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Google Wave – A Revolution done wrong!

ahzf — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:06:53 +0000

What might E-Mail look like if it were invented by… Linus Torvalds… the OSS-Community… the XMPP-Guys… or any company without central servers within their buisness plan? To me Google Wave is not much more than an IMAP-Server with integrated CSV-Log and a nice GUI. If you remember Linux Torvalds talk on the GIT at Google Talk (or better its rant against Google sourcecode management) you will be sure, that E-Mail invented by Linux would at least be as decentralized like the GIT or XMPP. Therefore Google Wave might be a very big hype but neither a technological break-through nor a great vision on the future of communicatiuon and collaboration.

OpenVPN and Windows7

ahzf — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:20:48 +0000

Soon after our sones Windows7 install day I realized, that our OpenVPN based VPN isn’t working properly! Fortunately there is an easy workaround:

First: “Rightclick” onto the installer and set the compatibility mode to “Vista” and run the installer as “Administrator”

Second: “Rightclick” onto the OpenVPN GUI and run it as “Administrator”

Third: If you prefer to have the OpenVPN config files within an truecrypt containter, just move the config files there and add an “Symbolic directory link”

Last: It will work again !

A Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol

ahzf — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:38:22 +0000

The UK’s “Center for the Protection of National Infrastructure” has recently released a paper called “Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol” disposing the myths of the warfare-safe Internet design. Actually the main goal of the ARPANet was sharing the access to large supercomputers, not the security within this “mostly private” network.

Perhaps the paper is a bit toooo short, but better than nothing in the field of best practises on the implementation of the basic Internet protocolls.

The history of the NSF-/ARPA-/INTERNET

ahzf — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:21:45 +0000

The National Science Foundation has created great and very interessting site on the history of the NSF-/ARPA-/INTERNET.

“The challenges and and possibilities are out there, waiting for the next group of dreamers to change the world once again.”