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Stunnel is a rather useful tool available on Linux and Windows which allows programs which cant use TLS/SSL to connect to encrypted services. The example code would be if you wanted to connect to https, using http instead:

$ sudo stunnel -c -d 80 -r https-for-this-eg-web-page.co.uk:443

Then this would allow you to type http://localhost/ in your browser and access the normal https site.

As you may note in the previous post I've started using my PC to play games again. I do have a fairly high specification PC, but there has been rather a death in PC gaming of late, with the last decent release being the Orange Box (2007) and Painkiller (2004) before that (infact both those games are playable on on the 360 and Xbox).

During one of my trips to play rare Japanese arcade machines, I happened across some rather awesome shmups by a company called Cave. Cave specialise in danmaku (bullet curtain) type shooters, wherein around 60% of of screen is either filled with projectiles, or the alien crafts trying to make you put more change in the machine. Luckily you have a ship which weapons... which well fill the remaining space on the screen.

Channel 4 ran a programme called "The Genius of Charles Darwin" by Richard Dawkins, a scientist whos early works helped popularise the understanding between evolution and genetics and more recently has been one of thankfully growing number of people talking a stand against a coming tide of Unlightenment.

Well its space year 2008, and theres still only fleeting glimpses of our future robot overlords. So humanity and the people in it; namely me need something do to in the meantime. So while I suggested Drupal for use in a much more interesting project.