ipSCA offers free 2 year certificates for edu’s. But, back in 2009, their root CA expired, and since then, many browsers don’t trust their certificates. And while this isn’t a huge issue for the well informed IT crowd, it does pose a problem for the average user. Especially with browsers like Firefox that present certificate trust errors like the world is coming to an end.
Archives for 2011
Food in the labs
At work we have 6 computers labs that each consist of 17 or so computers, in a lab type setting. These computers are used for stuff like Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Indesign, and lots of other random stuff. These labs are shared between several classes, and lots of students. Each computer probably averages 5-10 unique users per day. As such, keeping the computers in decent shape, and “clean” is a bit of a priority. So, like pretty much every non-private computer space I’ve ever used, food/drink are allowed. These rules are, unfortunately, too often ignored. I wouldn’t say it’s the majority (it’s not), but it’s a number larger than zero, which is the problem ((This post is being made in reaction to me having to kick someone out of a lab for eating pizza at a desk that didn’t have a computer on it. While the students were in the lab when I sent out a warning to someone else who was drinking soda, these students did not actually receive the warning from me. Me kicking them out resulted in one of the students losing work, which I felt bad about, but regardless all doors into the lab spaces have signs clearly indicating that food/drink are not allowed. So while I feel bad about the loss of work, I do not feel bad about having to kick them out. And hopefully, they’ll never re-offend.)).
Mobile Theme
If you visit this site on a mobile device, you probably have just noticed that it looks a lot different now. This is thanks to the “WordPress Mobile Edition” plugin and theme from Alex King’s “Crowd Favorite”. Alas, install wasn’t as easy as it could be since the version listed on the WordPress site is old (non-WP3 compatible), and the new version has to be grabbed from svn.
All and all, it’s pretty easy.
Just CD into your wp-content/plugins directory, and do
svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wordpress-mobile-edition/branches/wp3.0/ wordpress-mobile-edition
then go into WP, and enable the plugin.
You should then be mostly good to go. The only issue I have is the theme is really not up to WP3 spec… including having the wrong code for the “title” of the site for WP3, and especially using Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin.