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Archive of entries posted on November 2009

Secure Usernames

We’ve all dealt with web site which have rules (ostensibly to increase security) about having a certain mix of character types in your password. Today however I encountered an entirely new security concept:

Yes, that’s right, this site has invented a whole new idea – the secure username that has to contain both letters and numbers!

OpenOffice is Way Too Clever

OpenOffice really is way too clever for it’s own good…
It’s latest massive fail in the “I know what you want better than you do” department is to decide that just because I already have an instance of OpenOffice running on my desktop what I really want when I type “oocalc foo.ods” is for it to [...]