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For maximum security, passwords should not be cohesive words or phrases and should not be too obviously related to something like your birthday or the birthday of someone close to you. Personal information is one of the first things used when people attempt to break passwords.

This article assumes brute force is the only way to crack a password. It didn’t even consider rainbow tables. This article only talks about how to make a slightly more secure password. So instead of someone cant guess that your password is spiderman, because it’s sp1d3rman or something. Those are defiantly not uncrackable passwords. I guess it would be a useful reading for people that use common words and such for passwords.

Some web registrations won’t even allow special characters above the number keys let alone the “alt codes”. Besides, you can lock yourself out due to a different encoding setting if you use the special keys.

Some work requires these “strong” passwords. They have to have one number, one lowercase letter, one capital letter, ane one non-alpha char, and be at least 8 chars long. Also, the password needs to be changed every 30 days. So, since there is no way to remember this crap, everyone just writes their current password on a post-it note on their desks. That’s great security!

From a theoretical standpoint, a One-Time Pad should be uncrackable, however it does require the users to know which key to use at what time (and the key can only be used once and must be as long as the message). I find just using the standard password policy of: 8 characters, at least one upper, one lower, one numeral, one punctuation mark, no dictionary word, no date, no license plate works for most intents and purposes.

An even easier and arguably more effective method is to use a public-private key with a pass phrase. Pass phrases are great in that you can even use stuff like an exert from your favorite book and you should be pretty safe from brute force if it’s of any reasonable length.

No password is safe. It can only be more secure than another version, but nothing is uncrackable. A password is only as safe as the encryption and the amount of time the hacker has, and their determination to break it.

Drastically improve your Bit Torrent downloads. I could not figure out why my Torrent downloads were taking forever until I stumbled across this BLOG entry.

I actually thought this was pretty good because most port forwarding guides don’t include images. It can be vague if you’re not familiar with the process.. Anyone who uses BT should know this. Port forwarding guides for BT downloads have been done to death.

You shouldn’t be using BT if you haven’t read how to use it IMO. It took me all of 3 min. with emule when I bought my first router to realize that something was wrong and within 10 min. I not only had my answer (ports) but had configured it. I’m NO tech genius, just willing to google for answers.

Another thing that can speed up your download is UPLOAD some clients disable sending files to you if you don’t send anything back. Upload speed should be set around 50%-80% of your max connection speed for best results.

Most people unfamiliar with computers will not have a static address on their home network. They will be using DHCP. I think the worst thing about the situation is that people are now equating using the word ‘router’ assuming it has NAT. Funny, people get told that in order to have more computers use the internet at once, they should get a router. But thats not the function of a router, thats a function of Network Address Translation, a *feature* of *some* routers.

For those complaining about their downloads being slow when they hit max upload speed. This has nothing to do with your ISP, it’s a function of TCP. When downloading data via TCP, the machine receiving the data sends packets back to the server letting it know that the packet was received correctly. This is done for error correction purposes. If your uploading pipe is clogged, your computer can’t send those packets out as fast (if at all) and your downloads die.

Here’s one related article or head sown to their main page.

I suppose it’s good for newbs though… This particular article fits the ‘crusty technical person’ personality mentioned previously. Why? If you are using BitTorrent to download, whether it be illegal movie content, or legal iso content… my opinion here, if you don’t know how to configure your router for P2P, then you probably shouldn’t be using it (P2P) yet.

Research. Use Google.

This is quite frankly the strangest thing I’ve ever seen… In one part the guy seemed to be dancing in a big thing of weed.

After watching this I suddenly feel the need to buy an SUV and fix it up to pollute as much as possible. This is very strange. Who is this guy?

2 meg video clip and step by step instructions included. It seems like I saw a women do this on Letterman about a month or two ago.

OK, WTF just happened?!?!

* Step 1, grab two points on the shirt.
* Step 2, BOOM! Folded shirt.

It’s like a money shot, except instead you get a folded shirt. Same level of excitement too!

That is absolutely insane. I tried it using the step by step instructions. It’s a bit unclear after you make the first fold and you have one hand in the shirt and one hand out. you have to GRAB in both places, then do that flick. It seems almost like you’re turning it inside-out, but it works out in the end. This’ll cut folding time considerably. This makes me want to throw away all my coat hangers and buy drawers just so I can do this nifty folding trick more often.

