Category Archives: Mobility Rant

Anniversary Time – 3 years, 100 posts

It’s anniversary time here at MobilityDojo, so I thought I’d just share a few thoughts and numbers with you. Which of course might be more interesting for me than the readers, but I hope you will be able to bear with me nonetheless. (There’s other good stuff coming soon, so just hang around for that instead if you like.)

I started this web site three years ago this month. The first article appeared 28. August 2008. My first post was primarily intended for a presentation I did at Sybase Techwave, but as it didn’t fit naturally into the PowerPoint format I decided it would make more sense to put on the web as a blog post.

I’ve loved writing for a number of years, so starting a blog didn’t scare me with regards to the writing process. The challenge was that apart from the two first articles I hadn’t really a plan for what I would be writing about after I was done with those. And from reading other people’s sites on the web it was quite apparent that there is a certain risk that blogs are started only to die a couple of months down the road when the initial enthusiasm is exhausted. I had to stick it out for at least a year if I later was to say that I did an effort being a “proper” blogger.

Security Flaw in an Apple Product? – Surely You Jest

I’m not the only one taking a look at provisioning the iPhone. My focus was to show it working though, and not a complete analysis of the low-level details. Good thing someone else did then :)
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Adding my two cents on the flaw described at http://cryptopath.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/iphone-certificate-flaws/

Certificates – A Minor Technology Update

A couple of weeks ago I performed an upgrade of my LAN at home. A trusty old Pentium 4 that had been doing it’s duties as a Windows Server 2003 domain controller showed signs of old age, and kept locking up at an increasing rate. I’m guessing that the hard drives, and possibly a couple of the fans had started to take enough of the abuse :) Trying to fix it wouldn’t make sense economically, and while I’ve spare parts and computers with similar specs I wanted to go 64-bit. It all ended up in me re-installing two low-end PowerEdge tower servers running Windows Server 2008 to 2008 R2. The improvements in Hyper-V was one of the reasons, but while at it I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade the domain controller too. (Note to others out there running Linux-based NAS boxes: don’t assume they like 2008 DCs just because they boast AD integration, and worked happily with 2003. Samba can bite my shiny metal ass…)
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An executive summary of the NDES and Certificate Enrollment Web Services in 2008 R2.

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