Archives for December 2009

Get Yourself Organized with Freeware

Having a lot of vacation time on my hands, I decided it was time to organize all my DVDs and CDs for the new year.  I was on the hunt for some freeware and found two really nice programs to help me. The first one is called Ant Movie Catalog.  Working from just a CSV list [...]

Insights on Picking Passwords

An interesting study on the length and complexity of passwords.  Basically, pick one that’s at least 14 characters long and not found in the dictionary and you should be OK against the bad guys. – Soli Deo Gloria

Flaky NIC Hits Too Close to Home

Usually these type of problems happen at work, but this one hit too close to home. A few weeks ago the Internet connection on my PC dropped. NIC showed an error status. I power cycled my router and went on my merry way, until it happened again. I went to another PC with a wireless [...]