Using Apache to intercept HTTPS traffic

Due to the increase in processing power available, the use of SSL has become more widespread. This is obviously a good thing, especially with UK ISPs spying on ( and annoyingly, replaying ) web traffic recently, however this can be a showstopper when trying to debug a misbehaving application.

To get around this, and allow us to see what exactly an application, or even a web browser is doing, we can use Apache ( with mod_proxy and mod_dumpio ) to perform a man-in-the-middle attack , and view the traffic.
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Hosting a Gentoo Layman repository on Amazon S3

I’ve recently had to create a lot of custom Gentoo ebuilds, and distribute them out to separate machines. Luckily Gentoo has the layman system for adding experimental overlays, so we can use this to add our own custom one, hosted on Amazon S3.

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Google Cloud Print on Gentoo

Google have recently released their Google Cloud Print service . It is currently built into Google Chrome on Windows and Mac, but unfortunately it is not yet available officially for Linux.

Fortunately there is an unofficial open source project on Github, called cloudprint . It is fairly new, so isn’t yet in the Gentoo repositories, so I’ve produced an ebuild to make it easy to install and setup under Gentoo Linux.

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EC2 Micro Instance Clock Drift

Recently I’ve been experimenting with the Amazon Free Tier micro instances (one is running this blog). After running an instance for a few days I noticed that the clock seems to drift quite heavily ( more than 10 minutes over 24 hours ).

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Setting up a HP LaserJet P1102w Printer on Gentoo

Looking For an Ubuntu specific guide? Try here .

Today I finally replaced my aging Inkjet printer with a new Laser one. I eventually decided upon the HP LaserJet Pro P1102w printer, as from scouring forums it seems to have good support to Linux, in addition to being a relatively cheap WiFi laser printer. Setting it up under Gentoo wasn’t as simple as I’d hoped, but I now have it up and running on my WiFi network.

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