Create an SSL Certificate Authority on Linux and Use It in Windows AD

Here’s something that I have found useful at work. The company I work for full time uses SSL for its websites extensively. For our production systems, this means purchasing SSL certificates from a widely recognized Certificate Authority like Verisign or Thawte. But what about our development, QA and staging systems? It can get expensive when [...]

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FreeBSD 7.0 Build

Introduction This document contains basic instructions on building a system using FreeBSD 7.0. This covers security standards, configuration options, networking configuration, etc. The information used in this example probably doesn’t match your environment or hardware exactly. Verify your network, hardware and other internal system build standards before using the information contained here. Use this document [...]

FreeBSD 6.3 Build

Introduction This document contains basic instructions on building a system using FreeBSD 6.3. This covers security standards, configuration options, networking configuration, etc. The information used in this example probably doesn’t match your environment or hardware exactly. Verify your network, hardware and other internal system build standards before using the information contained here. Use this document [...]

URL Encoder and Decoder

I frequently have to do a quick bit of URL encoding and decoding as part of my daily routine. I’ve been using a particular site for most of this, but I’ve never really become comfortable with putting some of these things into someone else’s web site. So I used the code as found here and [...]