On Why We Don’t Use Challenge-Response
I was recently sent an email from one of our users, evidently impressed by a challenge/response mechanism set up by one of our clients on their mail server (even more impressed by the client’s claim that he received “no spam, ever”). He asked us why we didn’t implement something like this.
> Hi Luke, [...]
Free X Server for Windows
X-Deep/32 has been released as a freeware X Server for windows since its parent company (pexus) went into voluntary dissolution.
As someone who’s spent months trying to find a decent free X server, and each time had to settle for the giant cygwin/X11, all I can say is: hurrah!
Open-Source groupware
Something that’s come up quite a bit in work recently has been the idea that we need groupware. What we specifically need is:
shared address book
shared calendar
shared mail directories
The third of these, we’ve managed to hack together using courier-imap. Unfortunately for us, most of our users are very reluctant to move away from [...]
First Post!
Finally got around to watching Danny O’Brien’s Life Hacks talk from NotCon (video). This talk is essentially a “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” for dorks - Habits of Highly Prolific Geeks. It’s terrifying how many of these habits I seem to have formed myself, and yet am nowhere near being what [...]
