Skip to main content

Home/ MOBIUS Libraries/ Group items tagged california

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Jennifer Parsons

California universities to produce 50 open-source textbooks | Ars Technica - 1 views

  • He signed two bills, one to create the textbooks and the other to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host them, at a meeting with students in Sacramento.
  • The law specifies that the textbooks must be placed under a Creative Commons license, allowing professors at universities outside of California to use the textbooks in their own classrooms.
  •  
    Interesting.  I wonder what an open-source textbook will be like, or what can be done with it.  Also, the article seems to assume that the information in the textbooks is under the same license.
anonymous

Generate and keep really secure passwords for free | ITworld - 0 views

  • Of course, they could look for a username that sounds like you in the list of 8 million LinkedIn and EHarmony logins and then just use the password published there, or the ones posted following the hack of 77 million user accounts at Sony or the 130 million credit-card accounts taken from the clearinghouse that processes your credit card payments, or tens of thousands lost by a New York electric utility or the California government services agency you thought was unquestionably trustworthy or the 24 million emails and user names swiped from Zappos or almost anywhere else.
  • you should use a different highly secure password at every site you use.
  • That way, no matter what web-site login database is breached next, your loss can be limited to only the information (or money) on that one site,
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • KeePass -- one of two apps with unquestioned leads; both come with Firefox and Internet Explorer extensions or web sites you can used independently; LastPass – the other of the two leaders. Both are stable, quick, reliable and free;
    • anonymous
       
      I've used LastPass. It's nice, but I prefer to have something local if possible. I'm not really concerned with their security, but it's nice to have your passwords offline.
  • KeePass;
    • anonymous
       
      This one doesn't have a browser integration but it can be kept on a usb key for portability
1 - 2 of 2
Showing 20 items per page