Pakku’s Blog

For the ones who have recently lived under a rock, OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system. Using OpenID-enabled sites, web users do not need to remember traditional authentication tokens such as username and password. Instead, they only need to be previously registered on a website with an OpenID “identity provider” (IdP). Since OpenID is decentralized, any website can employ OpenID software as a way for users to sign in; OpenID solves the problem without relying on any centralized website to confirm digital identity.

Will this truly be the future? Will the username/password era soon be over? Read the rest of this entry »

Lately I discussed with my Informatics teacher the use of a application (both website and desktop applications) by the end-user, the so called: usability. Usability is the knowledge to design a application so that the user does what you want him to do without explaining it.

When you know the rules of Usability, the application you will (let) build will be far more useful to the end-user and by this save you money (managers: pay a little attention now, this will be interesting :-P ). Read the rest of this entry »

“<Network workgroup> is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The list of servers for this workgroup is currently not available.”

This is a common issue for many (home) network administrators/users, but how to solve it? Read the rest of this entry »