Now I know what you’re thinking. What good is a SSL certificate that’s free? In other words, one that you self-sign, use an untrusted certificate authority to sign it, etc. Well crazy as its sounds the first step to widespread free SSL certificates happened a few months ago. The Firefox 3.0 release. Firefox 3.0 included the StartSSL CA root certificate, StartSSL offers a free Class 1 SSL certificate. Equivalent to GoDaddy’s cheapest SSL certificate, i.e. no verification and no customer information in the certificate. Sadly Safari 3.1.2 (really OS X since Safari uses system wide root certificates), and Internet Explorer as of IE 8 Beta 2 do not ship with StartSSL’s root certificate. But at least its a start in the right direction. Hopefully Apple and Microsoft will take a hint from Mozilla and include StartSSL in upcoming releases of their browsers.

Ben

FreeBSD by default runs three sets of periodic scripts that outputs a volume of information about your system's current state. The output of these scripts are sent to the root account's mailbox. If you are like me and have a number of FreeBSD servers, its a pain to go check this mailbox on each machine. Well here is an easy fix to send the output of the scripts to any email address.

Edit /etc/periodic.conf and add:

daily_output="ben@domain.com"
daily_status_security_output="ben@domain.com"
weekly_output="ben@domain.com"
monthly_output="ben@domain.com"

To test that this is working run: periodic daily as root. The security run output should arrive in your mailbox.

Quick tip, especially if you use GitHub with Gravatar so a little profile picture will show up on GitHub you likely need to set your Author and Email for Git. So instead of falling back to your system username and machine name for an email address (at least on the Mac), and your account's long name for author name, Git will use the correct information and your gravatar will show up in GitHub (minimally just match your email with your Gravatar account).

Run the following commands:

git config --global user.name 'Your Name'
git config --global user.email ben@domain.com

This will add entries to your ~/.gitconfig file under the [User] section.

Thats it. See me on GitHub here: http://github.com/unilogic

Thanks Tim for the correct way of doing this.
Resource: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git

To expand on my last post about fixing the home and end keys in Terminal here is how to fix the Page Up and Page Down keys.

Follow the directions in my last post, but instead of choosing the end or home keys select the page up and page down keys.

Set action to send string to shell and in the text box copy and paste: \033[6~ for page down, and \033[5~ for page up in the text box under the action pull-down.

If you can't copy and paste, the key sequence goes as the following: ESC [ 6 ~ and ESC [ 5 ~ respectively. Those two key sequences should expand to the above text.

By default in Terminal.app the home and end scroll the the top of the screen and the end of the screen buffer respectively. To make Terminal act like a normal console (in other words the home key moves the cursor to the beginning of the line, and the end key moved the cursor to the end of the line, etc) do the following:

• Open Terminal
• Open Terminal's preferences
• Goto the Settings Tab

Introduction

Git has become quite the popular version control system in the rails community. That being said I am announcing that I will stop using ports for my tutorials and install everything from source. There are advantages and disadvantages to this and the main reason is that I am sick of waiting for ports that are outdated.

Requirements

This install is quite easy. All the dependencies required ship with Mac OS X Leopard. That being said lets get started. For this to install successfully you must have the following installed on your computer:

• Apple Developer Tools

Installation

Download the latest package from Git At the time of writing this tutorial the current version is Git 1.5.5.

Below are the directions to completely install the Git version control system.

cd /usr/local/src
curl -O http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.5.tar.bz2
tar -xjf git-1.5.5.tar.bz2
cd git-1.5.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

Most of the performance benefit in FreeBSD is gained by switching from the default 4BSD scheduler to the ULE scheduler. This scheduler was introduced to FreeBSD in version 5. Since its induction to FreeBSD it has seen many improvements. By the end of this guide you will be booted into FreeBSD 7 and using the ULE scheduler.

cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf
cp GENERIC CUSTOM
ee CUSTOM

There are two things to change in this file then we can move to compiling and installing the new and improved kernel.

ident        CUSTOM
options       SCHED_ULE

Thats it! once that is done running the following commands and reboot.

cd /usr/src
make kernel KERNCONF=CUSTOM