Comments | hirez: Safety Chicken speaks to the nation about the terrible state of the Windows software ecosystem

hirez

Safety Chicken speaks to the nation about the terrible state of the Windows software ecosystem

Feb 11, 2006 15:33

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On the Mac.... codepope February 11 2006, 15:55:47 UTC

At the lowest level, there's the Keychain Access app and the Keychain built into the OS.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31932&seqNum=1

(Predominantly a transient password store, but it's evolved with the .Mac syncing and secure notes to be a tad more useful)

But there's a slew of Mac utilities.... some even compatible with Password Safe like http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/Gorilla/

Re: On the Mac.... codepope February 11 2006, 15:59:30 UTC

Oh, I forgot to mention; there's a password assistant built in to OSX.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/tips/password13.html

redcountess February 11 2006, 16:50:53 UTC

Funnily enough, I've had the opposite results with fish oil vs flaxseed - the fish oil makes an improvement while the flaxseed doesn't. Of course I have to remember to take the bloody things in the first place!

hirez February 11 2006, 17:19:31 UTC

That seemed to be the intelligence (Haw!) from the Guardian (I think) the other month. I thought I'd try both of them to see what happened.

hirez February 11 2006, 19:55:00 UTC

Further, there's a thing in the Guardian colour section about the various Omegas and the best ratios for useful results.

malcygoff February 11 2006, 17:00:08 UTC

Strangely enough, I was having a chat with my boss about the fish based Omega tablets we produce at work.
He didn't go into the details, but the gist of it was that all of the good that is done, is offset by the other chemicals that can't be separated easily[1].

Have you had a chance to use Password Safe yet? I've not gotten around to it, but a couple of the IT spodcasts I listen to have said that it's very good; decent security, usable and trustworthy.

/me is presently trying to download 42gb of rainbow tables, just to see how good lookups are in place of brute force. Athough I know they are quicker, it's a question of by how much.

[1] or possibly, economically.

hirez February 11 2006, 17:31:32 UTC

Ah. Interesting. I have to admit that mashed plant sits better with me than the thought of mashed fish.

I'm trying it now; it seems to function as advertised.

Rainbow tables. Yes.

quercus February 11 2006, 18:09:35 UTC

I've used PasswordSafe for years. Swear by it. It's a product of one of the (about 4) people I'd trust to do security right, which is always a good recommendation.

aeia February 11 2006, 18:00:12 UTC

I've been taking Omega 3 oils for a while now. I need to make sure I remember to take them every day though and take them with food or I feel sick. I was taking one 1000Mg capsule a day but might start taking 2 as 2 were used in an arthritis trial recently and did help.

I've been feeling a bit mixed between times of meh and times of energy over the last couple of months I think it cycles with the sunny vs dark grey days though!

hirez February 11 2006, 19:58:40 UTC

I keep them next to the computer, so I can stuff one down when I stumble in to rescue my phone in the AM. I prefer the flax ones; they don't make you burp fish like a cat.

You're probably right about the sunlight. However, I'm hoping I can keep this kind of work-rate up. I enjoy being like this.