I am a hopeless geek.

[feren]

I was reading Slashdot last night, just before I went to bed. I saw an article where somebody took the pair of Sun E15k servers their company had just purchased and did a little modding so they were, well, cooler than stock. I had to share that with my coworkers, because I've always been of the opinion that for $1.3M our servers should do something really neat while they sit there and suck up electricity. Maybe, with luck, they'll let us do something similar (but I'm not holding my breath). Yes, yes, I'm a follower, but Dammit -- that's just Really Cool.

But wait, I have further proof that I am a hopeless geek! Please see the exhibit marked "B", also known as my overwhelming joy last night when I applied a full-blown SSL certificate to my web server so that I can encrypt various things for BPEN's users (for example, the web page for accessing e-mail). I must have blithered on about that in various places for an hour and a half (my apologies to everyone who had to tolerate it).

I need a logo for my web server's front page. Bleah.

Comments

[jenwolf.livejournal.com]

I need a logo for my web server's front page.

Ooh ooh, me me!! Whadda ya want? I can do anything your little heart desires, and for a very good price [free, or sexual favors, whichever you prefer] :)

[feren.livejournal.com]

[free, or sexual favors, whichever you prefer]

I prefer you pay me sexual favors, naturally.

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

Now those Sun's are just really cool.

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

How did you get an SSL certificate, not being a business? o.o

Is it signed by the so-called trusted CAs?

[feren.livejournal.com]

[How did you get an SSL certificate, not being a business?]

You don't have to be a business. You've never had to be -- it's just that they know that businesses are the main users, so they jacked the price point up to where it was only affordable by businesses. That's starting to change.

[Is it signed by the so-called trusted CAs?]

Check for yourself and see. I went with a $49 cert from GeoTrust, which is accepted by pretty much everything I've thrown at it without complaint, the only exception being Opera thus far.

Here is a table comparing the different issuers, the different prices and benefits. Mine, for example, only proves domain ownership and nothing more, but hey... I don't need it, since I'm not a company.

[feren.livejournal.com]

Just once I want my company to try doing something like that. We've got a server sitting in our NOC right now that's only a step or so below the ones that were modded in the web page. I think it'd be cool.

I'm also going to harass my Sun rep about doing something like that out of the box -- even if it was only as a package you'd have to purchase separately....

Re:

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

I thought someone like Thawte required some kind of notarization from a business before it would process certificate requests.

[feren.livejournal.com]

Allow me to be a touch more specific on one item: I bought my Geotrust certificate for $49 through one of their resellers, RackShack.net.

[feren.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I'm not a business. ;)

[feren.livejournal.com]

Thawte is also one of VeriSign's divisions.

[roho.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEVIL!

You seen what they're doing to customers who transfer to other services?

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

Are you referring to a Kittyfox logo? Remember, I already did one around a year ago, if you still want it.