Singapore's island wide wireless network Wireless@SG provides encrypted and unencryped Wifi access. Unless your are a fan of being a Firesheep target, you want to use Wireless@SGx with encryption. Singtel provides detailed instructions for many platform with the unsurprising absence of instructions for Linux. So here you go:
You will need the certificate they use from GoDaddy. So go to their certificate site and download the "Go Daddy Class 2 Certification Authority" in DER format. Note down the SHA1 key for the file: 27 96 BA E6 3F 18 01 E2 77 26 1B A0 D7 77 70 02 8F 20 EE E4. Optional (but highly recommended): open a terminal and check the checksum of your download: sha1sum gd-class2-root.cer
In your network manager applet connect to Wireless@SGx. You will be prompted with "Wireless Network Authentication Required"
Fill in the form:
Wireless security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication: Protected EAP (PEAP)
Anonymous identity:: leave empty
CA certificate: gd-class2-root.cer (The one you downloaded in step 1)
PEAP version: Automatic
Inner authentication: MSCHAPv2
Username/Password: Your Wireless@SG credentials
A little embarrassment for SingTel: The registration page (at of today 23 March 2012) uses an outdated https certificate.
As usual YMMV
Don't try this at home!
Tue, May 21st 2013 1:14p Stephan H Wissel Domino has a refined security system, so the java.policy file can be a real PITA. So you would be tempted to write a few lines of LotusScript and run it on a scheduled agent, so on the next server restart that pain goes away. Of course you wouldn't write code like below which lacks any error handling.You also would not hide this code from your admin people who would want an impact study and your firstborn for any change they make. So instead of doing all this you wait until there is a proper co [read] Keywords: admin
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Enterprise 2.0 and weight loss - siblings separated at birth?
Tue, May 14th 2013 12:18p Stephan H Wissel This blog entry is inspired and largely translated from this German article authored by enterprise consultant Andreas Schulze-Kopp. Having gone through some personal transformation (final results in November) myself I found Andreas' comparison of Enterprise 2.0 initiatives and weight loss programs intriguing.
The tasks are comparable: alter habits, break through the mould of old behavioural pattern (a.k.a processes in business lingo) show enough determination and will power to see it through. [read] Keywords: connections
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CRM > Sales Tracking
Sun, May 5th 2013 9:20a Stephan H Wissel IBM is ditching Siebel CRM in favour of SugarCRM. Cloud based CRM was made popular by SalesForce while Zoho wants a share of the pie too.
All to often CRM offers or is used as sales force automation tool, which it is not (only). But what makes a good CRM? It needs to provide access to anything that relates to a customer. Doh - that's what the name claims.
In larger organisations CRM typically is understood very narrowly as sales tracking tool, the broader definition as outlined above gets c [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dear SingTel, please fix your routing performance!
Wed, Apr 24th 2013 9:18p Stephan H Wissel Slashdot asked for the latency to their site, so I ran a few tests with pretty consistent results in the 250ms range. Slashdot labels that as "still stuck on dialup or in space". Their expectations for overseas users was 80 to 150ms. Puzzled by the result (local websites typically respond in the sub 2ms range), I used traceroute to get to the bottom of this. Here are the results:
td.Default {border-right : 1px dotted #CCCCCC; border-bottom : 1px dotted #EEEEEE; padding : 1px}
Hop
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MAMIL*
Sun, Apr 21st 2013 6:17a Stephan H Wissel Cycling in Singapore can be fun once you:
Find the right group
Do it at night
Are not afraid to cycle along an unlit Cemetery or ghosts
* Middle Aged Man In Lycra [read] Keywords: wiki
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A more actionable Connections UI
Fri, Apr 19th 2013 6:18a Stephan H Wissel IBM Connections is a two headed beast: on one hand it is a set of rich APIs offering different services (Status, Blogs, Wiki, Text, Activities etc) on the other it provides a set of UIs on top of this APIs. Yes, not one, but a set: Browser, Android, iShiny™ and IBM Notes. I'm a big fan of the APIs. After all they stand for IBM's commitment to open standards and are build with XML, REST, ATOM and ActivityStreams compliant to the OpenSocial specifications.
I'm not so sure about the UIs, [read] Keywords: connections
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Planning applications (XPages MindMap)
Thu, Apr 18th 2013 8:18a Stephan H Wissel In a recent XPages workshop in Kuala Lumpur, the class brainstormed on the planning process for an XPages application. This is what we came up with. For every item on the list one could elaborate quite a bit, but putting that on the map would make it rather messy.
Enjoy [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Is SharePoint a Failed Vision for Collaboration?
Sun, Apr 14th 2013 6:16a Stephan H Wissel Rich Blank (of Jive software) makes a case on CMSWire to consider SharePoint a failure for collaboration. Looking closely it isn't SharePoint to fault.
SharePoint with its place concept and flat views is a 1:1 conceptual copy of Lotus Notes implemented with a (then) current Microsoft technology stack. Thus it does have the potential for successful collaboration, as the (then) success of Lotus Notes clearly showed.
With the right effort of adoption any collaborative technology can be successfu [read] Keywords: collaboration
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