Shortcut Keys for Mozilla Firefox 3

So I was wondering what the shortcut keys for Firefox were. If your like me and you spend most of your day in a Web Browser and have both of your hands on the keyboard at the same time then using the shortcuts to navigate your tabs is alot quicker than having to reach back for your mouse…

So after a very quick Google Search, I found this: Firefox Shortcuts

Very detailed list of shortcut keys for all the major platforms….

Perfect!

Creating Self-Signed SSL Certificates

SSL Certificates are a fundamental part of Transport Layer Security. SSL Certs are used as a means for authentication, by this I mean that a cert is mapped to a particular web site or web server and helps ensure that you are at the right place on the web. To host a secure web site requests that you get the cert signed by a Certificate Authority like VeriSign, GeoTrust or some other CA, but if you are only interested in creating SSL Certs for the purpose of a secure connection then self-signed certs would be the best way to go….(plus they are free).

(I put this post here because every time my certs expire I have to crawl the web to find the write set of command to run to get the SSL Cert again, it took me quite awhile to find them last time.. So hopefully this post will help someone somewhere)

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Installing Corkscrew on Mac OS X 10.5

So I wanted to get around a proxy that was really bothering me. It would not allow me to get ssh access out of the network that I am in. After talking to a mate of mine that is a big Linux head (especially Debian) I decided to look into Corkscrew.
It seems to do the trick nicely, allowing me to tunnel ssh through a HTTP Proxy.
So to install it on Mac OS X 10.5.6

Step 1. Getting the Source and Other Tools

The first thing to do is to get the source for corkscrew so that it can be complied for your platform (I had a very quick look for some binaries for OS X, but no joy).

Next you will need the gcc compiler…This is included in the XCode Tools that come with OS X 10.5 on Disk 2 and can be install from there…You only need this if you do not have gcc install already

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Installing TinyOS on Ubuntu 8.10

So installing TinyOS can be a bit of a pain sometimes. There are a number of options available but the easiest have to be the vmware image and the Debian repository install.
Personally I prefer installing via the Debian Repository provided by Stanford University.

This is my platform:
Mac OS X 10
VirtualBox 2.06
Ubuntu Hardy 8.10
TinyOS 2.1

The motes that I am using are the Micaz

I chose to install the TinyOS SDK on Ubunutu Hardy in a virtual machine on my Mac. ( I use VirtualBox for the virtual machine stuff)
The guide that is on the tinyos.net website is correct for the most part but is missing some steps. Below are the steps I preformed to install the TinyOS Platform.
The installation for TinyOS was preformed on a new install of Ubuntu using the default settings.

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