Sonntag, 13. Februar 2005

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Zehn-Tonnen-Ariane im All

Europas stärkste Trägerrakete, die so genannte Zehn-Tonnen-Ariane, ist erfolgreich gestartet. Sie wurde vom Raumfahrtzentrum Kourou in Französisch-Guyana ins All geschickt und hat zwei Satelliten ausgesetzt. Für die Rakete war es der zweite Anlauf: Bei ihrem Jungfernflug 2002 war die Ariane-5-ECA abgestürzt. [gefunden bei tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD ...] 5:52:46 PM   trackback [] 

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gmail rulez

Once again Gmail's interface and keyboard shortcuts and speed have helped me empty out the entire inbox. I love this program. [gefunden bei Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog ...] 10:34:06 AM   trackback [] 

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MS Employee Calls for No More Passwords

BobPaul writes "On his blog, Robert Hensing of the Microsoft PSS Security Team makes a really convincing argument for the abolishment of complicated passwords. He argues that precomputed hash tables, network sniffing, and programs like LoftCrack make passwords obsolete and dangerous in the windows environment. What does he recommend in their place? Passphrases: sentences and quotes that are easy to remember but may be more than 30 or 40 characters in length. With many companies requiring frequent password changes, (and we know exactly where that leads) this is a simple idea I'm surprised more people haven't been doing this more often." [gefunden bei Slashdot ...] 8:18:13 AM   trackback [] 

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Feed Search at Yahoo?

Yeterday, Steve "I'm reviewing my logs" Rubel over at Micro Persuasion posted an item about noticing a crawler named "Yahoo-NewsCrawler Test" in his RSS logs. The Yahoo News test crawler (Yahoo also has a crawler named Yahoo Newscrawler) was also ... [gefunden bei Search Engine Watch Blog ...] 8:11:40 AM   trackback [] 

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