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Friday, July 18, 2008
Position being eliminated
Well, I received notification today that my position is being eliminated at the end of August.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Compression never ceases to amaze me
I have a bziped file…
168403791 something_log.bz2
That’s right as a bz file it is 168,403,791. Divide that by 1024 and you get 164,456.824 K, divide it again, and you get 160.6 M. So, I have a 160 Meg file. Now, personally I think that a file that gets shrunk by 90% is freakin’ impressive. So, for it to be freakin’ impressive the unzipped file would be 1600 Meg. But, what if it compressed 95% - that would make the original twice as big so 3.2 Gb. Now, that would just be peachy-keen-rockin’ cool! Well, I would like to say it got that small, but I can’t.
It ended up
6,211,364,237 something_log
That would be 2.7% of the original size!
I did another file…
bz2 file is 42 meg
un bz’ed and it is 1.8Gig
2.27%
I have to come up with new words… I don’t know what is beyond peachy-keen-rockin’ cool!
You Thawte what?
We live is such a litigious world my mind has gone that way for better or worse.
Thawte is a company that sells secure certificates. They are, according to their site, owned and operated by Verisign, Inc.
We get our secure certificates from this group because, “thawte - its a trust thing” is their motto. Okay, that’s not why, but it is an important thing to remember as you read the rest of this entry.
I was on their site purchasing a certificate. There was a “must read” agreement. You know the ones, you never read them, you just click saying that you have. Well, I read mine.
All the way down at the bottom there was a phrase I was not only unaware of the meaning, but my limited law understanding told my gut that things were just not right.
So, I ask you, faithful reader, what does “Third Party Beneficiary Rights” mean?
Not knowing, I looked them up. I started with the easy and put the phrase in Google. Thie first thing it sent me to was Wikipedia… well, okay, lets see what they say.
Okay, so this third party benefits from the contract even though they are not a part of the agreement. The question is what benefits would the 3rd party get?
The contract is basically:
I promise I will use the certificate on one web ssl server, that I am a legitimate representation of the organization that I claim to be, and that I will pay for the certificate. I also promise that if they revoke my certificate, I will remove it from all appliances. I also make some promises of what I won’t do. I promise I won’t use the certificate:
(i) for or on behalf of any other organization;
(ii) to perform private or public key operations in connection with any domain and/or organization name other than the one you submitted on your Certificate Application;
(iii) on more than one physical server or Device at a time, unless you have purchased additional licenses that permit the use of a Certificate on multiple Devices (“Licensing Option”);
(iv) for use as control equipment in hazardous circumstances or for uses requiring fail-safe performance such as the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication systems, air traffic control systems, or weapons control systems, where failure could lead directly to death, personal injury, or severe environmental damage. If you have selected the Licensing Option, you acknowledge and agree that this option can result in increased security risks to your network and that Thawte expressly disclaims any liability for breaches of security that result from the distribution of a single key across multiple devices.
Thawte promises that
They have investigated the requester to some level (depending on the certificate) and that to that level they are who they say they are. If things change, they will reissue me a certificate reflecting the change. Additionally, they promise that they have not introduced errors into the certificate.
There are 26 sections and each section has zero or more sub-section. Each section/subsection is at least one paragraph. Total it is eight pages.
Finally, we get to paragraph 26 which states....
What the heck?? What does Microsoft have to gain from this agreement? How are they a beneficiary? How do they have rights? How are they a beneficiary of the obligations contained in this agreement???
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Final grade in one class
Well, I took networking and database management this past term at University of Phoenix. I’ve gotten my grade for the database class.
I guess that means I did all right. Now waiting to for the networking class. Going in to the last week I had a 96.7% (yeah, kinda funny that I would be lower in Networking than in databases). However 24% of the grade is scored the last week. So, I could have a 76% or a 97.4% or anywhere in between.
I guess I’ll know in the next day or two.
Taking these two classes during this time in my life was exceedingly difficult. First, there was a lot of work. Second, my groups were less than ideal. Third, there were a number of outside inconveniences including Pascha and a job related trip to Florida.
I am a little nervous about my networking grade. I would hate to lose my 4.0.
Ah well, time will tell, and now I am in my next to last class - IT Risk Management. Should be a fun class. After last term, it should be much easier and much less stressful. P
Monday, April 21, 2008
Network Solutions having issues….
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