After I wrote my piece about mod_security, the people at Packt Publishing offered me a copy of their book ModSecurity 2.5, with the proviso that I review it. This sounded like a reasonable idea to me. Overall, I would recommend the book to people who are running Apache and need to know more about relatively [...]
One of the annoying things about moving to the 64-bit Windows 7 is that Palm decided not to support USB synchronization. Since my phone/PDA is a Treo 680, that’s a nuisance. In theory, I can sync via bluetooth. In practice, it’s not as easy as it used to be. First off, I had to get [...]
After the previous set of Windows 7 adventures, I discovered that the box I bought doesn’t support hardware-assisted virtualisation, which is needed for the Virtual XP mode. Option 2 for the scanner: try out a separate application called VueScan, which claims to support a large number of scanners. Except for, this program needs the Canon [...]
The EU has approved, the Sun/Oracle deal all but done, waiting for China and Russia. James Gosling’s post shows the poignant side. How long, I wonder, will the blogs.sun.com website still be available? How long to give space to memories and reminders? Some of my own memories of Sun, in roughly timeline order: Working on [...]
The motherboard on my old Windows XP box quit while I was taking a break for lunch one day, and I decided to replace it with an updated Windows box. So I’ll keep on using a Snow Leopard laptop, OpenSolaris server, and Windows 7 as well. Maybe I was asking for trouble, going with the [...]
Some months ago, Time magazine published an article called Why the Office Oddball Is Good for Business, about how really productive meetings need someone in them to stop too much consensus too early. The article starts Want to get the most out of your next brainstorming session at work? Bring in an oddball. If you [...]
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