Tuesday, August 31, 2010
ODSEE vs RHDS?
No, this isn’t going to be an in-depth analysis of the relative strengths and weakenesses of Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ODSEE) and Red Hat Directory Server (RHDS). Sorry. Just some reflections on the broader trends I’m seeing in the directory server space and where I think things may be going.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
They could put out a brick
Learned a new term today, “sheeple”. Speaking of sheeple…
Iphone4 vs HTC Evo - “The Safe for Work Version”
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Stronger passwords
From a new report on how much better the odds now are for brute force password attacks that employ modern processors. The main point, anything less than 7 characters is crazy and even 12 may be vulnerable without some compositional complexity.
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Google as colluding surrender monkey. Again.
First we had the stealth capitulation to Chinese censorship (and maybe worse).
Now capitulation to corporate domination of the Internet.
Ryan Singel say it all in Why Google became a carrier-humping net neutrality surrender monkey, published by Wired.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Who doesn’t love librarians? Or, Modding the DCMA
Big news from Washington, D.C. in the eternal struggle of art and science against Big Money.
The Librarian of Congress has just issued new rules on some exceptions to the prohibitions found in the DCMA against circumvention of access controls.
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