28 Nov 2000 » Diary of Releasing OSDA at AOSS2 This is a long one. It covers my weekend just past. Friday After a hectic week, I made my way from home to the airport with my frantically packed carry-on and laptop, and thus to the Qantas Club with unseemly haste. I had a couple…
Advogato – 22 November 2000
22 Nov 2000 » Skud: AOSS2 I’m going to AOSS2 to do the SAGE-AU presentation. Mail me your presentation as a backup mechanism – it can come across on mr laptop. Also, I’m reasonably certain that Michael Paddon et al (ie the organisers) will look after it for you as well. work: Win2K security tute…
Advogato – On Basic Digest Authentication
21 Nov 2000 » gstein: basic digest authentication is evil and is first against the wall when the revolution comes As far as security people like me are concerned, basic digest is in the clear. It’s base64 encoded ASCII text. Therefore it’s in the clear, as the amount of transformation that is required is not…
Advogato – On preparing for an MCSE exam
20 Nov 2000 » Don’t try this at home I passed my Win2K MCP upgrade exam (070-240) this morning. I thought it was a one hour exam. It turned out to be four one hour exams. Whoops 🙂 Don’t try this exam without the same level of preparedness as myself: I’ve been using NT 5.0…
Advogato – 19 November 2000
19 Nov 2000 » certify me Have Win2K upgrade 070-240 MCSE exam Tuesday morning first thing. Have beer-n-babes tonight. Study or beer. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeer. Baaabes. Study. I think you can see which will win. work Have too much work on at work. I’m presenting a Win2K security tutorial on Wednesday morning and I need to install…
Advogato – 12 November 2000
12 Nov 2000 (updated 12 Nov 2000) » life Flew to Melbourne for a wedding. Travelled lightly – no baggage whatsoever. Mum freaked out about that. Went shopping, bought a new suit and overcoat. Nice overcoat. Shame I live in Sydney where I will be able to wear it due to cold weather conditions about…
Advogato – 9 November 2000
9 Nov 2000 » work Hint to business types negotiating contracts to get someone else to do your IT work: security is important. Get advice, talk to lawyer types, include it in the contract or you will get attacked, and you will lose money. hackery Submitted a late entry for linux.conf.au. I’ll see if I’m…
Advogato – 7 November 2000
7 Nov 2000 (updated 7 Nov 2000) » rachel: Australia One of the reasons I’ll probably never bother going overseas to work is that I have an unbelievably good lifestyle that is appreciably better than some of my friends who live in San Francisco (or the wider Bay area) and earn at least twice as…
Advogato – 6 November 2000
6 Nov 2000 » hackery Fired up an Archimedes emulator. Ah, the joys of * commands and Elite for the Archimedes. Such a cute OS. eliot: weather in Australia The weather in Australia is different depending where you go. For example, in Sydney at the moment, it’s a glorious spring day, the late afternoon sun…
Advogato – IPv6
5 Nov 2000 » schoen: IPv6 There are various IPv6 only services that provide a 6-to-4 gateway at their edge. This is how me and my flatmate intend to run our internal network once IPv6 routing is in place on his WaveLAN to 100BaseT gateway is in place. IPv6 is about transition and seamless co-existance….