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I was blaming the hotel Wi-Fi for FaceTime getting stuck on “Connecting” and never completing calls. Now I’m guessing FaceTime just doesn’t handle changing phone numbers gracefully. It is the only “change” I can think of that has happened recently. Curiously I’ve only had trouble on iOS. Turning FaceTime off and back on (in Settings > FaceTime) fixed it for me.
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Nginx version 1.6.2 is now available in pkgsrc as www/nginx. Addresses an SSL session reuse vulnerability (CVE-2014-3616). Enjoy!

17.9.14

SHA-256 SSL certificates

Written late in the morning in English • Tags: , , ,

The technical details of an SSL certificate are up to the issuing CA, which is understandable. I was still surprised when my SHA-256 CSR resulted in a SHA-1 certificate back in April, when reissuing it due to heartbleed. But I didn’t pursue it at the time.

Now that Google announced sunsetting SHA-1-signed certificates by the end of the year, the issue became more pressing. Fortunately instructions for reissuing GeoTrust-based certificates — such as the RapidSSLonline ones — were already available. (more…)

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Net::INET6Glue version 0.6.2 is now available in pkgsrc as net/p5-Net-INET6Glue. Patched to avoid warnings with the default Perl version 5.20. Enjoy!
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WordPress 4.0 “Benny” is out!
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Moving a photo library to a new computer is easy with Picasa. It even does the right thing with the folder naming in Windows 7 vs. Vista (“Pictures” vs. “My Pictures”).
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MSXML 4 is EOL. Fortunately Alton Blom has perfect instructions for removing it. (more…) (2)
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GNU Screen version 4.2.1 is now available in pkgsrc as misc/screen. Enjoy! (2)

1.8.14

Fixed width plain text in Outlook

Written at lunch time in English • Tags: , ,

One less Outlook annoyance: How to show fixed font for plain text

  • File > Options > Mail > Stationery and Fonts
  • Set the font for plain text e-mails to a monospaced font (e.g. Consolas)

Why is this not the default…

2.3.14

Network hostname lookup trouble

Written in the mid-afternoon in English • Tags:

Some programs sometimes fail to use the DNS search list to look up names of local hosts on my Mavericks laptop. I don’t recall ever having had this problem with earlier OS X versions. (more…)

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