Dear RedHat, Thank you for having hosted my site for so long for free. I tried to migrate to OpenShift 3 via the Free tier but sadly the quota does not allow for everything I need to run my WordPress. So i had to move; no hard feelings – but 50 bucks/month – are you …
Author: Cristian Sandu
A Possible Crypto Commitment Scheme for a Timestamp(or a Number)
Hi again, I’ve been reading lately about zero knowledge proofs and commitment schemes. I had this idea about a commitment scheme that could hide a timestamp(or a number in general) until such time that the prover would want to reveal it to the verifier. Warning: I do not claim this is an original idea, it’s …
Using Let’s Encrypt with a PHP Application on OpenShift
Hi, Update: github.com/kuba/simp_le is dead, the github.com/zenhack/simp_le fork is to be used instead. The following post documents how I used Let’s Encrypt to secure this WordPress site which hosted on OpenShift. The following is based on this forum post/tutorial. I just made it work with virtualenv and a PHP OpenShift app. Please note that you …
Now Hosted On Openshift
Update: now secured via https with let’s encrypt. Guess what? this site is now hosted for free on RedHat’s OpenShift platform. Yey!
Debugging Go Programs with QtCreator
Debugging Go is a pain. I am not sure why the designers of this language did not include a debugger in the toolchain. In any case, GDB can be used to debug this wonderful language and I discovered that QtCreator is an alright frontend. There a few steps needed to set this up: Configure gdb …
Accessing the serial console on a Samsung Spinoint F3 a.k.a. HD103SJ HDD
Hello, If you were looking for a more sophisticated title like “What did the Samsung HDD say to the TTL cable?” then you came to wrong blog. A year or so ago I had some data access problems with this Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD and having heard that a firmware update might help I… well… …
Watching the Micro 3D Printer Work is Pretty Cool
I have been hacking away these past weeks at printing things with my new M3D printer. Sitting next to it while it prints is not exactly a productive pastime so I used a webcam to make a video of the printing process. I then took that video and trimmed it in QuickTime and then I …
Why I Think IKEA Should Make Open Source Designs
I’ve been dreaming for a while about my own 3D printer and this month that dream came true. I had on pre-order a Micro 3D printer. I got the green one. While the print volume isn’t great the user experience is pretty great. For a beta product 🙂 … And so I entered the world …
1Password for Firefox on Linux
How to Run 1Password for Firefox(and probably Chrome) on Linux I’ve been loving 1Password for a while now and I wanted to use it on Linux as well. There is no official support from Agilebits for Linux yet. In my search I found a few ways: http://www.lucianofiandesio.com/1password-in-linux And other hacks. But in the end …
Oui, Je Parle Français, Pourquoi?
Je lisait quelque chose sur Quebec et leurs problèmes avec ceux qui parlent seulement Anglais… enfin. Je trouve ça un peu… Ă©trange. … Mes parents Ă©tait convaincus que il faut connaitre au moins deux langues Ă©trangères. Alors j’ai appris la langue française à partir de 9 ans et un peu plus tard la langue anglaise (Ă Â deux …
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