Saturday, 3rd January, 2009 – 18:14
We use passwords almost everywhere to protect our private, so a strong password is essential. There are numerous ways for generating strong passwords, yet people still continue to depend on weak passwords.
If your password is listed here, then it’s time to change it.
Wednesday, 31st December, 2008 – 10:53
Mac OS has a useful utility for generating secure passwords - Password Assistant. While it’s certainly useful, it’s only accessible from within preference panes that require you to enter a password.
I spent some time with Activity Monitor to see if I could determine if Password Assistant was a separate program being called. No joy [...]
Tuesday, 30th December, 2008 – 18:18
…. to our current economic woes.
Just keep making mistakes like this until you find someone gullible enough to pay off the bank.[1]
VoilĂ , problem solved!
Targeting students is probably not the way to go. Instead the banks should be looking for billionaires with a whole lot more money than sense. The US would be a good place [...]
Monday, 29th December, 2008 – 23:48
My phone contract was up recently, and as an incentive to sign on for another year, my provider offered me a free upgrade. So I took the LG Viewty also known as the LG-KU990.[1] I’ll do a full review later, but for the moment, I want to talk about one issue I’ve experienced with it.
I [...]
Monday, 29th December, 2008 – 20:29
There’s an interesting debate going on in relation to WordPress and the GNU General Public License (GPL), more specifically WordPress themes and the WordPress.org theme repository. (WPCandy has a great post about the in’s and out’s of the whole situation.)
For many bloggers, the GPL means nothing to them. In short, the GPL is a license [...]
Saturday, 20th December, 2008 – 10:39
The Office of Public Works will be streaming the Winter Solstice live from Newgrange. The broadcast will require Windows Media Player, so those of you on a Mac can use the User Agent Plugin for Firefox and Flip4Mac to watch.
The broadcast is available from 08:30 on Sunday 21st.
Edit: Just as I posted this, an article [...]