Category: Programming

Where I write about programming.

Opening more than 5 ports on a Technicolor TC8715D router/modem

Bothered that your router only allows you to open 5 ports. Well, with this simple hack that shall be no more! Keep in mind, if you want to open all ports to a specific PC/Server, you can make it a DMZ in the settings. Navigate to the port forwarding page at http://192.168.0.1/port_forwarding.asp. You’ll notice that if you create 5 services,… Read more →

Git sslv3 alert handshake failure

Problem I have been getting this error for the last few hours and haven’t been able to fix it. Here is what the error looks like, in my case I’m using Gitlab. fatal: unable to access ‘https://{domain}.com/gitlab/{username}/{project}.git/’: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure All the goggling I had done had lead me to believe git was out of date… but it… Read more →

Pure CSS Tabs

Demo link at the bottom of the page. This comes from one of my up coming projects where I needed to create css tabs but couldn’t use checkboxs or radios in order to trigger the tabs. It works by making a target the current :target and avoids scrolling the page by keeping this target’s display property at none. Thus the page… Read more →

Getting a free VPN on arch linux

UPDATE: It seems freevpn.me no longer works.  UPDATE: Looks like they are back up.    *Almost all files referenced in this article can be downloaded at the bottom of this article. Installing the VPN package Run the following command to install openvpn. pacman -S openvpn Installing the configuration files You should already have a directory located at /etc/openvpn, if not create… Read more →