Diary of a New Dad

Canterbury Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine

Ghosty — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:59:31 +0000

If anyone is interested in alternative medicine I would recommend that you check out Canterbury Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine

Security

Ghosty — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:28:30 +0000

For those people out there who use LDAP as a login mechanism, dont forget to check the system with empty passwords and a valid user name. I shant elaborate beyond this. Stupid LDAP protocol!

I can has cheezburger?

Ghosty — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:10:30 +0000

Awesome! I dont know how I didnt know about this before.

Best Wallpaper Ever!

Ghosty — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:30:51 +0000

For those geeks out there like me who have multiple displays on their computers, I think that this is the ~~best wallpaper ever!~~ The people have taken it down from deviantart, sorry.

New Primeminister

Ghosty — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:03:24 +0000

Am I the only one who doesn’t want Gordon Brown to be Primeminister?

If Chuck Norris was President

Ghosty — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:45:07 +0000

Nuff said!

Google me up

Ghosty — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:27:34 +0000

Dear Mr Google,

Please index Yeldon Wedding Hire

Cheers,

Ghosty

Little Neighbours

Ghosty — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:45:33 +0000

I was just reading the BBC News website when I came accross this article.

The article says “Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams are to appear in an episode of Neighbours … as Lou and Andy“. how unbelievably cool is that episode going to be!

I heard them on the Chris Moyles Show on Radio1 the other day, and they mentioned that they wanted to go see the set, but never hinted that they were going to be on it.

It is aired in 3 months in Australia, and hopefully will be on You Tube about 20 minutes later.

SSLHandshakeException

Ghosty — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:15:45 +0000

Recently at work I have been having to use Java and HTTPS for a portlet project that we are working on. For obvious reasons, we want the portals to use HTTPS as a means of communication for private data to prevent people from being able to intercept the data.

A big problem that has caught a couple of us out has been how java manages the certificates and the SSL handshake. It took me ages to find out what the problem was, and many Google searches. Eventually I found out, and I am going to try and help other out there by saying how to get rid of this exception.

The problem I had was that the CA (Certificate Authority) certificate was missing from my java cacerts file. For those who dont know, the CA are companies which certify who the certificate holder is who they say they are. The idea being that you trust the CA, so therefore you trust the holder. To make sure that the certificate is valid, the client and server will use both certs to verify a connection.

Unlike browsers, which cleverly download the SA cert if it is not present to do the authentication, java needs the CA cert to be already installed in the cacerts truststore. Use the instructions below to install the CA certificate (on a windows PC).

Save a copy of the CA certificate to your computer. I’ll let you work out how to do this.
Open up a DOS command prompt.

You now need to run the keytool program shipped with java. The syntax is

keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias [name of CA]
    -file [path to the CA certificat you just saved]
    -keystore [path to the cacerts file]

change the bits above in the [] to the correct paths. The ususal path for the cacerts is %JAVA_INSTALL_DIR%/jre/lib/security
If you get prompted for a password, it is changeit

You will then need to restart your java app, and then hopefully it should work.

Oh, and on a different note, Google follow this please -> Therapy: Hair, Body, Nails

What A Gig [a catchup]

Ghosty — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:04:54 +0000

I must apologize for not posting for a very long time, I have been busy doing such important things as completing Twilight Princess, or just trying to get my head around the stuff I am doing at work - oh, and as I have just been told, spending time with my wife.

Lets get the flurry of posting started by putting up these photos and videos that I took at the Killers gig in wembley last night. Sorry for the poor quality, they were taken on a phone.
Mr Brightside
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When You Were Young
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They started with Sams Town, followed by When you Were young, followed by bones, followed by somebody told me. After that the gig turned into a blur of brilliance. What a gig!