Hi all,

I needed to buy a SSL certificate for a website and someone recommended StartSSL to me. I usually buy my certificates from GoDaddy or DigiCert but since they are providing free class 1 certificates, I’ve decided to give it a try… when I tried to add one of my domains, it got approved right away, however, when I tried to add the real domain I wanted to use, I got an error message that said it was blacklisted… weird, heh? I contacted StartCom to see what’s the problem and they told me google has blacklisted it in the last 90 days. That’s semi-true, one of the website’s sub-domains is used as a free web-hosting and someone has uploaded a malicious file to it, however, it was a totally different machine and the uploading account has been suspsended as soon as we got the complaint from google. They weren’t willing to add the domain manually for me unless I pay 49.99$ for verification… I really needed a multiple domain (UCC) SSL certificate for 5 sub-domains and comparing to GoDaddy’s 89.99$/year, 49.99$ for two years didn’t sound too much… in addition to that, they provide unlimited sub-domains so I could add a few more sub-domains we use for the same fee.

I had bad experience with another SSL certificate provider (not godaddy or digicert, they’re fine) but I decided to give them a chance anyway. They asked me to scan two different identification IDs with pictures and my phone bill and they even called me to verify I am really me… after that, they manually verified the domain I wanted the certificate for and I could issue it. Everything was done within a few hours and I’m really happy.

The bottom line is that I recommend StartSSL too, just remember to be prepared with the needed “papers”.

 -Kobi.

I found these 77 nice Windows 7 tips:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/gg394259.aspx

-Kobi.

I just updated my Knowledge Base:
– Added search box to the main page.
– Fixed the searches to search the “Solution” field too.
– Added comments support for KBs (comments for registered users are approved automatically, comments from guests must be approved by a moderator).
– Added list of softwares (with KBs) to the KB categories.

-Kobi.

Hi all,

I’ve waited for Exchange 2010 SP1 for a long time and I must say I like:

– The ability to create mailbox archives on a different server/database (the ability to host the archives online is interesting too).

– The ability to reset corrupted virtual directories (yes, I’m a lazy person).

– Scripting Agent (I know I could do some of it with a daily script running on new mailboxes but still).

– New-MailboxRepairRequest.

– Distribution group naming policies.

– More GUI options for managing DAGs.

– The ability to install the required Windows roles/features.

– The ability to set Public Folder permission from the Exchange Management Console (welcome back!).

– Import/export .pst files without outlook.

– Soft-deleted mailboxes.

– SMS Sync looks a nice feature, I hope other mobile clients will support it too.

– Calendar publishing looks like a nice feature too.

P.S. in case it wasn’t obvious – I didn’t intend to list all the changes, just the ones I like! for the full list, check out http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459257.aspx

-Kobi.

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Now, here is a picture…

This is a good one:

As you can see I finally migrated my blog to wordpress, some time ago blogger has decided to stop their ftp publishing service so I had three options:
1) Migrate to a blogspot address
2) Use a custom sub-domain (i.e. blog.kobi.name)
3) Migrate to wordpress

I like my data and I wanted to keep it on *my* servers hence I chose the 3rd option.

The migration took about 5 minutes. I had to run three queries to fix posts/comments that started with a “>” (for some reason) but that’s about it:
update wp_posts set post_title=right(post_title,length(post_title)-1) where left(post_content,1)=’>’;
update wp_posts set post_content=right(post_content,length(post_content)-1) where left(post_content,1)=’>’;
update wp_comments set comment_content=right(comment_content,length(comment_content)-1) where left(comment_content,1)=’>’;

If anyone else wants to move their blog from blogger to wordpress check out:
http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress
http://ferrogate.com/2009/04/the-new-ferrogate-i-moved-from-blogger-to-wordpress.html

-Kobi.