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	<title>Ryan Byrd&#039;s Tech Ramblings</title>
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		<title>SSL Cert Management in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you have a ton of SSL certs you&#8217;ve purchased from different vendors and you&#8217;d like warning when they&#8217;ll expire.
http://prefetch.net/articles/checkcertificate.html has a free bash script that will check the certs for you and notify you when you need to renew. 
first, run this to get the list of SSL sites on your apache2 server:
grep 443 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2010/03/09/ssl-cert-management-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>Force HTTPS in apache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[maybe you want to make all HTTP requests we rewritten to HTTPS. Here&#8217;s how:

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
   RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

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		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2010/03/04/force-https-in-apache/</link>
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		<title>WebDAV linux share protected by LDAP Authentication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you want your Mac, Windows and Linux users to be able to access/write to a shared environment. Maybe you want to use WebDAV instead of a samba/NFS share.* How do you do that? Maybe you&#8217;d also like to authenticate against your Active Directory server. Here&#8217;s an Apache configuration that works:

&#60;VirtualHost *:80&#62;
    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2010/03/04/webdav-linux-share-protected-by-ldap-authentication/</link>
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		<title>The Ins and Outs of Fraud Detection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you have an eCommerce site and you process a lot of credit cards through a merchant account. Let&#8217;s say you ship stuff right away, as long as the transaction is approved. If someone steals credit card numbers uses them to buy stuff on your site, the charges will likely be reversed (chargeback) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2010/02/24/the-ins-and-outs-of-fraud-detection/</link>
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		<title>iPad&#8211; epic fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs launched the iPad yesterday. It&#8217;s basically a bloated iPhone, without a phone or a camera. Without belaboring the point, the name, iPad, has to be one of the WORST in history. Really, Apple? Really? Will the next bigger iPad be the MaxiPad? 
Once again, the only apps you can run on the iPad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2010/01/28/ipad-epic-fail/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in your password?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study analyzing breached passwords (from a Dec &#8216;09 attack) concludes nearly 50% of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and so on).
the most commonly used passwords:

123456
12345
123456789
Password
iloveyou
princess
rockyou
1234567
12345678
abc123

The rockyou password is probably unique to the site where these passwords came from, rockyou.com. The others might be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2010/01/21/whats-in-your-password/</link>
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		<title>A factorialing we go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mathematics, the factorial of a positive integer n,[1] denoted by n!, is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to n. For example,
    5! = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 = 120 
here is some pseudo code for iterative and recursive factorial code:
function factorial&#40; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2009/12/28/a-factorialing-we-go/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Command Line Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does the following bash command do:
kill -9 `ps ax&#124;head -\`echo &#34;$RANDOM % \\\`ps ax&#124;cut -f 1  -d &#34; &#34;&#124;wc -l\\\`&#34;&#124;bc\`&#124;tail -1&#124;cut -f 1 -d &#34; &#34;`
And yes, it is a great party game for you and your nerd friends! Thx, MJP!
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		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2009/12/22/christmas-command-line-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Super Easy Google Interview Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Estimate how much money you think Google makes daily from Gmail ads
Nike and Apple are working together to make a shoe with a chip in it that helps you run in time with your music. Tell me your own creative execution for an ad for that product.
Say an advertiser makes $0.10 every time someone clicks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2009/11/14/super-easy-google-interview-questions/</link>
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		<title>Filtering Out Bad Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you made a cool app that allows people to text message you advice that gets shown on a BIG projection on a wall at your wedding reception. Maybe your friends can be dirty. Maybe your grandma is also coming to the wedding and you don&#8217;t want to offend her. Maybe then it&#8217;s time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanbyrd.net/techramble/2009/11/05/filtering-out-bad-words/</link>
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