Category: 1246

Reading Time: 2 minutes… Kim Cameron has linked and quoted my previous post on browser identification based on its characteristics available in public. There is EFF project which focus on checking how unique Your browser is against others based on public information. As it turned out Kim's browser has even higher score (19.29) in this test then my … Continue reading "Sorry Kim …"

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust to calm down my friends reading this blog … no, I haven’t developed personal relationship with my browser, however as many of us I’ve personalized it and I feel comfortable with it right now. All the plugins, configuration etc. It is our daily used tool now so probably all of us have done something … Continue reading "Is Your browser cheating on You??"

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post is probably first of TEC 2009 follow-up series, at least partially as I thought about covering it just before going to TEC. However Brian Desmond has touched this topic during his session so it is good reason to follow-up on it. This will be about usage of catch-all subnets in AD topology design. … Continue reading "One subnet to catch them all"

Reading Time: 4 minutesWell … at least in Poland we are saying that what happens once can happen again … like in Battlestar Galactica world. In last days it turned out that the same saying is true for network protocols. At least for one of them some time ago well known as Finger. For those who are too … Continue reading "Point your (web)finger at me"

Reading Time: 2 minutesDiscussions about identity and privacy are often treated as some sorts of theoretical debates. At least by so called “ordinary user” on the Internet. If we will think about adoption rate for technologies like OpenID or CardSpace we can get an impression that also people who are designing and developing web pages are not concerned … Continue reading "Identity in real life … and I don’t mean net ;)"

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis topic is buzzing on the Internet for some time, result of this buzz is a web site which is related only for this topic – how to convert Windows Server 2008 in a client OS. To be honest, I was rather skeptical to this idea. I share the same concerns which Sander has expressed … Continue reading "Windows Server 2008 on a laptop"

Reading Time: 2 minutesProbably we all use virtualization which in past few years has become new holy grail of personal computing and not only. We all use them (VMs), basically those of us who are working as developers, consultants or sys admins can't live without them. So it is only good about virtualization … ? It is cheap, … Continue reading "Virtualization – is it only a sweet?"