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Here are the begining^† of my 5 last blog posts.

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I’ve (re)discovered how to become S/MIME compliant. I am now suprised how easy it was. Some years ago it was far more difficult. Now I’m able to sign and encrypt my emails.

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I changed the design of my blog. Now it should be far cleaner. I believe I use no CSS3 feature and far less javascript. Of course before my website was perfectly browsable without javascript. Unfortunately some CSS3 feature are not mature enough on some browser. For more details you can read my older blog entry. But the major problem came from, font-shadow and gradients. Then my new design obey to the following rules:

• no CSS element begining by ‘-moz’ or ‘-webkit’, etc…,
• no text shadow,
• clean (I mean delete) most javascript.

I hope the new design please you.

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You can remark at the bottom of each page I provide a last modification date. This label was first calculated using the mtime of the file on the file system. But many times I modify this date just to force some recompilation. Therefore the date wasn’t a date of real modification.

I use git to version my website. And fortunately I can know the last date of real change of a file. This is how I do this with nanoc:

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Lets be straight: here are two functions to add to your code to have base64 and hexadecimal version of the sha1 hash of an NSString.

To use it, simply copy the code in your class and use as this:

#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h>
...
NSString *b64_hash = [self b64_sha1:@"some NSString to be sha1'ed"];
...

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I had to send a mail using only command line. I was surprised it isn’t straightforward at all. I didn’t had pine nor mutt or anything like that. Just mail and mailx.

What Internet say (via google) is

uuencode fic.jpg fic.jpg | mail -s 'Subject'

I tried it. And it works almost each times. But for my file, it didn’t worked. I compressed it to .gz, .bz2 and .zip. Using .bz2 format it worked nicely, but not with other formats. Instead of having an attached file I saw this in my email.

begin 664 fic....

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