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if only i had a pound for the number of people that ask me “what makes a good password”( or words to that effect)

Why do people struggle with the importance of using “good passwords”.

The only thing i can think is that it is down to people struggling to think of/remember passwords that are hard to crack but easy to remember.

So i thought i might give some ideas as to what makes a good password and how to go about remembering it.

The Do NOT’s

• Never write your password down.
• never use words that can b found in a dictionary
• never join words that can be found in a dictionary eg – horsecatdog
• increment passwords eg password1 password2 password3
• never use short passwords eg less than 8 characters
• never share your password – not even with your trusted IT Guy

The Do’s

• Use passwords longer than 8 characters (ideally 16)
• Use a combination of Uppercase, lower case, numbers and special characters eg !”£$%^&*()_+#~.,:;?/\|@’

Tip to remembering a good cryptic password

Take words like Panasonic and Caravan, and the characters @!# and convert it to leet speak, eg

instead of PanasonicCaravan@!# hang it to P4n450n1c@!#C4r4v4N (19 characters)

s=5

A=4

i=1

o=0

another example might be Honda Big Digger (£$ = H0nD4£B1g£d1gg3r( – is 15 characters

etc etc, you get the idea but now using something like P4n450n1c@!#C4r4v4Nyou have an easy way to remember a 19 digit character password.

another example might be Honda Big Digger (£$ = H0nd4£B1g£d1gg3r( – is 15 characters

Office 2010 Technical Preview screenshots leaked on to the tinternet.

Take a look

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/leaked-office-2010-technical-preview-screenshots.ars

Why don’t software companies distribute software by flash drive? Like would it not be better (for the end user) to have their brand new software package delivered to them via flash drive, there’s a much higher chance of date corruption on CD/DVD due to negligence, than there is on flash drive. It can’t cost that much more to do it?

And when I buy a product, why not let me buy it straight from the software company and let me download it as much as I can.  I figure that a company such as Microsoft, why not let me download the new windows os or the new office product and then when I loose it or have scratched the cd, I can just re download it and burn it again, store it on my NAS drive or whatever.

Microsoft has announed when it plans to realse the RC (relase candidate) release of windows 7. RC – whats that, well it means its out of beta stage.

Microsoft’s blog site says  “the RC is on track for April 30th for  download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5th.” – take a look at their blog site http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/04/24/windows-7-release-candidate-update.aspx

It will be available through the microsoft download site