All posts by warwick

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About warwick

I manage a team of professional technical consultants for a Fortune 100 company. I like clever uses of technology whether it's in a data center or the kitchen of my house.

Shopping in 1999 A.D.

Halo, Hardware, Weblog

Boing Boing Gadgets: “From the film 1967 1999 A.D., a short sponsored by the Philco-Ford Corporation, showing what home shopping would be like three decades in the future. Although they missed the frenetic pace of today’s online shopping experience—the housewife’s browsing looks almost leisurely—they guessed correctly on the abundance flat-panel screens (with multiple monitors, no less), even if they were off by about a decade. Oh course, they didn’t quite put together that we’d still be using keyboards for input.”

Acorn 1.0

Weblog

[GusMueller blog]: “Sometimes when you work alone, you start to talk to yourself. After time, you might even interview yourself.”

Gus pulled this trick over the weekend. Acorn, his new bitmap image edit is out. A had a brief chance to beta test before the public release and was impressed with the app’s overall polish. It took me three uses to figure out the new toolbar palette–mainly because it made too much sense and I was overthinking it!

Head over and pick up a copy and support indie Mac developers.

Rainbow Hash Cracking

Weblog

Coding Horror: “Unfortunately, Windows servers are particularly vulnerable to rainbow table attack, due to unforgivably weak legacy Lan Manager hashes. I’m stunned that the legacy Lan Manager support ‘feature’ is still enabled by default in Windows Server 2003. It’s highly advisable that you disable Lan Manager hashes, particularly on Windows servers which happen to store domain credentials for every single user. It’d be an awful shame to inconvenience all your Windows 98 users, but I think the increase in security is worth it.”

See also: [10 Immutable Laws of Security](http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/columns/security/essays/10imlaws.mspx?mfr=true)