I have been trying to work with some web developers that have been hired to create a new site for one of the departments at the University (where I work as a programmer). I was amused by the first request for FTP and control panel–I’m guessing this means CPanel–access to our Drupal site. We don’t [...]
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Moving the IT Budget Into the Unmeasurable
Organizations have an affinity for numbers. While it is true that numbers can be useful in planning and are essential to budgeting, numbers never tell the whole story: as popularized by Mark Twain, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” As part of the numbers game, a disturbing trend is emerging. [...]
DigiNotar SSL Certificates Revoked by Google and Mozilla
The latest stable version of Google Chrome (13.0.782.220) rejects SSL certificates issued by the Dutch firm DigiNotar as does the yet-to-be-released Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2. (Mozilla will also release an update to the 3.6 line: Firefox 3.6.22. My tests indicate this version also revokes DigiNotar as an SSL authority.) This drastic action comes in the wake [...]
Mozilla.com Redirecting to Mozilla.org (SSL hell)
In response to the news that hundreds of web site SSL certificates were hacked from (fraudulently issed by) DigiNotar, the Mozilla foundation taken drastic action: permanently blocking all DigiNotar certificates in the latest version(s) of Firefox. So, what does that have to do with site redirection? My guess is that a hacked certificate has been [...]
Mozilla Firefox 6.0.1 on Slackware 13.37
I was getting tired of WordPress telling me that my version of Mozilla Firefox was out of date, so I decide to see if I could build the latest version for my Slackware64 13.37 workstation. This is the journal of that journey. If you’re looking for directions without all the commentary and interesting stuff, try [...]
Installing Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 on Slackware 13.37
A cookbook kinda how-to for installing the latest (v 6.0.2) Firefox on your Slackware64 13.37 box
Constant Irritant
So, do you ever get those emails from constantcontact.com? The spammy stuff from that wonderful company that requires clients to use opt-in-only? I finally got fed up with messages from places like United Way of the Bluegrass and The Lane Report who added me their lists without my permission. Sure, I clicked the unsubscribe link [...]
Ubuntu 10.10 on a MacBook 1.1
Making the iSight work under Ubuntu 10.10 on a MacBook 1.1
Google Chrome on Slackware: Go Borderless!
When I upgraded Google Chrome to version 6.0.472.53, borders appeared around the window: these borders were not there when I was running version 5.x and I was not happy! After wasting much time creating a Window-Specific behavior–causing my KDE theme’s minimize, maximize and close buttons to disappear–I realized that what I was looking for was [...]