Category: web
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The free certs from https://letsencrypt.org/ do indeed work as described. I wanted to check them out for some public facing services I wanted to run. To get the certificate you run a program on a host that DNS resolves to the cert you want to get – so if “foo.example.com” resolves to 10.6.6.6, you need to install…
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a bit of levity
Everyone.. and esp. me… needs humor from time to time…. from various sources, I present my kind of humor.
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What’s in a word, anyway?
People are afraid of wines. They’re uncertain about them, and the entire wine industry is geared towards exploiting those negative emotions and playing upon the consumer’s lack of confidence. When my wife and I started a small wine business, I was trying to figure out a way of helping people better understand wines and afford…
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certificates and security
npm is the defacto package manager for the node.js javascript network programming environment thingee. The folks who make npm have taken a security leap: npm no longer supports its self-signed certificates Ah, they build the bastions of light and goodness, protecting us from the sins of the masses by standing tall. So… how do you install…
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Linda and Doris rule the ‘net
Some misc ramblin’ notes/data on IPMI & SSL Certificates. So I used the SSL observatory software (oddly written, but still cool) to scan for certificates on a bit over 300K systems suspected of running IPMI (which in turn were had from HD Moore of Rapid 7 – thanks HD!) and who were on the net. In case…
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one ring to bind them, one line to find them
I guess if you import enough libraries just about anything can be made into a one liner… if you have imported BeautifulSoup, re, requests, and sys, in python3 you can simply do: print(re.sub(r’^.*imgurl=([^&]+)&.*$’, r’\1′, str(BeautifulSoup(requests.get("http://images.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1744&bih=1279&q=%s&oq=" % sys.argv[1]).text).find(href=re.compile("imgurl"))))) To find the first hit on a google image search with argv[1]. Google will probably change their URL…