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Better Password Management

Saturday night geek project: do something about my dodgy password management. Maybe listening to the Security Now podcast has got me paranoid enough to do something about my passwords. I currently deal with passwords in a way that’s no embarrassingly bad I’m not going to mention it. Not as bad as a “passwords.txt” on the […]

Some Things I Currently Think Are Cool

Okay, I’m a geek.. There won’t be any going back after this.. The Daily WTF – a regular dose of schadenfreude. AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest – has an algorithm to pull out the best comments for each Slashdot article displayed in digest format. Its got me back reading Slashdot, the comments are actually […]

VMware update

What I’ve discovered playing with VMware server. The wikipedia entry is actually more informative than the VMware website (or I was more patient tonight). From wikipedia: the difference between VMware Player and Server: VMware Player, a free virtual-machine host, can run virtual machines made by other VMware products, but cannot itself create new virtual machines. […]

Trustix + VMware Server

Queen’s birthday long weekend – and I’ve found another quick geeky project to play with at home. This one was quick (I swear!). I’ve being contemplating recently how I’d go about setting up a small business network with the essentials – web/mail/file/proxy server plus the very necessary extras like back-up and spam/virus filtering for email. […]