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August 2006 - Posts

Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:13 AM

Password trouble: Need to be careful with long passwords

I am a fan of Steve Gibson and his weekly Security Now audio talks. His website has a password generation page which generates "long, high-quality random passwords" and in the spirit of self defense I copied about 30 characters [half of the
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Monday, August 21, 2006 1:55 AM

Start Menu Search using PowerShell

Searching for programs to run from Start Menu is tedious which lead me to write a IronPython script for it.Tonight, I learned PowerShell and here is what I have so far which does the same thing:-cd  to your '\All Users\Start Menu' directoryto search
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Monday, August 07, 2006 11:06 PM

Preallocating list in python

I was looking for a way to preallocate a Boolean list in Python but didn't know a simple way.After googling I got the following:-# this would give us a 100 element list, each element initialized to Falseflags = [False] * 100'interesting' i thought but
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