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MattPie

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  1. And then realized it was an outdated Web authoring framework? :) (if you've ever seen web sites with .cfm links...)
  2. Password managers are an interesting topic (for me at least). Everyone here has been bringing up good points and bad points. I use a mix of strategies, some born of laziness and bad habits from before managers were a thing, some actual good ones. Password managers can get hacked, and have been at least once in recent memory. That's not to say they're not a good idea, but they do carry some risk. Ideally, you would have one that only you have the key to decrypt the data, but even then there are possible issues. SDS is right that security experts are generally good at their job, but these sites become really big targets so they have to be really good. Using a few passwords isn't a great idea, just make sure you know the risks. The primary risk is if one place gets compromised, the first thing someone is going to do is try that password in other places (Gmail, Facebook, banks, etc.). If you're comfortable with the concept that someone may have that password for months or years before the breach is discovered, go for it. As mentioned, I use a hodge-podge of stuff. I have an app on my Android phone called UPM that is a local password store. I'm trying to get rid of it, since it doesn't scale well past one person (MrsPie needs the passwords for some stuff) I've been using Encryptr as online storage to replace UPM. They make all the right statements about not having any way to decrypt your data, only your password does it and it's done on your device. Android app, PC apps (Windows, Linux, maybe Mac), but no web client. On one hand, that's a nice model as it isn't limited by web browser, but it means I ended up typing passwords from my phone screen into other computers from time to time. It generates a random password but you can enter in whatever you want. For many sites I use supergenpass. The idea is it takes a master password and web site name and generates a repeatable hash from that and you use the hash as your password. The benefit is there's no storage. If you enter the same master and web site, you'll get the same hash value every time. You can't get the master from the hash though so even if someone gets the hash password from one site, it doesn't help them get into anything else. In theory I should be using a few master passwords for levels of security in case there's a weakness in the algorithm, but I'm lazy and really use one for most things. It's nice that it works everywhere, but I have a little concern for the integrity of the algorithms. I have some really old throw-away simple passwords that I use for sites that are low risk (no personal data, like forums and whatnot). I really need to get rid of these. Realistically, I should settle on something that works with two or more people, uses random passwords, and has some sort of integration with browsers to make it easy. I think my AV subscription includes a password manager, I should really look at that. In a perfect world, all sites would participate in some safe single-sign-on solution, but how that works in the marketplace is tricky. Google and facebook sign-ins are examples, but people are wary of giving them too much information. The technology to authenticate users across domains has been around in Kerberos since the 80s.
  3. Hey, don't bring politics into this.
  4. Mullet vs. Man-bun: go! I think if I have to choose, the mullet is more regrettable than the man-bun. Maybe I'll start a poll.
  5. Let's make sure we're clear on the situation. Edmo was terrible in 06-07, but there were one season from going to the SCF in 05-06. Vanek was coming off a 43-goal (tied for 5th in NHL), 84-point, +47 season. Vanek was 2nd team all-star (it was fixed, some guy named Ovechkin was 1st team LW). It's entirely possible all those Edmo first rounders would have been in the 20s for picks, where the Sabres might have gotten two good NHL players maybe three, but would have had to luck out to get someone as good as it appeared Vanek was/was going to be. Hindsight is 20/20, but it wasn't a completely unsupportable decision at the time.
  6. I can't believe there's not an option for "Pominville takes the octal representation of 29, #35. (Ullmark be damned)".
  7. I guess we'll have to start calling it "Dikkenek-style" now. :) (Please note, that's a result of Google; I intended that as some friendly ribbing. If I insulted the entire heritage of you and your nation, my bad.
  8. Rogue One is too, surprisingly.
  9. Here you go, LOL: SELECT date,home,away from table sabres_dates where "date > today" limit 5;
  10. This is some solid design, maybe you can do something like this:
  11. https://leftwinglock.com/articles.php?id=2926&title=Download-the-20172018-NHL-Schedule-(.csv-and-.ics-formats) That's the full schedule, but if you're asking for csv I assume you can use grep or a spreadsheet to process that into Buffalo-only.
  12. The Wegmans in Malvern, PA is on the site of a 19th century tannery. It took awhile to get it sorted out (they found out about it during construction, no one knew it had been there), but there is a target, wegs, panera, and other stuff there now so it can be done. (assuming tannery and steel plant are in the same ballpark pollution-wise).
  13. Good buy for the County. Once all these manufacturing jobs return to the USA, that site will be a gold mine. :) (serious: if they can clean that site up, more access to the waterfront is a great thing)
  14. More like this:
  15. The hardest part was the landing obstacles.
  16. Dude, SPOLIERS! LOL. Hot on the heels of my CD ripping tear I went on over the past few weeks, I've started doing the same for Bluray/DVDs. My PS3 is broken so I haven't actually had a convenient way to watch any of them in quite awhile. Only player I have is my wife's laptop with an HDMI cable, USB BD-ROM drive, and some balancing on furniture near the TV. What really kicked it off was Plex, server software to stream video to various devices (PS3, Chromecast, app, web, FireTV, etc.). Installed it on my wife's laptop to try it out and it's pretty slick. Requires some massaging of file names to aid it matching the movie file, but after that it's just a matter of doing some MakeMKV work to get them all copied on. I've gone further and took an older laptop (10 years or so) and turned that into a server for this so it can just hide in a corner of the room and stream movies whenever I want. I copied Das Boot, Great Escape, Forbidden Planet, and Lawrence of Arabia in last night along with MrsPie's stuff (making her happy gives me more rope to work on my own stuff. :))
  17. Cool! I used to fly model airplanes at that field back when I was a kid. It's only a few miles from my parents' house.
  18. I'm just surprised Nashville would flaunt the CBA for Arvidsson. He's a nice player and all, but not the guy I'd risk legal action to sign for that money.
  19. MS Paint is being discontinued. One of us should call Randall to make sure he has a contingency plan for making his awesome hockey analysis stills.
  20. Boxcar, West Chester PA. http://www.boxcarbrewingcompany.com/
  21. You're being a homer. :) Realistically, six of those players (all wings) aren't NHL players yet. I like Mittelstadt, Nylander to make it. I'd guess one of the remaining four make it. If two of the four do, that beats the odds.
  22. Fusion would be very cool if they can get it work, but right now it's tough to tell whether it's the future or alchemy. In the mean time, we better be sprucing up wind, solar, tidal, and reducing energy usage.
  23. Could very well be; in Nashville so it's either that one or 2015-2016 season.
  24. A local brewery has decided to make a name for itself by teaming up with a local canoe/kayak outfitter to hold Sunday afternoon beer gardens every week this summer. Nice shady location along a creek with shelters, live music, games, and kids activities, and a food truck. The beer is pretty good too! They have a mango ginger IPA that's solid and not overdone. Their two more standard IPAs are very drinkable too. Side node: Jerk Chicken Cheesesteak. Wow.
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