1) Obfuscate them by adding an extra character to the beginning and end of the password. Make up your own variation on this. Prefix the password with a number, say, 4, and add an extra character to the password inserted 4 characters from the start of the password
2) Captain Obvious, don't write "PASSWORD" on your post it note.
RT has been a godsend for our company. Before I installed it, sales-at-ourcompany.com was getting deluged with e-mail from customers and spammers. Customers' questions were getting ignored and they were getting pissed. Our customer service reps were frustrated and the lack of coordination resulted in multiple replies to customers' questions.
Enter RT. It took me about 45 minutes to get it up and running and to master the basics. An hour later, I had all my reps trained on it and answering questions. Later that afternoon, I wrote a simple web interface for customers to contact us with. I created seperate queues for Customer Service, Billing, and Technical Support and the web interface routed questions to these queues appropriately.
But it gets better...I quickly discovered that RT is useful for much more than customer service. Our software development team uses it to keep track of bugs. The eBay team uses it to track auction questions and payment problems. Even the guys on our brick-and-mortar sales floor use it to keep track of special orders.
It's also super-customizable. It's written using Mason, which happens to be what I used to build all of our websites. When a customer creates a support ticket, the rep viewing his ticket sees a pane containing the customer's entire order history, including the status and FedEx tracking numbers for each order.
You seem to have forgotten that the Cuban government illegally seized millions of dollars of American-owned property in 1959. As far as I'm concerned, the Cuban government can write us a check for the value of this property, plus 46 years of interest. Until it does, the embargo stands.
One thing I have noticed so far is that Expose seems a lot less fluid than in Panther. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I going mad? The difference is noticable even with only a couple of windows on the desktop.
Yes, I absolutely have noticed the slowness. I'm sitting here on my dual G5 2.0GHz with 1.5GB RAM and (what I thought was) a decent graphics card and its definitely a LOT less smooth than in Panther.
Another thing that I've noticed is a problem with font smoothing on my home machine, a Quicksilver G4 with a GeForce3 card. For some reason, most of my fonts look like total crap. I've tried every permutation of the font smoothing settings but nothing seems to help. Has anyone else seen this problem?
And Photoshop couldnt output a sub 50k jpg that looks decent if its life depended on it.
Try using Save for Web... instead of Save.... Save for Web saves the file without all the metadata and the preview icon, which seriously cuts down on size. Here's an example that I did for Fark (safe for work), which looks halfway decent. 48k.
Having visited Los Angeles, I was shocked by the routine use of helicopters for chasing suspects.
I, too, am shocked that our law enforcement is using helicopters to catch criminals! I think it's a better idea to allow police officers to conduct high-speed car chases through neighborhoods. You are absolutely "Insightful". +1 +1 +1!!!
Please excuse me if I am being naive, but isn't the hard disk a block storage device? Wouldn't adding this key make the user's drive(s) immutable and make it very difficult to reverse this registry addtion?
You can write a nasty little page that continuously dumps the 10k bytes of memory data to a file on your server. Here's an example that uses an HTML::Mason page to do this:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Nasty Demo</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR='#FFFFFF' COLOR='#222222' onLoad="readMemory();">
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> function genGluck(str){
var x = str;
var rx=/end/i;
x = x.replace(rx,function($1){
$1.match(rx);
return "";
});
x = x.replace(/^end/,"");
return x; }
function readMemory() {
First peice of readMemory() removed to satisfy Slashdot crapfilter
mem = mem.replace(/[^\.\\\:\/\'\(\)\"\_\?\=\%\&\;\#\@\- a-zA-Z0-9]+/g, " ");
Can a remote site actually get access to this information, or is it only displayable on the screen?
The data is being displayed within a TEXTAREA box, so it's probably as simple as adding an onClick="javascript:document.form.submit();" (or onMouseOver, etc.) to the document.
"Respek. Today's episode is about respek. There be so little respek in deh world today dat if you look up deh word behind me [points to RESPEK] in the dictionary, you'll see that it's been taken out."
The *best* thing that I got out of the class though, was to talk freely with the MySQL guys about their reality of trying to make a living with a "mostly" free product. They convinced me to buy a membership in MySQL Network which is essentially support that I probably won't use. This upgrade they are turning out though is good enough to make me WANT to pay (once).
