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”
Embed after the jump.
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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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Changing the DAS Console Product Logo
Oracle has given lip service to those who feel the urge to re-brand everything by providing the ability to upload a “realm logo” for the 10g AS DAS Console. Doc for this is here. Unfortunately the result doesn’t look quite right, at least to me. First of all, the default behavior is not to display the custom logo until the user is actually logged in. Even when they are, they’ll still see the Oracle product logo unless you uncheck “Product Logo”. A possible solution after the bump.
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