Well, I am finally back. No, I did not take an extended Christmas/Hannukah/Holiday vacation, but had to dubious pleasure to undergo some neck surgery on December 21. Surgery, hospital, and pain by itself do not create a lot of good…
Interoperability is probably one of the most misused terms in the IT industry in these days. In a former job, I was confronted with actually defining Interoperability or finding an established definition for it. If you search for definitions for…
My quest for getting offline files to behave in the way I would like them to behave continues. Now that I have my laptop back, I dumped the old one and started to use the real system again [1]. One…
Just as a heads up: the IETF 64 proceedings can be found here. Since I did not formally present at any session, you will not find any references to GSS-SAML. However, Sam Hartman’s presentation on ‘Questioning Kerberos Assumptions’ is available…
Threads are cool. You can do a lot of things at the same time: you can calcuate a response, paint a screen, or even block a resource so that all other threads have to wait — and all at the…
In a recent discussion a colleague mentioned that my self-coined terminology in the security stack article was somewhat confusing. While I intentionally did this to make sure that the security stack was being treated as an entity in itself, I…
Interesting timing: just as ATOM 1.0 is finally becoming an IETF/W3C standard, Microsoft publishes her extension to RSS 2.0 here. While the Microsoft extensions are licensed under the Creative Commons ShareAlike license and Microsoft also seems to pledge to not…
Once more, I am toying with the idea of using an offline editor to edit my blog entries. There are currently two contenders: WB Editor and RocketPost. While I do like the RocketPost interface better (so far), they do not…
A useful tip for installing JES on Windows: JES requires the domain name to be set on the Windows machine. It is not sufficient to simply set the domain name in the %Systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\host file. Instead you need to change it…
It seems that Microsoft Office Activation is more sensitive to hardware changes than Windows: after restoring my desktop from one laptop to the other (see below), Windows worked out of the box. However, Office complained about the need to re-activate.…