P.S. No, my slashdot password is not "surashidotto", no need to try it.
Needless to say, I don't select words that are OBVIOUS, because then anyone who knows about my password scheme would be able to figure them out, i.e. anyone who reads slashdot by now.
I use a single real word for each password, and in order to make it uncrackable using dictionaries, I transliterate the words to japanese "kana", and then transliterate the kana back to roman letters.
For instance, the password "laptop" would transliterate into something like "rapputoppu"
For a bried explanation of roman to kana transliteration: 1. The japanese language doesn't have a syllable with the letter L and thus use R instead. Hence "la" -> "ra". 2. There are no syllables that end with a P, so the syllable "pu" is used instead, the U left unpronounced). 3. Hard consonants, like tha Ps in 'laptop', become double consonants, "pp".
The word I use is usually related to the account it's for, so "rapputoppu" would be for my laptop, and "uebbusaabaa" would be for the webserver.
Finally, I replace I with 1, A with 4, E with 3, etc, you get the idea. So "laptop" becomes "r4pput0ppu", a string that's easy to remember, because it's my laptop password, and difficult to crack, because it's fairly long, has both letters and numbers, and isn't a real word (except in japanese, since the japanese for laptop actually IS "rapputoppu" AFAIK, so this is actually not an optimal example.
Of course, if you're not familiar with japanese, this system isn't for you.
Oh, and then there was the sequel, Spear of Destiny, with those awful tunnels full of vines or whatever that took ages to get through, and the mecha-Hitler, whose heavy metallic footsteps you could hear coming closer and closer... nearly had a friggin heart attack!
Same here. Also, Civilization was responsible about 40% of my english education in my teens (another 40% was probably Sierra's and LucasArts' adventure games). I wouldn't be familiar with all kinds of historical and geographical terminology today if it wasn't for playing Civ in the early 90s.
Seems to me that the best compromise for AMD would be to have a list of 'AMD approved' heatsinks and greases, from which you could choose freely without voiding the warranty.
Ok, let's just read that article one more time:
It describes a mouse with a DISC, not a TRACKBALL. Also, I can't see any hint of the disc serving as a second mouse button in the patent description. This being Apple, that disc thingy will probably be the only control-element on the mouse.
One thing that the article itself seemed a bit confused about, was whether the disc was ROTARY (i.e. something you rotate, as on an old telephone) or just a kind of cross-button with 5 directions (horizontal, veritcal, and down).
Here in Turku, Finland, we've already had internet access over the powergrid for a while.
The local power company Turku Energia offers their 'Datasähkö' service at an effective bandwidth of about 0.5 to 1.0 Mbit/s.
Same here:
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop (sorry, but GIMP and Corel Draw just don't do it for me), Pro Motion (Deluxe Paint clone), fonts, etc, etc.
Also, Xfree86 sucks sweaty camel ass.
Also, I can't afford a Mac.
Let me just mention the suckiness of X again. My god it sucks.
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P.S. No, my slashdot password is not "surashidotto", no need to try it.
Needless to say, I don't select words that are OBVIOUS, because then anyone who knows about my password scheme would be able to figure them out, i.e. anyone who reads slashdot by now.
I use a single real word for each password, and in order to make it uncrackable using dictionaries, I transliterate the words to japanese "kana", and then transliterate the kana back to roman letters.
For instance, the password "laptop" would transliterate into something like "rapputoppu"
For a bried explanation of roman to kana transliteration:
1. The japanese language doesn't have a syllable with the letter L and thus use R instead. Hence "la" -> "ra".
2. There are no syllables that end with a P, so the syllable "pu" is used instead, the U left unpronounced).
3. Hard consonants, like tha Ps in 'laptop', become double consonants, "pp".
The word I use is usually related to the account it's for, so "rapputoppu" would be for my laptop, and "uebbusaabaa" would be for the webserver.
Finally, I replace I with 1, A with 4, E with 3, etc, you get the idea. So "laptop" becomes "r4pput0ppu", a string that's easy to remember, because it's my laptop password, and difficult to crack, because it's fairly long, has both letters and numbers, and isn't a real word (except in japanese, since the japanese for laptop actually IS "rapputoppu" AFAIK, so this is actually not an optimal example.
Of course, if you're not familiar with japanese, this system isn't for you.
Oh, and then there was the sequel, Spear of Destiny, with those awful tunnels full of vines or whatever that took ages to get through, and the mecha-Hitler, whose heavy metallic footsteps you could hear coming closer and closer... nearly had a friggin heart attack!
Same here. Also, Civilization was responsible about 40% of my english education in my teens (another 40% was probably Sierra's and LucasArts' adventure games). I wouldn't be familiar with all kinds of historical and geographical terminology today if it wasn't for playing Civ in the early 90s.
Seems to me that the best compromise for AMD would be to have a list of 'AMD approved' heatsinks and greases, from which you could choose freely without voiding the warranty.
Ok, let's just read that article one more time: It describes a mouse with a DISC, not a TRACKBALL. Also, I can't see any hint of the disc serving as a second mouse button in the patent description. This being Apple, that disc thingy will probably be the only control-element on the mouse. One thing that the article itself seemed a bit confused about, was whether the disc was ROTARY (i.e. something you rotate, as on an old telephone) or just a kind of cross-button with 5 directions (horizontal, veritcal, and down).
Here in Turku, Finland, we've already had internet access over the powergrid for a while. The local power company Turku Energia offers their 'Datasähkö' service at an effective bandwidth of about 0.5 to 1.0 Mbit/s.
Same here: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop (sorry, but GIMP and Corel Draw just don't do it for me), Pro Motion (Deluxe Paint clone), fonts, etc, etc. Also, Xfree86 sucks sweaty camel ass. Also, I can't afford a Mac. Let me just mention the suckiness of X again. My god it sucks.
Hey, tAAT, why not make a sequel to Porrasturvat as described above? Sounds like an excellent idea to me!
Sounds to me like the "F-19", although I'm not sure if that thing ever actually existed. Here's a picture