links for 2010-01-02

Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug – Update Your Rules Now! "If you're running SpamAssassin 3.2.x you are encouraged to update you rules (updates were released on sa-update around 1900 UTC Jan 1, 2010)." If you're running SpamAssassin you are encouraged to tell your users to check their spam folders for things they care about. fred design » Simple rules for good typography Some useful tips for using different fonts. I've found that knowing just a little about typography really helps my cause when I'm doing written proposals, presentations, or even the organization's talent show program. 🙂 (hat tip to Ross Mayfield for the link) WordPress Search Based DOS Attack « Weblog Tools Collection "So at the end of the day, …

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Y2K10, DECade, Blue Moons

Dear people using the term “Y2K10,” Please realize it’s actually one character longer and significantly more confusing than just typing “2010.” Yes, yes, I know it’s not nearly as hip and cool, but I’m sure you will survive. You may even come to appreciate using these commonly-understood terms when you notice an increase in your readership, due to suddenly being understandable. Also, while we’re talking about years, please be aware that a new decade started on 1/1/2010, despite what you might have heard from people who don’t regularly remember that some numbering starts at zero. We may not have wanted, or remembered, them to be, but years 2000 to 2009 were actually ten (10) distinct years. Hence the ‘dec’ part …

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GoDaddy, SSL, and $13

A GoDaddy representative left a comment on the post about ipsCA, saying: GoDaddy.com is happy to help ipsCA customers that have found themselves in a jam. For a limited time, our Standard SSLs are $12.99 with code sslqyh1w. Call 480-505-8877 or order online at http://bit.ly/91M3NV I’m not usually the kind of person to parrot an ad, especially one left on my site, but it’s actually a decent deal if you want a new, real SSL cert. Admittedly it’s not for their advanced certificates, but if you have a couple of ipsCA certs to replace it might work out just fine. Personally, I’ve been quite happy with GoDaddy as a domain registrar.

links for 2009-12-30

The secret about innovation secrets « Scott Berkun "This is good advice. But it’s advice few want to hear. What he describes is work. At least it looks and smells like work. The work is called thinking, which is very rarely mentioned in lists of secrets. People who think harder about a problem, and work at it longer, are more likely to be successful. End of story." I agree with Mr. Berkun — if there's a secret to innovation it's actually doing some meaningful work.

links for 2009-12-28

The New Flight Security Rules, So Far – Security – Lifehacker Okay, so exactly what am I supposed to do for the last hour of my flight, if I cannot use electronics or any of my carry-on stuff? I can't read, I can't listen to music. I can't even go to the bathroom. What a pain in the ass. Now I'm planning on not flying anywhere, for any reason. I hope the airline industry dies because of the TSA, for they deserve each other. That's Not Art I always enjoy a site that puts some of the stupid crap on the Internet in its place. Good use of 10 minutes. SMS on Wheels: CarPong Is Vehicle-to-Vehicle Messaging Dammit anyhow, I've …

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links for 2009-12-26

Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/SSLCAFailure "…having your root CA certificate included in as many programs as possible is a CA's real job" A) Thanks for the attribution Chris! B) Agreed, completely. Golfers knew about Tiger Woods' cheating on wife Elin Nordegren, but Helen Alfredsson breaks silence "She then roused Woods from an Ambien-enhanced sleep by whacking him with a golf club." I'm really not into the Tiger Woods thing but if this it true I hope she's brought up on assault charges. You can really hurt people with golf clubs, and assault is against the law regardless of whether your spouse was cheating or not.

links for 2009-12-25

Everything is a project, even this « Scott Berkun "I wrote awhile ago about why project managers get no respect, and that’s because people who make a big deal out of the project-manageryness of their work, as opposed to the domain of the things they make (homes, software, films, cookies) come off as a kind of weenie, a pm-weenie if you will. They appear to be people who are more interested in schedules, budgets and methods than the results those tools help achieve, which is kind of weird. It’s like the director of a bad movie who talks only about his fancy zoom lenses, or that the film came in under-budget. They miss the point." as long as your arm | …

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ipsCA: Getting What You Pay For

So the SSL certification authority (CA) ipsCA is frantically sending out email because their root CA certificate will expire on 12/29/2009, and every customer of theirs needs to get a new certificate. This is a problem for my organization, because, being an educational institution we were able to get no-cost[0] SSL certs from them. Because they were no-cost we have a lot of these certificates for test & development systems, and are now scrambling to find what will break on December 29th. Once we find all the certificates there’s another complicating factor. We could just renew the certificates again, but the new ipsCA root certificate is not shipping as part of any browsers except Internet Explorer 8 (the next Firefox …

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It Belongs To Everybody

You think that server in our data center is yours? The CIO paid for it. The logistics & purchasing team ordered it. The data center team installed it. The system administration team configured it and patch it. You installed the application on it. The monitoring guys watch it. The security team scans it. I think it’s safe to say it belongs to the whole organization, not you.

links for 2009-12-20

Woo Hoo! A Track from Paradise Lost is Featured on a Grammy-Nominated Disc « SoaringLeap.com Conspirare is a vocal group out of Austin, TX. This disc of theirs is great — the version of Eric Whitacre's "What If" is really cool, and I've liked Barber's "Agnus Dei" ever since the Dale Warland Singers did it. If you're into this stuff it's also on iTunes. Google Rejects Awesome People So It Doesn't Hog All Of Them Catching up on my reading — Google rejects awesome people so it doesn't hog all of them? Um, yeah, right. This just sounds like a way to make some people feel good that Google rejected them. Cool Tools: Behringer USB Audio Interface I think I'm …

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