http://sdm-net.org The web and other things Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:20:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en IMG_0700, originally uploaded by resamsel. It’s good to keep your mind focussed. It’s also good to keep a look on your improvements.

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2010/06/my-training-diary/ This is just a short message for all you out there that want to suppress testing with maven. Heres how to do it: 1 $ mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip=true Have fun with your additionally won spare time ;).

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2008/11/skipping-maven-tests/ You might have heard of the double post issue, which causes form data to be sent a second time to the server. This can be resolved by a HTTP redirect after the post has been processed. Today another problem occured to me, one that reminded me of that issue. I prepared an IMG tag to [...]

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2008/11/take-care-of-your-images/ Sometimes you need a self signed certificate to use SSL with your JBoss installation. This is a small how-to that tells you the essential steps to do that. Creating the Keystore Creating a keystore to store certificates that JBoss can use. keytool -genkey -alias $MYDOMAIN -keyalg RSA ↵ -keystore my.keystore You will be asked for [...]

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2008/11/configuring-jboss-with-ssl/ When using JavaScript or PHP you need to keep in mind that these aren’t typed languages. Typed languages give us a lot of restrictions whilest keeping us from doing stupid things. Untyped languages do not have those restrictions so they leave us with a lot of freedom. Do we need this kind of freedom? Problem [...]

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2008/10/evaluation-with-untyped-languages/ This article wants to cover some basic and advanced encoding using mencoder as the encoding engine. Basically all media MPlayer can read is suitable for this howto. Source MPlayer knows of those sources (use these in substitution for SOURCE in below examples): file: uses a file as input URL: uses an URL as input (useful [...]

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2008/10/using-mencoder-to-encode-movies/ Have you ever forgotten something? Maybe buying milk? From now on you can manage your tasks on the web – using Remember the Milk. This is a handy tool to help yourself getting organised and productive. You can add notes to your todo item, enter the location, tag it, share it, print it, iCalendar it [...]

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2008/10/always-remember-the-milk/ This is just a short entry to show you some pictures of my fathers boat via the wordpress flickr integration: Some information about the boat The boat is about 15 meters long and 8 meters wide. It is a catamaran and has been completely build by my fathers (with some help from family and friends). [...]

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2008/09/my-fathers-boat/ This password retrieval article makes me think about data-encryption… Is encryption in vain? Is hardware this insecure? Though the article is in german you can find the original Princeton paper in english at the bottom of the page. Tell me what you think about it. Update: The link at heise.de seems to be down – [...]

]]> http://sdm-net.org/2008/03/the-all-new-cold-boot-attack-on-encryption-keys/ Have you ever wondered if you could use network manager to connect to the Klagenfurt University network? You can, and this is a short description on how to do it. If you downloaded the script and executed it then you can easily use the network manager to connect/disconnect OpenVPN. You can put the following lines [...]

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