NYNJA STAR: New York New Jersey Association Supporting Teaching and Research

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NYNJA STAR: New York New Jersey Association Supporting Teaching and Research

On line registration (attendees and vendors) is now open for the New York/New Jersey Association Supporting Teaching and Research (formerly NYNJBUG) second annual Mid-Summer Users Conference to be held at the Frist Center of Princeton University June 19, 2006. This one-day conference is intended to attract participants at all levels of Learning Management System project usage, administration and support. This year’s theme is “Interoperability”.

Vendors are welcome as conference sponsors and as providers of information on their products at display tables. Information on vendor sponsorship is available at the NYNJASTAR web site. Breakfast and lunch are provided for all registered participants.

On line registration for the conference is at http://nynjastar.org/. Lodging and transportation information is also available.

Thought this was fun.

CIO Blogs - Why IT and Users Hate Each Other |

This is an interesting metablogpost about a slashdot story that talked about a potential user revolt against technology. Haven taken part one or two hostile-against-technology meetings myself in the last couple of weeks, the story hit a chord. The dissection of the Slashdot thread is not something I’ve seen before in a blog posting, and it’s done very very well. I found it, as most things, on delicious/popular

CIO Blogs - Why IT and Users Hate Each Other |
There is little hope that IT will ever truly be aligned with the business–at least if you judge by this sometimes hilarious, sometimes maddening conversation thread on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago. It displays all the worst behaviors of business and IT people—and by accident reveals some good lessons.

Password Recovery Speeds

So here is a site that shows why it’s important to choose good passwords. For those of you who groan when I give you your default password for an account because it’s ‘hard to remember’ note that the reason it’s not something as simple as, oh, your last name, is so that bad people don’t come into our system and mess up your stuff without having to do some work to figure out your shift-character laden, alphanumeric, mnemonically phrased password.

From: http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi&s=articles

Examples

These are just a couple of examples to show the resilience of certain types of password, using the information in the tables above you will be able to make your own examples.

Sample Passwords		Class of Attack
Pwd	Combinations	Class A	Class B	Class C	Class D	Class E	Class F
darren	308.9 Million	8½ Hours	51½ Mins	5 Mins	30 Secs	3 Secs	Instant
Land3rz	3.5 Trillion	11 Years	1 Year	41 Days	4 Days	10 Hours	58 Mins
B33r&Mug	7.2 Quadrillion	22,875 Years	2,287 Years	229 Years	23 Years	2¼ Years	83½ Days