Around 11am I released v1.2 of password.

Here's why password exists:

Password-protection on my Twitter account, or Reddit, or del.icio.us, or for the love of God instructables.com - what the hell were they thinking? - does absolutely nada for me personally, and wastes my valuable time every day, because there is always some stupid Web site demanding my password when it doesn't even need it for any useful purpose. This is especially true given that there's plenty of evidence that requiring unnecessary passwords hurts your business.

If you work in a large corporation, you're especially screwed. The password gremlins lurk everywhere, like roaches that can type - they change the network password every week, or the Exchange server password every three and a half hours except on Tuesday, etc., etc. Nobody should have to waste their time on that stuff.

password remains a handy weapon against the password gremlins. The only new feature in version 1.2 is a -? command-line flag, which allows you to grep.

For instance, maybe I don't remember if I stored my facebook password using password. I just do this:

password -? facebook

And if password has a listing for facebook, it simply says:

facebook

The reason it works this way is you may have several passwords matching a given string stored in password. I used to work for the Los Angeles Times, and if I do this:

password -? lat

I see a bunch of different "sites" I have passwords for.

lat_exchange
lat_svn
lat_wifi

It's also handy if you have more than one Facebook account or Myspace page.

public_facebook
friends_only_facebook
gay_sex_with_furries_facebook

I used a delayed post option to post this 12 hours after uploading to RubyForge (because I'm old-school like that), so by now it should have propagated to every server and you should just be able to do:

gem update password
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Some people like the OS X Dock. I am not one of them. Since I bought this computer and it belongs to me, I'd like to throw away the garbage that somebody else loaded onto it by mistake.

It used to be easy to kill the Dock, but Apple made it harder with 10.5, disabling the hidden options that, under Tiger, had made it possible to remove their annoying error.

I love my Mac, but this is a fairly typical Apple shortcoming, a weird control-freak mentality that blocks you from truly owning your own machine.



Currently, this is the closest thing to a Dock-killer I know:

#make dock really really small
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -int 1

To use it, you also need to set the Dock to auto-hide and turn magnification off.

The results:





Still not perfect, but much better.
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McCain backed out of appearing on Larry King Live, telling CNN it "crossed the line" by asking these questions about Sarah Palin:


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Lisbon/Angola sound; house music meets African pop.




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Police prevented Rage Against The Machine from performing outside the RNC. Police at the RNC also violently assaulted journalists and illegally raided people's homes.



When I first learned of this, I was outraged the police violence wasn't making a dent on the headlines of my favorite newspaper, but digging deeper into the top stories made it clear enough why: the Republicans haven't just failed at instituting a police state, they've deteriorated into some kind of Muppet circus.

Mainstream comedy trumps fringe horror, every time.
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Prachtige etage per 1 Oktober te huur ca. 35m2 met tuin tegenover Juliana park Omschrijvng: Prac
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