seeing that i can't get in to the office (grrrr...) i'll write a diary from the lab. yeah.

this is just too funny (or very sad and i'm just trying to hide the sickness of it all...). yesterday i spent my day upgrading our web server, making it generally a pretty rocking box -- added *tons* of stuff. we wanted to finally be able to have ssl logins for all of our frontpage (l)users (<grin>) in the college. up until now we were stuck with Basic http auth (cleartext over the wire for everybody - bah!). in the process of upgrading i found a very interesting nugget.

ms frontpage98 sucks very badly! fp2000 is only *slighly* better...

yes, i'm aware that everyone knows this, and has known this, and will always know this - but it's worse than you thought... i promise. :) in trying to convince fp98 to connect to our apache webserver loaded w/ mod_ssl and mod_frontpage there was absolutely no way. it turns out that fp98 had it's list of CA's built in to the binary w/ no method of updating them and no update to the program (as far as i can find). seeing that all of the CA certs compiled in to fp have now expired (as all certs do - man this is stupid...) this makes fp98 completely *worthless* when connecting to a secure server. these guys at mickeysoft really know what they're doing, let me tell you. their new initiative with .NET is going to be simply amazing... :)

built-in obsolescence is either stupid or evil - my guess is stupid.