Archive for the Technology category

squid

2014-12-01

An astute observer may notice something new

Friends-Romans-Countrymen, Rules, Security, Technology

I installed certificates and moved the site to HTTPS. If you set up any links in the last couple of weeks, they’ll still work, but they will redirect to HTTPS. That should be seamless. Some browsers get a bit bitchy about pages not being fully encrypted due to my linking from other sites. This does […]

squid

2014-11-30

Google Authenticator available

Friends-Romans-Countrymen, Rules, Security, Technology

For people so inclined, after you register, you can go into your profile and select Google Authenticator. This does not let you skip around having to enter a password, but it does make it much harder for someone to abuse your account or my computer by only cracking your password. The Google Authenticator app is […]

squid

2014-11-25

Wow, the spam-bots are ubiquitous

Friends-Romans-Countrymen, Rules, Technology

The blog has been around, what, a week? Already I’ve had to block 9 IP addresses and two small networks for spamming activities. Some people’s kids…

squid

2014-11-20

So what happened?

Friends-Romans-Countrymen, Security, Technology

The Squid Zone has, for a number of years, run in the Amazon cloud. It is an instance in a pool of (presumably virtual) servers. Without getting into the obscene technical details, this affords a nice web-based interface to control most aspects of the server, and I can log in with a terminal session to […]