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Archive for July 2007

Random password generator

date +%s | md5 | cut -c -12 Okay, the consensus in the comments seems to be that this does not make great passwords. I’m happy with its level of randomness, but of course I agree that only numbers and lowercase letters does not provide for maximum security. Looks like there is a password generating [...]

How to enable symlinks and .htaccess from user webspace directories on a default OS X Apache configuration

Whenever I set up a new OS X box I drive myself crazy trying to remember which part of the Apache config needs to be tweaked to allow symlinks to arbitrary parts of the file tree from the document root. /private/etc/httpd/httpd.conf includes Options FollowSymLinks for Directory /, and it’s tempting to think that should take [...]

Another namespace tragedy

On twitter, I couldn’t get johnjosephbachir. And jjb was already taken. Sigh. But that’s okay, I kinda like johnjoseph.

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