Eventually I just went back to my old technique because it was faster. If you don’t get the shirt flattened out perfectly it won’t work that well. It’d work great if you’re in the retail business and are trying to fold clothes for your customer. The problem I had was that I thought you pinch the entire shirt on the bottom pinch, but you only pinch the top layer. If you had difficulty then try pausing it and going through it a few frames at a time!

Summary:

1. Find the center of the shirt (top/bottom)
2. Find center between neck and where the side of the shirt is (left/right)
3. At the intersection, pinch shirt
4. From the intersection with your other hand, go up in a straight line to the top of the shirt and pinch
5. Pull the top of the shirt straight down to the bottom and add the first layer of the shirt to the pinch
6. Pull out the intersection pinch
7. Lay shirt face down and pull it over it self to meet other side of shirt
8. Tuck the sleeve that is left over underneath the shirt

The video can also be seen here.

Online identity theft is a real problem. Especially for this guy. I want to believe that this is real, but… I’m thinking either photoshop or the guy who posted it is the guy who stole a wallet. I wouldn’t doubt if it is all the same guy who posted the story

Probably from some dead guy’s wallet he found floating in the river by his house. The dead guy he stole this off of won’t like this one bit!

Any one savvy enough to know how to scan and publish something on the Internet (complete with an annoying pop up message) can’t be stupid enough to give out his social… or can they? You shouldn’t carry your ss card in your wallet anyway. If you lost you wallet, you can cancel credit cards, but your SSN is a whole lot more of a pain.

These are screen shots from a dvd that was translated into Chinese and then subtitled back into English. Makes for some very, very funny engrish sentences.

Huh?? Jedi Council = Presbyterian Church? Hahahhhaaa.. Sides still hurts from laughing so hard. Maybe somebody just copied/pasted from Babelfish, which seems entirely likely here. Strangely enough, Yoda’s dialog translated perfectly…

I have no doubt that this is a real attempt at translation - before the OT came out on DVD, I had some “non-retail” versions which included english subtitles…me and my friends watched them all in one night because they were so hilarious..I would love to have this copy..

I remember reading some Lord of the Rings subtitles like this. Very very funny stuff. This has also been done to all 3 of the LOTR movies as well.

Make fire from ice, it is possible .

A novel application of a technique originally devoloped for burning polar bears’ eyes while under attack. This is much more practical. Now the next time i am in the wilderness in the middle of winter without matches and need some fire, i will be sure to go and build an apparatus to freeze ice without air bubbles in it then carve a sphere out of it… hehe pardon my sarcasm but really how plausible is this? thought i admit i do want a big sphere of ice…

You’d have more luck rubbing two sticks together. Or just taking a lighter in a plastic bag with you. Interesting read, but this really isn’t plausible for survival purposes unless you’re MacGuyver, in which case you can form a perfect ice sphere with your ungloved hands out of a snowball. If you’re going camping, don’t bring a big sphere of ice. Instead, just bring a lighter.

Seen it before.. it’s up there along with using a chocolate bar and a pop can to start a fire. Well, first aluminum (coke and chocolate), now ice… what’s next……glass?

A great resource listing 300 good fonts for graphic designers. They are free to download in .ttf format (works on both MacOSX and Windows machines). A nice way of wading through the enormous list of fonts available on the web nicely organized.

I hate searching for a font only to be asked to pay at the very end when I have already decided I like it. This is a great resource. Just in case anyone is wondering, if you want to download all these fonts, use the Down Them All! Firefox extension and choose *.ttf. Save them all to a folder and drag all of them into the Windows Fonts folder. Done

It’s great to not have to look through hundreds of junk fonts. This will be truly useful, especially since it also breaks it down into types of fonts.

In addition, I’d recommend DaFont. Their collection is huge, and includes most of the fonts covered. Just check the licensing before using any of them in a commercial project, as it varies, depending.

Other interesting sites: 1001fonts.com
and Larabie Fonts .

Feel free to jump on this opportunity. Not many websites continue to host it.

The program is not hard to find. Here’s the link which gave the true story. Follow the links…

“The development of DVD Shrink had already ceased, the last version of the tool was released more than a year ago..”

My only question is were is the source? If they do not want to continue the project, the community should continue it! Good to see people are all willing to keep these programs alive and served for as long and frequent as possible. If the community gets a hold of it, the software will never die just grow. I do not see these programs going a way like many have said.