Pleeeeeeease use good passwords

I have gotten at least 4 calls in as many months from people whose email accounts have been hacked. Some of them even had passwords that I would have considered decent. The bastards sent spam out to all of their contacts.

Your passwords need:
  • At least 10 characters
  • At least two letters
  • At least one capital letter
  • At least two numbers
  • At least one non-alphanumeric character
Eventually, we will all be hacked unless we take these precautions.

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November 10, 2010 | Filed Under Tech | Leave a Comment 

HDR photography on the iPhone is slick!

I’m glad they didn’t do the unnatural, tone-mapped look with it. It’s so simple, and the results seem pretty satisfying!

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November 5, 2010 | Filed Under Tech | Leave a Comment 

Later days, Xserve

From a client with a Mac mini with OS X Server, after today’s announcement:
Apple’s Xserve hits end of life, order yours before Jan, 31‎ 
Wow no more rack mounted Xserves. I wonder if they will still use them in-house.

Finally I make a correct Apple prediction. They gotta make something else. They obviously are still developing the server OS.  I do hate Mac Pro as server though. Clunky. But the Mac mini with Server is one of the best things the company has ever done. Wish it had eSATA. 

All mac users will use the new amazon-like service.

[I believe he's referring to the internet service Apple is likely to roll out when its new data center in North Carolina goes live.]

Yep. Forcing people into the cloud. Only Apple could do it. 

I feel like I bought the last Model T.

Hah! The Xserves are gonna look more like Tuckers. 

I’m gonna bet there’s a very different idea of “server” coming around. Something hopefully not as complicated as the current paradigm.

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November 5, 2010 | Filed Under Tech | Leave a Comment