Has anyone else had issues with Tiger's Mail.app? I preferred the version that came with Panther! After using it for a while, and doing a fresh install about two days ago (granted, I copied all of the old files, but still... the whole system feels spunkier so one would …

I find LDAP for authentication highly irritating. It's better than some alternatives, like NIS (haven't looked at NIS+ so I don't know how it measures up), but man oh man, it's a real nuisance sometimes.

I wrote that LDAP Authentication piece when there was essentially nothing else and it took …

Just finished the first draft of my Using Kerberos 5 for Single Sign-On Authentication paper. Needs to be re-read and proofed and definitely needs some adding (i.e. adding Windows XP and Mac OS X clients, integrating with OpenLDAP, etc.). but for a starter, it's pretty good (I needed it …

I think everyone has a set of applications that are absolutely essential to them. I'd like to list a few of the essentials and favourite apps that I use for OS X (I'll do another list later for Linux). There are a lot of great applications out there... some open …

Yesterday started some of the most laughable speculation regarding Mandriva's future that I've read in a long time. It made for quite a good chuckle at first. To recap, an interview on LinuxPlanet with Ian Murdock was published yesterday indicating, among other silly rhetoric, that "Not only can they …

This may be of interest to some people, but it's more of interest to me. Below are links to my current EQ2 characters. Yes, most of them are pretty sucky right now, but I'm working on it (it's not like I have tonnes of spare time!). Right now my main …

I hate to add to the noise that's going on about Apple's move from PPC to x86, but it's just starting to irritate me so much. I can't believe that people are so stupid and/or blind! The death of Linux? Come on. Microsoft might like us to believe that …

Well, I ditched the old static-page iBlog software in order to use Serendipity, which is PHP-based, hackable, and moveable in that I can add entries wherever I am. iBlog had a stupid licensing thing so I could only use it on my desktop machine. Oh well. Anyways, I'm hoping that …

Hopefully no one will have noticed, but earlier this weekend I moved the Annvix (and linsec.ca, mandriva.vmlinuz.ca, and other sites) over to an x86_64 system from an x86 system.

With a spanky powerful build system now (dual Opteron), I had an extra athlon64 system no longer doing …

Well, I got OS X 10.4 (aka "Tiger") the night it came out.. then spent that night doing backups before I even opened the box. Took me a bit, but worth it because I always do an erase and install... best time to clean up is when installing a …