As always, xkcd makes a great point through a comic with “Password Strength”.
Password Strength
I do not know if the point he is making is actually valid, some research will be required.
Update: Ben Rockwood comments on the webcomic with “Password Myths”.
I believe that Mr. Rockwood is correct in his appraisal that we should all start using the term pass phrase.
As always, Rands has something interesting to say about becoming a manager for the first time:
Your confidence is going to be artificially high. This new job, hobby, or sport is going to appear magically easy. You’re going to feel gifted. Those watching your miraculous aptitude keep saying, “beginner’s luck”, but that’s neither what you’re hearing nor what they’re saying. What you’re hearing them say is, “We are jealous that you are gifted at this thing you totally don’t understand”, but what they’re actually saying is, “We understand it’s intoxicating to instantly feel like an expert and we will most certainly bite our tongues when you painfully discover how much you have to learn.”
We stayed at Villa Maroc, in Essaouira, for two nights. Great place with great food.
Heading out to see my wife—meeting her in Casablanca. I
think I’ll try and update my blog while I’m on the move this time,
assuming I find reasonable data access. – Posted using BlogPress
from my iPad
Location:Saint-Laurent,Canada
Today marks the last day of my work with dotSUB. I decided some time ago to accept the full-time position of Chief Technology Officer at Versature Corp.
So today I reflect on the past and look toward the future.
As I listen to the speech being given by Obama, one line stands out for me:
As for our common defence, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.
This man is a breathtaking orator.
I can pat myself on the back, as I am now a licensed Amateur Radio operator, call-sign VA3SHR.
I am incredibly humbled and awed by this art:
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
At Apple Inc.’s May 10 annual shareholder meeting, a member of the audience questioned Jobs on Apple’s relatively low figure of reinvestment in R&D, saying that he felt the company was missing low handing fruit with new product opportunities, particularly with the delay of Leopard. Jobs responded:
I wish it was just a matter of writing checks. If it was just a matter of spending money, Microsoft would deliver good products.
Terrific quote. 
Oxford had a serious trim this morning, it is hard to believe this is the same animal!
For the purpose of beating my lovely wife to the punch, here are photos of our new Miniature Schnauzer, Oxford
Severe concentrated cuteness.
Update: I lost. By like over an hour. 
I’m currently sitting in the BitHeads auditorium listening to introduction to the first BarCamp being held in Ottawa. Alec Saunders is presenting on the topic of demos/presentations themselves, which I’m looking forward to.
What Makes a Great Demo
Alec did a great job at this presentation, thanks!
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If your e100 (eepro100) or any other NIC won’t work for you, try setting IRQ Routing to “Fixed” in the BIOS. I would get “Device or Resource Busy”. Also, I needed to manually load the megaraid module and then run the hardware detection step again to get the RAID controller to work.
Our good friends actually had this lucky olive boat waiting patiently for us:
Thanks guys!
Today is the Big Day!
I officially proposed to the wonderful Ana Cristina Fernandez Gonzalez. Now, wish me luck! Oh, and she did say yes.
O’Reilly’s ONLamp has a great article which is most interesting. The premise is that Open Source software includes support options instead of support futures. I love it:
[Open source is] converting warrants on future maintenance and enhancements into options, which means that instead of having a sole supplier (warrants), we have created a third-party market (options) of these derivatives.
How capitalistic is that?
Very well said indeed. Found it from here.
Recently, while trying to figure out why ssh is taking so long to connect to many systems under Mac OS X 10.4.1, I sniffed the DNS traffic. To my surprise, I see SSH is doing SRV lookups:
0.000000 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local
0.001124 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local
0.001272 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
0.001989 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local
0.002321 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
0.002848 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local
0.003176 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
0.003993 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
2.027353 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local.techsupport.local
2.027840 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local.techsupport.local
2.028764 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
2.029120 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
2.029562 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local.techsupport.local
2.030249 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local.techsupport.local
2.030829 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
2.031551 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
4.042563 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query A mariesa.techsupport.local
4.043651 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response A 10.100.0.103
4.064124 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query A mariesa.techsupport.local
4.065093 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response A 10.100.0.103
That is very aggravating, since I don’t see a way to turn it off. Some Googling reveals a post on the topic.
Update: Stany did a little digging, found lots of patches, but not what I was looking for:
Now, regarding SRV lookups…. I’ve not noticed anything magic in the source that causes that to happen. Maybe that’s part of GSSAPI stuff – I frankly weren’t looking too closely. Maybe it’s something that libSystem.B.dylib does on behalf of ssh. Further investigation is needed, as it didn’t jump out at me.
So I’m thinking that this must be a part of the resolver. Although, it is doing lookups for _telnet._tcp.
In this post on DrunkenBlog, Jonathan Rentzsch gives a terrific interview. Notably, he discusses Apple’s enterprise software development gem, WebObjects, which I’ve always wanted to know more about.
Anyone know if there is a downloadable developer’s version somewhere?
Update: Yes, you can download a 1 month evaluation copy from http://connect.apple.com/.
Well, I’m back home with one less organ: my appendix was removed yesterday by Dr. Jose Pires at Montfort Hospital. Everything went very well.
Before I forget how to do this, here is a simple way to extrac URLs from Safari’s .webloc files:
find ./ -name '*.webloc' -exec strings '{}'/rsrc \; | grep http | sed '/^.http/s//http/' | sort -u | pbcopy
Seems to work for me.