What’s wrong with Yahoo’s OpenID implementation

Posted by Tom on January 30th, 2008 — in Uncategorized

Today Yahoo launched support for OpenID. On the surface this seems great for OpenID. Unfortunately there are a number of problems with it.

For those unfamiliar with OpenID, it is a single sign-on system, which allows users to remember a single username and password for signing in to any site which supports OpenID . There are [...]

Readline and rlwrap

Posted by Tom on January 10th, 2008 — in Uncategorized

I came across a neat little tool called rlwrap, which essentially wraps the functionality of readline (line editing, history, etc) for any other command line utility. For example, it works well with my GCCalc hack, which I didn’t bother to integrate readline into, but rlwrap gives you the same thing for free:

rlwrap gccalc

It’s useful with [...]



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