Converting crt to PEM
Took two steps:
openssl x509 -in input.crt -out input.der -outform DER
openssl x509 -in input.der -inform DER -out output.pem -outform PEM
This is a tricky one. I have had to waste a lot of time. The trick is to use 32bit browser (extract firefox into $HOME/firefox and run it from there. Details below), and a full JDK package from Sun. JRE is not good enough! I have a $HOME/bin/firefox32 script which looks like this: #!/bin/bash exec…
SSH is a wonderful tool. One of its best features is the ability to pierce a firewall and let you go through it. If you’re using the dynamic port (-D as argument in command line openSSH), you actually get a SOCKS5 proxy over which you can transport all your desired data. This allows you the…
First and foremost – Happy new year! Technically speaking, it has gone rather well so far, this new year. Although it was actually yesterday, I’ve managed to add another feature to my little laptop, and support the Fujitsu Keys on my linux – this time, with no errors, no problems, and without killing SWSUSP2 –…
ISPs which enforce QoS limitations suddenly, without alerting the customer, are abusing their force. QoS limitation is not a bad thing, from the ISP’s point of view, but changing the customer deal without notifying him seems to me to be unfair. This is a recipe for a QoS workaround. Ingredients: One fast Internet connection which…
Using Nvidia propriety driver version 9755 allows using AIGLX instead of the slower and deprecated GLX interface. AIGLX nowadays is part of Xorg 7.1 and above. You can find a guide in OpenSuse Wiki which will describe the required actions. I have attached here my own xorg.conf file which allows Dual-head setup with 2 LCD…
I was required to auto map a USB DoK to a KVM VM (specific VM, mind you!), as a result of connecting this device to the host. I’ve looked it up on the Internet, and the closest I could get there was this link. It was almost a complete solution, but it had a few…