Walker Software Weblog

Upgraded the site to WordPress 2.5. Fairly painless.

Update

All of the “pages” have disappears. Good thing I only have around 5.

its nearly 3am. I activated my new iphone at midnight when my contract ended. Must get some sleep.

Random Lockouts.

I clicked the Gmail link in my browser. It sat on the “loading” page for a little bit and I got up to talk to a co-worker, come back and I’m locked out. Guess I’m switching back to a desktop client. Sure, managing multiple accounts on more than one computer is tedious with a desktop client but at least I don’t get locked out randomly.

ze frank in his show demanded people dress up their vacuum cleaners and send photos. Mine is wearing my old paintball stuff.

I got my Nintendo DS lite yesterday. The local independent game store still had five or so left by the time I got there in the late afternoon. As did the local Target. No lines anywhere. I got the New Super Mario Bros and Brain Age. The NSMB is awesome and a lot of fun.

This is a rambling diatribe about AJAX, Tech news sites, and Web 2.0. Oh, and I beat the word “community” into the ground with a dead horse. Please read with tongue caressing cheek.

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Marcus Ranum wrote The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.
I should preface this by says I’m not a security expert. I’m a person who believes
there are no experts in security. Here are my thoughts…
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The is the normal TableSorter you have seen floating around the net, but I’ve added some small changes. The normal code allowed for doing complex sorts by control-clicking on column header. Java on the Mac doesn’t read control-click, so this version also accepts command-clicks. The arrows to indicate sorts are slightly larger and filled-in with blue in this version.

TableSorter is a class that provides the user with the ability to click on table column headers to sort a JTable.

Download TableSorter.java

I was playing around with an idea and wrote a little utility to create harder to break passwords based on normal passwords. It obscures a normal password using some “31337″ speak and returns a list of possible alternatives.

The strength column is just a relative amount of time it might take a hypothetical brute-force algorithm to crack the password.

It’s packaged as jar file, which means on a Mac (or a windows-box with Java 1.4.2 or above installed) you can double click on the jar file to start the app. You can grab the jar file here (~12K). It’s freeware, I may update or expand it later. A screen to edit the rules for password generation might be nice.

*NOTE:* You may need to right-click (or Ctrl-Click) on the link and select “save target to disk” or some-such thing.

	Format/Size	License	Platforms	Requirements
	Download Jar File (~12K)	Freeware	Mac OS X, Windows, Linux	Java 1.4.2+