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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-25

    Wanted: 2x approx 2Tb USB external spindles for RAID mirror. Which hard drive manufacturers are currently not crap? #perennialquestion # @alexjbutcher @barticasun @fauzg Much obliged! # #Virtualbox – where have the OSX guest additions gone, under v4.1.4-74291 ? There is Windows, there is Linux, there is Solaris, but… # @suellewellyn Does it count if I…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-24

    Sunday morning reading: http://t.co/cPWrLN80 #metpolice #foia # #Adium bug database: lots of "closed/dup/wontfix" reqs for "Single Window Mode"; wondering if Lion drive for fullscreen will change this? # Argh – it was the #rapture again on friday and I completely missed it http://t.co/T4SMD5bo # @scottishwildcat As a person who uses 16 Spaces/vitrual desktops on SnowLeopard,…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-23

    New: seven basic rules for developers setting up password systems http://t.co/snDTSCeH # OMG it's the #TopGear Wikiquotes page http://t.co/YYS0Op3I # This is like a step back to 1985 and listening to student-union-radical-types trying to plan a disco: http://t.co/rGyfzM9E HT @newsbrooke # Sometimes we forget how well off we are: just had a fab 20 minute…

  • seven basic rules for developers setting up password systems

    If any part of your user interface or code truncates password plaintext input at a length of less than 255 characters, it’s a bug. If you can’t cope with password plaintexts that contain SPACE and TAB characters (update: or if you impose any charset restrictions) it’s a bug. If your passwords are not hashed, it’s…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-22

    Bulk-deleting all my #GoogleReader subscriptions before they end up in #GooglePlus and become impossible to manage ; Hello #NetNewsWire # Hopefully will not be as bad as that, but I don't need to take the risk # @chrisgerhard @ramtopsrac GR is getting a "facelift" ; I stopped using it because of the social stuff, for…

  • “Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq” (at Computerworld)

    “Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq” Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq Passwords are hip again; but can we please just get past the “word” aspect? Google are (in partnership with Citizens Advice Bureau) running a campaign about how to stay safe online, and to this end adverts are appearing in London tube trains explaining how to…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-21

    If you are going to be using the M3 tonight, check out @HantsPolRoads for details. #M3DieselSpill esp northbound M3, Jct 7-5 # Howto switch off window-opening animation in #Lion : http://t.co/LXC5DsDw (last paragraph) # Warmth. http://t.co/dClKKxvA # Pleasant evening: tending fire, cleaning house, making popcorn, sipping a snifter of fine gin, & reminiscing. Little cogitation…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-20

    "Where's the Steve Jobs of IT security?" http://t.co/Vko03g3w – Answer: We don't need one. We need everything else to not suck, instead. # @mroesch I take the point, but for security no single platform should ever become dominant due to monoculture effect. # @mroesch I know where to get some very very very good chocolate……

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-19

    "The elephant seal was around two metres tall and can weigh more than 6,600 pounds" http://t.co/BooGAMpZ spot the #bogus #number #precision #

  • Unit testing 🙂

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049735/Extrovert-seal-got-way-preening-penguins.html ‘Each time he looked more and more surprised to see us there because I don’t think he was used to seeing humans.’ The elephant seal was around two metres tall and can weigh more than 6,600 pounds. 6,600lbs? That’s a suspiciously precise number. I wonder… http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=6600lb+in+kg 6600 pounds = 2 993.70964 kilograms Ah, right.…

  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18

    I have not yet had to install a winch for my bookcase: http://t.co/dzMux1jj # So far I got up at 0610, emptied the bread oven, got breakfast, two coffees, split wood, stoked the fire, wrote an article… now for work. # @darrenmoffat I may need two breakfasts by the end of the day. # New:…

  • “Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security” (at Computerworld)

    “Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security” Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security An Ex-Amazonian Googler’s justifiable hostility towards Security A few days ago Steve Yegge posted a rant to his Google+ account with the intention that it would stay Google-internal. Oops. You can read the rant – now replicated all over the net, for instance…