I have a Juniper SSG-5 and the school I’m doing the network setup for also got one identical unit on my recommendation. I wanted to set up a fixed VPN between the two but failed miserably, so I logged a support request with Juniper on my machine, which is still in warranty but without any [...]

I’m just copying a post here I just did to a closed forum for CISSPs. A couple of days ago, I had to create a death certificate in Cosmic, the EHR system produced by Cambio Healthcare Systems and used in many provinces of Sweden and increasingly abroad. So, I opened up the records for the [...]

Oh, wow, this was crazy. What I needed to get done is to have a Juniper SSG-5 firewall (which runs Netscreen OS 6.2) authenticate users from the FreeRadius server that runs by default in OSX Snow Leopard server (10.6.3). And I needed the SSG-5 to differentiate depending on groups on Open Directory on the OSX. [...]

When designing new system architectures, you really must design for updating unless the system is totally trivial. This isn’t hard to do if you only do it systematically and from the ground up. You can tack it on afterwards, but it’s more work than it needs to be, but it’s still worth it. I’ll describe [...]

A friend just sent me this link to a blog entry that describes the return of GPG Mail to Snow Leopard 10.6.2: http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/?p=20 The link to the download is: http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/GPGMail-1.2.1.mailbundle.zip And it works! Go get it.

Something just happened here in old Sweden. A doctor sent an email with confidential patient info to a local government office, but fatfingered the adresses, so it ended up with 200 different people at that government office. Problem was, except for the numbers, that the patient he was divulging info about, actually works at that [...]

Saw this “How old will you get?” site, in Swedish, linked from a friend’s Facebook page (or an ad, can’t really make it out, but that’s the nature of FB, right?): Stupid site, don’t go there. But if you do go there, they ask you to register. So you don’t, but click “Starta testet” instead. [...]

A friend of mine just told me about what an MS evangelist said at a symposium on multicore (paraphrased), after getting the question: “Did MS consider that cache awareness for programmers in multicore development?” …and he answered: “The average developer is not capable of handling that kind of level of detail. … Most developers are [...]

To quote an article on annoyances.org about the new ClickOnce install support that MS has added to .NET: The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 update, pushed through the Windows Update service to all recent editions of Windows in February 2009, installs the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant firefox extension without asking your permission. This [...]

I habitually block outbound connections to tracking services like google-analytics.com. (I use Little Snitch for this.) Just because I don’t like them. Recently I noticed I often can’t connect to youtube.com, getting “server not found” errors. Amazingly, once I let google-analytics through again, everything works. I haven’t verified exactly why this happens so I’m guessing [...]