One of John C. Dvorak’s latest articles is an ode to Shrink-Wrapped software and why it’s long from dead. Some of his arguments are correct, but many aren’t.
1. The network sucks
True, the network is the weakest link in the entire Software as a Service design. But I think John fails to see that the companies [...]
While everyone has probably heard of Wikipedia before, the younger Wikileaks is much less famous. While Wikipedia is focusing on being the world’s first free and open encyclopedia, Wikileaks is an uncensorable wikipedia for leaking documents and analysis.
Wikileaks describes itself as:
The first ingredient of civil society is the people’s right to know, because without such [...]
Python 3000, the next big version of the Python scripting language will introduce some awesome new features.
It’s import to know what this next version of Python isn’t a direct replacement for the 2.x series. It will be more than a year, maybe even two years before Python 3000 is officially released and even then the [...]
For the first article in Quest for Artificial Life, I’ve searched the net (Google is your friend) for some basic info on evolution on life. Turns out it’s not that very complex. I distilled some info from the sites I found and gathered these basic facts. Behold the foundation of our research! This information isn’t [...]
It’s time to start something new, something cool. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a very, very long time. Creating artificial life, playing god. It’s a geek trait we all have, the craving for power!
This is a secret passion I had since I learned C++ (with Visual C++ !!) and created a console [...]
I was searching for a good article on how to configure Squid (the famous and excellent proxy server) so that it can authenticate with Active Directory (or LDAP in general) and found this excellent article on the PaperCut Knowledgebase.
I’m really getting closer to kicking out that damn ISA server!
It’s possible to delegate your OpenID to another identity URL. In my case I delegated my OpenID http://id.masuran.org to http://blog.masuran.org.
The biggest benefit you get when delegating your OpenID is that you are independent from any OpenID provider. Let’s say you don’t host your own OpenID identity and that in a couple of years you become [...]
You probably read all about OpenID in my previous post and as promised here is a tutorial on how to install your own OpenID server. At the end of this article you’ll have your own OpenID and you’ll be your own OpenID provider.
To be able to run your own OpenID server all you need is [...]
I don’t think there’s any geek that hasn’t read (or at least knows about) the novel 1984. The literary work of George Orwell tells the story of Winston Smith, a citizen of the futuristic nation Oceania. Winston lives under the constant watch of Big Brother. No doubt many of you are more familiar with the [...]
One of the most common things around is automatic login on an ssh server. But a lot of administrators don’t know how to do this. In this short article I’ll show you how to generate a public ssh key (if you don’t already have one) and transfer it over to the remote server so you [...]