In IE, you can go to Tools|Internet Options...|Content|Certificates...|Trusted Root Certification Authorities to see who's root CA certs are included. In Mozilla, it's under Edit|Preferences...|Privacy & Security|Certificates|Manage Certificates...|Authorities. Both browsers include many CAs besides VeriSign.
What the heck, here's the list of recognized Certification Authorities from Mozilla 1.1: ABA.ECOM, INC. AddTrust AB American Express Company, Inc. Baltimore BankEngine Inc. BelSign NV CertEngine Inc. CyberTrust Japan, Inc. Deutsche Telekom AG Digital Signature Trust Co. E-Certify Entrust.net Equifax Secure Inc. FortEngine Inc. GTE Corporation GlobalSign nv-sa MailEngine Inc. RSA Data Security, Inc. TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH Thawte Consulting cc TraderEngine Inc. United States Postal Service VISA ValiCert, Inc. VeriSign, Inc. Xcert EZ by DST Xcert International Inc. beTRUSTed
And the list of Certification Authorities from IE 6: ABA.ECOM Autoridad Certificadora de la Asociacion Nacional del Notariado Autoridad Certificadora del Colegio Nacional de Correduria Publica Mexicana, A.C. Baltimore EZ by DST Belgacom E-Trust C&W HKT SecureNet Certiposte Certisign Autoridad Certificadora CertPlus Deutsche Telekom DST (ANX Network) DST (National Retail Federation) DST (United Parcel Service) DST DST-Entrust GTI Entrust.net Equifax EUnet International Root CA FESTE First Data Digital Certificates Inc. Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre GlobalSign GTE CyberTrust IPS SERVIDORES Japan Certification Services, Inc. SecureSign Microsoft NetLock Post.Trust KeyMai l PTT Post Saunalahden Serveri SecureNet SERVICIOS DE CERTIFICACION Societa Interbancaria per l'Automazione Swisskey TC TrustCenter Thawte UTN - DATACorp SGC UTN - USERFirst ValiCert Inc. VeriSign Inc. ViaCode Certification Authority Xcert EZ by DST
I don't have a copy of Opera handy to check its recognized Certification Authoritiess, but anything on both these lists is probably a safe bet for most applications. (This line length filter thing is getting really annoying. What the heck is the limit, anyway? How many extra sentences must I add? Well, maybe it's set at 25 characters. Lets try to get there. Hmm, still not there yet. Maybe one more meaningless sentence will push me over. Arghh! 25 characters per line isn't enough! Shall we go for 30? Why not. I can't believe this is such a pain to do. I sent ComboyNeal a message about it. Why don't I copy it here, since I need to take up some space. "I'm trying to post a list of CAs recognized by IE and Mozilla to the discussion on alternative CAs, but the line length filter keeps getting in the way. I understand why you have (and need) this filter, but it would be nice if it were a bit less intrusive. (What is it set at, anyway? I'm at 21.6 characters per line at the moment, and it's still complaining.) Junk will get modded down, so you could probably relax the filter a bit without any ill effects." Ah, there we are. Sorry for the nonsense.)
The XServe is already fairly cheap for the power it provides. The ability to put 480 gigs in the box only adds to this cost-effectiveness, given the cost of rack space (though they need to make the internal drives SCSI). The company I work at has been very successful using lots of inexpensive boxes to scale to a large number of users. I think something like the XServe would be excellent in this type of environment.
However, Apple needs to decide where they want to go with the XServe and their server business in general. Do they keep it as an entry-level offering and add bigger servers above it? Do they build a clustering system to make it easy to scale in the way I mentioned earlier? Both? My fear is that they will try to target it to their traditional core customers (artists, designers, etc.) rather than using it as an opportunity to branch out into new areas. In other words, they'll make it work really well as a rendering box but not as a server. On the other hand, one could certainly question whether the world needs another UN*X server vendor and whether Apple is equipped to take on Sun, Dell, and IBM.
On a different note, what about an Apple X (well, Aqua really) Terminal? A lab full of Apple Terminals powered by a half-dozen XServes racked in the corner would be pretty cool...
You might try posting this question to the forums at www.xlr8yourmac.com (did you know you can overclock your iBook via software?). There's also a similar thread on the iBook forum at apple.com, though the only answers so far there is to buy a PowerBook instead.
I've been running the demo for a while on my Linux box at work (which has very similar hardware to my other-OS box at home). It's a little slower on Linux, but it seems (to me, at least) that most of the problems are in the input handling code rather than the rendering code. It's certainly quite playable on a decent machine with a Voodoo2 under Linux.
