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Creating random passwords – the easy way
Passwords are used as the main authentication method in almost all of the current websites. They are easy to implement (from the websites owner point of view), however the user must consider several conflicting goals if s/he wants to stay safe: Passwords should be long The user must be able to remember the password It…
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Updating Ubuntu to Edgy Eft
Finally I’ve gotten around to updating to Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10). My first remarks were: The download is quite heavy (677 MB) so it took several hours on my 256 Mbit connection. If you have a good connection at work for example, you should download the ISO, write it to a CD and add the…
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The IE7 team replies – sort of
As you might remember Martin McKey very generously offered his readers the chance to post questions which he will ask at the IE7 release party. Well, he went he asked and as I’ve predicted he got a canned response. I felt that this was partially he didn’t insist on it – and I can’t blame…
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Hack the Gibson – Episode #62 – sort of
How to have your cake and eat it too? Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but I’m just swamped at work and I also have to buy books from time to time. However I can say that I have several javascript and perl goodies prepared and soon I’ll post them The recent show was…
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What to do if you have many TIME_WAIT connections owned by the system process?
If you have a Windows machine which acts as a server and it have many connections per seconds, you can get in the situation when you have a lot of half-open connections owned by the system (PID 0) process. To resolve this if the communication hosts have high speed connections with one another (like a…
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Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0
Read it here: Web 2.0 Thinking Game. Check out also Create your own Web 2.0 Company. Web 1.0: Writing. Web 2.0: Rating. Hey, at least I’m Web 2.0 😉
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Is your IT department doing this?
While the subtitle of the newspaper is laughable (The independent voice of the Microsoft IT community), I think that the article is very nicely written: IT Gone Bad.
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Web Developer Stereotypes
Sitepoint did a survey amongst web developers and found that people who use PHP are very likely to try Ruby on Rails. While I haven’t completed the survey myself, I find that I’m in this exact same position: I’ve been developing in PHP for several years now and plan to check out Ruby, however I’m…
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Just a fun post
Engineering Definitions.
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Quick port forwarding guide
It always gave me a headache when I tried to figure out the command line syntax of ssh for port forwarding and I ended up staring at the man page for several minutes and making drawings on a piece of paper. So I’ve put together three illustrations for the three possible port forwarding methodologies. The…