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Message in a Bottle

by John Cole|  September 11, 20165:56 pm| 41 Comments

This post is in: OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUDS

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Hillary is dying, this website is dying. Apparently we have a bad certificate, and I have no way to get in touch with Alain as he is not answering his phone, email, or fb., so if any of you rocket surgeons know how to fix this or who I have to throw money at to get the certificate fixed, please let me know.

It never fucking stops.

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    September 11, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    OH NO Yes that was as shout for help.

  2. 2.

    Peale

    September 11, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    Talk to Heather Bresch. If she can get WVU to give her that MBA without the coursework, handling a mere certificate should be no problem.

  3. 3.

    Immanentize

    September 11, 2016 at 6:01 pm

    It’s Ok John. You’ll sleep when you’re dead!

  4. 4.

    Unabogie

    September 11, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    Contact your hosting company. They probably issued the certificate and can help you renew.

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    September 11, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    Here goes wrong way Cole again not understanding what the problem is. And where is muckymux with his backwards non-understanding of technology and mac vs Windows post to make it all better. Or Doug telling us that BoBo heard around an Applebee’s salad bar how to get the cert replaced.
    All you people suck and have no understanding of politics, technology or the markets.

  6. 6.

    FlyingToaster

    September 11, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    About:config
    search for “ocsp”
    set the lines with “stapling” to false.

    It’s a temporary workaround, but I’m back in Firefox so we’re good.

    Well, for an hour or so until this box crashes. Again. My own damn fault for using Migration Assistant back in January, I suspect.

  7. 7.

    FlyingToaster

    September 11, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    @Unabogie: It doesn’t seem to be expired. It seems to be “I can’t get an answer from the certificate server”.

  8. 8.

    Juju

    September 11, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    If you need a classroom issued certificate of excellence I can give you that, if not I’ve got nothing. I also have some gold stars I could stick on your homework.

  9. 9.

    Pogonip

    September 11, 2016 at 6:06 pm

    It’s working all right for me (Safari).

  10. 10.

    FlyingToaster

    September 11, 2016 at 6:06 pm

    @Corner Stone: Oh for pete’s sake.

    This has all the earmarks of a backhoe incident — or, if the certificate was served from hereabouts, a tree falling over and uprooting a fiber trunk.

  11. 11.

    khead

    September 11, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    Some clown tried to break into our house last night. We know because we never use the basement door – yet someone tried to open it. Plus, the dumbass left their bike in our yard (now in the possession of the local police) upon departure.

  12. 12.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 11, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    On Chrome, it says the cert expires in December.

  13. 13.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 11, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    @Corner Stone: Perfect Derp-d-Derp.

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    September 11, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    @FlyingToaster: Stupid question: where to find about:config?

    Firefox recently messed up Roboform, my password utility. I just spent 10 minutes trying to log into my bank, with no success. I wrote a check. Ick.

  15. 15.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 11, 2016 at 6:13 pm

    @Mary G:

    I wrote a check. Ick.

    The horror, the horror.

  16. 16.

    Ruviana

    September 11, 2016 at 6:13 pm

    @Corner Stone: So either you are Shomi or you’ve perfected his/her style wonderfully. Bravo!

  17. 17.

    Ryan P

    September 11, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    not seeing cert issues ran a test from here
    https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=balloon-juice.com

    If you need more tech help I can help

  18. 18.

    khead

    September 11, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    I just assumed this was an open thread where I could yell at some clouds too.

  19. 19.

    Mary G

    September 11, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s SO much more work ?

  20. 20.

    FlyingToaster

    September 11, 2016 at 6:17 pm

    @Mary G: in the URL bar

    It will pop up and demand that you be careful. Goddamn nanny state….

  21. 21.

    Major Major Major Major

    September 11, 2016 at 6:18 pm

    @Corner Stone: Did you forget to ‘log in’ as shomi?

    Cole, from what I can see, it’s not your cert, it’s a browser issue. Works fine for me on Chrome; people are reporting issues on Firefox.

  22. 22.

    Taylor

    September 11, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    Hilary is dying from OCSP stapling?

  23. 23.

    CaseyL

    September 11, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    Someone a couple threads ago said they were able to get here via FireFox, but most of us can’t. Fortunately, we can use other browsers.

