My self-signed certificate for this blog just expired and I just created a new one. I remember having to type in multiple commands before to create one, but I found this command in one of my notes in Evernote (don’t remember where I got it from) which lets you create a self-signed certificate by just typing in one command line:

sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 1825 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.key -out /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.crt

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I’m currently in the Philippines and staying at my grandpa’s place to spend Christmas and New Year. He doesn’t have internet here so the first thing I did when I arrived was to look for a 3G USB Modem.

I went to the closest shopping mall and saw a Smart store (one of the carriers here) and asked for one. It costs P995 (around $25) and comes with 5 days unlimited use.

The USB device …

You’ve probably seen those Wi-Fi hotspots already that offer free trial connections for 20, 30, or 60 minutes before. The way they track your device is usually by its MAC address, so if you can change its MAC address you can keep getting free trial connections.

I’m at a McDonald’s in Hong Kong right now and the only Wi-Fi connection that works for me only offers 20 minutes free trial. Back when I was using …

I got my new Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook a couple of weeks ago with the Windows 8 OS pre-installed. One of the main reasons I got this laptop was because of Project Sputnik, Dell’s attempt to build an Ubuntu-based developer laptop by working with Canonical.

I was waiting for Project Sputnik to finish before putting Ubuntu on it. About 3 days ago Dell finally announced that the developer edition of the XPS 13 …

The hostel I’m staying at now has good Wi-Fi so I haven’t used my Tigo USB modem for a couple of days now. Since I still have about a week of free Internet left, I decided to take the SIM card and use it on my Dell Streak Android phone instead.

My Dell Streak took the SIM card and showed “TIGO” as the network provider. When I opened the web browser I got a prompt …