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Integrated web: Ubiquity

Damn Ubiquity is cool. Just take a look at this . Ubiquity is a mashup tool for Firefox. A very simplified description what it does is a cut and paste tool that understands meta data. If you mark an address and say map it you get a map over the address and can insert it into an e-mail. You can mark text on a page and get it replaced with in the page with an translated alternative.

Say hello to Donkey

Donkey, my new computer , is up and running with Ubuntu Hardy Heron. The computer is named Donkey. Everything seems working soothly and fine. The computer is fast. I am now able to run Compiz for the first time. The new Gnome gives a fresh new feeling. The only bad thing in the Ubuntu beta is that some of my firefox-plugins does not work, yet. I have done some optimization of the memory settings in bios. According to memtest gave it about 4% of performance boost.

Create your own CA with TinyCA2 (part 2)

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In part one of this series we created a root CA, a sub-CA and a certificate for our web site All certificates are stored in TinyCA2 s configuration. In this part we will: export the root CA:s certificate import the root CA:s certificate into Firefox export the certificate for the web site configure our web server to use the web site certificate To be able to import the root CA certificate to Firefox we must export it from TinyCA2. In the main window of TinyCA2, open the CA-menu and select Open CA. Select your root CA. Select Export CA Certificate in the toolbar, which is the second icon from the right. You may change the file name. Press Save when ready. Start Firefox, select the Edit-menu and Preferences. Click the Advanced icon and then the Encryption tab. Select View certificates and then the Authorities tab. You can see all the CA:s you trust. Click Import and select the file with your exported root certificate. You can in the Downloading Certificate window control what purpo...