I manage SSL certificate requests (and renewals) at work and the number of certs in use seems to be growing every year. There’s a nice cozy 3 year expiry on most of them which means to me just enough time for them to be potentially forgotten and cause a mad scurry come renewal time (or [...]
I recently upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and among a few other niggles (mostly related to intel video support, or lack thereof) it completely broke support for my Huawei 3G (E620) modem. Fortunately the fix is fairly straightforward: install a new kernel. I went with the latest (v2.6.32 release candidate available over [...]
Following my previous post on restoring the default xandros install to the eeepc, it didn’t take me long to move to (and ultimately settle on) Ubuntu. Its not perfect but a hell of a lot better than stock Xandros. I had a play with the stock ASUS install for a while, but it was less [...]
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga
