The Old Monk

From some on the comments on Schneier, some advice on generating passwords :

Generate a random alphanumeric password without using a too like apg:

dd if=/dev/random bs=6 count=1 2> /dev/null | uuencode -m - | head -2 | tail -1

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A unique 8 char password for each website without any need to remember different phrases or use special password storage software :

echo "(secret phrase) websiteX.com" | md5sum | cut -c1-8

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Someone thinks uuencode will introduce bias in #1 and proposes the following. Also has the advantage that you can tune the character set to match the allowed chars in the target password system :

dd if=/dev/random bs=100 count=1 | tr -cd 'A-Za-z1-9!@#%^&' | head -c 8

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I'm moving to NanoBlogger. I love it. I was planning to write a simple blog engine called FishWrapper, when Dylan told me about NanoBlogger.

The old blog is gone. I still have to enable comments to this one though.

Edit [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:01] : Comments work. Probably. And I inserted the date in vim, the ':r!date ..' way! Awesome :)

Ok. This is a test post. I've decided to move to NanoBlogger. Why? WordPress was a pain. Too complex and PHP! I realize that I'm not an A-list blogger. I don't have too many visitors (although this would scale rather nicely). I don't need a database for the comments. Plus, I was tired of all the WordPress vulnerabilities. And the fact that WP upgrades ended up breaking stuff.

Plus, nanoblogger allows me to blog from the commandline! :-) Yay!!