DynDNS updates to your Cloud DNS
People running servers at home always get dynamic IP-addresses. Most ISPs have a no-servers -clause in their terms of contract, but they really don't enforce the rule. If you play a multiplayer on-line...
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iPhone Mobile Profile for a new CA root certificate - Case CAcert.org
Year ago, I posted about CAcert root certificate being re-hashed with SHA-256 to comply with modern requirements. The obvious problem with that is, that it is not especially easy to install own...
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RFID Mifare Classic "clone"
Toying around with RFID, tags has always been something I wanted to do, but never had the time. Contactless payment is gaining traction all around the world. The reason is very simple: it is fast and...
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An end is also a beginning
Today, I had my last day at King. Right now I'm toasting this fine drink to my wonderful ex-colleagues.Next I'm taking a breather and next week starting something new back in Finland!
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New toys: iPhone 8
Whenever there are new toys, I'm excited! Now that I have new iPhone 8, there is no other way to phrase it: it IS same as 7, which was same as 6. The observation Woz pointed out when X and 8 came...
View ArticleBack to blogging - back from Finland
Again, bit of a pause from blogging. I dragged my ass back to Finland. See my post from last year about moving to Sweden for further info.I served my contract at King and chose not to continue there....
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Refurbishing APC Replacement Battery Cartridge #7
Roughly 4 years ago, I blogged about a battery change to my UPS. The post is at APC Smart-UPS battery change. My unit eats APC Replacement Battery Cartridge #7 as replacment, and they are generally...
View ArticleUser experience (or ux) in a nutshell
Two Zoltáns, Gócza and Kollin are maintaining a superbly good webiste about UX-myths, uxmyths.com.Given the excellent quality of the site, they list common mis-beliefs people have regarding websites...
View ArticleParsing multi-part sitemap.xml with Python
A perfectly valid sitemap.xml can be split into multiple files. For that see, the specs at https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html. This is likely to happen in any content management system. For example...
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Today, I'm combining to previous post into a new one. I've written earlier about going fully Let's Encrypt and the problems I have with them. Now that I'm using them, and those certs have ridiculously...
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Summer pasttime - flying a quadcopter
The summer here in Finland has been extremely warm. Given that, I've mostly not been inside doing computer-things, but outside doing outdoorsy things. Here we get couple good months per year, if we're...
View ArticleQNAP Stopping Maintenance of TS-419P II (again)
This is a weird one. Beginning of this year Qnap made a choice to EOL my NAS-box. I posted about that at the time. Well, that happens. Its just that my current box works for me and all, I don't...
View ArticleAutomating IPMI 2.0 management Let's Encrypt certificate update
Today, I'm combining to previous post into a new one. I've written earlier about going fully Let's Encrypt and the problems I have with them. Now that I'm using them, and those certs have ridiculously...
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DocuSign hacked: Fallout of leaked E-mail addresses
Over an year ago, DocuSign was hacked (again). Initially they denied the entire thing, but eventually they had to come clean about their userbase being leaked. I think their wording was, that only...
View ArticleRouterPing - Gathering ICMPv4 statistics about a router
When talking about the wonderful world of computers, networking and all the crap we enjoy tinkering with, sometime somewhere things don't go as planned. When thinking this bit closer, I think that's...
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Twitch'ing with Larpdog - Assembly of my new PC
Next Saturday, on 6th October, I'll be joining (again) with Larpdog on his Twitch-channel https://www.twitch.tv/larpdog to assemble my new PC. The stream language will be Finnish and we will start on...
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Cleaning out old PCs
Now that my new PC is done (see my previoius post and Larpdog's Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/videos/319110553):It's finally time to make some space to my old junk storage. I found two of my previus PCs...
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Facebook security flaw - New accounts created on my email
Couple days ago 8pm, I got an email from Facebook. Personally, I think face book is a criminal organization and want absolutely nothing to do with the idiots. Given the nature of the email, I started...
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Formula 1 messing with Apps
As a Formula 1 fan, while watching a F1 Grad Prix, I've been using real-time information feeds on https://www.formula1.com/en/f1-live.html pretty much since it was released. If memory serves me...
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iOS Voicemail number
The other day I realized, that my mobile subscription has a voicemail. Since its a corporate one, I really cannot control it much, it just ... well ... is.This existence of voicemail became evident for...
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