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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
16

Beware of bidpax.com

Posted by: Nigel Ball | Comments (0)

AcornWorkflow-2009.12.16 22.17.08A few weeks ago Facebook carried an advertising campaign for a business called BidPax, a so-called penny auction site. Briefly, you pay BidPax for bids to be placed on their auctions. Each bid costs about $.70. When an auction starts, bidders use their pre-purchased bids. Each bid placed increases the price of the item being sold by one cent and adds 10 seconds to the duration of the auction.

Obviously, anyone who wins such an auction appears to get the item at a huge discount — provided they are prepared to forget that each one cent bid cost $.72. However, even allowing for this, the history of auctions on BidPax suggests that the winning bidder is indeed saving huge sums when compared with the recommended retail price of the items won.

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Dec
05

Odd currency conversion from Paypal

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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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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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Jan
21

19Seven is getting a face lift

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I’m working on installing a new theme for my blog and I’m doing it live. So if things look a bit strange for the next hour or so, please be understanding. The content will still be here, just the presentation might be a bit erratic until I have finished!

The core changes have been completed and everything looks to be stable again.

Now on to some fine tuning :)

Categories : Trivia, Web Sites
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Mar
01

Commercial Property Investment LAB

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For the last few months I have been working with Chris Lang, the author of “How Investing in Commercial Property Really Works”, on the software behind his new Commercial Property Investment LAB. We are now in the official launch phase and Chris has released a video which contains his view of the Australian commercial property market.

The video contains what Chris calls a “Dire Warning” about these markets in the near future. If you’re in this market, or contemplating getting into the market tou owe it to yourself to watch the video

Categories : Books, Good Stuff, Web Sites
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Apr
15

New Hosted Service - MyEasyLinks.com

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For a few years now I have used an Open Source software product called SiteBar to store all of my bookmarks. Last week I set up a new hosted service based on SiteBar called MyEasyLinks

New accounts on MyEasyLinks are FREE and an account will let you store all of your bookmarks on the MyEasyLinks server so that you can…

  • have access to your bookmarks from any browser
  • have access to your bookmarks from any computer
  • share your bookmarks with friends, family or colleagues

If you use a computer in your office, and another at home, you’ll never experience that “What was that site” feeling!

Sign up now, while it’s still free.

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Nov
21

I'm in MySpace

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Earlier this month I took a look at MySpace and created my own MySpace

Tonight, I was taking a look at what was there and discovered that I can post to a blog in myspace

I’ve posted a couple of thoughts sparked by that browsing including one that concludes…

I am still at a loss to understand how most of the grown up world has completely forgotten that they were themselves mere portends of the End of The World when they were young themselves!

Take a look

Categories : Soapbox, Trivia, Web Sites
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