greywar's Articles In Personal Computing
May 4, 2004 by greywar
The new version of the post editor seems to have a problem with the "pure HTML" mode. Every time I use it it displays the article as though I had selected convert mode. If I simply edit the article at that point and do nothing but hit submit again, the article seems to parse *most* of the code correctly but usally leaves some odd artifacts in the body of the text. It especially has problem with href links. Anyone else having this problem? It only started happening when the editor was swapped ou...
February 2, 2006 by greywar
     My first encounter with the incredible credulity that people attribute to any crap thing showing up in their email inbox came when I was working at the National Security Agency. Within the Agency at the time there existed a proto-news group affair that was called ENLIGHTEN if memory serves. This was confined to the TS/SCI networks of the agency intranet itself with some select technical groups mirrored in by the tech guys.      The Agency was a...
December 28, 2006 by greywar
     For the folks who don't know : I have moved job sectors and am back in government services again. Specifically I am maintaining the TLA stacks for the Army's NIPR (just read that as internet) connected istallations. As such I have many accounts (somewhere around 100) on many different computer systems. The Army has recently moved to a new password system that requires a 15 character password with 2 uppercase letters, 2 lower case letters, 2 numbers, and 2 speci...