h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Living between two neighbours who both have dogs, and both put them out in the garden. The great joy being that when I'm out there, the dogs bark at me. Plus the occasions when they go to work and their dogs start barking so they're not around to know it happens, or do anything about it. Plus the rest of the neighbours have cats that come poo in my garden ...

Yes, definitely, noisy dogs are the worst. They're all over the place where my parents live.

Computer programs that force you to change your password despite the fact that your account has never once been compromised, and you're perfectly happy with the password you have.

loonycat,

be thankful it isn't the adjective uber in front of everything (sorry, I can't do an umlaut).

>>Computer programs that force you to change your password despite the fact that your account has never once been compromised, and you're perfectly happy with the password you have.<<



Are you talking about an account on a multi-user system? Don't blame the program -- blame the sysadmin...

.. But not so they can hear you!

Whoever's fault it is....

Yes, uber is annoying too but ultra sounds Ok

Black Eyed Girl

The only reason some Asian/Chinese/whatever people do that is so the ones living in their chosen area can actually say their name (how likely is it that someone living in N. Ireland, for example, will be able to say a Chinese name properly?).

And yes, it pisses me off too when I have to change the password on my university email... I’M HAPPY WITH THE ONE I HAVE, F*** OFF!

Well yeah but I'm not forming a friendship, I don't much care what they're called as long as they can help with my reason to call. Telling me their name is John Smith is a lie and makes me suspicious of what else they're lying about.
Why can't they say their name is Mohammed, or Wong, or Harpreet.... those are easy enough to say and at least vaguely plausible.

You could just alternate between the same two passwords (so you know it'll ether be one or the other if you forget), or some systems I'm sure allow you to replace the 'old' password with the same new one... or just change it to something random and then immediately back to the one you like to use

'Fraid not. The program prohibits you from using any password more than once. I've already tried.

Wow, that is annoying.
OK then, how about using your favourite password and just adding the next number to the end to make it unique, i.e. if your usual password was "password" then each time you change it, count up like; password1, password2, password3 .... Then all you'd have to remember is what number your currently on

Yep!

That works!!!




GT

Hadn't thought of that.

GT

That's what I used to do at work. Tech support (Hah!) insisted we changed our passwords every six months. We all just put a number on the end and changed that as needed.

!!!

Every six bl**dy weeks for me at work and I can't use the past 12 (read it... TWELVE!) passwords.

Talk about paranoia.

Our passwords used to have to be at least 6 chars long, and a mixture of numbers and letters; and need to be changed monthly. Car registrations are excellent for that, and the 3 digit (old plates) gives great potential for adding 1 and never getting back to the number you started on

That said, I also had a friend in tech support who when they introduced our Lotus Notes email system, it had a setup password of newpass3 There was no requirement to change this. She said five years on there were still many people with that password.

we have 5 chances to enter our password correctly - which means that everyone uses word + 1-4

We can't use the last 2 passwords so it works pretty well

Not being able to find plain bottled water.

I know that bottled water is a big environmental no-no due to transport issues and things, but it's a treat for exams to put a bottle under my desk. Walking to uni the other week had to visit four different stores before I could find water that wasn't
a) flavoured, hint of lemon/lime/raspberry/etc
b) sparkling

If I wanted flavoured or fizzy water I'd get squash, or lemonade.

Regarding your point on mess and tidying up, a friend of ours had these light-hearted words at her wedding ceremony:
* If you get it out, put it away.
* If you open it, close it.
* If you finish it, replace it.
* If it's full, empty it.
* If you take it off, hang it up.
* If it's dirty, wash it.
* If it's garbage, trash it.