blog archive for the 'microsoft' tag

microsoft’s big ass table

I know I’m a bit of a mac-fanboy Microsoft-hater, but even I’ll admit that the XBox 360 is great and the demonstration they’ve been given of their Surface computer is pretty friggin awesome. But you should check out this video if you’d like to know what some of the other fanboys are thinking…

[via fake steve […]


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open letter to MS and sysadmins re: passwords

Dear Microsoft and systems administrators,
The common practice of forcing people to change their passwords periodically makes them less secure, not more secure. Please stop it.
This is the most unresearched, and insecure tactic for network security ever. Forcing the password to be significantly different from the last password is even worse. The reason is simple: People […]


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on gaming

About a month and a half ago, I broke down and bought a US spec, NTSC, deluxe edition XBox 360. I knew I was courting the enemy, but frankly I was preparing for the long summer cooped up in the apartment, and I played Call of Duty 2 on a friends system and nearly shit […]


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