About.com Horses readers have submitted the ages of the oldest horses they know, and it's clear that many horses live beyond the age of 30 with good care. The average age is 28 + 5 years. That means the average life span is 25 to 33.
An annual study of the most commonly used passwords has found that password, 123456 and 12345678 are still the most commonly used passwords-despite years of security experts urging people to change them to more secure versions.
Learn advanced UNIX, UNIX commands, Linux, Operating Systems, System Administration, Programming, Shell, Shell Scripts, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, OS X, BSD. When did UNIX start using encrypted passwords, and not displaying passwords when you type them in? I've been using various versions of UNIX and Linux since 1993, and I've never run across one that showed your password as you type it in when you log in, or one that stored passwords in plain text rather than encrypted.