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Entries from July 25th, 2008

Firefox 3 sets a new World Record

July 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Tools

Last June 17, Firefox 3 made it to the Guinness book of World Records for having the most number of downloads (a little over 8M) within a 24-hour period.
If you’re one of the special people who contributed to this extraordinary milestone, you can get your “Thank You” certificates from Mozilla by visiting this link.

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I had that idea years ago!

July 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Business

There’s an interesting post at Signal vs Noise entitled “I had that idea years ago!“.
Most of us netspirants could probably relate to what the article discusses.
Just because you thought of a site to share photos with friends wouldn’t have made you Flickr.
I thought it would be interesting to share here some ideas I had before [...]

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By Faith, Not By Works

July 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Sunday School

Halfway through reading this wonderful book:
The One Year New Testament for Busy Dads
I came across a topic which is often the subject of debate.
Are we saved because of our Faith in Jesus or by “Good Works”?
Romans 3:21-29 clearly addresses this issue.
21 But now God has shown us a way to be made [...]

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Apache 2.2 and mod_rewrite

July 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · PHP

This is a super short (and very rough) post on how to enable mod_rewrite in Apache 2.2.
I have seen numerous posts on how to create “rewrite” scripts but found very little information on how to enable this feature in Apache 2.2.
Step 1: Uncomment the line with “mod_rewrite.so” from httpd.conf
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Step 2: Search for the [...]

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Certificates: PFX to JKS (Java Key Store) Conversion

July 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Java

I spent a considerable amount of time yesterday trying to figure out how to convert a PFX file to JKS.
I tried several approaches including this one from BEA, but I could not seem to make them work.
It was already very late when I saw an interesting blog post from CB1.
And guess what? His solution worked!
The [...]

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