Summersault Blog

At work I happily run Mac OS X 10.2.8 and my main browser of choice is still Safari (version 1.0.3); it doesn’t really bother me that these are both a couple of years out-of-date since they remain in fine working condition. Sometimes, though, my crusty software does make me feel a little bit like a stick in the mud, what with Tiger coming out and Firefox catching on. But just the other day I discovered that, apparently, Google likes my software configuration quite a bit.
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A few years ago when I was working remotely on a regular basis, I looked seriously into creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN) setup for our office network. A VPN is a handy thing: it lets your desktop computer(s) at the remote location (e.g. home office, client office, etc.) appear to be on the local network at the main office, which means network services like printing, file sharing, e-mail, etc. can all happen seamlessly without special “remote access” privileges, firewall modifications, and so on. Many organizations with telecommuting staff use VPNs these days to reduce the overhead and hassle of having remote systems that need to interoperate with the rest of the organization. This post talks about how, after a frustrating experience last time around, I easily got a VPN up and running this time.
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The Associated Press has reported recently on an interesting trend in browser usage that was originally revealed last week by WebSideStory, an independent Web analytics company. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which had enjoyed a market share upwards of 95 percent as recently as June of 2004, has now slipped below the 90 percent mark in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

Richmond, IN - Summersault co-founder and Principal Developer Mark Stosberg is riding in the Cover Indiana Bike Tour this week, which spans the state of Indiana to raise awareness and money for Habitat for Humanity, and affordable housing issues in general. Read the rest of this entry »

The Sober.P worm, which spreads itself through infected e-mail attachments, seems to be hitting the U.S. fairly hard this week. I just noticed that it started coming into Summersault’s mail servers en masse - at least compared to our normal virus load - earlier this week.
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I’m not usually one to rush into upgrading an operating system, but Apple has made the act of upgrading it’s OS X OS more of a pleasurable experience than most any other software upgrade process I know of in my experience with Windows, Unix, and Macs combined. It’s the difference between going to hospital to have a major organ extracted, dropped on the floor, dusted off, and replaced (all Windows upgrades, FreeBSD upgrades that involve kernel recompiles, etc.) and going through an outpatient procedure where you eat cheese and sip wine while they work on you, and you leave you with a fresh set of eyes, an extra arm with a cutting edge accessory attachment, and about ten years added to your life (Mac OS X upgrades since my switch in 2002). So I didn’t mind putting a central tool in my life - a PowerBook G4 Titanium - on the line for a little bit of surgery when Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger arrived yesterday.
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Richmond, IN - Summersault, LLC teamed up with the Richmond Parks Department as one of the sponsors of the “Kids Create” day, which took place on April 23rd, 2005.

The event is an educational experience for kids, produced as a part of the Department’s Arbor Day and Earth Day activities. Participants spent the afternoon creating, touching, playing and learning about the outdoor world around them, through activities like “gold panning,” crafts, water activities, wetland exploration, a fossil dig, tree planting and tree give-a-ways, and a special visit from the Indianapolis Zoomobile. Read the rest of this entry »