Hacker for Hire

First off, I’m sorry it’s been a while since I’ve updated. I’ve been insane busy fighting the battles that need to be fought at the house; however, I do want to document this since I can’t seem to find how to do it anywhere else on the Internet and I know that I can’t be the only other person in the world that would ever want to store a PKCS#12 certificate in OpenLDAP using C. It took a little longer because I wanted nice clean sections of code for people to look at. Kudos to the Code Snippet [direct download] plugin for making that happen, originally found at http://blog.enargi.com/codesnippet/. (The guys blog is down and has been for some time … I though I’d make it available to anyone else who wanted this kick-ass plugin.)

First a little background information on the “userPKCS12″ object in the schema. I quote directly:
PKCS #12 [PKCS12] provides a format for exchange of personal identity information. When such information is stored in a directory service, the userPKCS12 attribute should be used. This attribute is to be stored and requested in binary form, as ‘userPKCS12;binary’. The attribute values are PFX PDUs stored as binary data. OpenLDAP note: “;binary” transfer should NOT be used as syntax is binary

Now does anyone else think that it’s really stupid that the file is STORED and REQUESTED using the “;binary” transport syntax, but that you aren’t allowed to use it? If you do a Google on this, you’ll find a nice little mail message about someone who was trying to overcome this issue but never said how he did it … and that’s what I’m here to fix.
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Well, after 10 years I finally decided to get a new monitor. No, the old 15″ CRT is still working fine, you just have to jiggle the cord every now and again to get the color to go back to normal instead of the funky purple haze.

I must admit, I was a little leery of getting a wide screen monitor though I’m not really sure why. Movies are wide screen, DVDs are wide screen, and most TVs are wide screen these days; however, I’ve never had to sit and stare at a monitor that was a wide screen. I think the big turn off was I saw wide screen laptops before I got the chance to try out a real monitor. I don’t care what you say, it’s not a “lap”-top with a 22″ monitor.

Needless to say, I’m beyond impressed. At $190 shipped (thanks New Egg), this has been one of the best computer investments that I’ve made in a long time. With 1440×900, 5ms, 32-bit goodness, my eyes love it. It’s super bright, though some have complained that it’s too bright … I’d say those people are wusses and aren’t used to burning out their corneas on a daily basis. One of the best parts is that there is NO DRIVER for it in Windows (Winblows) XP, it just works like it does in Linux (Xorg was a touch fussy for a moment, but we’ve come to terms). If you’re in the mood for a new monitor and want something that’s big enough to see everything, but small enough to not emit unhealthy doses of gamma radiation, I highly recommend this monitor.

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As Jimmey Kimmel said, time files when you are stopping other people from having fun. It’s been a while since I’ve done an evil ideas post, but don’t go thinking that I’ve gone soft … I’ve just been a little bit too busy to help out the less-than-evily-inclined. No my evil wanna-be’s, I have not discarded you, though it would be evil to do such, I just thought I would see how you could evil on your own for awhile. Being as I haven’t seen anyone do anything really impressive, my work is obviously not done. Oh yeah, and as always, fan submissions are welcome anytime … on with the evilness.
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I am so mad at EA. FIFA 06 is the most horrible online game I have ever played in my life. I’m so mad I can’t even think straight. First of, being unable to connect because my clock isn’t set to 01/01/01 and then being disconnect from the servers every time I try playing a game. Tim and I didn’t even make it through the first half of a game before it died.
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One week had past since the woeful defeat of the Killers. During this time, the Admiral and his fellow consorts, Joe and William, made several logistics runs to fortify their position and prepare for the onslaught hence forth known as “Neal’s Revenge.”
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