Machine Room Cacophony

a quicky upgrade tutorial for the AP1220 series aironet wireless access-point.

So, after a period of time your GPG key will expire, if you want it to expire, that’s good news. If you happen to still be using it, not so good news. Simple un-expire instructions follow.

I wanted to take the parts of GeekTool and this lifehacker column on taking gCal and displaying it on your macintosh desktop which is fully documented by Devan Goldstein though I admit that he uses some tricks I’d rather avoid.

The long and sad story of complying with ARIN policies with respect to private residence SWIP information.

Work had is go over all our work from the last year looking for possible patentable things, this is the result (one result I suppose).

Postfix has a bunch of queues, and a bunch of stats through other packages, how about some simple shell things if you have multiple instances running?

I can never remember how to do this, I always have to try the 10 versions of perldoc help then resort to google searches… So, documentation in a common place seems like a nice idea.

GnuPG and PGP are public key encryption programs, they are nice and convenient and helpful at avoiding sending ‘important’ content in the clear in email (SMTP is plain-text you remember, right?) Often console-based email clients can be fussy to setup to use this software. Here’s a quick guide, stolen from someone else (Stolen-content).

Once you make your new kernel, how do you put it into use? 

Often when you start with an SSL certificate it has a passphrase, you may want to change that later. You may realize your webserver won’t start without entering a passphrase at the startup dialog. That’d be a bad thing for your webserver, eh? Really the problem isn’t with the certificate so much as the key, which is encrypted with a passphrase.