Comments for Clint Hill

Comment on Diegito by Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:06:43 +0000

I’m up for a long walk. I met Diegito and Family, enjoyed our time together. God Bless..

Comment on Diegito by Crystal.. Diegito's mama

Crystal.. Diegito's mama — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:07:04 +0000

I couldnt of said it better.. beautiful.

Comment on The day Erlang got popular on Hacker News by clinthill

clinthill — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:11:28 +0000

@marwalla - what are my assumptions that you claim I make?

Comment on The day Erlang got popular on Hacker News by marwalla

marwalla — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:39:55 +0000

you’re making a lot of assumptions in there with little basis in fact.

to name just one of them: there are already hundreds of sites banned from hacker news. among the high-profile ones: valleywag and uncov.com. if it weren’t for those bannings, hn would eventually degrade into the same lowest-common-denominator mess as every other site.

Comment on Dirty Job - speaking about intelligence by Mom

Mom — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:10:58 +0000

The term “liberal elitist” has nothing to do with intelligence level. It has to do with attitude!

Comment on The day Erlang got popular on Hacker News by Anon

Anon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:59:42 +0000

I left a few months ago for that reason. I prefer the more relaxed atmosphere on Reddit. There’s no PG shepherd on Reddit that everybody would follow.

Comment on The day Erlang got popular on Hacker News by Russell Salsbury

Russell Salsbury — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:50:09 +0000

Fear not Hacker News has not gone elitist. There is lots of meta discussion about keeping HN pure, but there is very little action beyond downmodding rude remarks and cautioning newbies to be civil and on topic. It is the politest and most relevant site that I visit. And the most diligent to remain so.

Comment on Ruby on Rails and NTLM Authentication by clinthill

clinthill — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:53:56 +0000

@bernie - You’re welcome. I’m a little embarrassed to say I had never heard of the RubyNTLM project you mentioned. I’m going to look into it. I hope that project answers the problem I had of building the Base64 encoded data structure sent in the header. I was using a cheap Java class that I wrote to do it.

Turns out this was all scrapped due to some weird circumstance with the IBM Apache web server (IHS). Still never figured it out and in fact we have an ongoing open ticket with IBM looking into it. I believe our servers are setup incorrectly. My solution worked everywhere except through IE6 - which is a damned requirement.

Anyways we are still using LDAP but not NTLM. Which is kind of a shame because I liked tackling that beast.

I’m glad it helped out and I totally agree this should be a plugin.

Comment on Ruby on Rails and NTLM Authentication by Bernie

Bernie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:45:36 +0000

Well done Clint…thanks for posting that explanation. We’re getting ready to start another intranet rails app, and this will be very helpful.
It looks like the RubyNTLM gem on RubyForge implements some of your Pseudocode above. Here’s a sample from their readme:

* Creating NTLM Type 1 message

t1 = NTLM::Message::Type1.new()

* Parsing NTLM Type 2 message from server

t2 = NTLM::Message.parse(message_from_server)

* Creating NTLM Type 3 message

t3 = t2.response({:user => ‘user’, :password => ‘passwd’})

If you end up completing the project, mind posting the results? (Maybe we could work together and make it into a rails plugin or something

Also, here’s another post you may be interested in:
http://mentalpagingspace.blogspot.com/search/label/rails%20authenticatedsystem%20ntlm%20windows%20login

Comment on It’s a girl by Mom

Mom — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:24:33 +0000

Congratulations Son! We love you and the girls so much Love Mom and Don