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Linux: PERL SSL verification error:14090086

January 17, 2012

error: LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown errorerror:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51. Solution: There are other solutions available but the one we needed was to turn off the verification we ran export PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 Thanks to https://community.sourcefire.com/questions/running-into-an-ssl-issue-with-nexpose-connector

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Linux: GET Command

January 17, 2012

If you were like me then trying the find which package has the GET command was like pulling teeth. Hopefully this will save you some time. the GET command is part of the libwww-perl package Ubuntu list http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy-updates/all/libwww-perl/filelist Man Page http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/lwp-request.1p.html

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Blackberry: Unable to Delete contact list

December 20, 2011

I was helping a friend/associate of mine with his CrackBerry. (android insider) We spent hours trying to find a way to delete one of his contact list. You would think this was a easy task. Select list , click delete NO this was not the case. After 3 wipes of the device and 3-4 restores. [...]

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IIS7: Force download of CSV File

December 19, 2011

If you require the need to force download a CSV file. These are the steps we took to accomplish said task. Remove the existing mime type. Add a Content-Type to the http response header as Name: Content-Type Value: application/csv This was required because the browser kept parsing the csv file as text. We needed the [...]

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Mysql: Innodb storage issues- ibdata1

November 21, 2011

We encountered a System Administrator Nightmare. Received notice that a server was running low on /var storage. After checking the server we found that the mysql folder was using 9GB. Come to find out it was only one particular file that was using 7GB which was ibdata1. When the server was launch we did not [...]

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