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{ Monthly Archives } January 2010

More mod_security

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 simple […]

2010 01 29 Technology Comments (1)

Bluetooth (Time) Sync

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 a […]

2010 01 27 Technology Comments (2)

Moving to Windows 7 — Part Two

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 […]

2010 01 25 Technology Comments (0)

Memories of Sun

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 […]

2010 01 21 Technology Comments (0)

Moving to Windows 7 — Part One

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 64-bit […]

2010 01 19 Technology Comments (5)

Meeting Productivity

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 […]

2010 01 05 General
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