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In IE, you can go to Tools|Internet Options...|Content|Certificates...|Trusted Root Certification Authorities to see who's root CA certs are included. In Mozilla, it's under Edit|Preferences...|Privacy & Security|Certificates|Manage Certificates...|Authorities. Both browsers include many CAs besides VeriSign.
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What the heck, here's the list of recognized Certification Authorities from Mozilla 1.1:
ABA.ECOM, INC.
AddTrust AB
American Express Company, Inc.
Baltimore
BankEngine Inc.
BelSign NV
CertEngine Inc.
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.
Deutsche Telekom AG
Digital Signature Trust Co.
E-Certify
Entrust.net
Equifax Secure Inc.
FortEngine Inc.
GTE Corporation
GlobalSign nv-sa
MailEngine Inc.
RSA Data Security, Inc.
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH
Thawte Consulting cc
TraderEngine Inc.
United States Postal Service
VISA
ValiCert, Inc.
VeriSign, Inc.
Xcert EZ by DST
Xcert International Inc.
beTRUSTed
And the list of Certification Authorities from IE 6:
ABA.ECOM
Autoridad Certificadora de la Asociacion Nacional del Notariado
Autoridad Certificadora del Colegio Nacional de Correduria Publica Mexicana, A.C.
Baltimore EZ by DST
Belgacom E-Trust
C&W HKT SecureNet
Certiposte
Certisign Autoridad Certificadora
CertPlus
Deutsche Telekom
DST (ANX Network)
DST (National Retail Federation)
DST (United Parcel Service)
DST
DST-Entrust GTI
Entrust.net
Equifax
EUnet International Root CA
FESTE
First Data Digital Certificates Inc.
Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre
GlobalSign
GTE CyberTrust
IPS SERVIDORES
Japan Certification Services, Inc. SecureSign
Microsoft
NetLock
Post.Trust
KeyMa
Saunalahden Serveri
SecureNet
SERVICIOS DE CERTIFICACION
Societa Interbancaria per l'Automazione
Swisskey
TC TrustCenter
Thawte
UTN - DATACorp SGC
UTN - USERFirst
ValiCert Inc.
VeriSign Inc.
ViaCode Certification Authority
Xcert EZ by DST
I don't have a copy of Opera handy to check its recognized Certification Authoritiess, but anything on both these lists is probably a safe bet for most applications. (This line length filter thing is getting really annoying. What the heck is the limit, anyway? How many extra sentences must I add? Well, maybe it's set at 25 characters. Lets try to get there. Hmm, still not there yet. Maybe one more meaningless sentence will push me over. Arghh! 25 characters per line isn't enough! Shall we go for 30? Why not. I can't believe this is such a pain to do. I sent ComboyNeal a message about it. Why don't I copy it here, since I need to take up some space. "I'm trying to post a list of CAs recognized by IE and Mozilla to the discussion on alternative CAs, but the line length filter keeps getting in the way. I understand why you have (and need) this filter, but it would be nice if it were a bit less intrusive. (What is it set at, anyway? I'm at 21.6 characters per line at the moment, and it's still complaining.) Junk will get modded down, so you could probably relax the filter a bit without any ill effects." Ah, there we are. Sorry for the nonsense.)
The XServe is already fairly cheap for the power it provides. The ability to put 480 gigs in the box only adds to this cost-effectiveness, given the cost of rack space (though they need to make the internal drives SCSI). The company I work at has been very successful using lots of inexpensive boxes to scale to a large number of users. I think something like the XServe would be excellent in this type of environment.
However, Apple needs to decide where they want to go with the XServe and their server business in general. Do they keep it as an entry-level offering and add bigger servers above it? Do they build a clustering system to make it easy to scale in the way I mentioned earlier? Both? My fear is that they will try to target it to their traditional core customers (artists, designers, etc.) rather than using it as an opportunity to branch out into new areas. In other words, they'll make it work really well as a rendering box but not as a server. On the other hand, one could certainly question whether the world needs another UN*X server vendor and whether Apple is equipped to take on Sun, Dell, and IBM.
On a different note, what about an Apple X (well, Aqua really) Terminal? A lab full of Apple Terminals powered by a half-dozen XServes racked in the corner would be pretty cool...
You might try posting this question to the forums at www.xlr8yourmac.com (did you know you can overclock your iBook via software?). There's also a similar thread on the iBook forum at apple.com, though the only answers so far there is to buy a PowerBook instead.
I've been running the demo for a while on my Linux box at work (which has very similar hardware to my other-OS box at home). It's a little slower on Linux, but it seems (to me, at least) that most of the problems are in the input handling code rather than the rendering code. It's certainly quite playable on a decent machine with a Voodoo2 under Linux.