PSA: Turn on 2-step verification in Google

Picture of a Guard Lock by CarbonNYC from flickr.

If you use any Google services (GMail, GTalk, etc.) and you care even a little bit about the data in that account, then you should turn on 2-step verification.

If you need a story to explain why you need this, the check out this story by James Follow as he recounts how his wife’s account was hacked (This is an article from The Atlantic).

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TextMate 2 Articles

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Last week, TextMate 2.0 early-alpha was released. This release has been a long-time coming. It includes lots of improvements that people have wanted for a long time.

I am currently a TextMate user. Mainly because I’m an OS X and do Ruby programing and TextMate has lots of things to make this easier. I still love Emacs, though. One of the things I’ve been waiting for has been mark-and-select (a.k.a. control-space in Emacs). I haven’t seen it yet, but then again, I’m only starting to play with TM2.

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Microsoft makes .txt files dangerous

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Microsoft has finally figured out how to make opening a .txt file dangerous…

This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate rich text format file (.rtf), text file (.txt), or Word document (.doc) that is located in the same network directory as a specially crafted dynamic link library (DLL) file.”

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-071 (formatting is mine)

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