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She's much more appealing than the Linux Guy we had before.

That's sound advice, from what I've noticed structure plays a very important role in creating a solid resume. When I applied for a summer internship I set up a resume by comparing sections used in resumes I found Googling, eventually it contained the following three sections: "Objective", "Education" and "Skills" (e.g. Operating Systems, Databases, Programming Languages, Methodologies). If you do have any previous working experience (unlike me) you should obviously list that too.

I based my resume on the following resumes:

• Resumes of Pi Lambda Phi brothers and others with a substantial, verifiable affiliation to Pi Lam (http://www.twmacinta.com/plp/resumes/), 16 resumes in total also available as plain text.
• Other resumes such as those of Matthew M. Boedicker (PDF, also wrote LaTeX Resume Tips), David Finch and David L. Matuszek

I protect my javascript with stuff like this:

// Copyright 2005 David Finch
// Don't steal

It seems to work. There must be a few people out there who still respect copyright.

I even put a BSD license on one of my scripts, essentially making it public domain, and somebody asked for permission to copy it.

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There is always a bigger risk. 8 character random alphanumeric is a around 40-48 bits of protection, depending on if you mix upper and lowercase (harder to remember). I've written a strong password generator here. While 8 character alphanumeric is breakable, especially at 40 bits, it's unlikely you'll encounter such perserverance. A 90 day rotation will ensure that password crackers need to re-sniff your network for login hashes every 90 days, and limit their time to take advantage of a broken password, but beyond that it's just going to ensure that more users will write down their passwords. There is no set amount of time needed to break a random password. They could break it in a day or never. A rotation isn't going to have the effect of making them start over or anything.

There are plenty of bigger risks to worry about than someone bruteforcing a password. They could get passwords by other means. They could walk up to a pc that's already logged in, and either use it immediately or install a trojan for later use. They could sniff your network. File sharing and email are usually unencrypted. They could hack your dns server so that requests go through them. An employee with priveledges could steal or alter data.

Aside from it being overused and abused by people who suck at web design, you can still do a lot of nice things with javascript.

You can try to reproduce some classic arcade games. Many of them are very easy to code in an afternoon.

Here's an asteroids clone I wrote in javascript. It renders everything with divs.

There are a lot of 4k demos too, most of them quite good. The first I saw closely resembled the game Descent.

I wrote an asteroids clone in javascript that's roughly 500 lines, but I wasn't aiming for small size. It uses hundreds of divs for rendering. Best viewed in IE or a very recent FireFox, as older Mozillas have scalability/performance problems with it.

I've noticed that a lot of people like to get their posts on top by replying to the first reply of the first reply ... of the first post.

Seems like the perfect place to advertise my open source Strong Password Generator.

I agree. Forced password changes create a big security risk. The only problem they fix is if someone has already broken a password, the time they have to use it is limited. But there's not too much you can do with a stolen password in a 3 months that you can't do in 3 hours.

Here's my own strong password generator. The thing to do is generate a good password and put it in your wallet. You'll probably only need to pull it out 3 or 4 times before you've memorized it. If your wallet is stolen, change your passwords.

Same story here, but getting worse.

Maybe I went overboard on the title, but it really is a very flexible scripting language. Many programmers fail to realize its full capability.

The last three games I wrote for my website, where I release some of my smaller projects into open source, are all written in javascript. If you ever wanted to see vector (polygon) graphics done in html+javascript, check it out.

Yeah, just about everyone has one of those nowadays.

Here's mine, which crashes older IE and Mozilla browsers with the input type and fieldset bugs, and attempts to handle the rest with a popup flood.

Here's what it sounds like read by Microsoft Mary.