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Monthly Archives March 2011

Great Jargon LOL

Something I do in my day job a lot is read. I read tons of documents from peer reviewed publications, a bit less from periodicals like IEEE S&P, ACM Communications etc, and finally I get sucked into reading some vendor white papers / marketing crap. The density and value of the information in these documents [...]

Posted 12 March 2011 † Philip § Rant ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Force apache2 digest auth over SSL

This may seem like a strange reason to be configuring an authenticated and encrypted HTTP connection … but it’s tax season! There’s a story behind this naturally but first a quick overview. Recently I’ve had had to exchange sensitive documents with someone. To do this I had to configure my web server to require digest [...]

Posted 10 March 2011 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Nokia E7 Pre-Order Page Crashes N97 Browser

I had hoped to hold out on buying another cellphone until Nokia got their shit together and released the first Meego phone. With the latest news out of Nokia being a Microsoft partnership and the projected release of the N950 being “later in 2011″ it’s become painfully obvious that my N97 just won’t make it. [...]

Posted 08 March 2011 † Philip § Rant ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,