The question Should we disallow common passwords like “password” and “12345”? on User Experience immediately made me think that these common passwords were extremely dangerous not because they are weak but because they are common. Rather to my dismay the security side of the arument seems focus...

July the 12th marks one year since we came out of beta: And we have had continuous growth ever since, steadily gaining new users and questions, and the odd peak where a particular incident or burst of activity has boosted the community. Our birthday is an excellent opportunity to generate anothe...

As you will see from the associated question on what competition we should have to celebrate our anniversary, we will also need to think about prizes. The message from SEI is to think up the sort of things we would like - don't worry about cost at this stage. Once they have a better idea as to t...

I have two Wi-Fi networks in my house, one at one end of the house and one at the other. While signals from one side of the house are generally audible on the other side, they are generally fairly weak and quite nearly unusable - something in the house's construction attenuates signals traveling...