I have days like this at work. I’m even guilty of it myself sometimes.
Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
30 Aug
SSL Identification Errors
Our clergy e-mail server at work is running a Thawte SSL123 certificate for securing all webmail, POP/SSL and SMTP/SSL traffic. They have been an excellent certificate authority and we have used them for several years now. Unfortunately, the certificate in question expired over the weekend. I was supposed to renew it late Saturday night or [...]
15 Jul
Practice Safe Searching
As I was navigating the internet today at work I noticed a new Google feature that seems rather interesting: Google has released the beta version of their https encrypted search website. Google probably didn’t encrypt their searches from the beginning due to the increased overhead of the https protocol. After several test searches I cannot [...]
7 Jul
Mailing List Blues
The Conference mailing list server is down again. I’ve been monitoring disk utilization on the list server for awhile now in an attempt to keep the server up until after the building move. Once I realized that we were going to run out of space again I decided to take the server down preemptively. We [...]
3 Feb
Internet Bandwidth Upgrade
I have been working with AT&T to complete our bandwidth upgrade at the home office. The project took a lot longer than I had originally hoped and we ran into several unforeseen issues. It’s finished now though. It’s fast too!
13 Jan
Google Stands Up To China
Google is taking a courageous stand against China. Good for them! We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that “we will carefully [...]
9 Nov
Goodbye Geocities
I remember setting up my first Geocities webpage back when I was in college. In 1995 anyone who could make their own webpage was some kind of technical wizard. I spent a lot of time hand coding html files with a text editor. Creating a website is a completely different process now. This is the [...]
