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Using SSL client certs with Perl’s LWP::UserAgent 29 Mar 2013 | 05:14 pm
I recently needed to authenticate to a remote API using an SSL client certificate, and had a bit of trouble getting LWP::UserAgent to work with it. The examples I found which looked like they should ...
Vodafone, why you no activate new contract SIM? 16 Dec 2012 | 05:24 pm
Vodafone have always been really good for me – a solid, reliable network and good customer service. That’s why both my personal phone and my wife’s phone are on Vodafone contracts. Over a week ago, t...
We shouldn’t arrest criminals anymore? 5 Oct 2012 | 06:09 pm
What the fuck? From a BBC news story, the grandfather of a murdered youth argues that anti-social youths should not have been arrested: The grandfather of a Luton cyclist killed in a “targeted attac...
Testing Samsung auto-dial shortcode exploit on Galaxy Note 26 Sep 2012 | 03:56 am
It’s been widely reported today that the Samsung Galaxy S3 and other Samsung Galaxy phones have a glaring vulnerability: a webpage can trigger the Samsung dialer to dial a code which wipes the phone. ...
Extract part of a Subversion repo into a Git repo 6 Sep 2012 | 06:18 pm
A few times I’ve wanted to extract part of a large monolithic Subversion repository out into a seperate Git repo, but maintain the commit history. Here’s how I do it. First, I set up a mapping of Su...
Olympic Goatse ftw. 1 Aug 2012 | 06:41 pm
Excellent logo suggestion for the London 2012 Olympics: It would certainly, ahem, stretch the boundaries of the games and represent the great opening available… no, I’ll stop there. I’m not sure whe...
US wants to extradite UK student Richard O’Dwyer on bogus claims 27 Jun 2012 | 07:59 pm
Richard O’Dwyer, a 24-year old UK student, started a website when he was 22 which carried links to external sources where people could watch U.S. TV and movies online. The website in question, TVShack...
Charles Carreon sues charities. I think he’s a dick. 19 Jun 2012 | 03:09 am
FunnyJunk is a website which publishes funny images. Many of these images are stolen from various sources – including hundreds stolen from TheOatmeal. When Matthew Inman, owner of TheOatmeal called ou...
Dancer talk at YAPC::NA 2012 25 Jan 2012 | 12:03 am
Mark Allen will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 on the Dancer Perl web framework he describes as: This talk presents the Dancer web framework beginning with “Hello World” and progressing through a coupl...
VLC getting proxy settings via gconf 24 Jan 2012 | 08:09 am
I had a problem with VLC, using outdated proxy settings rather than connecting directly, even with no proxy configured in VLC’s settings (and even when trying to override it using command-line options...
