by ezs | Apr 8, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized
I upgraded my PGP to the latest version to support Vista – working well – even the GroupWise C3PO works reasonably.
I took the plunge and did the Whole Disk Encryption for my laptop. Wow. 60GB of data encrypted in 3 hours. Now I get the PGP WDE sign on at boot, I use my home Active Directory password and I get single-sign-on into Vista. Very well implemented.
Now I’m less worried about travelling with my laptop and confidential data. BIOS password and physical security are part of the solution; but crypto for the whole disk is important.
It’s also a lot easier than the Vista Bitlocker. It works with 2000, XP and Vista – and does not require TPM on the workstation. My T42p works flawlessly so far.
by ezs | Apr 5, 2007 | Evangelism, evilzenscientist, patching, Uncategorized
My IMAP patch got included in the latest update to Copfilter.
- fix: fixes from various copfilter forum users (see the bugs section in the forum or
CHANGELOG for the details), most important ones are mentioned below
- fix: fix in cron.daily (it could hang) – thx DaPinky
- fix: IMAP Buffer increase (it could hang) – thx evilzenscientist
- fix: deleting a huge amount of mails from the spam quarantine is now possible – thx mdages
- fix: proxsmtp/tmp could get filled up without removal of old files – thx Alevizos Dimitrios
- new: ability to sort spam quarantine by columns (ex. by score level) – thx taurus
Nice to see my stuff make it 🙂 Officially “I don’t write code”
by ezs | Apr 4, 2007 | blogging, Uncategorized
Shel Israel writes:
UK Microsoftie Darren Strange reports that Microsoft now has 4500 bloggers among its 71,000 employees. Both numbers show significant growth. As irecall, when Robert and I were writing our first chapter of naked Conversations there were 2500 bloggers among 56,000 employees. By the time we finished the book in October 2005, the bloggers were topping the 3,000 mark. This would mean that the number of Microsoft bloggers has grown by over 50 percent in about a year and a half.
By percentage, I’m not sure whether Sun Microsystems or Microsoft has more bloggers, but both companies continue to grow and continue to extol the virtues of doing it.
One interesting aspect in Darren’s report is that there is no longer any controversy about it. When Joshua Allen, became Microsoft’s first blogger, the first call to fire him for blogging came just a few hours later, as we reported in Naked Conversations.
Now it is seems to me, blogging is normalizing at Microsoft and that is what should happen.
In contrast I think Novell has a couple of dozen prolific bloggers at most. That is way below par.
by ezs | Mar 26, 2007 | blogging, Uncategorized, wordpress
From the dev lists:
The target release date for WordPress 2.2 is less than a month away, April 23rd.
Phew. Patch and relax. Update and relax. Patch and relax.
When Matt and the others from Automattic said they’d be stepping up the frequency of updates – I didn’t expect this 🙂
It’s good though. Lots of new features promised for 2.2 and especially 2.3/2.4 and beyond.
by ezs | Mar 25, 2007 | patching, Uncategorized
Back from BrainShare and the usual round of patching the internal boxes.
The firewall/spam server got a good round of updates. IPcop had two major updates. Also the CLAM anti-virus for the mail sweeper got updated to 0.90.1
There are also a stack of SLES 10 and Windows 2003 updates to test and install. Sigh. Windows 2003 SP2 is now live; I need to check it doesn’t make anything barf. SLES 10 just has the normal slew of packages.
by ezs | Mar 16, 2007 | Evangelism, fun stuff, Novell BrainShare, Uncategorized, ZENworks
What does it mean?
For those at BrainShare – take your camera; mail your pictures to me at ezs@novell.com
by ezs | Mar 15, 2007 | Evangelism, Novell, travel, Uncategorized
I am in Hannover for a couple of days; announcing a new product at CeBIT – the worlds largest IT and technology show.
It is my first time here – and the scale is unimaginable. I was warned by colleagues about the traffic, the remote hotels and the expense – but until this morning I was unprepared.
The Novell stand is huge; with product demos; a cinema and a cafe to talk to partners and customers.
Two press meetings down; a press conference and a partner briefing to go.
Written at: Cebit. Hannover, Germany
by ezs | Mar 6, 2007 | fun stuff, travel, Uncategorized
All of the food so far in Beijing has been excellent.
Last night I headed out with Laurence and we ran into the Dong Hua Men Night Market – which is renowned in Beijing.
There is a wide range of regional delicacies on sale – including lamb kebabs, pork and beef skewers and fruit.
Then there are the real specialties. In the interests of fairness – think how interesting pork scratchings and haggis are..
Starfish on a stick:
And roasted and fried scorpions, silkworm grubs and crickets:
Silkworm grubs. Crunchy on the outside, silky and velvety on the inside. That’s what my online gourmet reviewer said.
Scorpions. Crunchy with a bite. I made that one up.
Finally crickets. Fried and ready to go.
by ezs | Mar 6, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
The Beijing skyline is filled with cranes.
by ezs | Mar 4, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
I’ve been taking pictures of my stay in Beijing – I’ve added the pictures from Laurence too.
In addition I am creating some panoramic shots stitching together many pictures to make a panorama.
The panorama is great for trying to give some feeling of the scale of the sights.
Here is Mao’s Mausoleum from a couple of pictures:
And here are a couple of pictures from the Forbidden City – still these pictures don’t give the vastness of the scale:
[For the record – I am using Hugin to create the pictures – it is free and opensource.]
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