could barely be heard, even when increasing the fan manually to a higher setting. After some minutes it usually started behaving normally again. Yesterday though it simply stayed on minimum no matter which buttons were activated.
After a bit of reading [...]

Online malware scanner

11, Dec 2008

I am always very cautious running executables, especially under Windows. Sometimes the antivirus software installed may report supposedly false positives leaving one in a limbo as what to do next, keep installing at risk or avoid the software supposedly reputable and safe.
The best thing is really to get a second opinion but installing a second [...]

DNSstuff alternatives

11, Dec 2008

In the past I used DNSstuff heavily, but since it went commercial I have tried to find useful free alternatives.
I gathered this brief set of links and saved is a draft long ago, which I now have remembered to publish:

http://network-tools.com/
http://dnsutils.com/
http://www.robtex.com/
http://clez.net/
http://serversniff.net/
http://w3dt.net/
http://www.intodns.com/


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