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When Firefox web browser checks a security certificate, it also checks with the issuing authority if the certificate is valid. It appears that, near a certificate’s expiration date, the issuing authority may release a new certificate. The two certificates have conflicting expiration dates.

For reasons unknown, this caused Firefox to report a sec_error_revoked_certificate error and refuse to allow you to connect to the site!

To resolve this, presumably at the same time reducing the security of your browsing, complete the following:

For PC Users:


  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Go to Tools the top menu and select Options.
  3. Click the Advance tab.
  4. Click the following button:
    Encryption, then
    Certificates, then
    Validation
  5. Check “Do not use OCSP for certificate validation.”
  6. Click OK and restart Firefox.


For Mac Users:


  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Go to Firefox in the top menu and select Preferences.
  3. Click the Advance button.
  4. Click the following buttons:
    Encryption, then
    Validation
  5. Un-check “Use the OCSP to confirm the validity of certificates.”
  6. Click OK and restart Firefox.

Categories : Software, Web Sites
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Dec
05

Odd currency conversion from Paypal

Posted by: Nigel Ball | Comments (0)

I was about to buy an eBook about iPhone application development for $USD7.99

Safari2Luckily enough I happened to notice that the currency conversion to AUD was not only wrong, but out by a factor of 100! I was just a whisker away form sending the lucky seller over $1,000 AUD

It seems to be an issue with Paypal, rather than the specific site, although I cannot prove this assertion. If you’re buying on Paypal from Australia I strongly suggest that you check the amount you are about to send before clicking on “Pay Now”

Anyone else seen this?

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May
01

Joomla Markdown Extension

Posted by: Nigel Ball | Comments (2)

As a result of a request from a reader of this blog, I have prepared a new Joomla extension which I have christened “jMarkdown” to partner with jTextile. Why would I do this? Well I remain absolutely convinced that even the best of the WYSIWYG editors for blogs and CMS are basically useless when it comes to editing text or restyling content. Wherever possible I use Textile markup for content intended for publication via the HTML. This is a matter of personal preference, many others use Markdown. Elsewhere in this blog you’ll find jTextile, a Joomla 1.5 extension which supports the textile syntax

Anyway, jMarkdown allows you to prepare articles for Joomla 1.0 using the Markdown syntax. jMarkdown, when activated, will convert the text into html for display purposes.

You can download jMarkdown here. This is a prerelease version and does not include any documentation. Just install the extension and activate the plugin in your Joomla 1.5 site.

As usual feel free to comment or ask questions here.

Categories : Coding, Software
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Just a quick post here to say that I have released a VirtueMart shipping module for Joomla 1.5.

Suffice to say that it provides a flexible mechanism for calculating shipping with separate scales for “Domestic” and “International” orders.

The idea for this module, plus core source code, was derived from an existing module “flex” by Micah Shawn which is contained in the current VirtueMart distribution.

You can download the module from HERE. Installation instructions are in the included README file.

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… and hopes that my employees are too!

This week my colleague Greg and I both received a CDROM in the mail from Microsoft. Since my personal computers run OS X or Linux, I didn’t even open the envelope at the time. Clearing my desk before leaving my office this evening, I was about to add the envelope to the circular filing cabinet (aka waste bin) when I recalled that when I asked Greg what was on the CD he had replied rather cryptically that he didn’t know as he was “waiting for someone who didn’t run Windows to open it and tell him what it contained”.

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Categories : Business, Software
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