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 [...]
Some time ago I was tasked with creating some training sessions for staff using smartphones running WM6. So I could both record procedures from the smartphone using a flash-video creation software, and demo things on a big screen live in front of the class, I setup my phone with VNC which allowed me to do [...]
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 [...]
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
