Signing your own wildcard SSL/HTTPS certificates

There has been a lot of concern about online privacy in the past few weeks, and lots of people people are looking for ways to better protect themselves on the Internet. One thing you can do is to create your own HTTPS/SSL Certificate Authority. I have a bunch of websites on RogerHub that I want […]

Backing up my data as a linux user

It’s a good habit to routinely back up your important data, and over the past few years, dozens of cloud storage/backup solutions have sprung up, many of which offer a good deal of free space. Before you even start looking for a backup solution, you need to sit down and think about what kind of […]

Online advertising and why adblock is not the solution

There has been some pretty shocking stuff happening in the realm of online advertising recently. By recently, I mean anywhere from just this week to a year and a half ago. Let’s revisit some of them: A brief recap of this year in advertising We saw the introduction of the Do Not Track HTTP Header, […]

Email Basics: The Internet Message Format

Note: This is part 2 of a two-part segment on Email Basics. You can also read part 1 of this segment, which deals with the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. In part 1 of this two-part segment, I mentioned that the goal of SMTP was to ensure the responsible delivery of a digital package, but also […]

Email Basics: Introduction to SMTP

Note: This is part 1 of a two-part segment on Email Basics. You can also read part 2 of this segment, which deals with the internal format of emails. With all of the government spying scares circulating recently, many people have started taking another look at the companies and people responsible for their email. Like […]