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Comment PwdHash (Score 2, Informative) 1007

by gphilip on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @01:26PM (#30062412) Attached to: Best Tool For Remembering Passwords?

https://www.pwdhash.com/

Available in three ways:

Online at the above address -- works with any browser that supports JavaScript.
As a plugin for FireFox (and beta plugins for other browsers): Press F2 or type @@ at the beginning of a text field for the plugin to kick in.
As a webpage (the one at https://www.pwdhash.com/ )with JavaScript code that you can store on disk and open in any browser.

Constructs a one-way hash of

the password entered in a password (or other text) field, and
the domain name of the site where the password is used (both these can be entered manually in methods 1 and 3)

to get a domain-specific password. Memorize one strong password and use this utility to get distinct passwords for each domain. The generated passwords are (usually) complicated enough to pass any conceivable non-triviality test.

Comment Re:rabit from the moon (Score 1) 196

by gphilip on Sunday July 05, 2009 @06:30AM (#28585509) Attached to: Planck Telescope Is Coolest Spacecraft Ever

Is anyone else dissapointed we don't already have this capability? I can stream Top Gear in HD from youtube in faster than real time but we lag this far behind in (optical? thermal?) imaging?

And what prevents you from inventing this capability for all of us, so that we are no longer disappointed? Just like the way you solved the streaming problem in the first place? Oh wait...

Comment Re:You don't want it, but that's not the point (Score 1) 165

by gphilip on Friday July 03, 2009 @03:10PM (#28574153) Attached to: Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser

(If both steps are sufficiently efficient and the host platform is also x86, the compiled code may even be very similar to the original code.)

Why don't they just do away with the inefficient step of compiling it twice?

Comment Dropbox (Score 1) 421

by gphilip on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @03:33PM (#28443673) Attached to: How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories?

http://www.getdropbox.com/ Works perfectly for me. I use the free option, which has a 2 GB limit, which is more than enough for me to keep all my important stuff in sync. It has a client that integrates nicely with the Nautilus file browser on Ubuntu, which is what I use at home and office. Whatever you put (or symlink) into a designated folder (which you can choose) gets mirrored to their server, from where it gets synced to every other system where you have installed the client, the next time you connect that system to the internet. They also give web-based access to the stored files. There is the issue of privacy for the really paranoid, but I am not very concerned about that with the files I currently choose to mirror. I am more worried about the chance that their client develops a bug that wipes out my files, but I guess I'll take that risk.

Submission + - 4Chan Attacks YouTube, Uploads Kids Clips w/ Porn (neosmart.net) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13, 2009 @08:18AM

An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous members of the internet board 4Chan have organized an attack on YouTube, uploading a number of children's clips and cartoons that switch mid-movie to videos depicting adults engaged in various sexual acts. This is very reminiscent of their attack last year on an internet forum for epileptics, which triggered a number of photosensitive seizures by uploading fast-moving and colorful images to the forum.

Submission + - What Open Source shares with Science (zdnet.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13, 2009 @01:36AM

An anonymous reader writes: One of the overlooked advantages that Open Source development affords, is that it imitates perhaps the most fruitful and beneficial of all human endeavours: Science. How has the scientific-method evolved, and what can it teach us about the future possibilities of software construction?

Submission + - Download IE8 or Microsoft Will Let Children Starve 1

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday June 13, 2009 @12:12AM

theodp writes: "Remember National Lampoon's famous If-You-Don't-Buy-This-Magazine-We'll-Shoot-This-Dog cover? As it kicked off its new 'Browser for the Better' campaign, Microsoft took a page from the Lampoon's playbook, announcing it will provide 8 meals to hungry children and adults for every completed download of Internet Explorer 8. CNET reports that Microsoft will donate $1 million to a food bank if 869,565 people in the U.S. use a special website to download IE8 by Aug. 8, 2009 (8-8, get it?). Microsoft adds that all meals must be claimed by June 30, 2010. How can something so right feel so wrong?"

Submission + - Which Linux distro should I choose? 2

Submitted by techno-vampire on Friday June 12, 2009 @09:50PM

techno-vampire writes: Currently, I'm using Fedora Linux on my desktop, and Puppy Linux on my very old laptop. I do tech support for my sister, who uses Ubuntu Linux. Now, I have a chance to get a brand-new, modern laptop and it occurs to me that this is a chance to broaden my Linux knowledge. The new laptop will mostly be used for browsing, email and wordprocessing, with gaming a minor consideration. If you were me, which Linux distro would you install, and why?

