I try to avoid software thats end of life but occasionally I get stuck with a few programs that just don’t have any updated versions or are tied to a piece of hardware that I need to use. LCDC is software designed to run little LCD displays you can buy for your computer. I have one in particular thats over 3 years old now but still runs great. However it hasn’t been updated well ever.
Today I took to scanning my PC and discovered that some of the plugins for LCDC were infected. I decided to check the web site http://www.lcdc.cc/downloads.htm for updates, it didn’t appear off hand that any were actually updated, but it does appear that some are not infected and others still are.
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When it comes to passwords nearly everyone has their own system to deal with them. But how secure are they? Today most passwords under 9 characters are not really deemed secure thanks in large part to the databases that are available to simply look up the passwords. But aren’t they encrypted or secured from prying eyes you may be thinking? Sure but the most common form is to save them in MD5. SHA1 and similar variants are uncommon as well as better methods but for the vast array of online web sites, MD5 is considered standard.
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bsdtalk 182 – FreeNAS
This is a audio blog about FreeNAS changing From bsdtalk, a popular site.
This is a Weekly (or so) mailing from one of the sites more prolific providers of cool and interesting stuff. As such I enjoy hosting it as long as the posts keep coming in. Essentially if it’s a cool gadget, computer or not (we’ve shown bicycles, shower heads for example); affects your privacy online; funny or entertaining (subjective of course); or just news worth promoting because the mainstream missed it, you’ll find it on Links13.
The email is sent once there is 13 stories of interest and is dispensed of in a standard fashion including a title, a blurb that may try to be funny, and a link. Most of the links are ‘shortened’ to http://jamesfriesen.net/xxx, and will redirect you to the appropriate page. This was done for a couple reasons.
- I hate LONG/SEO-enabled links as they’ve become incredibly wordy and long. (I think I said that, but just in case, they’re long)
- I did not want to rely on a 3rd party URL Shortener in case they mysteriously vanish leaving all the links dead, or they become spamvertised, etc.
- I want to see what you are visiting so I can see what you (the list subscriber) are interested in, then I can recommend more of the same.
- I want to see what you are not interested in so I can stop such links from appearing on the list. If no one cares then why have them?
- They should work well with micro-blogs and Twitter where space is a concern.
So again, to sign up, subscribe, become a member/contributor click on this link and start enjoying Links13.
http://jamesfriesen.net/mailman/listinfo/links13_jamesfriesen.net
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to send email to me directly.
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I received a rather interesting spam the other day and it would seem to have included some well private details. It looks like this email contains login information for various mail systems but I honestly did not follow up with it. I figured it may be of interest to the owners of these sites so I’m posting it here rather than attempt to start tracking abuse emails for various domains.
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