RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment?

2014-03-23 Thread David Szkilnyk
Ah, you are at the point little noises frustrate you - remember to keep calm and walk away if it all gets too much. Yes I work in a open plan office too, I have support people and sales that like to yell into the phone so they can be heard J Look I have friends and myself have been down

RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment?

2014-03-23 Thread Nathan Chere
When 'cancelling' noise fails, drown it out :) Whatever you're listening to, play it louder. If you find music too distracting there's plenty of alternatives. 'Noise' generators can feel a bit weird at first but they do a great job of blocking out ambient noise. Even better if listened to

Re: Microsoft Web farm Framework Training in Canberra

2014-03-23 Thread noonie
Greetings, I have found this course:- http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/Description/web-farms Anyone done this one? What's the general feeling on the Pluralsight training model in this community? -- Regards, noonie On 18 March 2014 09:15, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Microsoft Web farm Framework Training in Canberra

2014-03-23 Thread Dave Walker
I like them. Doing an angular one right now. They seem fairly comprehensive though I do wish for more 'real world' application design stuff. On 24 March 2014 12:11, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I have found this course:-

RE: Microsoft Web farm Framework Training in Canberra

2014-03-23 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
Hi noonie, Great for some things. I particularly liked K Scott Allen's ones in and around MVC, HTML5, CSS3, etc. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/

Re: Microsoft Web farm Framework Training in Canberra

2014-03-23 Thread Dave Walker
And with free trial https://pluralsight.com/training/subscribe/Step1?isTrial=True for 200 minutes it's kinda worth it. On 24 March 2014 12:20, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi noonie, Great for some things. I particularly liked K Scott Allen’s ones in and around MVC, HTML5,

RE: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programming environment?

2014-03-23 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
+1 for the Bose gear. I wear them all the time on long flights and love them but have also used them in other environments and they are great. The noise reduction quality is amazing. +1 also to the idea of drowning out part of the other noise. While they work well without anything even

Re: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread Grant Maw
Or, just use Schneier's Password Safe program and let it generate all your passwords for you. I've been using it for years and I swear by it. I have hundreds of passwords stored in it's files and they're all long and very complex. http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ On 22 March 2014 16:08,

RE: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think there's two separate issues here: a) How, as a user, do you generate good passwords? What's considered good is continually changing - Microsoft (and others) were touting pass phrases not that long ago, and even then it was pretty obvious that attacks would migrate using whole

RE: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread ILT (O)
Grant, re Password Safe (etc) - I was using RoboForm on $9.95 a year and they have just released a version for Windows Phone 8, but I have let it lapse. I would rather back up my pw database to OneDrive than have RoboForm manage it at their site, for some reason. Have you see any comparison of

RE: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread ILT (O)
Greg, did you follow up on the (promised) article in arstechnica on how to do it properly? I couldn't find one . The closest relevant advice (for users) was to use a password minder, but I guess that doesn't help if the visited passworded websites store unsafely. (I see that iiNet pops up a

RE: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread Nathan Chere
I used to use Password Safe and there's a pretty good .Net implementation of the password store reader on CodeProjecthttp://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20892/Password-Safe-Database-Reader-Library-in-C-for-NET if you want to extend its usefulness yourself. That said, I now use Keepass and have

RE: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread ILT (O)
Nathan, I had never considered Keepass though have seen it discussed etc for years. I have often used TrueCrypt USB 'disks' (sticks) when travelling, I guess what you're doing with a TrueCrypt file on Dropbox is much the same. I would like to see this a bit more automatic as a backup for password

Re: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread Grant Maw
Ian I use Password Safe on Windows 8 but not on a phone, and you are right they don't seem interested in a WP8 version. Sorry, I've not seen any comparisons between PWSafe and others. I've been using PWSafe since its very early versions and never bothered looking elsewhere. G On 24 March 2014

RE: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread ILT (O)
OK, I'm way off-topic here with the WP tangent anyway. What I did find lately was a WP8 [1] and Windows 8 / Windows RT [2] password management application written by Ginny Caughey, called Password Padlock (there's also another of that same name, written by a NZ dev). [1

RE: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread Nathan Chere
What I do with TrueCrypt+Dropbox+Keepass isn't intended for convenience. If you want automatic backup: Backup Synchronization IO Another Backup Pluginhttp://keepass.info/plugins.html#abp [http://keepass.info/images/plg1xyes.png] Automatically backs up databases.

Re: [OT] Password hash cracking

2014-03-23 Thread Greg Keogh
Greg, did you follow up on the (promised) article in arstechnica on how to do it properly? I couldn't find one ... Not yet, I got distracted by paid work! I'm still think about a password minder, but I've never looked at them before. Do you cut-and-paste passwords from the minder into the