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I'm interested in your opinions on this, is it me, computer users or male/females speaking a different language?
I've been accused of not making myself clear by two women at work.
I changed a password from abc#1234 to abc##1234.
I let them find out their passwords did not work (I wanted to see how soon they found out).
So when I was asked they could not log-in, I replied, "try two hashes".
Three days later, they say they've still not been able to log into this thing. I was in their office so asked these two middle aged ladies to show me. When I witnessed them typing "##" for the password.
I thought this was funny, but they seemed very annoyed at what I'd told them was not correct.
Is it me? Or if you'd be using a password with a "#" in it, and told to try two #, would you not amend the existing password from one # to two #.
I still think it's funny, but still think I right, which makes them even more annoyed.
I've been accused of not making myself clear by two women at work.
I changed a password from abc#1234 to abc##1234.
I let them find out their passwords did not work (I wanted to see how soon they found out).
So when I was asked they could not log-in, I replied, "try two hashes".
Three days later, they say they've still not been able to log into this thing. I was in their office so asked these two middle aged ladies to show me. When I witnessed them typing "##" for the password.
I thought this was funny, but they seemed very annoyed at what I'd told them was not correct.
Is it me? Or if you'd be using a password with a "#" in it, and told to try two #, would you not amend the existing password from one # to two #.
I still think it's funny, but still think I right, which makes them even more annoyed.
podwin said:
I'm interested in your opinions on this, is it me, computer users or male/females speaking a different language?
I've been accused of not making myself clear by two women at work.
I changed a password from abc#1234 to abc##1234.
I let them find out their passwords did not work (I wanted to see how soon they found out).
So when I was asked they could not log-in, I replied, "try two hashes".
Three days later, they say they've still not been able to log into this thing. I was in their office so asked these two middle aged ladies to show me. When I witnessed them typing "##" for the password.
I thought this was funny, but they seemed very annoyed at what I'd told them was not correct.
Is it me? Or if you'd be using a password with a "#" in it, and told to try two #, would you not amend the existing password from one # to two #.
I still think it's funny, but still think I right, which makes them even more annoyed.
You need to get out more and they were rightI've been accused of not making myself clear by two women at work.
I changed a password from abc#1234 to abc##1234.
I let them find out their passwords did not work (I wanted to see how soon they found out).
So when I was asked they could not log-in, I replied, "try two hashes".
Three days later, they say they've still not been able to log into this thing. I was in their office so asked these two middle aged ladies to show me. When I witnessed them typing "##" for the password.
I thought this was funny, but they seemed very annoyed at what I'd told them was not correct.
Is it me? Or if you'd be using a password with a "#" in it, and told to try two #, would you not amend the existing password from one # to two #.
I still think it's funny, but still think I right, which makes them even more annoyed.
king.Morningside said:
miniman said:
Next time, change their passwords to "Don't Know"
Best one is "Its Blank"I think in American terms the "#" is called pound?
Steve_W said:
Morningside said:
miniman said:
Next time, change their passwords to "Don't Know"
Best one is "Its Blank"I think in American terms the "#" is called pound?
It depends on how you said it. If you emphasised "2", in such a way as to suggest "2 instead of 1", then I think you are right to be surprised that they didn't try the whole password but with 2 hashes instead of one.
If on the other hand you just said "try 2 hashes" with no special emphasis then I think you should be taken out and given a good going over.
If on the other hand you just said "try 2 hashes" with no special emphasis then I think you should be taken out and given a good going over.
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