Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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security is for the youngI worked as the IT bod at sub office of a larger organisation. As such I had to deal with the numpties who got easily confused.
One such old fella had real issues remembering a password, which given it was both his login and access to the wider networked world it was kinda important he did.
I finally negotiated with HQ that we would set his password not to expire so at least he only had to remember it once rather than every 3 months.
Upon telling him his password and me drumming into him how important it was to keep it secret he stood up in the middle of the open plan office and shouted: "SO I MUSTN'T TELL ANYONE MY PASSWORD IS xxxxxx".
Me: "What did you do that for?"
Him: "Do what?"
Me: "Shout out your password to the whole office."
Him: "Well if I forget it someone else will know!"
Me: "Arrgh"
I had to have his password changed (again), this time I laminated it and cut it to credit card size so he could keep it in his wallet. Everyday he got it out and typed it one letter at a time like it was the hardest password in the world.
The password was his first name.
(, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 11:58, Reply)
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