Seeing the kind of stupid answers in other threads, i also can't assume that everybody knows... you still need to cater the less intelligent people. The internet isn't Mensa you know. ;)
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RE: It's secure because it's not on the web!
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RE: It's secure because it's not on the web!
Well, not exactly. The whole point isn't that you can't read the passwords anymore (that is obsuring, like storing the password backwards). The point is that you can't reverse the process. The only way to know what the password is, is to try every single combination and look for the match. Which takes a pretty long while if you use a good hashing algorithm. Especially if you put a site-specific (or better: user-specific) salt in there before you hash it.
Hashing is always a good idea. Even if your little app is only used in-company. Users tend to use their password everywhere, so a username+password combination is something you don't want to lose.
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RE: Who deploys like this?
@DeepThought said:
@MarkJ said:
"Cheap" is usually not synonymous with "good".
Funny, if I'd been able to record a tag with the original post it was going to be something like "cheap and quick but not good"
- cheap
- quick
- good
You can pick 2.
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RE: Spreadsheets are good for anything, even disarming bombs!
@blakeyrat said:
@davedavenotdavemaybedave said:
@ari said:
I can imagine formatting which would make that a sensible solution. I can also see Word being a better choice in most cases. There may be other benefits to using Excel as well, if you want to automatically update some of the content.Well, I know someone who designed a 2-page newsletter with Excel, and then wanted to use that as a template....
I could see needing Excel if you're updating the content from a OLAP cube. I guess. Is that a common need?
As far as normal mail merge goes, Word does that fine on its own.
It's a newsletter for a youth organisation. All the data in there is five lines of a calendar with special events. The rest is two colums of text. Which was the reason to use Excel, because 'Word can't do that'... TRWTFEBKAC...
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RE: Spreadsheets are good for anything, even disarming bombs!
Well, I know someone who designed a 2-page newsletter with Excel, and then wanted to use that as a template....
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RE: Accurate time accounting
Use the time accounting tool in your next yearly evaluation to get a raise? If you don't get paid for your overtime, you deserve to get paid extra during the hours you do get paid.
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RE: I know it's weird...
Okay, now I see the WTF. Community Server replaces [] with [. WTF.
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RE: The password entered is already in use
@Mole said:
The other weird thing is you forget your password, click the "forgot password", go through the above and enter a new password (thus getting told the password rules), and then get told "You have already used that password", and then go "Ah! Thanks!", try to login as that password and it works. However, they can't tell you the password rules on the signin page for "security reasons".
That's not weird at all. If they are using one-way-encryption (like the old md5 or sha1) they simply can't tell you what your password is, because they can not decrypt it. That's in case they get stolen. If you tell them your 'new' password, they encrypt it, and see that it's the same (hash) as your old one. Thus not allowing it for security reasons, wich is perfectly reasonable.
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RE: Dear $LUSER$, pay now!
@rAYs said:
I get it. The WTF is that there aren't 15 months in a year!
TRWTF is the American notation for dates.