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Twelve Password Managers

You might have seen this cartoon here before, but it’s worth repeating, as it’s that time of month.

In some cases, passwords need to longer than the 12 digit codes needed to arm a nuclear weapon.

I’m not the first to notice this. Jesper M. Johansson wrote about in-actionable security advice in [...]

2002 – Who’s that guy next to Rachel?

Tip for installing Windows 7 : update your BIOS first.

Windows 7 uses your BIOS version to determine what hardware drivers should be downloaded to your PC.

So updating my BIOS is one of the first things I do before I install a new operating system.

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Best Friend Holiday Retreat

We recently had a 2 day break at Tarra Valley, and stayed at the Best Friend Holiday Retreat. It was magic.

Here are some of the things Nikki, Robyn and I liked about it:

It was fantastic to be able to take our dog, Nikki, with us on holidays for the first time.
The six off-leash areas were not just flat paddocks, so Nikki was able to get exercise running up and down slopes.

There was even a selection of dog toys at the entrance of each of the off-leash areas.
A place so quiet that you can hear the bird life though-out the whole day. It was an experience to wake up to bird calls, not having heard them for over 20 years. Nikki was puzzled by the sounds, because she’s a city dog.
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Microsoft commits to releasing Outlook PST format

This is big news, particularly if you’ve ever tried to convert an OST file to a PST file.

… In order to facilitate interoperability and enable customers and vendors to access the data in .pst files on a variety of platforms, we will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format. This will allow [...]

So you can't boot from your CD/DVD drive?

I was watching someone install Windows XP on a system with SATA drives the other day.

The PC would power up, look briefly at the CD/DVD drive, and then carry onto the hard disk.

The problem was that the SATA option in the BIOS, was set to AHCI. To boot from a CD/DVD, you [...]

Occupational Health & Safety

In Victoria, an injury in the workplace does include

“health” includes psychological health Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, section 5 Definitions.

I never knew that until recently.

In a workplace not so far away …

Once worked as a bank teller; with all the security aids to keep the unwashed customers from assaulting [...]

Get it wrong to get it right.

I wasn’t entirely surprised to learn that some academic has learnt that people who make a mistake, learn their subject better.

No surprise there.

There are occupations where most of the training involves knowing what to do when things go wrong. Be it train driving, flying an aircraft, or working as an IT shift [...]

Geranium from the garden

Gardening Australia: Geranium

"Drift in cars."

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