by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 17, 2005 | Usefull Things
While reading my favorite guide to creating a private CA I noticed it mentions cacert.org.
It is basically a CA like any of the commercial ones, web interface to creating and managing your keys and so forth the only catch is the root key isn’t in the browsers and so forth. It is nice though to do all your keys through them and only have to bother importing a single CA.
Initially your keys will expire after only 6 months but there is a web of trust and a points system that will earn you the right to create longer lasting keys.
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 13, 2005 | Code
While configuring up my new FreeBSD 5.3 server I noticed that the rc system now supports starting up your jails using settings in /etc/rc.conf. I am not sure when this came about, I have not used FreeBSD 5.x much but I have to say it is a lot nicer than my own hacked up RC scripts.
Read on for more details about this and some other tools that is useful for jail management.
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by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 11, 2005 | Photography
I have been shooting in RAW mode exclusively for about 6 months now and for me there is no going back. If your camera gives adequate performance in RAW mode and you are serious about photography there is no reason why you shouldn’t be using it.
Past cameras I had that supported RAW mode was very slow or the images were HUGE. This has been fixed in my D70 at least with its lossless RAW compression and speedy processing that does the compression in about 1/4 second, the camera also has a big enough buffer that you can fire off a couple of RAW shots quickly without having to wait. The D70 also has a very fast bus and card writing system so it makes good use of the faster memory cards, all of this combines to a no hassle RAW mode camera.
Some articles were published this week that goes into the whys of shooting in RAW links to them below, all of these were first found on the excellent Photography Blog.
Image Sushi: Sometimes RAW is better
The RAW truth
and for Nikon users a new version of Nikon Capture has been released, Capture is the premium RAW converter from Nikon.
by R.I. Pienaar | Feb 5, 2005 | Usefull Things
Via Slashdot I notice that Mozilla has released version 0.2 for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
From their page:
Tuesday, February 4th, 2005:
The Sunbird team is proud to announce its first official release: Sunbird 0.2 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. You can find builds for the different platforms on our download page.
It is worth checking out if you haven’t yet, never mind the fact that they don’t know what day the 4th of February was ๐
by R.I. Pienaar | Jan 31, 2005 | Front Page
The Register has an interview with a link spammer.
Worth checking out, I am quite happy with the moderation feature on MT and with Type Key, so can’t complain much at the moment.
