I’m absolutely loving Vista.

It seems to be impossible to change the username/password you use to connect to a remote share even if the user/password combination is wrong. Maybe I just hit a special case:

- Allow access to a share on Win2k only to some non-admin user
- Try to connect to the share from Vista, specifying the admin user/password
- You connect fine, but you can’t see the only share ‘cause it’s not shared to the admin

And now you can’t change the username/password for connections. If you try to Map Network Drive, it tells you that there’s already some user connected to that share and that you should disconnect that first (how?). I tried restarting, disabling/enabling the connection. Vista keeps trying to connect with the wrong username/password. So now the only way to work around this is the allow the admin username to be used remotely to access the share.

LAAAAAAAAAAME

>635 SMS (+>200 sent) messages since end of December about to be wiped due to phone’s space restrictions just got downloaded and exported to HTML/CSV/XML with FMA. Phew.

(4) Safely Supporting Authorized Users: Identity and Access Management products verify that the right people are allowed to use a system and are allowed to perform only those tasks for which they have authorization, and that access is blocked when their status changes. Network access controls assure the endpoints are secure.

more here

College/Spadina

Reading a paper about FreeBSD’s ULE scheduler, when I stumble across this:

Interactive threads typically have high sleep times as they wait for user input. These sleeps are followed by short bursts of CPU activity as they process the user’s request.

And then I think: this is totally how Irene and I are. We’re only awake to respond to events that need our attention right now. The rest of the time we’re in snooze mode.

http://gmyclient.sourceforge.net/ - A GNOME based MySQL client.

Warning: mysql_connect(): Unknown MySQL Server Host ‘mysql’ (0) in /home/groups/g/gm/gmyclient/htdocs/mainfile.php on line 42
Unable to select database

While I’m still high on caffeine:

If your ISP’s DNS is really slow (like mine — damn you Rogers), the following will speed up most common Internet activities:

emerge -av djbdns
rc-update add svscan default    # start supervise on boot
/etc/init.d/svscan start
useradd gdnscache    # add dnscache users
useradd gdnslog
dnscache-conf gdnscache gdnslog /etc/dnscache
ln -s /etc/dnscache /service    # tell supervise about it
sleep 5    # give supervise time to notice it
svstat /service/dnscache    # check to make sure it’s running

Then in /etc/conf.d/net:

dhcp_eth0=“nodns”
dns_servers_eth0=( “127.0.0.1” )

Lastly,

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

Vint Cerf gave a talk at University of Toronto today. A lot of things were lightly touched upon. The summary and a recording is below. I was recording this with my mp3 player, so the quality isn’t great, but it’s listenable. The claps/laughs can deafen you. The loudest laugh is mine. Not because I laugh the loudest, but because I was the closest to the microphone.

Summary

• Some light talk about his Google title (Chief Internet Evangelist).
• Computer Science overview. What have we accomplished? What we need to work at. Need to produce better software.
• Internet Design. “IP on Everything”. Read that again if you didn’t get it.
• Initial Internet design limitations - VPN/Mobility. IPv6 has an endpoint id + routing info.
• Security. Operating Systems are not secure. Authentication, encryption. DNS attacks, etc. Multicore processors -> more secure? Configurations get screwed up.
• Everything must scale.
• Can’t use statistics on the Internet, because it’s so dynamic.
• Google’s shared applications. Distributed computing environment.
• Better advertising?
• New applications
• Internet needed to be open to everyone for any of these applications to happen. Net Neutrality.
• Semantic Web. (Location/Time)
• Global Warning is the new Sputnik.
• InterPlanetary Internet (a bunch of really interesting stuff here; basically, protocols ready, need testing)

MP3

• VintCerf-2006-10-17.mp3 (19MB, original (please don’t kill my bw, use the first link))