Archive for October, 2005

I’m posting this from my new Axim, using my Pocket SharpMT. I guess that makes it mobblogging. Creating entries seems pretty easy. I wonder if this will be a practical way of doing this?

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I finally got my Axim x50 from Dell. After a little mix up with the billing address, the order process was pretty smooth sailing (although there was absolutely no feedback at the Dell website). My first impressions are: LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! It’s certainly a great leap forward from my old Palm IIIc, which I’ve used religiously until a few days ago.
I won’t go into a lot of technical details here, but rather I will attempt to describe a few key points regarding setup and choosing good applications for the Axim.
Read on for more software tips.

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These days you need a password for just about everything. And for security each password should be different and hard to guess. This means that keeping track of website username password combinations is extremely difficult. One possibility is to use a substitution cipher that makes a simple easy to remember password, like “bank” and turn it into one that looks “hardened”. Nizo posted this some time ago at Slashdot for the entry Too Many Passwords

Two minor drawbacks: 1) Never lose the original cipher. 2) If the “bad guy” gets a set of several of your passwords, a substitution cipher is easily cracked. That being said, it would be a rare chance for someone to acquire several of your passwords to break the code.

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WRIT OF MAINPRIZE, English law. A writ directed to the sheriff (either generally, when any man is imprisoned for a bailable offence, and bail has been refused; or specially, when the offence or cause of commitment is not properly bailable below) commanding him to take sureties for the prisoner's appearance, commonly called mainpernors, and to set him at large. 3 B]. Com. 128. Vide Mainprize.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.