Archive of entries posted on 19th November 2007

Thou Shalt Not Do Anything That We Can’t Spy On

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As described yesterday, I talked someone at the office through the process of punching a hole in our firewall for the secure HTTP port this morning, then changed the SSH server to use that port instead. It didn’t solve the problem; apparently Cox already thought of that, and they’re only allowing legitimate HTTPS packets on …

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“Vista SP1 a Performance Dud”

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Everyone has been waiting for Vista SP1 to come out, thinking that surely it will fix all of the problems that Vista has (like running many programs at half the speed on the same hardware). Well, it doesn’t seem to make a lick of difference: Bottom Line: If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of …

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