Joke aside, I recently had to respond to some comments about password strength checkers and revisited an old blog entry I made back in 2012. What interested me, was that in 2012 my relatively high end rig managed an average of 925 million hashes per second:

Speed........: 924.0M c/s Real, 929.7M c/s GPU

That meant I could brute force any 6 character password within 13 minutes. On my latest rig I checked again and what a difference 5 years made (not that my system is optimised for password cracking):

I have been using Apple computers for much more than a decade now, and with that the natural choice for a keyboard is the Apple Wired Keyboard. I have been typing on this keyboard since it came out as version A, on to version B. During the many years of using it I have grown extremely accustomed to its low profile keys and form factor.

Recently I have grown increasingly frustrated with the quality of the unit. Specifically, I tend to take exactly 2 years to break the right shift key - I literally punch a hole through the key cap. The key itself starts not typing accurately, and so too does some of the other keys like spacebar. So I have been buying new keyboards every 2 years - I think I am on keyboard #5 since the first one 10 years ago.

Have you ever experienced QuickBooks failing to switch to multi user mode with error:

H202 - This company file is on another computer, and QuickBooks needs some help connecting

If your configuration is such that QuickBooks Database Server Manager is installed on your file server and QuickBooks itself on another computer, and that file server happens to be a PDC, you might find that on the file server the service QuickBooksDB26 is stopped (where the last two digits will depend on your version of QuickBooks). Trying to start it manually will fail.

It has been two months and my heart is splintering by the hour. The thing about my new kiddies is that they have a very short life span - in the order of 5 weeks or so. Mine have almost all died by now. They have made some great progress towards continuing their kind though - I have many cells filled with pollen, eggs and partitioned off by mud.