One employer that I worked for had an password expiration policy of 30 days. Why couldn't they use a policy of 31 days requiring once a month change?

I delivered newspapers while I was in high school. I normally delivered papers on my motorcycle; when the temperature dropped below 30°F, I'd switch to the pickup. However, delivering by...

Awk is a great utility for processing text files. I had to migrate data from one system that used Active Directory (in Application Mode) to a CSV file for the...

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I need to set up a RAID for home and also investigate Backblaze for my backups. I bought a film scanner to digitize my photographs going back to 1981. I...

Early in my wife's and my career, we started an IRA and contributed the max into that and when the company started a 401K and contributed to that. As we...

My wife bought me a new PC last year. It came with a 256 GB SSD as the system disk. With Microsoft Office and Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and some...

I created a Windows service to monitor a web application and its database; it retrieves the application login page and also connects to the database and runs a query that...

2004 was a lousy year for my wife and me. We lost a friend to breast cancer, and three former co-workers from the following: car wreck, brain cancer, heart attack....

Andy Warren mentions hardware in his editorial. At work and home, I have a dual monitor setup; for home, I have the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard. For me, as a software developer,...

There's a fourth method. Develop it yourself with Visual Studio .Net and the Microsoft Office developer tools. I developed a C# application that read an Excel file and put events...

This sounds like it may be another Y2K type scope of project.

I use Expresso from Ultrapico when I'm developing a regular expression (It's free; it requires email registration to receive a code for use beyond 60 days).
When I had...

Enterprise vs consumer grade SSD is something that I'll consider. My wife bought me a new PC a few months ago and after I installed Microsoft Office, Adobe Lightroom and...

Palmetto Brewing GhostRider, a seasonal beer that is made with Ghost Peppers and cherries. It has some heat, but it's not overpowering.

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