Yesterday Slicehost announced their acquisition by Rackspace. Both companies provided web hosting services but targeted drastically different client bases. As the Slicehost tag line says “built for developers,” their core clientele
Getting Around a College Firewall (Windows Edition)
This is a continuation of the getting around a college firewall and bandwidth throttling how to geared for Windows. I’ll walk you through setting up an encrypted SSH tunnel and a local SOCKS server on Microsoft Windows. Keep in mind
Installing Windows Vista 64-bit on an iMac
I am surprised to discover that 64-bit Windows Vista is not supported on the latest iMacs. The hardware to support it is all there and it even runs on the Mac Pros and MacBook Pros so I would have thought the same would apply to the iMac, but alas this is not the case. There…
A Brief Analysis of OpenID
“Holy crap! A single unique ID that will give me access to any website would be freaking sweet!” That was my initial response when I first heard about OpenID and what the project envisioned. It reminded me of the computer systems in sci-fi movies where the heroes didn’t have to memorize dozens of passwords to…