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There are a few reasons to change passwords. Since you're using strong passwords and a password manager the most important reason is to keep up with improvements in software and hardware. This does not require frequent changes, every two to five years should be enough, or when you have notice that ...

Munchkin Man, I have 30 years experience cooking and trust me it is not hard. I make easy to make dishes, if it can be made in 1 pot or frying pan I like it but if it requires 2 pots or pans then I probably skip it. I don't want to have a lot of dishes to wash, 1 pot is enough! The easiest thing to ...

Well I am very late to this thread. The last time I was on was 2/28, the day before this thread was started, and I returned yesterday 4/6. I was shocked to see a different thread by the Munchkin Man when looking at threads since 2/28. By doing a search on all your posts I found this one. [Suggestion...

Thank you, I'll bookmark this.

I don't want to use the google search it was showing me posts from 2-3 years ago as the 1st hits when I know there are current posts from a week or 2 ago. My written directions are and how I used to do this: 1. control panel 2. board preferences tab 3. edit display options 4. display topics ordering...

I have grown agrula, it bolts fast in hot weather. Peppers as you found are slow to germinate! You should start them a month before tomatoes. Start onions from seed, sets are crap. Shop lights with cheap tubes are good for starting indoors, I have 4 shop lights and can pm you a simple design for a g...

Wow! The Munchkin Man is back! :o Zaplunken loves to read posts by the Munchkin Man. :D Zaplunken used to search for Munchkin Man threads but sadly there were no new ones leaving Zaplunken to conclude that the Munchkin Man was gone but hopefully OK. The last time Zaplunken saw a Munchkin Man posting...

Despite your avatar/icon picture, every time I see your username, I think of Gabe Kaplan ("Welcome Back Kotter") The sad thing is that in real life, Gabe Kaplan is more attractive than Nicola Benedetti. :shock: :thumbsdown You can't be serious? If you are I suggest you get to an optometri...

I've had trouble with the time also. I thought I had it set correctly but I think the DST thing was my problem as I was always an hour off so I set my time zone to be 1 hour west of me to get the time correct. I'll see if the time is right now with this post. Hope so! :oops: BINGO it was the DST thi...

AVG is highly recommended on a computer talk radio show here by guys that have been in the business providing service to commercial accounts for 20 years. My sister was using the free version on her pc (based upon that) using XP and it filled her c drive (this happened a year or 2 after getting the ...

Why would you decrease the inflation protection from 5% to 2.5%, I think the inflation rider is critical unless you expect to use your LTC in a year or 3. Also why have a 4 year coverage, the average stay is 2 years. I'd keep the former and decrease the latter if that made a significant change in th...

There isn't a T-shirt made worth $26. A donation to the site makes more sense.

Can I ask a question too? I sold a rental house in Florida in 1990 or 1991. I sold a home we lived in in Connecticut in 1999. Based upon the age of these sales can I safely destroy all the papers associated with both houses? It seems unnecessary to still be storing these today but then I have IRS re...

You tried to be reasonable with an unreasonable twit. Buy a gallon of Roundup concentrate, it'll make dozens of gallons of Roundup and start watering the tree. Roundup kills any vegetation that isn't a GMO Roundup Ready crop like soy beans for example. It's sprayed on foliage but I'm sure watering t...

I did it about 2 weeks ago, no problems.

Thanks for your feedback.

If you can afford to replace the house out of pocket then you must have significant wealth so is $450 a year such a big expense to you? I can't believe you'd risk a $225k+ expense to save $450 each year. Think about this...

Thread drift. This is about upgrading to the newest version of KeePass not whether to use LastPass. Thanks.

His essay, "Eleven Reasons Why You Should Carry A Big, Long Mortgage" is a masterpiece of spin. The man sells investments. He wants you to carry a mortgage so you will have money to put in investments rather than paying down the mortgage. The man also sells mortgages. So he doesn't want y...

I do have a printed copy in my SDB but I wouldn't want to type it all back in. So to avoid that I have a copy of the database on 2 different backup disks... just in case one doesn't work, that's belt and suspenders! :sharebeer I read the changes (and the comment about a stable release but would they...

I assume this is legit as my 2.19 version says there's a new version 2.20 - I am extremely cautious about upgrading. Is this a stable upgrade or is it compatible with what I am using or worse is this a legit notification. I assume the latter is no worry as KeePass it self is notifying me but I am wo...

Thanks again to all that help to educate us on this somewhat obscure topic but one that is so important. I think I will redesign my "strong" password since I did some of the things that are not the best practices. You'd think a 24 character password was pretty safe until you realize how mu...

If I understand the linked article, that makes no difference. If the crackers get the hash they can run their password searches against it. If they find a match after say 50 billion hits then they do have the ability to log into Vanguard. Am I correct or have I misunderstood what they are doing and ...

That was quite an article LadyGeek! I followed a good bit of it but at times I was lost. And as usual after reading these types of articles I worry. Vanguard has a very limited password length , why? I understand what these crackers are doing vs a brute force attempt but who's to say Vanguard's or F...

Prokofiev wrote:Click on the Group you want. Click SAVE.

Oh how simple! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

A real disappointment has been the regular tomatoes. They split open prior to ripening. Should I pick them green and allow the ripening off the vine? Splitting is typically caused by excessive water absorption due to over watering or too much rain. You shouldn't water tomatoes that often, I do mine...

