Krazy Glew's Blog

Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

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Friday, June 08, 2012

The trouble with passwords

Security breakins leading to password exposure have been in the news this week, what with LinkedIn. My last blog, about how biometrics ar...

"Google Chrome to Phone" is not affiliated with Google???

I installed "Chrome to Phone" on my Android device, from the Google Play Store. At this store, Chrome to Phone is described as ...

Thursday, June 07, 2012

Biometrics are the smallest and least important part of replacing paswords

Marketplace Tech Report for Thursday, June 7, 2012 | Marketplace.org Just heard the item about the LinkedIn security failure, passwords, ...

Sunday, June 03, 2012

A make pattern

test: run-test1 run-test2 .PHONY: run-test1 run-test1: test1.x ./test.x test1.x: test1.cpp ... gcc -o test1.x test1.cpp ....

.x

I once gave a bad revioew to a UNIX book that suggested that executables should have a .x suffix. But I find myself using the .x suffix, i...

Wanted: per-directory .hgignore

One of my big complaints about Mercurial is that it only supports /.hgignore. It does not support .hgnores in sub-directories. I have a ...

Status versus log

Many people - e.g. the people who want me to edit version control history - really want a status, rather than a log. A log tends to record...

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