Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03
Frequent password changes are the enemy of security, FTC technologist says
Source: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Since the 1980s I’ve been advocating the above opinion and I’m glad some people now agree with me.
If you ever hire or employ me and force such a regular password change policy upon me without allowing me to use a password manager that can communicate securely with the cloud (which means you don’t play TLS man-in-the-middle) then I will either:
- create a password-change script that invalidates the password history you keep and re-use my really secure password of choice.
- if that fails: add an incrementing value to a reasonably secure base password.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03
Chris Osborn was finally able to open up his 1980s Smith Corona Memory Correct 400 Messenger and replace the fuse, enabling him to do letter quality printing over over the parallel port (and hopefully the serial port soon too).
Cool!
Sources:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/01
With en empty Group Name you get this:
No Group Name means no connection
The bad thing is: the Fritz!Box will not tell you this in any of the logs.
So don’t forget to set the Group Name to be the same as the Account Name in the ….:
Always enter the Group Name in the Authentication Settings
Then you can successfully connect:
VPN connection succeeded!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/01
Oh man, why didn’t they make a line object out of this…
But if you realize it is a bottom border, then deleting is easy:
The answer is something of a trick, as the horizontal line is not a line (or a graphic), it’s a bottom border.
–jeroen
via: Deleting Horizontal Lines From Word.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/29
One day I’m going to need this: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
So I’m glad WinUSB (which hadn’t been maintained for a long time) got forked on github by slaka.
Since my day-to-day unix-like system is OS X, I’d love a good working solution there too which means I probably need to investigate a bit along these lines:
- Using diskpart in a Windows VM (which is kind of backwards):
- Using Disk Utility and UEFI (only works for Windows 8 and up):
- Using Boot Camp Assistant and a modified Info.plist (which for El Capitan needs some extra work):
–jeroen
via: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork WebUpd8 – Google+ / DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/29
sponge, a great *nix tool part of moreutils:
sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
Now need to figure out how to get it on Tumbleweed; maybe http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/23781842/dir/opensuse/com/moreutils-0.48-1.1.i586.rpm.html
–jeroen
via: moreutils.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/28
I’ve quotes two of the G+ comments as they perfectly reflect my point of view: the non-modal search and IDE Insight – introduced somewhere after XE3 – are a dork to use.
I’m doing more Delphi work lately and these being non-modal seriously hinder my work (and it gets progressively worse on a 3K or 4K monitor).
In my book: why implement a feature to emulate the competition when you do it so badly?
So: are there any experts around that bring back the old search and IDE Insight behaviour back?
Asbjørn Heid, Oct 5, 2015:
+Marco Cantù I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it before, but hey:
- The new edit field cannot be placed in a position which does not require significant eye-focus change to read. This means it is significantly more cumbersome to use, as focus must be transferred to some “out of sight” area. In addition one does not get the same instant feedback that the IDE did register your F6 keypress. The old one was “in your face” instantly when you pressed F6, so no need to take your eyes off the form you’re designing, and it left no doubt about F6 being registered or not.
- The dropdown list with suggestions that pops up when you type is much more difficult to read than the list in the old one, both due to positioning (thanks to the above) and due to length until it’s heavily constrained by input.
- From what I recall, the new edit field does not behave the same when invoked repeatedly, requiring more keystrokes to get the same effect compared to the old. I haven’t used XE3 in ages though so I don’t recall the specifics anymore, just that the new feels more clunky to use.
That’s just off the top of my head. Yes I still use it, but not nearly as much as I did, and when I do it’s one to two orders of magnitude slower to use compared to the old one. Not because it searches slower, but because of the issues described above.
Similarly for the non-modal search, although somehow I’m more used to the modern version now. When compared with VS though the Delphi search is very lacking. The great thing about the VS search is that it gives live feedback on which text in the edit window match the text in the search window. If Delphi would do that it would make an immense difference. It’s definitely worth spending some time in VS using their search facility. And indeed in other IDEs / editors.
There was a lot of negative feedback on both of these changes when they were released. Surely Embarcadero noticed that.
–jeroen
via: F6 or [Ctrl] + . does not open IDE Insight on DX. What am I missing?…
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