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There has been a lot of debate about the move to systemd by virtually all the Linux distros. I'm firmly of the opinion that it's a bad thing, handled badly. I'm actually amazed at how many distros have adopted it, and how quickly it has happened, pre...
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During an SSL negotiation, SSL clients suggest a list of ciphers to the server, but the server can pick one with lower security than you'd perhaps like. If you want to ensure that Firefox only uses PFS-enabled ciphers to connect to websites, you can ...
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I feel very fortunate to be working where I'm working at the moment. We've reached a really nice spot in our development techniques, methods, tools, etc. I work in a small part of a large corporation writing services to support our products. The serv...
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On the bus the other day, I was sat in front of an elderly couple, and overheard them talking about the stabbing of a teacher in school. One of them mentioned that they'd heard "the killer played violent video games", with the implication that this w...
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jconsole (and visualvm) can be used to attach to running JVMs, to give information about CPU, threads, memory, and retrieve and change JMX values. Local Running jconsole on the same machine as the running JVM is easiest. It finds a list of running J...
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I used to use StartSSL for my free SSL certificates, but they expire each year, and I'm lazy. So I created my own certificate authority, and certificates. This site uses them. In my Apache config, I've specified that only TLS and DHE-DSS-AES256-SH...
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Just been reminded what a good film Plunkett and Macleane is. It's a gritty, quirky British film about some highwaymen from 1740-something. It's got it all. Loads of great lines - ("You fool! I could have been killed!" "You were." BANG), quite a li...
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The more I see of 24-hour news, the more I dislike them. The BBC has always been fairly un-flashy when it came to TV news, which is great. The "normal" news - i.e. not on BBC News 24 isn't cluttered with scrolling stuff, or flashing swooping things ...
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Something made me think I'd just check that smartmontools was running on my laptop. /etc/init.d/smartd status smartd is stopped Hmm. /etc/init.d/smartd start Starting smartd: [ OK ] chkconfig smartd on ...
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. After almost every F1 race I watch, I think how dull it is, and how I'm not going to watch any more races. Then the next one comes along, and I think I'll watch it, because *this* one might be ...