Apple says: “Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac OS X Snow Leopard before the end of the year. This support will require a software update to Boot Camp.”
My VMWare VM is running Windows 7 on the Boot Camp partition, but I’m waiting for this new version of Boot Camp so I can boot Windows 7 directly on the metal. It’s the end of the year. Where’s my update?
Rather than wade through the morass of dependencies on Sunfreeware.com, I thought I’d build my own Subversion. It turns out that I had to specify a couple of extra hints in order to use the Sun compiler. Here is my configure line:
./configure ‘–prefix=/usr/local/svn-install/current’ ‘–with-ssl’ ‘–with-openssl=/usr/sfw’ ‘CC=/usr/bin/cc’ ‘CXX=/usr/bin/CC’ ‘LDFLAGS=-R/usr/ucblib -R/usr/sfw/lib’
The Neon library needs ssl; the Serf library needs to know about openssl. And without the Reverse Path entries, libraries in neither of those directories are picked up by the installed binaries.
An interesting post landed this past Monday about the Public Beta of Microsoft Entourage. Entourage is Microsoft’s Mac equivalent of Outlook, the mail client that comes with Microsoft Office and connects to their Exchange groupware server.
The post is interesting for a couple of reasons. First of all, Entourage has been using WebDAV to access Exchange, which is very communications intensive and for all practical purposes makes it a second class citizen among Exchange clients. With this beta, Entourage fully adopts Exchange Web Services.
This is a great step forward for Entourage: it will improve its Exchange support and hopefully bring it much closer to the integration level offered by Outlook on Windows.
What’s also interesting is that the Exchange Web Services API seems to be documented and available for integration by third parties. Perhaps this is a good integration point for clients like Thunderbird and Evolution. It looks like their Exchange plugins are still using WebDAV.
I haven’t been getting my voice mail on my iPhone here in Japan. When I got off the plane, it hooked up with Softbank which is the company that sells iPhones locally (using a cute, white dog as a mascot). However, no voice mails come in and when I go to the voice mail tab on the phone, it says it can’t connect.
Then my phone switched briefly to NTT Docomo and behold: two voice mails came in. Could it be that Softbank’s own iPhone support interferes with foreign iPhones’ roaming?
I run a VMWare Server 2.0 installation so I can test Apache and other things on a wide variety of operating systems. Recently, I’ve been fighting to send Ctrl-Alt-Delete to the remote console of a VM from my Ubuntu workstation… some operating systems work better with Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but the moment you press Ctrl-Alt the console releases input focus. On a Windows client, you use Ctrl-Alt-Insert because the local operating system will catch the real thing.
It turns out you are to press the Del key on the numeric keypad, not on your main keyboard, to send the key combo to the console. I’m blogging this so the LazyWeb learns of it, and when next I forget I can Google for my own post.
VMWare Server rocks: the price is more than right, which allows me to do my Open Source work without paying Closed Source prices. And that in turn benefits VMWare because some of their stuff is clearly based on Apache Software Foundation projects.
Quick shout-out to Oakland Airport: they now offer free Wi-Fi on the concourse. Most webpages get a little advertising frame across the top, but that seems a small price to pay. Lower fares, cheaper parking, free Wireless: how can you go wrong. Plus the Southwest terminal now has little desks at the gates with wall outlets to charge the laptop.
Man In The Middle is defeated by context. – Bruce Schneier
As has been widely discussed, Firefox 3.0 is a little over-zealous when it encounters an unknown certificate on an SSL website. Where previous versions would just warn the user about the observed irregularities, the new version requires that the user add an exception for every certificate that has an unknown certification chain, is expired or for which the hostname does not match the information in the certificate.
Adding an exception takes four clicks, most met with a stern warning that will deter anyone but the most determined user. Folks who use self-signed certificates as a matter of habit are howling, because they have to tediously make exceptions for all of them. This Firefox features seems over the top, but is it? (more…)
According to the Web Hacking Incidents Database 2007 Annual Report, SQL Injection is still the most common attack vector for security breaches on websites. Consider the following cartoon:
Why is it that our websites almost universally use a data access language whose statements can be completely subverted by the parameters fed into the queries? The problem is that (more…)
For some time, any time I downloaded a Microsoft Office document in Safari, the browser appended an extra filename extension to the saved download, which turned the Office Document into an Office Template. A Word Document gets a .dot suffix, a Powerpoint slide show gets .pot, and an Excel spreadsheet gets .xla, which turns it into an add-in library which is really not what that file is. Devastating? No. Annoying? For sure yes. Life is too short to have to munge file name extensions all the time, and this is a Mac, right, so stuff should just work.
Fortunately, a Google trip across some web forums leads to the cause of the problem, which in itself is an interesting illustration about how intricate even Personal Computers have become, and how easy it is to break something. (more…)
It’s fully ensconced in my muscle memory: tar -xzf somepackage.tar.gz to untar a gzip-compressed tarball. But what if the tarball is compressed with Bzip2? You have to use tar -xjf or tar won’t understand the compression format.
Or, on MacOSX, just use tar -xf on either compression format and tar figures it out for itself. And that’s the way it should be: smart software that can find out on what file format it operates.
But my fingers still want to tar -xzf…
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