I have never been to Ireland before. Whenever I think of holiday destinations I think of warm places, it felt very odd packing a woolly hat, fleece and my waterproof cycling trousers for a holiday, but boy would I need them. We flew with Ryanair which was perfectly fine but [...]]]> http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/ireland-an-iso-3200-country/feed/ 1 http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/the-cloud-resistance-is-futile/ http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/the-cloud-resistance-is-futile/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:54:38 +0000 Entropy1024 http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/?p=901 When computers were the size of small houses and there were very few in operation; most people accessed them via remote terminals, either in the same building or over large distances. These dumb terminals were effectively simple input/output devices and therefore needed very little processing power. All the main work was stored and executed by [...]]]> http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/the-cloud-resistance-is-futile/feed/ 1 http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/two-factor-authentication-yubikey/ http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/two-factor-authentication-yubikey/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:02:22 +0000 Entropy1024 http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/?p=723 These days we have to remember passwords for a huge host of web sites and systems, unless of course you just use the same one for every site, bad idea, eggs and baskets spring to mind. Then there is the quality of the password, short and easy to remember passwords are easier for a hacker [...]]]> http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/two-factor-authentication-yubikey/feed/ 4 http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/paypals-reaction-to-fraud/ http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/paypals-reaction-to-fraud/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:06:49 +0000 Entropy1024 http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/?p=286 Day 1 (15th December 2008)

I have never been the victim of fraud over the internet till today. After coming back from lunch I received an email congratulating me on a purchase of a World of Warcraft Farmbot for about £25.  Even I am not nerdy enough to purchase some WoW farmbot, whatever the hell [...]]]> http://www.entropy1024.com/blog/paypals-reaction-to-fraud/feed/ 1