TECHNOLOGY: Different strokes for different folks; passwords too

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/213392/gawker_media_hacked_warns_users_to_change_passwords.html

Dec 13, 2010 6:50 am

Gawker Media Hacked, Warns Users to Change Passwords

By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News

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E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords — including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere.

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Since I never use the same passwords for different sites, not my problem!

Clearly, most people don’t keep that discipline.

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WINDOZE: Cobbling together a solution

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

On the NETBOOK (Asus Eepc), I have DROPBOX to echo my data directory around where needed. After the fiasco with MACBOOKAIR and the deletion of significant protions of the data directory, I decided to make a local copy of the data directory on each platform. This protects against the data loss again.

On the WINDOZE systems to do this I dragged two free utilities out of retirement. ((I expected to abandon WINDOZE but the NETBOOK was needed and it brought WINDOZE with it. Argh!)

So on each platform, I’ve created an ‘OLDBOX’ folder to backup ‘DROPBOX’. The initial copy was easy.

BUT, how do you keep it updated on a regular basis?

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptoad.asp#Download

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp

KARENWARE has two FREE utilites that make this easy.

PTREPLICATOR allows you sync directories with all sorts of options. (If you leave it running.)

PTOAD is a once a day utility; it ensure that ‘stuff’ you defined gets run once per day. (If you leave it running.) So if you put it in the ‘STARTUP’ folder, it kicks off. If you reboot several times, it only runs once per day. Neat!

So problem solved that to some old friends.

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FUN: Thinking about the “Price Is Right”

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Scenario: Four contestants, who we will call A, B, C, and D, have to guess the price of an item without going over.

Problem: What are the optimum strategies for each player?

<Think, think, … still thinking!>

Contestant A should just try to hit the price minus a dollar.

Contestant B ?

Contestant C?

Contestant D should always bids either one dollar if everyone’s over bid or one dollar over the highest bid.

Your thoughts?

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