Archive for November, 2007

Several years ago (5 to the week) I designed and implemented a PKI infrastructure for enrolling users, enabling them to send secure (i.e. encrypted) S/MIME messages. The nifty bits were that we have an off-site enrollment "agency" that create the private keys which are kept in a safe and a certification authority that does the [...]

Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 13:52 | 0 comments
Categories: LDAP, Mail, Security
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Care to hazard a guess as to what this sequence of numbers represents?

27.55, 33.45, 39.95, 47.95, 58.95

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 09:52 | 1 comment
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ZDNet writes:
Anyone who actually wanted Vista already has it.

Who wants to get one of these as a holiday gift, anyway?
via.

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 at 09:41 | 0 comments
Categories: Software
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Photo: Massimo Innocenti

Sunday, November 25th, 2007 at 20:55 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement
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The source code of the excellent Mulberry IMAP client has been released, and it includes a CalDAV client.

Sunday, November 25th, 2007 at 18:22 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, IMAP
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My whatmon extension or add-on for Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird has had a small update.
If you prefer to download it from the official Mozilla addons site you'll have to wait until it has been processed off the queue, but you can already get the current version chez moi.
Enjoy.

Saturday, November 24th, 2007 at 19:27 | 0 comments
Categories: Apache, Nagios, Software, whatmon
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007 at 14:28 | 0 comments
Categories: Entertainement, Mail
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User-defined functions are compiled as shared object files and then added to and removed from the MySQL server dynamically.
I hacked up a small test to demonstrate their implementation, although I'll only show you the results here.

CREATE TABLE u ( username varchar(20) );
INSERT INTO u VALUES ('jpm');
SELECT * FROM u;
+———-+
| username |
+———-+
| jpm [...]

Friday, November 23rd, 2007 at 15:24 | 2 comments
Categories: Database, LDAP, MySQL
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