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While helping a friend out migrating data from one db to another, the question came up “what’s a salt?” Even with all my CISSP-y goodness, I had to admit I didn’t really know. I knew it had to do with creating hashes, I just didn’t understand the mechanism by which a salt was used. Well, [...]

How to make Windows more useful (read: unix-like).
http://www.research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/win32-cheat.html

So, I use Acrobat (Reader and Standard) a lot a work. We’re on version 6. It’s a pig. I can smelt copper in the time it takes these hogs to load. Imagine my delight, then, when I ran across this blog:
Get Acrobat Reader to open up faster
The short of it is this: remove all plugins [...]