Archive for the “Miscellaneous” Category

Google Chrome in Linux doesn’t have a SSL certificate manager, it relies on the NSS Shared DB. In order to add SSL certificates to the database you will have to use the command line. I will explain how you can add the CAcert certificates and a very easy way to add self-signed certificates.
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A couple of weeks ago I changed the default browser on my Ubuntu Jaunty laptop from Firefox to Chrome. I had been using Chrome next to Firefox 3.6 for a while and I was willing to give it a shot for my every day browsing. Now that I have been usign it for a while I thought I would write up my experience, the good, the bad and, yes the cliché , the ugly.
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I would like to wish all of you a happy and safe 2010.

I always make a list of things I would like to do for the upcoming year. I’m not always successful but let’s see what I have planned for 2010.
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Since November 16, 2009 the deluge-torrent.org site is down. They forgot to renew the domain.

On the delugetorrent.com site:

November 16th, 2009 The deluge-torrent.org website is currently down, the domain has expired and is now in limbo. The new domain is deluge-torrent.info. You can read more about the issue in this forum post. The links on this page have been updated.

The forum post link: http://forum.deluge-torrent.info/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=25815

Unfortunately all the Google search results still point at the .org site.
Anyway if you need deluge-torrent, go to http://deluge-torrent.info

On Saturday Oct 10, 2009, version 1.6.5 of git was released. This version is currently available in my repository for both Jaunty and Karmic.
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