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Overdoing password policies 
Thursday, June 24, 2010, 11:35 PM - Just a thought
Imagine this:

You try to register by creating a user name and password. Its common and expected for the system to force you to choose a unique user name. However how would you react if you get a message that says:

"This password is already taken, please choose a unique password"


--- Is this the way to prevent password reuse? Darn!

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Recession and Alibaba 
Sunday, June 14, 2009, 09:29 AM - Just a thought
One more effect of recession. Children at school now read "Alibaba and the thirty thieves".

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Mr Kang in Hyderabad : Original Joke 1 
Saturday, July 26, 2008, 07:16 AM - Just a thought
Mr Kang, a Chinese gentleman happens to visit the beautiful city of Hyderabad. Guess what the local folks calls him with respect. Guess Guess!

Ans: Mr Kang-garu.

PS: I understand that people not familiar with local lingo will not be able to make sense of this.

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Trying to remove God 
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 07:58 AM - Just a thought
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Can you explain the stuff below?

[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# who am i
root pts/2 Apr 10 13:13 (shuva)
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# ll God
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 10 13:16 God
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# chmod 777 God
chmod: changing permissions of `God': Operation not permitted
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# rm -f God
rm: cannot remove `God': Operation not permitted
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# cp God satan
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# ll God satan
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 10 13:16 God
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 10 13:18 satan
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# rm -f satan
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# ll God satan
ls: satan: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 10 13:16 God
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# rm -f God
rm: cannot remove `God': Operation not permitted
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]# who am i
root pts/2 Apr 10 13:13 (shuva)
[root@shuvavmrhel ~]#

Does God really exist?

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Racism in programming 
Friday, February 1, 2008, 04:46 AM - Just a thought
With all the noise about racism in cricket, I got so confused with what racism actually meant. I went to check the literal meaning of this word and it says that being racist meant discrimination on the basis of race, color or religion.

I wondered if I would be considered a racist if you don't write my program to handle wide characters?

Happy? Happy what?.//
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