Remembering login names and passwords; is it dementia?

[Paddy]

I used to do similar, but on a Psion, and I used a power on password as well. The advantage of that was that no other bugger could read the thing due to the (not cheap) flash disks which wouldn't fit on anything else.

I did the same and then the battery went flat, and the backup battery. Lost everything.

[Sysman]

I did the same and then the battery went flat, and the backup battery. Lost everything.

I had an external disk which was safe. Of course I couldn't read it on the next Psion I got, because they'd changed the size of the things. So it was just as effectively lost. I think I threw it on the fire one night, out of disgust.

Did you ever manage to find a mains adaptor for the thing? I had one on order for at least 6 months, but it never materialised. I never saw one in the shops either.

[Bunk]

www.contractoruk .com
(sockpuppet 3)
zeitghost
PA-sjf

Zeity's password doesn't work

Wait a minute, is he real?

[RichardCranium]

Am I alone in this?

No.

I used to use a password-controlled PDA which was perfect for this use. Fast, cheap, light, 2 x AA batteries lasted months, proprietary encryption, no simple interface, could be backed up via a special cable to an encrypted file on a PC, and when that died asked for advice on here. For which I got abuse for not being able to remember passwords. <sigh>

That PDA had 229 small text files, one for each web site / service / function. So one text file would look like this:

BCS.txt

Richard Cranium  MBCS CITP
British Computer Society
Membership no. 990000666
PIN: 1066
Joined 01/04/2011
Security question: Size of dick, answer: head
Password: CumShot69
Email account:
- UserID: ab12
- Password: piddlydiddly
- Addresses: richard.cranium.esq@bcs.org  &  richard.cranium.esq@bcs.org.uk
- Forwards to: richard.cranium.bcs@dickheadltd.co.uk
Home email: richard.cranium.esq@dickheadhome.co.uk
Work email: richard.cranium.esq@dickheadltd.co.uk
Login: richard.cranium.esq@bcs.org

So there are multiple entries per text file.

One is called passwords.txt and that has details of all the little web sites that one logs in to such as Misco, Travelodge, Graze, Hornby ( ), etc. That has another 2 x A4 pages of web site address, username, password.

I must have thousands of discrete bits of information like that.

My solution now?

I don't have one because the cheap, usable, QWERTY-keyboard PDA market seems to have disappeared.e