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New Hosting Provider
My subscription to my hosting provider, VPS Link is up for renewal and the cost to renew for what I have is $35/month or $360/year. So, it was time to find a new provider that offered similar specs. After a lot of research, I found VPS NOC that has a very similar offering (at least for my needs) for $13/month.
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Sony Reader RIP
A few months ago, I received email from Sony saying that they needed to upgrade the firmware in my Sony Reader PRS-500 to support the ePub format as Sony was moving away from their own format. Sony paid for shipping in both directions and returned the unit to me fairly quickly. While I think it was great that Sony did this, it was a bit short sighted on Sony's part to require me to send in the device to do an upgrade when other company's like Apple do firmware updates right through iTunes.
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Geek cred just went up!
Almost 2 years ago, I wrote about a security issue with Mac OS X server. Well, Apple has finally addressed this in the latest security update and latest Snow Leopard Server. I even got credit in the security update notes for reporting it! One thing I'm a little confused on is the fix, "The issue is addressed by removing this configuration option." I'm going to have to download the update and see what exactly they mean.
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You call that a bug fix?
The other day I wrote about a security fix that Apple put into Mac OS X server. Basically Apple removed a checkbox that said "Require Authenticated Binding between Clients and Server". The original bug was that you couldn't turn off anonymous LDAP binding which is a security risk if your LDAP server is exposed to the Internet or hackers are on your LAN. Apple's fix effectively removes the illusion of security as anonymous LDAP binding is still permitted. I've re-opened the bug as Apple's fix is not acceptable from a security point of view.