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Comment: cheap digital photo frames (Score 2) 260

by pbjones (#39029353) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Making a Tablet Run Only One Application?

buy them cheap digital frames and load the pics and movies onto SD cards? A search will show you cheap MP3 players that may be as good. not the best answer, sorry. I like the 'Delete all other app' and 'isolate your network', and have it all just point to a web server, like airports and Twin Golden Arches.

Comment: why? (Score 1) 311

by pbjones (#39007031) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home?

it doesn't make economic sense to go paperless. In some cases paper originals are still required. I would audit your material and find out how long you are legally required to keep items for, then trash anything that you don't need. I had about 10years and in some cases 20 years of paperwork, the most that I needed was 7 years, and a few items for proof of employment, the rest is now compost. I didn't spend ages scanning, I don't have to thank about archiving discs, it all fits in a couple of boxes on the top of a cupboard. Paper is more robust than discs, and formatting and OS issues are not there, vs disc or other software solutions.

Comment: Re:what is a password? (Score 4, Interesting) 89

by pbjones (#38847573) Attached to: How Allan Scherr Hacked Around the First Computer Password

it's a route, the way to connect to your phone. A password is more like a key, if you have one then you can get into your whatever.

Worst password/pin. A telephone system at a major event many years ago, each journalist was given a unique 4 digit pin, they enter it and get dialtone and dial. Took about 10 seconds for them to workout that they could just pump in 4 digit codes until they got dial tone and they were then using other peoples accounts. Or the Video store software that stored passwords in plain text in a file called PW.TXT.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

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