Steven Osborn
"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code".

Archive for September, 2007

xServe - Apple’s second rate citizen

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

We regretfully purchased a few PPC xServe machines early in the life of Vidoop.  Being extremely impressed with OS X and a longtime user of Apple Desktop machines and administrator of Linux/BSD web servers I was rather excited when we decided to purchase Apple xServe.  At first glance the admin ...

Certified!

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I finally took the Zend Certified Engineer's test and passed it.  I haven't received my certificate yet, but I've got a listing in Zend's Yellow Pages.  For those of you preparing for the test, it requires a lot memorization, so you I highly recommend creating flash cards.  It made studying ...

Paypal Security Token

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

I just got a PayPal Security Key and I've been playing with it the past few days. I have never had the privilege (or burden) of carrying a hardware token before, but I was more than willing to pay $5.00 for a new gadget that just happens to make ...