SSL on the web server (update)
12:00 PM on Friday 29 August 2008
Know how sometimes you feel that you must be the stupidest person on the planet. Happened to me today. Was wondering why the redirect to the SSL protected server was not working outside the home network until I realize that I forgot to forward the port on the router. So it is working now. Ha ha.
SSL on the web server
12:00 PM on Thursday 28 August 2008
Converted the web server to use SSL to encrypt the traffic. The following guides were extremely useful for this: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html - http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign_ubuntu.html The first guide shows how to create a certificate and the second to configure apache f ...
Backups
03:57 AM on Friday 15 August 2008
This page describes my backup strategy. I have a linux machine (fillmore) which I use to store all my data. It has more than 2TB of storage so backing up everything is clearly not going to work and I really hate to use DVDs for backups. I do not really think they are very reliable. To better manage ...
My setup 20080807 update
12:00 PM on Thursday 07 August 2008
It has been a really busy week or two. The disks were filling up (1.7TB) and I wanted to have a RAID setup for the really important stuff. So off I went to get 2 1TB drives. Initially I wanted to get an additional SATA controller to drive the new drives since there was quite a fair bit of space in t ...
My setup 20080614 update
12:00 PM on Saturday 14 June 2008
A lot of the stuff have either been retired or they have failed. The PSC1350 printer has been replaced with a HP Photosmart C6180 which is a network AIO. The C6180 has fax capabilities and it has certainly been very useful. It being networked means that scanned documents can be send to any Windows o ...
BIND XML Parser
11:50 AM on Saturday 14 June 2008
The BIND XML format is a very deep one. Just open any of the XML file and you will understand what I mean. All the XML files can be obtained from here . Just get all the XML files divided by division as well as all the daily updated and you should have all of the data in BIND. Due to the sheer size ...
Bioinformatics resources
11:48 AM on Saturday 14 June 2008
NCBI Gene resource This is a resource that I heavily use. Very useful as it allows one to operate on the gene as a unit instead of multiple individual dna sequences (some of which are incomplete). The following are some material which are useful on NCBI Gene. NCBI Handbook - this is a link to the ...
Leaking coke can
09:36 AM on Saturday 14 June 2008
See the following picture of a coke can that was leaking. One fine day, I opened the cupboard and found that there was a pool of brownish liquid. Upon further checking, I found that one of the coke cans was leaking. The hole was very small resulting in a fine stream of liquid that was very hard to s ...
Interesting gene names
09:35 AM on Saturday 14 June 2008
In my job as a HTP at blueprint, I deal with a lot of genes. During data collection, I would be collecting information from several data sources and these data would be scrolling on my terminal (tells me that things are still moving). Sometimes, some really interesting gene names or gene description ...
Drooping bananas
11:34 PM on Monday 09 June 2008
Pauline and I left a couple of bananas over the weekend in the house. The following picture shows what greeted us when we came back :-)