It took quite a bit of trouble but I've added HTTPS support to this site. As an aside, most of my work has been on infrastructure projects and preparing to move to a new content platform. I'll discuss that separately when I am closer to making it happen.

Where to begin. How about I try to keep the back story brief this time?

So far I have tried running the ArmA 3 linux dedicated server on:

• Debian 7 VM running on a Sun Fire x4140 server
• Ubuntu 12.04 Server VM running on a Sun Fire x4140 server …

I've struggled with this for a few days. The cl0secall.net CA was not trusted by Pidgin, and I'd get certificate warnings wherever I connected from. There is no mention of this in the Pidgin FAQ, and various web searches turned up clues but no solutions. Through a combination of …

I've noticed several quirks when using Firefox. This is one of the more recent and annoying ones.

I first noticed it on windows, when there is more than one window open. In my case this means one "normal" window and one private browsing window. What will happen is that I'll …

I saw this place driving through Fairfax a couple of months ago. Having already been to SmashBurger I was familiar with the concept of a Steakburger. I checked out some reviews on Yelp. I could (and probably will at some point) write a whole separate article about that. This particular …

We live in exciting times. Myself especially. I've been working recently on a number of projects. I'd like to post a good summary of everything, but I hesitate to since I'd also like to deprecate this blog engine. So I'll write some stream-of-consciousness type babble and then move on with …

In a previous post, I explained that while I was able to correct one major problem with BF3 after the 11-22 patch, I was now seeing a separate, more insidious issue where the game would lock up in between maps. I believe I've now fixed this as well by running …

I was able to partially resolve my Battlefield 3 issues (as posted here) by running a "repair" operation on the game from the Origin client. Numerous rounds of Windows Updates and driver updates didn't help at all. Now the game seems to crash on map changes under certain circumstances, but …

I've increasingly noticed that searching the web for answers to various technical questions gets me a lot of dead-ends or infinite loops. For example, when searching recently for information on libnss-ldap and libnss-compat, I found this forum thread: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/miscellaneous/172807-name-service-switch-file-nsswitch-conf-what-compat.html. It conveniently doesn't answer …

In short, the game won't launch post-patch (the Nov 22 patch). I've tried installing the latest AMD video drivers, and all of the current windows updates, to no avail. Now I'm going to try leaving it in this state (trying to launch) overnight to see what happens.