In the last year or three, many programming languages, libraries, browsers and applications have been getting stricter and stricter about how they handle and accept SSL certificates. Of course, this is due to more and more exploits showing up in the wild. So now, formerly acceptable actions are getting warnings, and former warnings are causing […]
The name “San Francisco” is a 4 syllable name. It is a name that is easily shorted in conversation to “‘Frisco” or “San Fran.” Both are what I would think as friendly slang and only use in that context. There are some people in San Francisco who take offense at this. They have pride in […]
A Sysadmin. You usually run into one at your place of work, or school. Heck, you might be one. The term is loosely applied to the person or persons who form the work-force in that department usually referred to as Information Technology. To me though, the meaning is a bit more specific. Its a term […]
At one point, while walking a person through one of the VMware provided sample scripts I found myself talking about the perl mistakes that VMware was commonly making and my frustration with them. It turns out, it makes an interesting micro-view of how I find VMware’s perl code and SDKs frustrating. I know that there’s […]
“Alerts are somewhat broken.”
That’s how my more experienced coworker put it in the initial bug report. He’s a sharp guy and rarely states things in an impolitic way. So it surprised me for him to state something that direct. Turns out, it was quite true.