Submission + - Apple admits that Mac OS users can get viruses (securityandthe.net)

Submitted by

secmartin

on Friday June 12, 2009 @05:48PM

secmartin writes: "Since a couple of days, Apple has been warning users that Mac OS might benefit from using a virus scanner. Their security page now offers this warning: "However, since no system can be 100 percent immune from every threat, antivirus software may offer additional protection."

Microsoft has welcomed Apple to this new reality in a blog post by one of their senior Security Advisors, and antivirus vendors are already taking advantage at the new sales opportunities. So are you already using a virus scanner on your Mac? If not, will this change in Apple's communications change your mind?"

Submission + - Microsoft pays google to sponsor Bing

Submitted by

brain_fingered

on Friday June 12, 2009 @05:38PM

brain_fingered writes: "So i was doing an image search on Google and on the first page of my results I saw the very first sponsored link was to Bing.com! It appears Microsoft is pulling all the stops to get everyone to shift over to Bing. Also how much do you think was paid to Google for them to advertise a major competing search engine as a sponsored link?"

Submission + - New Mersenne Prime found

Submitted by

radiot88

on Friday June 12, 2009 @03:58PM

radiot88 writes: "NPR's Science Friday just reported that the 47th Mersenne Prime has been found and that it is a smaller number than the 46th Mersenne. It sounded like it was found on an Intel based home style PC."

Submission + - Which image organizer?

Submitted by on Thursday June 11, 2009 @03:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: There are a lot of image organizers out there, both free and non-free, each with its strong points and limitations.
In view of the prevalent Slashdotter stereotype, I'd like to tap into your common wisdom and ask for a recommendation for an image organizer that can do the following:
- Handle very large numbers of files in nested folder structures.
- Tag individual images as well as groups and/or folders with user-defined keywords.
- Store the tags within the image metadata (IPTC or XMF) so that manually moving them around will not confuse the program.
- Search and display by keywords and other criteria (e.g., show me all files tagged with "family", "vacation" and "funny").
- Detect images that look similar for culling.

So, what program are you using to manage your image collection?

Submission + - SPAM: Saving Unix one kernel at a time

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Thursday June 11, 2009 @01:28PM

coondoggie writes: "In this its 40th year of operating system life, some Unix stalwarts are trying to resurrect its past. That is they are taking on the unenviable and difficult job of restoring to its former glory old Unix software artifacts such as early Unix kernels, compilers and other important historical source code pieces. In a paper to be presented at next week's Usenix show, Warren Toomey of the Bond School of IT is expected to detail restoration work being done on four key Unix software artifacts all from the early 1970s — Nsys, 1st edition Unix kernel, 1st and 2nd edition binaries and early C compilers. In his paper, Toomey states that while the history of Unix has been well-documented, there was a time when the actual artifacts of early Unix development were in danger of being lost forever. [spam URL stripped]"
Link to Original Source

Comment Linux rulez (Score 1) 310

by gphilip on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @01:50PM (#28185105) Attached to: Microsoft Bing Search Launches Early Preview

188,000 results

Submission + - Creating and maintaining a large music collection

Submitted by Music Glutton on Saturday March 28, 2009 @02:34PM

Music Glutton writes: I have access to a collection of music of a certain genre, collected over many years and by different people. The collection is huge, consisting of many thousands of files and directories, and taking up nearly a terabyte of space. I want to make a personal copy of this collection, and so I bought a 1000GB hard disk. I will be using this disk exclusively with Linux. Now I am faced with the following problems, and would like to have your advice, especially if you speak from experience:

1) Which filesystem should I use on this disk?

a) I remember having read somewhere that on disks over a few hundred GB, ReiserFS makes available, for actual file storage, considerably more space (a few GB more) than some other filesystems available with Linux. Is this true? Will the choice of filesystem on my 1000GB drive affect significantly (to the tune of a few more/less gigabytes!) the amount of music that I can store on it? Which filesystem would get me the most usable space out of this 1000GB?

b) Note that but for the initial copying, there won't be many large write operations (but see below about duplicates) it will mostly be reads, with moderate throughput. Should this be a factor in deciding the filesystem to use?

2) Getting rid of duplicate files.

Since the collection was built up by many people over many years, it contains multiple copies of the same files, scattered over different parts of the directory tree. I am talking here about files that are bitwise identical, not just identical in terms of the music content. I reckon this duplication uses up a few GB of space, and so would like to get rid of duplicate copies of the same file. What is a good (the best?) way of getting this done? Is it a good idea to do this while doing the initial copy, so that no file is copied over twice to the disk, or should I first copy the whole thing over to the disk and then look for duplicates? Are there tools available to do this reliably? What are they?

3) Listening to the music.

Could you suggest a good music player (with good search and playlist management capabilities), available on Linux, that can manage this large a collection well?

Thanks for your help,
MG

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