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getting on 40-50% complete

Felt like i got a lot of work done today, not just in my lit-review (which i did spend heaps of time on) but also in general house-work and cleaning up the backyard etc.

Somehow i managed to not pass out trying to clean up the dog's mess (out the backyard. not inside:P) in the middle of the day, around 40degrees.

Today was hard hard going. Even though i felt i did a lot of work, i have a feeling that because of the heat, and because of how uncomfortable i was feeling all day my standard of work might have been a bit below par. I mean it is difficult to discuss the problems and weaknesses of password systems when sweat is pouring down your face.. i mean the last thing on my mind would've been the consequences of some "evil" attacker gaining access to a computer system because someone had decided to use their pet's name-reversed as a password. ..

Apart from the lit-review, the prospect of my experiments are looking finer and finer by the day.. as mentioned .. JTR has an x86-64 header file (global configuration to setup all the rest of the modules used for algorithms etc) .. initially i was looking at the possibility that i would have to come up with this file myself, in a combination of trial-and-error and seeking out the other header files which were aimed/geared for 64-bit environments. .. ahh thank GOD.. Realistically i think this has cut a HUGE part of my prep for my experiments .. i can't wait to get some opteron time to bench it against itself (x86 compile vs x86-64 compile) ..

The rest of the week is going to be just as hot .. thank god i'll either be a) at uni , or b) at work.