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.

Digital Photo Frames

Posted on the June 17th, 2008 under Rants by Joshua Glemza

What is the deal with the majority of digital photo frames having a 16×9 aspect ratio? The vast majority of digital cameras take pictures in either 2:3 or 3:4. So who was the genius that though we should stretch our pictures when we view them on a device that’s sole purpose is to display pictures! I guess my PowerShot does have a 16:9 mode, but I’m probably one of very few who actually use that feature. And what about my DSLR? Pictures from that should be what this device is designed for!

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.