Isn’t it Beautiful!

Posted on the August 24th, 2008 under Technology / Computing by Joshua Glemza

I’m a hypocrite. I’ve gone back to Time Warner Road Runner service. 3Mbps was just too slow and TW decided to charge me the correct price. I’m loving the new speed!

HTTP to HTTPS Forwards Please

Posted on the June 27th, 2008 under Rants, Technology / Computing by Joshua Glemza

Why do some sites that require a secure connection not automatically forward you to the secure site? How hard is it to do? Not very! (with Apache at least)

#How about a simple .htaccess file in the webroot?
#Force SSL for example.hwarf.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example.hwarf.com
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443
RewriteRule ^(.*) https://example.hwarf.com/ [R,L]

Hopefully some sites will pay attention to this. I’m not mentioning any URLs.

Windstream 3Mbps DSL

Posted on the June 5th, 2008 under Technology / Computing by Joshua Glemza

Well, the new DSL line is installed. Below is a speed test result. Sadly this will probably be the fastest I’ll ever be able to get here as my attenuation is 59 and signal-to-noise ratio is 11.