Thanks for that info earlyout. I moved the database like yesterday and had no problem with it finding it so now it resides in a place that makes more sense (to me anyway!). Maybe someone can help with this and it's not a big deal but I wish I could change this. When I open the KP database it always ...

It was when I moved it that the icons failed to work. When I used Windows Explorer to locate the database I could open it no problem. I liked the icons vs opening Windows Explorer. As I said, I think it defaulted to where it wanted to put it and I said OK without thinking. I really organize things w...

LadyGeek, I right clicked on both the desktop icon and the system tray icon and clicked on properties. I looked at all the tabs and they were the same for both icons - no mention of "C:\Users\my1stname\Documents". I expected it would state that file especially since when I moved it neither...

Great thread, I'm in the process of finding an adult dog. guitarguy, how about an update?

Potatoes will store in the ground as stated but voles may eat them! Potatoes yield 1-4 pounds per plant, basically a waste of space unless you have a large garden that's why they grow them by the thousands of acres in northern Maine.

I have a KeePass question. After reading this thread and another in June I decided to stop storing passwords in an Open Office password protected document. I am not all that comfortable installing and using new software but I found KP to be pretty easy to do. So far so good! Yesterday I was looking ...

Whether I click the links Bob gave in this thread or my bookmarked links, I get "Oops, This site is currently unavailable." and then it lists a phone # to call if you're the site owner. Anyone am to get thru?

zzcooper123 wrote: Not much of a mechanic, but want to drive it for fun.

British cars are not known for their reliability and if you don't have some mechanical ability you better have a lot of money and I suggest towing on your insurance policy. They are fun to drive... when they are running.

The light bulb sounds like a simple and effective method. I would not want to trap it, what do you do then? I'm surprised to read that owls like to eat skunks! I have seen dead skunks on the road and crows won't eat them. Moth balls are not that dangerous to breathe, we were exposed to them as kids ...

Why is Livesoft allowed to post comments trying to get this thread locked? Maybe massive posting has special rights? Don't lock the thread, discipline the offender! His post was removed, and as I remember my reading history, it was gone before you posted. [I saw it was gone (as was mine and his rep...

I dislike censorship. Try running a forum without it. Even the 4chan boards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan censor some topics. Hi Greg: Since becoming a moderator, I have discovered that there are unbelievably rude, self-centered, opinionated, crazy, and even dangerous people out there. They ar...

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In MS Windows, you can use a hot-key (Tools --> Options --> Integration). When you're at the login screen, hit (LCtl + LShift + A) and it automatically searches for the username / password combination and fills it in. It took me a while to get this to work, as the default mapping didn't work. Once ...

Well I installed KeePass tonight. Once the download was done there was no indication what to do, I nearly bailed on it but hung in. I fortunately saw the Beginners Tutorial and that saved me. It was a bit confusing and again almost gave up in disgust but I caught on pretty quickly. I have all my imp...

thanks for your reply but I never said the document was encrypted, it is not. Also it is not MSW I said it is Open Office doc with an extension of .ODT if that matters. FYI, password protected ODT files are encrypted with either Blowfish or AES, depending on the Open Document standard supported by ...

And how long will they have to work to get it, again the GHU site indicated 2600 years to crack the password using 100 trillion times per second. As mentioned before, this is only true if the encryption has no known weakness. Encrypt an old WinZip archive with that password, then run a WinZip crack...

Once again I thank you Mudpuppy for the clarifications. OK, I'll check out KeePass. I like the fact that it stores the data locally and being encrypted is a good thing for sure.

What a great thread this is, IMO this is the very best thread I have read here at the BH site! Thanks to all for their insight, knowledge and willingness to help and explain these issues. I did not know that TrueCrypt was just an encryption device. I read the beginner tutorial yesterday and it seems...

Thank you Lady Geek, I appreciate your reply and for it's clarity. I will look at True Crypt and see what it is about. LastPass looks good but oh man it has so much built into it that it looks too complex to use though you don't have to use everything it can do. I think that my passwords are very sa...

I have spent 3 hours reading through this thread since my last post on 6/14, then reading the link Lady Geek gave that explains LastPass, then rereading all 3 pages of this again and while I understand this better I am still confused about how best to store passwords. Bold emphasis is mine showing m...

You are very likely to lose in real terms with GNMA, even in deferred accounts. Well if you bought when the nav was ~ $10 as I did there is a cushion for nav to drop when rates rise. Buying now is a mistake, that could apply to probably any bond fund with yields at these levels. If GNMA or any othe...

Do you think it is possible that someone might have sent you a PM (it was in the sender's outbox) so you got a notice, but deleted it before you went to pick it up? I have. Actually, I only leave PMs in my outbox for three days, figuring if you don't want to read what I wrote, I won't let you see i...

Since it was said to report pm's that were retracted in another thread, I want to report that I received one a few days ago. I thought it was odd I had a pm and when I clicked on the link to go to it it was not there having been retracted by the sender.

I'm curious. Instead of crypts and dropboxes and vaults et al why not just store all your passwords in a word document that is password protected? I have mine in Open Office document and the password on that document is 16 characters long. I keep a copy on 2 separate external devices both password p...

If you want to replant I'd add some compost and just replant. I start new plants through the season for this purpose so when the old are done I have new ones ready to go. Yesterday I transplanted into two 6 packs another batch of lettuce I started 2 weeks ago so when the original bed bolts I can rep...