Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation
Wired provides a useful list of standard add-ons: Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation. Also check out Medibuntu, which automates a lot of this stuff much more safely than Automatix. (Warnings… Read more »
Author Archives: Jonathan Tappan
US government forces military secrets on Brit webmaster
Article from The Register. I thought of making a list of all the basic security practices being violated here, but I gave up. It just boggles the mind.
Visual Studio 2008 Quirk
If you try to debug a web application and get the message You are not authorized to view this page HTTP Error 403 – Forbidden It probably just means that… Read more »
Voting Machines: California Gets a Clue
California is one of the few jurisdictions that is belatedly starting to do the right thing with electronic voting machines: subject them to rigorous testing by qualified computer security experts…. Read more »
Microsoft Backs Down on Vista Lockout
Update to previous post: Starting with Vista Service Pack 1 (available in early 2008) Microsoft will no longer disable your computer if “Windows Genuine Advantage” decides that your copy of… Read more »
Let the Machines do the Recount
The continuing horror story of electronic voting machines reaches a new level of tragic absurdity: Ohio e-voting review makes a mockery of “recounts”. This illustrates the real reason why we… Read more »
Comcast Packet Forgery
The latest flap about “net neutrality” started with a test by the Associated Press which found evidence that Comcast is slowing BitTorrent traffic over its network. If this were really… Read more »
Configuring IIS for HTTP GET
I recently ran into some frustrating problems doing something that ought to be really simple: setting up a directory on IIS so that the files could be downloaded with a… Read more »
Server Configuration Problems with WCF
If you have started developing web services with Windows Communication Framework (WCF) you will no doubt have noticed that it is cleaner and more powerful than the old ASP.NET framework…. Read more »
[Censored]Sweeper
via Raymond Chen, David Vronay describes the travails of producing a version of the classic Minesweeper game for Windows Vista, subject to the restriction that it mustn’t offend anybody. I’m… Read more »