Archives for the 'Code' Category
Stuff that scares me…
We all have probably read about the theory that even if you scramble the letters in a word, as long as you keep the first and last letter intact, people can read such text (almost) without problems.
Now consider an application like this and the amount of daily spam that gets caught by word-driven Bayes filters. […]
Argh. Matrox.
So I upgraded to Fedora Core 5 for my workstation. Which comes with the Xorg 1.0.1 server. For those of you who are blessed enough to use a system where video drivers are a non issue (because every card is well supported: Windows or only a few cards are actually available: Mac), let me tell […]
When UID is not UID…
So today, I had to juggle with client side certificate authentication. No big deal, one would think. This is 2006, not 1996 and client side certificates are well established. Little did I know. Little did I know…
Our request was, that the certificate contains a number of fields and got signed by our own, in-house CA. […]
Culture clash - My first weeks with Mac OS X
I’ve finally given in to all the Mac addicts around me and got one, too. There is now a Mini Mac sitting right next to main working machine and I toy around with it when there is some spare time. I’ve started asking myself if it was a mistake to get an Amiga 3000 instead […]
This is why this country goes down the drains…
What do you get when a world wide global player in ERP and e-commerce solutions and the leading german telco and internet provider team up to build a ticketing solution based on the web application solution platform from the largest and most profitable software company in the world?
To build a ticketing solution for the […]