Apple has an official knowledgebase article describing how to inject self-signed SSL certificates into your X509Anchors keychain so Mail.app and Safari.app will stop complaining when establishing a connection for the first time. I’ve been doing this by hand for quite a while, but Apple’s method is much easier.

Thanks to an article at MacDevCenter.com, I found that Server Logistics offers a Mac OS X installation of MySQL. As of this writing, the Server Logistics distribution is 4.0.15 and the latest version is 4.0.17, but so be it. Two minor versions behind is perfectly adequate for a desktop installation.

I’ve always been partial to the term Off Brain Storage. I more or less pulled the term out of my ass one day to describe exactly what I needed…a reliable means to keep track of miscellaneous attention deficit inert ramblings that I would find useful in the future. Although this blog has helped out with […]

After much procrastination, I finally decided to start looking into XHTML 1.0, CSS2, and HTML 4.01. I originally learned HTML back in the day with HTML 3.2 & CGI Unleashed, a monstrous volume with well over a thousand razor-thin pages. Since then, quite a bit has changed, and it’s time to update my forte. At […]

Has anyone started getting hits from the Lieberman Agent? I’m assuming it’s some spider searching for random political snippets, but I’ve never seen it before. host229.mmwr.com – – [14/Jan/2004:13:49:19 -0600] “POST /internal_agents.rep HTTP/1.1” 404 347 “-” “Lieberman Agent” [Wed Jan 14 13:49:19 2004] [error] [client 146.145.40.229] File does not exist: /home/hamosklc/sites/inertramblings.com/services1.pepper.com/internal_agents.rep

Just in case anyone out there is wondering, Yahoo! Store Real Time Delivery and Real Time Inventory don’t work with FreeSSL or ChainedSSL certificates. Oh, and four o’clock in the morning is not the appropriate time to figure that out.

OK, so I’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks. Or, more specifically, basking in the ambient radiation of multiple monitors during 70- to 90-hour work weeks. We hit code freeze, started bug squashing, unveiled the Web site, launched the Pepper Keeper, and announced the Pepper Pad, a Linux-based mobile Wi-Fi device […]

From the Fink FAQ: Q8.11: I installed Apple’s X11 in Panther but Fink keeps asking to install xfree86. In addition to the FAQ answer above, be sure to look for all other xfree packages! I used to have xfree86-rootless installed instead of the standard xfree86-base. [dyn-002:/sw/etc/apt] sean% sudo dpkg -l | egrep -i xfree iU […]

We need to list download times for some of our packages so I found a calculator to figure everything out. It’s not the most accurate thing in the world, but it’s close enough for government work.