Omens

[simont]

Yesterday I changed my work password. Today I got in to work, sat down at my computer, and didn't absentmindedly type the old password. A good omen for the day, I felt.

Two minutes later I was forcibly rebooting said computer in the hope that when it came back up it would talk to the network file servers more usefully. So much for good omens.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm not sure it even occurred to me that was a possibility. (Although we haave to change passwords often, so I'm semi-used to it, and invent passwords on a time-based scheme, so can generally get the current password in at most two tries ;))

Passwords

[deano977.livejournal.com]

I had a couple of password pantomimes a couple of weeks ago, along the lines of 'That's not your password' 'Oh yes it is' 'Oh no it isn't' etc etc which very rapidly got tedious and resulted in application of the IT dept's hammer of password justice. A couple of other people seem to have had similar problems. This is my suspicious face.

[simont]

Yes, well, now you mention it I'm still waiting for IT to provide a means for me to change my password on some of the auxiliary systems, since their approved method involves clicking on a web link that turns out to have 500 Internal Server Error at the far end.

Not to mention the fact that their automated password change reminder was an email, in HTML, with helpful clicky links to all the password-changing systems. Er, guys, do you really want to be training all your users to cheerfully click on links sent to them by email and type their passwords into the websites at the far end?

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

Er, guys, do you really want to be training all your users to cheerfully click on links sent to them by email and type their passwords into the websites at the far end?

I love this image. In an evilly chortling sort of way.

(Yes, I am procrastinating and trawling through comments on old posts...)

[simont]

I do that occasionally. I often find it frustrating, though, because I want to post comments in the discussions but know that most of the other people involved would go "huh? Dude, this argument was so last month."

*waves* :-)

[(Anonymous)]

... but just wait a year and start up the discussion again and it will be fresh and new because most people have such short memories!

x :-)