Comments for Darryl E. Clarke

Comment on Installing Leopard on HFS+, Journalled, Case Sensitive by Darryl Clarke

Darryl Clarke — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:10:57 +0000

Thanks for the I formation. I have long since given up on using a case sensitive filesystem with Mac os x. There are just too many little things that don’t work with it, and now this issue.

Comment on Installing Leopard on HFS+, Journalled, Case Sensitive by jlorre

jlorre — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:32:32 +0000

and another gotcha : juli 25 2010 I found out the hard way that the installation DVD of Mac OSX server 10.6 (0Z691-6495-A) contains a lethal bug:
it CAN NOT do a full restore of a backup of a case-sensitive filesystem: the target disk is always automatically reformatted in HFS+ (NOT case sensitive). I had it myself, and you can also find a description of this in http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/11/11/restoring_case-sensitive_hfs_volumes_with_time_machine/
So… currently my backup of a case-sensitive filesystem cannot be restored and appears unusable: my feeling of being safe was proven false.

Comment on Social Plugins and the 80/20. by Darryl Clarke

Darryl Clarke — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:31:35 +0000

I don’t know. I think people in general have gotten way too lazy – they don’t explore websites anymore. They don’t click or interact with things they see unless it’s served up to them on a shiny platter.

Comment on Social Plugins and the 80/20. by Blink

Blink — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:17:17 +0000

Social media is designed for people; not the other way around. Maybe if a feature is useless to 90% of people the problem is with the feature, not the people.

Comment on Free HDTV by Darryl E. Clarke » Blog Archive » Random Antenna Upgrades

Darryl E. Clarke » Blog Archive » Random Antenna Upgrades — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:32:55 +0000

[...] was updating my OTA channel list after I bought a new antenna when I realized that it’s actually kind of difficult to go [...]

Comment on Don’t Allow Facebook Apps to Get Your Email by Darryl E. Clarke » Blog Archive » Facebook Changed – Now I Look Bad

Darryl E. Clarke » Blog Archive » Facebook Changed – Now I Look Bad — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:28:35 +0000

[...] I didn’t add any magic to prompt the user. I did nothing, and now I look like an asshole for asking people for email addresses when I explicitly declared this to be bad news. [...]

Comment on The Hangman! Rewrite by Darryl Clarke

Darryl Clarke — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:18:48 +0000

zend framework.. i thought that was pretty clear since it’s what I use all the time now

Comment on The Hangman! Rewrite by niv shah

niv shah — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:08:11 +0000

how come right when you’re about to get to the good part you just stop? what framework are you using now? how did you rewrite this whole app in 9 hours? TELL US MORE

Comment on Password Restrictions are Bad by Darryl Clarke

Darryl Clarke — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:18:40 +0000

Strange, I didn’t even say they were harder to remember.

Comment on Password Restrictions are Bad by Guy

Guy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:05:38 +0000

Requiring at least one number/symbol/whatever per password increases security.

There are 208,827,064,576 passwords 8 characters long, consisting only of lower case letters.

There are 642,544,814,080 passwords 8 characters long, consisting of 7 lower case letters and one number.

(That’s 208 billion vs. 642 billion).

It is easier to brute force when you have set limits, but even in the case of any character being allowed, the overwhelming majority of passwords will still only be alphanumeric. By forcing people to use a symbol in their passwords, you are increasing the range of characters that will be in the typical person’s password. So in almost all cases, it will be harder to brute force.

Just my 2 cents.

PS
I agree that they are harder to remember though.