care for your typewriter.

care for your typewriter. my Underwood Finger-Elite turned out to be a debacle‚ as you might have read, the carriage return lever is severely broKen‚ the carriage has erratic errors and I also discovereä that the tab set arm is broken (a tiny tip has broken off)‚ but at least I got a manual with it - ior l CHF I don't want to complain. And this Handbuch, as we call it in german‚ includes a good advice: "clean your typewriter's typeslugs every evening" That makes sense. If we use a brush every evening to clean away the leftover inx and dirt, we possibly don't neeä to get out the toothpicks that often. And one thing is great about the defective Underwood‚ its typeslugs are perfectly clean. maschinengeschrieben blogspot Olympia SM—5 com

ITAM Post Of The Week.

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Eight Millionth Remington. (or click typecast)

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blackout

blackout on a thursday in late january‚ a high voltage cable in a substation in Zurich suddenly broke doun. smoke filled the substation‚ and an emergency shutdoun started. as a result‚ 10'000 households uere uithout pouer for almost 3 hours, restaurants and shops‚ the trams and elevators had no electricity. nou imagine you uere writing the text, novel‚ Stroke 0? genius of your life uhen the pouer uent 0ut‚ a computer's screen uould just go black, your uork yould be gone if it wasn't saved. a typeuriter could continue uriting uihtout any problems. maschinengeschrieben.blogspot.com That was a Triumph tippa Schreibmaschinen blog Schreibmaschinenblog schreib maschienen blog schreibmaschineblog schreibmaschine blog schreibmaschiene blog schreibmaschienenblog schreibmaschienen blog

I couldn't really appreciate this...

I couldn't really appreciateithis... On the seeond day of ITAM, my colleagues must have sensed a distarbance in the force. Or it was just co- inoidence. However, when I arriveä after noon‚ after a unsuccessful typehunt, they enthusiasically greeted me and told me they had a present for me. I quickly sensed it would be typewriter-related, and then I spotted the huäe plastic bag; trq had there, sitting on the floor. Insiüe was a behemoth — a red IBM electric. We hauled it onto a desK‚ plugged in the power cord, I triggered the power switch — and the famous idle hum resounded. Sadly‚ that was the only noise the type— writer emitted, when I pressed the kegs, they resisted. Great depression. Everyone tried some levers and switch— es, bat the sleeping giant couldn't be awakened. With a closer look at the typeheed, I also realiesed that the type Container — I don't know if it's either a ballhead or a daisy wheel — and a ribben were missing. Only the correction ribbon was stiil there. The colleaöues told me they had found it on the road, with a siän saying "to take-away" and helplessly cowered under february snow. I thouöht about takinä the leviathan home‚ but since I don't KHOW anything about IBMS, the type element and the ribbon were missing, it didn't have a case, it was pretty filthy (a colleaäue who ran the finger over the red shell had black finäers efterwards) and I'm not a particular fan of electric typewriters‚ I Qecided to leave it et worx. I don't know what will happen next, maybe the cleanind staff alreedy removeu it? Did I sacrifice a poor typewrier? Or die this serve it riäht‚ the stupid IBM? I don't know. What Q0 you think? Hermes 2000 maschinengeschrieuen.bloöspot.eo

time travelling

see all posts with label TCRV.
Sorry for the  ~12 hours late post. I accidentally scheduled it for tomorrow.
Typo: re-visite

time travelling more than 200 posts ago‚ maschinengeschrieben was published for the first time - in german. a number of interesting entries from the first weeks were only available in german‚ and in a quality which made OCR impossible. until today: we recently searched for those early entries in our stack of uypecasts - and found them. for the first time‚ all "The Collectbn" entries are now available in english, most of them with corrected translation. you may find them using‘me label "TCRV"‚ this stands for "The Collection re—visite visited". have fun browsing old entriesl maschinengeschrieben.blogspot.com Olivetti M21

change your password day

Change your password at your own peril! I'm not responsible for anything that happens as a result of anyone's password choice.

Please also read Wikipedia: Diceware and xkcd 936.

change your password day imagine, a Website on which you own an aocount gets haoked‚ and your standard password‚ the one you use on pretty much every account you omn, gets oompromised that could quickly lead to terrible results. S0 Wday iS Chanse pur passmxijsga. since ‘Chat SÜOry might happen every few months‚ weeks or days. and I'm sure there's not much better than starting ITAM with new‚ seoure passwords. (A Hermes 5000, maybe?Ü Now whafis a safe password? TrOub4dor&5 or "oorrect horse battery staple light"? the first onel one might answer, since it contains everything a "good password should oonsist of"; oapitals‚ numbers‚ punctuations and so on. but it actually isn't. at a rate of 1000 guesses per second, a brute-force attack on your fancy and incredibly difficuß to remember password might suocess after Only 5 days. especially since common substitutions like 4 for A or zero for 0 aren't safe‚ far from that: attakers often try them before doing so in plain textl so why should the dull, but easy to remember password oonsisting of 5 usual words be more safe? because it's much longer. every vord adds 12,9 bit of entropy to the password, five words are already a good 64-bit password‚ while_the 1557-one is only 28 bits of entropy. and for oracking a diceware-password, a attakder with the same 1000 guesses per second would need centuries. why have we trained ourselves to use passwords that are easy to crack, but incredibly difiicult to remember? I don't know. but today is the day to ohange this. you may even inolude typewriter in your new password. read more with the links below. happy passvord changing‚ happy ITAMI maschinengesohrieben.blogspot.oom Optima Elite