Not about SCUBA this time: we are right now visting in Redmond so we can test our implementation of a Windows CardSpace compatible IdP against Microsoft’s implementation. Eventually, we will (hopefully) make this code available to the OpenSSO community through…
It sometimes takes a little longer, but it seems that even the Rolling Stones Magazin has finally realized that not all MP3 is good. Duh! But most unfortunately, the terrible habit of extreme volume compression to make songs sound ‘better’…
I am slowly extending my base of used operating systems: after Windows and Solaris, I am now playing a bit with Ubuntu. This is quite exciting for me, since after about 8 years of the early days of Linux (I…
Here is a small update on available .NET FastInfoset (X.891) libraries: Noemax FastInfoset.NET – I have been talking to them from very early on. Liquid XML Compression – a relatively new (at least to me) implementation that supports .NET 2.0…
… since I joined Sun. Actually 10 years almost to the date, so Bill presented my 10 year recognition certificate to me today. It has been a very interesting 10 years: I started out as a pre-sales systems engineer in…
Another one done. IIW 2007b is over, and – overall – it was quite productive for me. The biggest takeaway for me is that Concordia and OSIS have made – in my mind – a major step towards harmonization and…
Not only that a lot of people have been complaining about my funky ports, but by Internet provider also decided to start blocking the 8080 port. That’s somewhat of a problem, since without this port my blog will not work.…
So, the long family vacation has been on for over 2 weeks, and it really feels good to unwind a little. We started on Big Island, went on to Kauai (where I got – after 28 years of planning on…
Over the next few weeks blogging will be light, since I am traveling. I hope to be back to here for IIW…
Mike made a very good remark on the OSIS General mailing list that seems relevant to the discussion between Pam, Paul, and myself about assurance in distributed security: There’s a reason that self-issued cards didn’t provide any ability to transmit…