Firefox 20 - skip the SSL/TLS certificate error

As of Firefox version 20, the addon Skip-Cert-Error (which is a rewrite of 'MitM Me') doesn't work anymore. In fact there were some changes made in ffox in regards to the private-browsing-mode, which made the current 0.3.3 version incompatible.
Luckily the developer also has its own GIT-repository ...

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RocketRaid 2720 + Debian 7

Hi There,

Just a quick step by step manual on how to compile the kernelmodule for the Highpoint Rocketraid Controller 2720 under Debian 7.

  • wget "http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/rr272x_1x/Linux/RR272x_1x-Linux-Src-v1.4-120424-1752.tar.gz"
  • tar xfz "RR272x_1x-Linux-Src-v1.4-120424-1752.tar.gz"
  • cd product/rr272x/linux
  • make
  • copy rr272x_1x.ko ...
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Extract kernel config from vmlinuz

Hola!

I just wanted to check the configuration of a kernel for a pre-built system. But because I just had the plain kernel image (/boot/vmlinuz) and I was too lazy to boot it up, I had to find another way to get the configuration.
Luckily in the kernel sources ...

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Recompile Archlinux from Scratch (+custom CFlags)

So since I run some old/slow hardware, I want to get the max out of them, speedwise, without upgrading anything on the hardware side. So one of the things I do is to re-compile the applications/libraries with some customized CFlags. CFlags allow you to instruct your compiler (GCC ...

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