Yahoo just announced that it will support OpenID. OpenID is an interesting initiative to provide single-sign-on to user. It is both secure and simple, so it will be probably spread out quickly. You can get your own OpenID by suscribing to a provider or setting up your own server if you got a domain name….
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Some Md5 password implementation – without a salt, become more insecure than ever. There is an issue right now with WordPress, I hope they will fix it soon ! Check this interesting article. No need to take out your rainbow tables anymore, just google your hash ! I hope your password is strong enough… You…
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Using the serial port is still necessary to manage some devices, when it is reseted to factory defaults. It could be also a security choice… Nowadays many computers – and especially laptops don’t have anymore a built-in serial port. Not a problem, there are many cheap serial-usb converters like this. As an alternative to the…
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I just replaced ESD by the new sound server Pulseaudio. Pulseaudio brings up some great improvements and is already chipped by Fedora 8. Getting it to work on my Debian Testing was very easy : $ aptitude install pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal pulseaudio-module-jack pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf pulseaudio-utils libasound2-plugins However there were two issues to face :…
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