some peoples kids

[fyfe54]

Showing my age here.

There used to be a system (Quotron) used on Wall Street to get stock prices that had a keyboard with letters in alphabetical order.

[critin]

I think I would've let him choose his own password. Easier for him to remember.

[stalkingwolf]

gave him that option. but after 5 minutes of ummmmmmmmmmmm i gave him the option of me choosing one.

[critin]

gave him that option. but after 5 minutes of ummmmmmmmmmmm i gave him the option of me choosing one.

Really?! Now I see why it was so complicated--funny. good for you!

[HermanAB]

See, the genius of Apple is that they fixed the PEBKAC problem by eliminating the keyboard.

[Statia]

gave him that option. but after 5 minutes of ummmmmmmmmmmm .

ummmmmmmmmmmm?
That's quite a good password. I think I'll be using that from now on.

I also like the idiots who choose ****** as password.

[SantaFe]

ummmmmmmmmmmm?
That's quite a good password. I think I'll be using that from now on.

I also like the idiots who choose ****** as password.

So YOU'RE the one that hacked my password? Give it back!

[Statia]

Tell me about it. My girlfriend is like that:

http://xkcd.com/1084/

Holy cr*p, she did it again. Fresh install of Mint 13 KDE on her old laptop. I'd been testing it for some time: everything except the webcam works (but it is dodgy under XP as well), it's fast, it's stable. No problems at all.

She uses it for one hour:
- progress bar on the desktop (the one that shows up when you do a file copy or transfer) shows zero jobs (so it should disappear)
- but the corresponding icon in the task bar shows two jobs
- clicking on that icon does nothing
- start button / menu no longer responds
- right clicking on desktop does nothing

As we had to leave to catch a plane I had no time to further investigate or fix, so I just went to a tty with ctrl-alt-F1 and shut the machine down.