The best thing you got out of the class was to be talked into something that you won't need by your classmates?
This is Hillary Clinton just trying to appear centrist in order to set herself up for a 2008 Presidential run. You'll see these kinds of antics from liberal politicians all the time. They have a long history or trying to keep people from doing the things that they disagree with. There's a quote from P.J. O'Rourke that is spot-on for this story:
A conservative may tell you that you shouldn't make fun of something. "You shouldn't make fun of cripples," he may say. And he may be right. But a liberal will tell you, "You can't make fun of cripples." And he's wrong- as anybody who's heard the one about Helen Keller falling into a well and breaking three fingers calling for help can tell you.
You don't owe your employer anything. Two weeks notice is being reasonable. Four weeks notice is being professional. Anything beyond that is uncalled for unless your employer has been really nice to you over the years.
Tell this guy to take his "subsidized rates" and shove 'em.
It may have been a CB radio with a linear amplifier. Years ago, when I was in high school, a friend had one of these (300W!!!!) and the interference that this thing could generate was insane. When we drove around, we could talk over peoples' landlines (as you mentioned), over fast food drive-thru intercoms, and most memorably, the PA system at the local little league baseball field.
GIAC offers software and hardware to do the switching on the fly. Hook up a serial port analyzer and figure out the protocol that the win32 app is using and duplicate this on the Mac. Integrate (as someone else said) into a Dashboard widget (heh, a Dashboard dashboard...).
The air conditioning shouldn't be *too* hard if the controls are analog. It could probably be done with some sort of microcontroller that interfaces with the Mac via a USBSerial adapter.
Back in the 1980s, the Texas oil boom went bust and along with it, real estate (a major investment for people with oil money). Here in San Antonio, large (for the time, at least) office buildings sat mostly unoccupied for years until the second half of the 1990's, when things picked up again. Those tough enough to have stuck it out made a mint when this started growing at an explosive rate and there was a demand for their now-prime real estate.
Moral of the story: you can't go wrong with real estate in an established upper-end part of a city, as long as you can stick out the inevitable bad times.
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When I write down a password, I do two things:
1) Obfuscate them by adding an extra character to the beginning and end of the password. Make up your own variation on this. Prefix the password with a number, say, 4, and add an extra character to the password inserted 4 characters from the start of the password
2) Captain Obvious, don't write "PASSWORD" on your post it note.
Chris
Here, have a ball. Try the script in my .sig.
Cool stuff indeed.
u id_metal/liquid_metal.html
http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/thermo/liq
CGI is absolutely in decline but Mason is bigger than ever. The developer of Mason now works for Amazon.com (built on Mason) now.
Bikeworld.com - Online retailer, sporting a new 100% Mason-powered site that was developed entirely in-house.
Wait a minute...That's me!
Are you copying this from some place?
Chris
RT has been a godsend for our company. Before I installed it, sales-at-ourcompany.com was getting deluged with e-mail from customers and spammers. Customers' questions were getting ignored and they were getting pissed. Our customer service reps were frustrated and the lack of coordination resulted in multiple replies to customers' questions.
Enter RT. It took me about 45 minutes to get it up and running and to master the basics. An hour later, I had all my reps trained on it and answering questions. Later that afternoon, I wrote a simple web interface for customers to contact us with. I created seperate queues for Customer Service, Billing, and Technical Support and the web interface routed questions to these queues appropriately.
But it gets better...I quickly discovered that RT is useful for much more than customer service. Our software development team uses it to keep track of bugs. The eBay team uses it to track auction questions and payment problems. Even the guys on our brick-and-mortar sales floor use it to keep track of special orders.
It's also super-customizable. It's written using Mason, which happens to be what I used to build all of our websites. When a customer creates a support ticket, the rep viewing his ticket sees a pane containing the customer's entire order history, including the status and FedEx tracking numbers for each order.
Best of luck,
Chris
Check out the Unofficial OpenBSD Bittorrent Page. If the torrent isn't here, it will be, soon!
You seem to have forgotten that the Cuban government illegally seized millions of dollars of American-owned property in 1959. As far as I'm concerned, the Cuban government can write us a check for the value of this property, plus 46 years of interest. Until it does, the embargo stands.
For comparison, here is a screenshot from my G5, which does not exhibit the problem. The fonts look much clearer on this machine.