    OT:/Football Seattle is having a lot more trouble with Miami than it should be having. Plus Wilson has a badly stomped/twisted ankle and nowhere near as mobile as he needs to be. Ugh.

  24. 24.

    Taylor

    September 11, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    Chrome works fine.

    If you open View | Developer | Javascript Console, you can see diagnostics for things going wrong in the background. What I see that is worrying is that while the page loads securely over http, it is including a video plugin insecurely over http. That means that if you are watching this in a hotel or internet cafe, someone could replace that plugin with their own plugin (i.e. their code running in your browser) without your being aware of it. That should be easy to fix. FWIW I’ve seen bank Web sites make this kind of rookie mistake.

  25. 25.

    Mary G

    September 11, 2016 at 6:22 pm

    @FlyingToaster: Thanks, I fixed it and now feel smart.

  26. 26.

    Pogonip

    September 11, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    @Taylor: When will society take the OCSP-stapling epidemic seriously?

  27. 27.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 11, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    @Taylor: I thought it was pneumonia or a stroke; but OCSP stapling sounds painful.

  28. 28.

    FlyingToaster

    September 11, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    @Mary G: Trust me, you’re smarter than your browser.

    Most of my professional life has been spent battling artificial stupidity. Like the GPS routes in my 2007 Sienna — “Are you fucking kidding me? If I take that route, it’ll be 45 minutes just to cross Watertown. Fuck that shit!” and other songs from the same hymnal.

  29. 29.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    September 11, 2016 at 6:27 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Just remember, when OCSP stapling is involved; the safe word is “Green Balloons”.

  30. 30.

    FlyingToaster

    September 11, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I don’t see that working on OCSP-induced walking pneumonia…

  31. 31.

    JPL

    September 11, 2016 at 6:32 pm

    @Ryan P: Thank you.. We need a site to discuss the coming rapture.

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    September 11, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    @Corner Stone: Was that comment just for me?

  33. 33.

    Taylor

    September 11, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    @Taylor: Come to think of it, I’ve seen frigging Paypal make that mistake.

  34. 34.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    September 11, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Works fine for me on Chrome; people are reporting issues on Firefox.

    My understanding, from a few minutes of poking around the many, many past times this has happened with Firefox, is that the other browsers quietly handle the issue while Firefox goes full-tilt Chicken Little. The error page that comes up offers to let you report the site to the malicious site review group.

  35. 35.

    Patricia Kayden

    September 11, 2016 at 6:38 pm

    @khead: That sounds scary. Glad no one was hurt.

  36. 36.

    Rob

    September 11, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    I’m not having any problems viewing this in Safari. I can’t, however, view it in Firefox.

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    September 11, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    It’s not a tumor.

    (It’s not the blog, for me with Saf and Chro.)

  38. 38.

    Splitting Image

    September 11, 2016 at 7:19 pm

    My NAS server wase shut down during an electrical storm yesterday, and while everything seemed all right when I switched it back on, the server eventually went down hard. One drive was okay, but the other (with 2 terabytes of data on it) was not accessible at all.

    Swapping the two disks revealed that it was the connector inside the NAS case which had failed, not the drive itself, so all of my data is okay. What I have is a small problem, not a large one.

    What I’m saying is: chill. Clinton having pneumonia will not put Trump in the White House, and your website isn’t going down for the count either.

  39. 39.

    shomi

    September 11, 2016 at 7:22 pm

    Haven’t you ever heard of letsencrypt Cole? Don’t need to spend money on a certificate. Lol. Just need to set up your website properly and wordpress is not hard.

    You still have not fixed the stupid links which go off to the sides. So when you click anywhere on the page it follows the damned links. That has been that way for years through multiple site changes so clearly nobody who has the slightest clue has ever worked on this website.

  40. 40.

    BruceFromOhio

    September 11, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    Silk on a Kindle Fire is serving up the mobile site without challenge.

    Woke up this morning
    Can’t believe what I saw
    A hundred billion bottles
    Washed up on the shore
    Seems I’m not alone in being alone

  41. 41.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    September 11, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    LOL. You nailed it. I had to check the nym to make sure it wasn’t the real deal.

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