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Recent content by Sysman
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One for zeity
And given the launch date of 1977 that'll probably be FORTRAN IV rather than FORTRAN 77. -
The Great British Steel Industry
It's a linguistic device used by cretins to infer that anyone who disagrees with them is in the same camp as holocaust deniers. -
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Stupid windows password screen!
One reason is where different applications or internal web sites have different password requirements. At one place the mainframe timesheet web interface only accepted an 8 digit number. -
Stupid windows password screen!
My favourite is P@ssw0rd. That's a complexity score of 4 out of 4. Just keep going with abcd or 1234 for the required length. -
Passwords rude word filter
This on VAX under SIMH: UAF> copy system root/pass=p155f14p5 /nopwdexp %UAF-I-COPMSG, user record copied %UAF-W-SAMEUIC, new user record has the same UIC as the source record UAF> Exit ... Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) VAX Operating System, Version V7.3 Username: root Password: Welcome to... -
Passwords rude word filter
Hehe. I've been playing with Illumos and SmartOS of late. I really do like properly engineered systems :D Itaniums are probably best kept in a shed. Too noisy for the house. HP putting the patches behind a paywall discouraged me from trying 8.4. -
Passwords rude word filter
VMS introduced a naughty words password filter in 1984. You could add your own words to it too. I eventually found out what most of the standard ones were. A lot were simply boring stuff like passwords that were used in documentation. It didn't understand l33tsp34k though. -
Police to be granted powers to view your internet browsing history
The scary bit is that they might completely misconstrue some of the stuff you search for. Apparently at one point the FBI got pretty excited at the thought of nicking anyone interested in Apache Subversion :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: -
Police to be granted powers to view your internet browsing history
Also hijacked websites which take you off to a hard porn site etc etc. -
Police to be granted powers to view your internet browsing history
Have you not heard of the cases where local authorities have abused the existing anti-terrorist powers to snoop on the use of wheelie bins? quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - who will guard the guardians? -
Currently Listening To.........
A James Bond story, set in 1957. It's R4's Book At Bedtime offering this week and next. Not quite sure of the wording in this last bit. Didn't the originals, er, feature "previously unseen" material? :rollin: -
Fed up now...
It was like that here yesterday. Definitely too warm for the winter jacket I had. Back to grey today, but with bright bits so there's hope. Friday, which means a racket from street cleaning machines in the morning. Not a Zwicky in sight though. Readers of a certain age might recall the Swiss... -
