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Positive feedback on my FIM 2010 R2 Book

Posted by Kent in FIM, Personal Thoughts on December 18, 2012

I am getting lots of positive feedback from readers all over the world. Feedback that really warms my heart. I just can’t help sharing one with you.

Kent, I’m super impressed with your book. Authoritative information in combination with a collegial writing style is a rare find. One of the ways you distinguish your writing from other tech books is the way you inject little tips to help keep the boat pointed straight up the river:

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Looking forward to reading every page…
-Bill Boswell

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Thanks to ISA and TMG teams

Posted by Kent in ISA, Personal Thoughts, TMG on September 12, 2012

I just want to take this opportunity to say thanks to everyone that over the years have worked with ISA and TMG. Having myself worked with ISA and TMG since beta of ISA 2000 I can only say… You all did a fantastic job, making ISA and TMG one the best firewalls on the market. Thank you!

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TechDays in Sweden

Posted by Kent in Personal Thoughts on April 24, 2012

Today TechDays starts in Sweden. Great stuff covering Nextperience will be presented. I will not make any presentations this year but many of my MEET friends will.

Just look at the list below and realize many of them will be available for sessions and discussions at TechDays in Örebro in next few days. Don’t miss it!

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Isaac Asimov – Foundation Universe

Posted by Kent in Personal Thoughts on January 7, 2012

One of my favorite writers is Isaac Asimov. I am at the moment in the process of re-reading the complete series of books included in the Foundation Universe series (15 books). I am reading them in the order as suggested by Asimov himself before he passed away.

For thoose of you that do not know who Asimov is, or what the Foundation series  are. I would like to point out the fact that the Foundation series was awarded the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966 in competition with the well known Lord of the Rings series written by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Below is a list of the books and the order to read them. The table contains the order no, the year the book was published, the name of the book and some comments.

1 1982 The Complete Robot Collection of thirty-one robot short stories written between 1939 and 1977.
2 1954 The Caves of Steel This is the first of the robot novels.
3 1957 The Naked Sun The second robot novel.
4 1983 The Robots of Dawn The third robot novel. Hugo Award nominee, 1984. Locus Award nominee, 1984
5 1985 Robots and Empire The fourth robot novel. Locus Award nominee, 1986
6 1951 The Stars, Like Dust This is the first of the Empire novels.
7 1952 The Currents of Space The second Empire novel.
8 1950 Pebble in the Sky The third Empire novel, however, it was Asimov’s first full novel to be published.
9 1988 Prelude to Foundation This is the first Foundation novel. Locus Award nominee, 1989
10 1993 Forward the Foundation The second Foundation novel (although it was the last written by Asimov himself).
11 1951 Foundation The third Foundation novel. Actually, it is a collection of four stories, originally published between 1942 and 1944, plus an introductory section written for the book in 1949. Published, slightly abridged, as part of an Ace Double paperback, D-110, with the title “The 1000-Year Plan”, in 1955.
12 1952 Foundation and Empire The fourth Foundation novel, made up of two stories, originally published in 1945. Published with the title ‘The Man Who Upset the Universe’ as a 35c Ace paperback, D-125, in about 1952.
13 1953 Second Foundation The fifth Foundation novel, made up of two stories, originally published in 1948 and 1949.
14 1982 Foundation’s Edge The sixth Foundation novel. Nebula Award nominee, 1982. Hugo Award winner, 1983. Locus Award winner, 1983
15 1986 Foundation and Earth The seventh Foundation novel. Locus Award nominee, 1987

Hope you will enjoy reading this series as much as I am.

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konab.com is growing!

Posted by Kent in Personal Thoughts on June 30, 2011

My new blog has now been around for 6 months and looking at the statistics over this period the blog has an interesting visitor curve…

konab.com First 6 months

One might wonder… Where will this end…

To all of my visitors I hope you will all have a great summer and thanks again for visiting konab.com

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Nokia E7 not working with Issuance Policies

Posted by Kent in Personal Thoughts on June 12, 2011

When using a Nokia E7 to synchronize with your Exchange server you might get into trouble if your certificates contains the Issuance Policies (Certificate Policies) extension.

Sniffing the traffic I found that when trying to connect the Nokia device sent an TLS Layer-1 Encrypted Alert (Hex 02 0A) and killed the TLS negotiation. Initially I was pretty sure I made some mistake when I installed my root CA certificate in the device, but after double-checking that, I was still unable to get the TLS handshake to work.

After a few hours of troubleshooting I found that the problem was that the certificate I used on my Exchange CAS server had an Issuance Policy referring to my CPS. In order for the Nokia E7 device to be able to consume any of my internal https sites I needed to change the certificate template and remove the Issuance Policy extension and renew my certificates used by my Exchange CAS and other internal websites.

After that the Nokia E7 was able to synchronize and access other internal https sites.

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