One thing I have noticed so far is that Expose seems a lot less fluid than in Panther. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I going mad? The difference is noticable even with only a couple of windows on the desktop.
Yes, I absolutely have noticed the slowness. I'm sitting here on my dual G5 2.0GHz with 1.5GB RAM and (what I thought was) a decent graphics card and its definitely a LOT less smooth than in Panther.
Another thing that I've noticed is a problem with font smoothing on my home machine, a Quicksilver G4 with a GeForce3 card. For some reason, most of my fonts look like total crap. I've tried every permutation of the font smoothing settings but nothing seems to help. Has anyone else seen this problem?
And Photoshop couldnt output a sub 50k jpg that looks decent if its life depended on it.
Try using Save for Web... instead of Save.... Save for Web saves the file without all the metadata and the preview icon, which seriously cuts down on size. Here's an example that I did for Fark (safe for work), which looks halfway decent. 48k.
Having visited Los Angeles, I was shocked by the routine use of helicopters for chasing suspects.
I, too, am shocked that our law enforcement is using helicopters to catch criminals! I think it's a better idea to allow police officers to conduct high-speed car chases through neighborhoods. You are absolutely "Insightful". +1 +1 +1!!!
Please excuse me if I am being naive, but isn't the hard disk a block storage device? Wouldn't adding this key make the user's drive(s) immutable and make it very difficult to reverse this registry addtion?
Can a remote site actually get access to this information, or is it only displayable on the screen?
The data is being displayed within a TEXTAREA box, so it's probably as simple as adding an onClick="javascript:document.form.submit();" (or onMouseOver, etc.) to the document.
Yes, this is very dangerous.
It might be a good idea to seed a torrent for this before the 40Mb downloads crush his server.
"Respek. Today's episode is about respek. There be so little respek in deh world today dat if you look up deh word behind me [points to RESPEK] in the dictionary, you'll see that it's been taken out."
(Apologies to Ali G.)
The *best* thing that I got out of the class though, was to talk freely with the MySQL guys about their reality of trying to make a living with a "mostly" free product. They convinced me to buy a membership in MySQL Network which is essentially support that I probably won't use. This upgrade they are turning out though is good enough to make me WANT to pay (once).
The best thing you got out of the class was to be talked into something that you won't need by your classmates?
You'll see these kinds of antics from liberal politicians all the time. They have a long history or trying to keep people from doing the things that they disagree with. There's a quote from P.J. O'Rourke that is spot-on for this story:
No joke. I would have gutted those two like pigs. Throat to groin. Wouldn't have thought twice about it. Not any issue at all.
No issue, other than the fact that they are IV drug users. I'll pass on gutting two shitmagnets who are possibly carrying HIV and/or hepatitis.
You don't owe your employer anything. Two weeks notice is being reasonable. Four weeks notice is being professional. Anything beyond that is uncalled for unless your employer has been really nice to you over the years.
Tell this guy to take his "subsidized rates" and shove 'em.
It may have been a CB radio with a linear amplifier. Years ago, when I was in high school, a friend had one of these (300W!!!!) and the interference that this thing could generate was insane. When we drove around, we could talk over peoples' landlines (as you mentioned), over fast food drive-thru intercoms, and most memorably, the PA system at the local little league baseball field.
If you read the friggin' article sumary, you would see that what is needed is an automatic CD-R loader, not just the software to burn CDs.
GIAC offers software and hardware to do the switching on the fly. Hook up a serial port analyzer and figure out the protocol that the win32 app is using and duplicate this on the Mac. Integrate (as someone else said) into a Dashboard widget (heh, a Dashboard dashboard...).
The air conditioning shouldn't be *too* hard if the controls are analog. It could probably be done with some sort of microcontroller that interfaces with the Mac via a USBSerial adapter.
Back in the 1980s, the Texas oil boom went bust and along with it, real estate (a major investment for people with oil money). Here in San Antonio, large (for the time, at least) office buildings sat mostly unoccupied for years until the second half of the 1990's, when things picked up again. Those tough enough to have stuck it out made a mint when this started growing at an explosive rate and there was a demand for their now-prime real estate.
Moral of the story: you can't go wrong with real estate in an established upper-end part of a city, as long as you can stick out the inevitable bad times.