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A random collection of notes from Today’s science experiments. ...

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More notes. Sorry. 🙂 ...

As of September 29th 2015, a bunch of notes on the specific bargain VPS hosts. This is mainly a feature-set comparison, but also includes some interoperability notes. ...

I’m experimenting with Digital Ocean for servers. Here are notes. ...

Content – What kind of streams are allowed? Chat – Is there a live chat? Archive – Are there video archives? Embed – Do they have Embedded Video code? iframe – Is iframe supported (assumed flash object otherwise) HTML5 – Do they have an HTML5 Video Player? Mobile – Is Video supported on the mobile site? “?” means untested with embed code. Cast – Does the player support Chromecast? Chat Em – Does the site have Chat Embed code?...

Reference (but it’s vague): http://www.afternet.org/help/connecting/ssl NOTE: AfterNET is adding a wildcard SSL certificate. This may obsolete these instructions. 1. Download the certificate. 2. Create a folder afternet.org under /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ 3. Copy afternet.cer to /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/afternet.org/ 4. Symlink it as 90511bdb.0 5. run update-ca-certificates to update the certificates list. 6. Open x-chat. 7. Edit your AfterNET entry. 8. Remove all the old servers and instead add. 9. Check both Use SSL for all Servers on this Network and Accept invalid SSL certificate....

I’m setting up an experimental standalone server for Ludum Dare’s static content. ...

For a side project, I’m using cheap server from these guys: http://buyvm.net/ I’ve decided that since it’s for development, I’d rather use Apache instead of NgineX. NgineX is much better than Apache when it comes to memory usage and performance, but Apache is a little easier to organize thanks to .htaccess files. And since Ludum Dare runs and will continue to run Apache for a while, I’ve decided to make my life working on both projects a little simpler. For my reference, the following are my setup notes for the server. ...

Dealing with SSH keys is confusing. Every machine you run should have a unique SSH key. SSH keys typically consist of 2 files: id_rsa – Your Private Key. Used ONLY on your local machine. id_rsa.pub – Your Public Key. Give it to others (pub for public). NEVER SHARE THE PRIVATE KEY! The names themselves don’t matter, so feel free to rename them. It’s what the files contain that’s important....