Archive for January, 2009

WordPress Upgrade

WordPress MU on blogs.scienceforums.net has now been upgraded to WordPress MU 2.7. You should notice that your admin screen has been drastically re-vamped
and re-shinied.

If you notice any odd problems, detail them here (with the error message) and I’ll try to fix them ASAP.

The Insanity

You can tell there’s something wrong with our system of keeping GPAs based on class average — i.e. out of 100 instead of out of the 4-point scale — when I get annoyed that I have a 96 in a class.

Stupid system.

Authentication Sucks

For a while I’ve been thinking about the classic Internet dilemma: authentication. For trust to work on the Internet, you need to (a) be able to verify the server you’re connecting to is the one it claims it is and (b) be able to prove you are who you claim you are.

(a) is a problem mostly solved by SSL/TLS (though there are a few lingering problems — and a lot of people ignore when SSL is not there). But (b) is a much larger problem.

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