VMware Player certificate error in Linux

When installing a virtual machine and attempting to install VMware Tools on it it will fail complaining about being unable to check a certificate and display an error message.

A certificate error occurred for the update server. Check your Internet settings or contact your system administrator

I searched on the internet and foud this page [1] and I modified the instructions as shown below.

This is the VMware version I'm using:

This is the error message

This is the normal application dialog appearing after the issue has been fixed:

The dialog when downloading the VMware Tools ISO image:

After the ISO has been downloaded it shows the instructions for installing.

As always the patch on github

Related resources

1. http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=240980

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./hibernate.sh

My Debian Jessie hibernation option is somehow broken and I needed a quick way to set the laptop to hibernate when I'm on the road. As always, the github gist is below for both the script and the sudo config:


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Drupal 2 Pgpass - Convert Drupal 6 pgsql db_url to .pgpass format and set permissions

I needed to automagically connect to the database of some drupal 6 instances, so I wrote this script to convert the settings.php [1] $db_url [2] into the ~/.pgpass [3] file, remember to also set the apropriate permissions (0600) and also be sure to own the file, otherwise it won't work.

Related resources

1. https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/sites!default!default.settings.php/6
2. https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!globals.php/global/db_url/6
3. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgpass

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Automatically download and gpg-verify running Linux kernel source

Automates the download kernel source and verify proccees stated on the official kernel.org page [1]
gist @Github.

Related resources

1. https://www.kernel.org/signature.html

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Apache httpd configuration sections

To understand how Apache httpd apply configuration blocks. gist @Github.

Related resources

1. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html

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Apache httpd configuration file and directory structure

Might be handy when working with different Linux distributions.
I also created a gist @Github.


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Apache Security Settings - /etc/apache2/conf.d/security

Common Apache httpd security settings to prevent information disclosure. This file must be placed under:
/etc/apache2/conf.d/security
I also created a gist @Github.
Related resources

1. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/

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Apache httpd debug mode on Debian GNU/Linux

I use this script most of the times I'm debugging Apache-specific issues on Debian GNU/Linux. I also created a gist @Github.

Related resources

1. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/

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Download and display SSL certificate validity dates issuer and subject

Pretty handy to check certificate validity dates.
I also created a gist @Github.

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