Jim

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Interactive Brute Force Password Calculator

How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password?

Want to know how strong your password is?  Steve Gibson’s Interactive Brute Force Password Search Space Calculator shows how dramatically the time-to-crack lengthens with every additional character in your password, especially if one of them is a symbol rather than a letter or number. Worst-case scenario with almost unlimited computing […]

Outlook 2010: Insert a smart card

We’re tracking a problem with Outlook 2010 clients in a domain environment receiving a pop-up dialog “Insert a smart card” when launching Outlook.  It also reoccurs while Outlook is open.  Mail flow is not affected.  Looks like it’s related to the recent Microsoft Update KB2553248 released yesterday, April 10, 2012. […]

Don’t Be Phished!

Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. It’s also used to infect computers with Viruses and Malware. Read more about it at Wikipedia. Recently, I have seen some very convincing […]

Kindle on iPad Saves Money

It may be convenient to purchase electronic books through Apple’s iBookstore, but in most cases you’ll be paying too much.  In fact, the Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of […]

Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.  The Model A will cost $25 […]