Java is the COBOL of today.
It is a language often used in education (fortunately nowadays Python is taking over there), but this just means that we have lots of “Java Programmers” with zero experience. And the only thing worse than a bad programmer is a bad programmer who thinks …
Password are awful.
Unfortunately, it is the "least worst" solution to the problem of authentication in most cases.
Sure, there are lots of other authentication methods out there, each with their own problems which (on balance) usually ends up being worse:
If you follow the good advice of not re-using passwords you end up with a lot of passwords.
If you make them reasonably secure by making them longer then you still have a lot of passwords. But they are much more difficult to guess. (which is really the point of …
Every site (or every account) you use should have a different, distinct password. Every single one. Never re-use passwords.
That way: if one site gets hacked (and your password leaked on the darker parts of the web), only that account is leaked. The potential damage is reduced. The bad guys …
A post about some maths homework caused some consternation and confusion on one of my local facebook groups:
Lots of people seemed to think this was far too advanced for a 9-year-old, or that solving such puzzles would have no applications in real life.
I beg to disagree.
Yes, I …
The spammers who try to flood my inbox must be getting desperate - they're offering to stop if I pay them!
From: "Admin" <admin@secureserver.eu>
Subject: I will stop spaming you
I'm sick of sending spam...
If you send me $10 USD worth of XMR / Monero I will remove …The other day I came across a new English word. This is not a new thing for me - it happens on a annoyingly regular basis. But it made me stop and take notice: BLURPLE !?? Why hadn't i ever heard that before?
OK - so it sounds some combination between blue and …
A Californian woman is allegedly suing her own parents because she is ugly!
At least that is what the article claims... It is hilarious and plays into our biases about people from the USA to be litigious and generally a bit weird.
Alas, it is fake news. Or to be …
The scenario: Your server is not working right: You cannot start new processes! Simple commands like "ls" fail:
yourname@yourserver:~$ ls
-bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
This is a symptom of the kernel reaching the maximum number of processes. On most systems, this is 32768 processes, and on 64-bit …
The wolderful flexibility of being able to mount file systems at any point in the file system comes at a small cost: You can end up hiding files - usually by mistake.
For example, imaging having the following file systems: