• Justin (unregistered) in reply to Zoomba
    Zoomba:
    Pedantic:
    Just imagine if it was something like /dev/ttyS0 or even 03F8-03FF!

    Oh the horrible memories are flooding back

    HaHaHa, I should have asked him what parity and stop bit he needed. Flow control? Did you do a AT&Z first? I was so shocked he asked for it I blanked. What an amazing opportunity lost. I could have screwed with him for hours.

  • Pedantic (unregistered) in reply to Justin
    Justin:
    HaHaHa, I should have asked him what parity and stop bit he needed. Flow control? Did you do a AT&Z first? I was so shocked he asked for it I blanked. What an amazing opportunity lost. I could have screwed with him for hours.

    I know, you could have told him +++ATH0M0 and he'd likely think it was an insult on sexual preference.

  • Jasmine (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    gidoca:
    I had to use document.getElementById('aspnetForm').submit() in the Console to post. :(
    (Puking all over my monitor!) Hey all you so-called web "designers" out there -- what's wrong with <input type="submit">? Too widely supported for your taste?

    It's ASPX - it is always submitted through the __DoPostBack() Javascript function. ASPX rarely (if ever) renders a button as an input-type-submit. However you do make a good point - knowing your basic HTML is super important. The most frustrating ASP developers I've ever worked with are the ones who couldn't hand-code a hello world page.

    And yeah - submit buttons on the comment form are dead in Chrome.

  • George (unregistered) in reply to Steve
    Steve:
    this is exactly why he doesn’t give anyone the password to the router.
    Uhmmm, you can get fired and sent to jail if you don't give the router passwords to your boss.

    Of course, if you do, and he fries the whole network, it will also be your ass. Sometimes you can't win.

    Wha?

  • eric76 (unregistered)

    If someone wants to install something at our office, I want them to call me ahead of time to coordinate the installation. That includes deciding what they are going to do, where they are going to put the equipment, and to tell me every requirement they have.

    Last June at my office, a tech arrived to install a radio on the building to control a sign half a block away. The local high school had bought a sign for Main Street that they could control from the school, but they needed some place near the sign for the radio. So the president of the company volunteered the use of our building.

    They were supposed to call me to coordinate the installation but never did. Instead, the tech just showed up one morning ready to install it.

    The first thing that tech wanted to do was to start drilling holes into the building to mount the radio and to run cable through a particularly difficult part of the building. While it could be done, it would be far from easy and he could not have possibly done it safely without a good deal of help.

    And to install it like he wanted, he was going to have to drill a hole through the stressed concrete roof in a part of the roof where water tends to pool after a rain. It would be almost impossible to keep it from leaking.

    Or he would have to bring the cable out through the front of the building which would either require a very tall ladder or a bucket truck out front right next to a power line.

    I refused to let him do it the way he wanted. The president of the company likes to get along with everyone and got real irate. I gave him a more than reasonable alternate, the 40 foot radio tower on top of the building, but he insisted that it could only be done from the front of the building.

    After some arguing, the sign company finally agreed to mount the radio on the radio tower and connect the ethernet and power cables in the access box at the bottom of the tower -- no need to drill holes in anything and the installation would only take about thirty minutes.

    As it was, the tech left the equipment here and we did the tower work for him. With the tech being completely unfamiliar with how to use a safety harness and I wasn't going to let him climb the tower without one, so that was fine with me.

    Also, the tech insisted on installing the software to control the sign on a computer at my office. The only computer we have running Windows XP (the minimum required) was the accounting computer. Again, I refused.

    As it turned out, all they needed here was to set an IP address for the sign, something that should have been done before they even arrived. So the next day, he came back with a laptop and set the IP address that way.

    All in all, it got installed the way it should have been installed, but I hate to think what he would have done if left to his own plans.

  • Mel (unregistered)

    That was hilarious :)

  • bash (unregistered) in reply to duis
    duis:
    Rick:
    gidoca:
    dew|frost:
    No, it's easy. You just set a password so horribly convoluted your boss will never be able to type it correctly.
    Yeah. Best to use lots of symbols like ←↓→øþæßðµ, which you don't find on a normal keyboard. ;)
    I enter my password in italics to confuse people.
    I call BS. That can't be password. Your real password would show up for me as asterisks. Look. Here is my password:

    *******

    That's awesome! Let me try...

    hunter2

    Did it work? hunter2 my hunter2 you hunter2ing hunter2!

    Does that look funny to you guys?!?

  • (cs) in reply to eric76
    eric76:
    All in all, it got installed the way it should have been installed, but I hate to think what he would have done if left to his own plans.
    I think you painted a pretty fine picture of what he would have done if left to his own "plans".
    1. If he drilled where he wanted, you'd be under water.
    2. If he ran the cable out through the front of the building like he wanted, he'd be electrocuted by the power lines.
    3. If he climbed the tower without a safety harness like he wanted, he'd fall and his company would sue your company (since it's your tower).
    4. If you let him install their software on your computer like he wanted, well, you see where I'm going with this...

    Kudos to you for your stubbornness - it's far too uncommon for people to insist that things be done right.

  • Ralph (unregistered) in reply to Jasmine
    Jasmine:
    Ralph:
    gidoca:
    I had to use document.getElementById('aspnetForm').submit() in the Console to post. :(
    (Puking all over my monitor!) Hey all you so-called web "designers" out there -- what's wrong with <input type="submit">? Too widely supported for your taste?
    It's ASPX - it is always submitted through the __DoPostBack() Javascript function.
    Like I said. Barf. Puke. Aggghhhh-gaaaakkk. Why do you think NoScript is one of the top Firefox AddOns?
  • Ralph (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Ben:
    Ralph:
    gidoca:
    I had to use document.getElementById('aspnetForm').submit() in the Console to post. :(
    (Puking all over my monitor!) Hey all you so-called web "designers" out there -- what's wrong with <input type="submit">? Too widely supported for your taste?

    It's pretty amazing what you can do entirely in HTML and CSS. 90% of the Javascript out there is completely unnecessary.

    It's pretty amazing what you can do in C and/or Basic. 90% of <insert your favorite language> out there is completely unnecessary.

    You're conveniently overlooking that HTML is Good(TM) -- as in Tim Berners-Lee invented the web and It Was Good -- but JavaScript is Evil -- as in hackers seize control of your browser and steal your identity evil. If you didn't know that, you don't belong in web development.
  • duis (unregistered) in reply to bash
    bash:
    duis:
    Rick:
    gidoca:
    dew|frost:
    No, it's easy. You just set a password so horribly convoluted your boss will never be able to type it correctly.
    Yeah. Best to use lots of symbols like ←↓→øþæßðµ, which you don't find on a normal keyboard. ;)
    I enter my password in italics to confuse people.
    I call BS. That can't be password. Your real password would show up for me as asterisks. Look. Here is my password:

    *******

    That's awesome! Let me try...

    Did it work? ******* my ******* you *******ing *******!

    Does that look funny to you guys?!?

    I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you trying to say your ******** is a curse word?

  • (cs) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    You're conveniently overlooking that HTML is Good(TM) -- as in Tim Berners-Lee invented the web and It Was Good -- but JavaScript is Evil -- as in hackers seize control of your browser and steal your identity evil. If you didn't know that, you don't belong in web development.
    Just because a poorly-designed web browser gladly passes the reins to JavaScript doesn't mean that JavaScript itself is evil. You realize just about any programming language can be used to steal identities, don't you? Even HTML (which is Good™) can be used as such (phishing sites don't need JavaScript). Perhaps programming languages in general are evil?

    That said, I do proudly agree with your other apparent position that JavaScript should not be used to reinvent basic-and-widely-supported HTML functionality, such as form submits and hyperlinks.

    I also agree with Ben's estimate that 90% of all JavaScript is unnecessary.

  • Ralph (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    You realize just about any programming language can be used to steal identities, don't you?
    Yes. That's why I don't let programs other people wrote run on my computer unless I have some idea of the authorship, and the competence and trustworthiness thereof.

    JavaScript (and VBScript, and Flash, and Java applets, and all the other crap that gets embedded in web pages) is a fundamentally flawed idea because it expects you to expose your browser to every random asshat and imbecile on the net. Thousands of people you know nothing about, writing code that runs on your computer. Sure, they promised us there would be sandboxes and such, but we've seen how well that works out. Basically the security model is fine as long as nobody makes any bugs. When was the last time you saw software without any bugs?

    HTML, on the other hand, is not executable. Yes, the text of the web page may overwhelm an luser's skepticism and gain root access to their brains, but it still isn't running on their computer.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Ben:
    Ralph:
    gidoca:
    I had to use document.getElementById('aspnetForm').submit() in the Console to post. :(
    (Puking all over my monitor!) Hey all you so-called web "designers" out there -- what's wrong with <input type="submit">? Too widely supported for your taste?

    It's pretty amazing what you can do entirely in HTML and CSS. 90% of the Javascript out there is completely unnecessary.

    It's pretty amazing what you can do in COBOL and/or CobolScript. 90% of <insert your favorite language> out there is completely unnecessary.

    Fixed.

  • (cs) in reply to Mike Caron
    Mike Caron:
    I call BS on this story. I worked in Fire Alarms and Security alarms for 5 years, and I highly doubt they got a networked alarm system for either.

    When I worked in Academia I was responsible for deploying an off-the-shelf (DSC MaxSys) security system in several of our buildings specifically for Media (aka A/V) assets -- the three primary criterion were

    (a) Relatively cheap (b) We could [with an expansion board, IIRC] give them static IP addresses. (c) Because of (b), and since University Police would be monitoring the system we didn't have to pay the Telephone Services team's recurring charges for analog lines.*

    Of course, they could only be monitored with some absolutely horrible piece of proprietary software, but the MaxSys family tops out at I think 128 zones.

    Access control/Building Security was "networked" with a pile of RS-232 to TCP/IP boxes connected to COM ports on each controller and the Fire Alarm system just scared me (I think it was a proprietary fiber ring but no one wanted to touch it)

    *-The cost recovery structure was a WTF on its own: Network (different team) connections up to 1 Gig were free -- and my team was one spoke of management away from NetOps and TelServices, all in the same department. We owned the telephone switch, so it's not like there would be outside vendor charges.

  • Spikkel (unregistered)

    Not that up to date, since it is a fire-department, and it has to be configured at the firewall, I would at least expect the port to be used, to be a firewire port

  • Not quite (unregistered) in reply to dew|frost

    "No, it's easy. You just set a password so horribly convoluted your boss will never be able to type it correctly."

    Nope - bosses sometimes insist that passwords meet the following requirements...

    1. Easy to remember.
    2. Written on their whiteboard in their unlocked office (and clearly labelled as to purpose).
    3. The same as the passwords to all other servers in the company, across the entire Asia-Pacific rim.

    At least, that's what I discovered at a previous job of mine.

  • Tami (unregistered) in reply to Justin
    Justin:
    I double checked and I had only two misspellings in my comment (if you don't count ridiculous-ness [actually "rediculous-ness" in the original post] as a word I made up).
    Since you bring it up, let's have a look:
    Justin:
    I'm the guy in Jeff's story (I'm "Jeff" but my name is actually Justin). Jeff's a coworker.

    It happened to me I swear to God. No, I didn't give him access to COM1 or our firewall password (which he had asked me for to do it himself).

    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to set up just to see what ridiculousness would ensue [insue is an archaic spelling]. Didn't have that kind of free time unfortunately.

    The door hardware did not in fact connect to the internet. You have to connect the door hardware "brain" via a 9-pin serial port to a PC on-site. He was mix and matching his installed systems.

    This guy knew NOTHING about computer hardware or software. He has only ever done standalone and keypad systems previously.

    It was a fairly big company and he knew the most. Which was pretty sad.

    You didn't make up ridiculousness, so that one counts, sorry. Also, setup (noun) != set up (verb). Still, nothing majorly wrong here.

    Justin:
    He actually left a lot out of the story.
    I'd like to see the original. I'm always curious how much these stories are unnecessarily embellished. I'll be especially sad if "I had to play a 'fire emergency' card for this!" is fictitious.
  • (cs) in reply to Tami

    Perhaps we can get a Remy-esque "Here's the original submission, hiding in the HTML comments" added as standard?

    Not for Error'd articles, obviously.

  • Bonghit (unregistered) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    Justin:
    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to setup just to see what rediculous-ness would insue.
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)

    AHAHAHA, i just tried that. Only a guitar player could do it.

    laoreet - im not a robot.

  • Sarge2009 (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Ben:
    Ralph:
    gidoca:
    I had to use document.getElementById('aspnetForm').submit() in the Console to post. :(
    (Puking all over my monitor!) Hey all you so-called web "designers" out there -- what's wrong with <input type="submit">? Too widely supported for your taste?

    It's pretty amazing what you can do entirely in HTML and CSS. 90% of the Javascript out there is completely unnecessary.

    It's pretty amazing what you can do in C and/or Basic. 90% of <insert your favorite language> out there is completely unnecessary.

    When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
  • Brendan (unregistered) in reply to Steve

    Haha... I get it! Fired... because there is a firewall and a firestation and you can get fired.

  • Brit Banking Contractor (unregistered) in reply to Slicerwizard
    Slicerwizard:
    Knuckle Dragging Neanderthal:
    The number of misspellings in this comment leads me to believe that this must be a sockpuppet of one the TDWTF authors.
    I counted about eight in that post, which seems to be a bit more dense than the usual offerings from the staffers here.

    One thing I don't understand is how they can write stuff like Mark's "what he does for a living and," - surely their IT life has introduced them to concepts like structure and parsing? How do they think one should parse "a living and,"?

    I see gaffes like this example and, I wonder WTF are they thinking?

    I guess spell checking and, some proofreading and, a passing nod to grammar rules are passe these days.

    No one's forcing you to read The Daily WTF.... Why don't you start up your own site if you're so perfect? You got time to edit and author stories? Go for it. Personally I think Alex does a good job to keep us entertained (daily) and I doubt you could do any better. I bet you read the Daily Telegraph as well?

  • Andrew Brehm (unregistered) in reply to DeaDPooL
    DeaDPooL:

    This tech was on his laptop trying to setup this security system which required him to plug in via RS-232, and since he apparently didn't even know what that was, assumed somehow it was a blocked port on a router.

    What would he have done if they had given him the password for the router?

  • (cs)

    I wouldn't even let that "technician" come near my carport!

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Mike Caron
    Mike Caron:
    I call BS on this story. I worked in Fire Alarms and Security alarms for 5 years, and I highly doubt they got a networked alarm system for either.

    Now, sure, they exist. But, they cost a lot of money, and are tailored for very large complexes (multiple buildings, hundreds and hundreds of zones).

    Normal alarms, such as those found in regular buildings, are self contained, and NOT connected to anything else other than the monitoring company.

    Now, I don't doubt the incredible stupidity of the tech in question. I've cleaned up more messes than I care to count by idiots who, if asked for a Red Robertson, would look for a guy born in Soviet Russia!

    In which case, maybe the story does make sense, if the tech was asking for a port that he didn't even need (nor could use)...

    who's he?

  • Someone Awful (unregistered) in reply to Bonghit
    Bonghit:
    Fred:
    Justin:
    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to setup just to see what rediculous-ness would insue.
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)

    AHAHAHA, i just tried that. Only a guitar player could do it.

    laoreet - im not a robot.

    That's what you've got a nose for :P

  • dan (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    eric76:
    All in all, it got installed the way it should have been installed, but I hate to think what he would have done if left to his own plans.
    I think you painted a pretty fine picture of what he would have done if left to his own "plans".
    1. If he drilled where he wanted, you'd be under water.
    2. If he ran the cable out through the front of the building like he wanted, he'd be electrocuted by the power lines.
    3. If he climbed the tower without a safety harness like he wanted, he'd fall and his company would sue your company (since it's your tower).
    4. If you let him install their software on your computer like he wanted, well, you see where I'm going with this...

    Kudos to you for your stubbornness - it's far too uncommon for people to insist that things be done right.

    Well, if you'd let him do (2) first, at least you'd not be left with a leak in the roof...

  • (cs) in reply to Bonghit
    Bonghit:
    Fred:
    Justin:
    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to setup just to see what rediculous-ness would insue.
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)

    AHAHAHA, i just tried that. Only a guitar player could do it.

    laoreet - im not a robot.

    At first, I thought I was going to have to break out my pinky extender. Alas, there is a better way: Left pinky -> control, right ring -> Enter, right pointer -> F9. So easy, frits can do it.

  • Jadawin (unregistered) in reply to Ben

    So, um, Javascript is equivalent to c? (or J, but nobody programs in J anymore...)

  • (cs) in reply to Sarge2009
    Sarge2009:
    When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...

    Can we please come up with some new analogies for this one? I propose the following:

    "When all you have is an axe, you'll try to hack anything."

    or,

    "When all you have is a pair of pliers, any job can be done poorly with only a little damage."

  • JayC (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    Jasmine:
    Ralph:
    gidoca:
    I had to use document.getElementById('aspnetForm').submit() in the Console to post. :(
    (Puking all over my monitor!) Hey all you so-called web "designers" out there -- what's wrong with <input type="submit">? Too widely supported for your taste?
    It's ASPX - it is always submitted through the __DoPostBack() Javascript function.
    Like I said. Barf. Puke. Aggghhhh-gaaaakkk. Why do you think NoScript is one of the top Firefox AddOns?

    Are you possibly alergic to the twenty-first century?

    I'd hate to have to ask you for driving directions from Google or Bing. "OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO HAVE TO TURN ON JAVASCRIPT TO SEE A MAP OR TO SUBMIT ASYNCHRONOUSLY ARGARGARG BITCH ARG BITCH GRUMBLE BITCH...."

  • JayC (unregistered) in reply to JayC

    Ok, yes, I know..."allergic"...

  • (cs) in reply to JayC
    JayC:
    Ok, yes, I know..."allergic"...

    Don't worry about it mispelling words on the internet is very hip right now.

  • drusi (unregistered) in reply to Someone Awful
    Someone Awful:
    Bonghit:
    Fred:
    Justin:
    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to setup just to see what rediculous-ness would insue.
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)

    AHAHAHA, i just tried that. Only a guitar player could do it.

    laoreet - im not a robot.

    That's what you've got a nose for :P
    With my thumb on left Ctrl, my middle finger can just stretch to F9. Symbolic?

  • H.P. Lovecraft (unregistered) in reply to Bonghit
    Bonghit:
    Fred:
    Justin:
    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to setup just to see what rediculous-ness would insue.
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)

    AHAHAHA, i just tried that. Only a guitar player could do it.

    laoreet - im not a robot.

    Actually, impossible even for a guitar player unless they have like a 7 fret reach, lol. I can span 5 and I'm still a wee bit short to do it comfortably.

  • H.P. Lovecraft (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Bonghit:
    Fred:
    Justin:
    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to setup just to see what rediculous-ness would insue.
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)

    AHAHAHA, i just tried that. Only a guitar player could do it.

    laoreet - im not a robot.

    At first, I thought I was going to have to break out my pinky extender. Alas, there is a better way: Left pinky -> control, right ring -> Enter, right pointer -> F9. So easy, frits can do it.

    Wrong enter key fritsy, he meant the one on the numeric keypad.

  • caecus (unregistered) in reply to H.P. Lovecraft
    H.P. Lovecraft:
    frits:
    Fred:
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)
    At first, I thought I was going to have to break out my pinky extender. Alas, there is a better way: Left pinky -> control, right ring -> Enter, right pointer -> F9. So easy, frits can do it.
    Wrong enter key fritsy, he meant the one on the numeric keypad.
    I did it with left pinky on Ctrl and left thumb on F9. This left my right hand free to press any Enter key on the keyboard.
  • (cs) in reply to H.P. Lovecraft
    H.P. Lovecraft:
    frits:
    Bonghit:
    Fred:
    Justin:
    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to setup just to see what rediculous-ness would insue.
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)

    AHAHAHA, i just tried that. Only a guitar player could do it.

    laoreet - im not a robot.

    At first, I thought I was going to have to break out my pinky extender. Alas, there is a better way: Left pinky -> control, right ring -> Enter, right pointer -> F9. So easy, frits can do it.

    Wrong enter key fritsy, he meant the one on the numeric keypad.

    There are two enter keys? Disregard anything I write today, I'm going on 3 hours sleep.

  • Anonymouse Cow (unregistered) in reply to H.P. Lovecraft
    H.P. Lovecraft:
    frits:
    Bonghit:
    Fred:
    Justin:
    I thought about giving him access to a spare Smoothwall I was going to setup just to see what rediculous-ness would insue.
    Win!! Bonus points if it had a 32-character password. Trifecta if one of the password characters required you to hold down the left control key AND the right Enter key while pressing F9. (Try it!)

    AHAHAHA, i just tried that. Only a guitar player could do it.

    laoreet - im not a robot.

    At first, I thought I was going to have to break out my pinky extender. Alas, there is a better way: Left pinky -> control, right ring -> Enter, right pointer -> F9. So easy, frits can do it.

    Wrong enter key fritsy, he meant the one on the numeric keypad.

    There is a reason why there are elbows. Just saying.

  • (cs) in reply to eric76
    eric76:
    If someone wants to install something at our office, I want them to call me ahead of time to coordinate the installation. That includes deciding what they are going to do, where they are going to put the equipment, and to tell me every requirement they have.

    At my school job, I'd love this too... Unfortunately, it's a government school run by suits in a nice office in the state capital city, and we're a rural school about 150km (just under 100 miles for the confused folk) from the usual contractors they send. That means we usually get very short notice that they will be here at a time that usually turns out to be very wrong.

    eric76:
    All in all, it got installed the way it should have been installed, but I hate to think what he would have done if left to his own plans.

    At my other job in a small computer shop, we see this a lot... We get asked to fix something, we suggest something and quote on it, they go get another quote which is a few hundred dollars cheaper, then they come and ask us to fix it all up when the thing they bought is completely the wrong thing.

    One case we had, we told them they needed thin clients and a decent server. They then got a quote from our main competitor, who quoted them on a bunch of fat clients running Windows 7, and a craphouse whitebox server with only 12 months warranty... Guess which one they bought... And to top it off, they then asked us to come on site during the install to help our competitor install it! We refused.

  • (cs)

    The locksmith my company uses drives me crazy too... I placed the executables of the management software for the proximity readers on a network share. This way it could be run from two or more computers, get backed up, plus it wouldn't be a big deal if a computer breaks down and needs to be replaced.

    Lo and behold it worked! But the guy who sold us the system was adamant that you can't run the software on Windows 2003. No matter how much I tried to explain that I was not running it on W2k3, but XP, even though the files were saved on a network share wouldn't get through to his head.

    But the system itself is a piece of junk. The management software horrible. Probably written with Visual Basic, and the user "database" is just a flat file. Never get Keri. Ever. I wish I could dump them.

  • Hunter (unregistered) in reply to duis
    duis:
    Rick:
    gidoca:
    dew|frost:
    No, it's easy. You just set a password so horribly convoluted your boss will never be able to type it correctly.
    Yeah. Best to use lots of symbols like ←↓→øþæßðµ, which you don't find on a normal keyboard. ;)
    I enter my password in italics to confuse people.
    I call BS. That can't be password. Your real password would show up for me as asterisks. Look. Here is my password:

    *******

    hunter2

    did you guys see asterisks too?

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered)

    I pressed ctrl+f9+enter with one hand, but i used a clip in my finger to press enter

  • appellatio (unregistered) in reply to gidoca
    gidoca:
    BTW, is it only me or is the form not working for everbody else using Chromium?
    Who uses Chromium?
  • appellatio (unregistered) in reply to gidoca
    gidoca:
    BTW, is it only me or is the form not working for everbody else using Chromium?
    Who the hell uses Chromium?
  • distineo (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    Someone You Know:
    akatherder:
    dew|frost:
    No, it's easy. You just set a password so horribly convoluted your boss will never be able to type it correctly.

    Set your font to Microsoft Sans Serif and email it to him: IIlllIlIllIlllIIIll

    Better yet, send him a screenshot of it so he can't just copy/paste it.

    I would, but I don't have a wooden table handy.

    Maybe you could get Irish Girl to hold it.

  • bene (unregistered) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    Even someone as "techincally-minded" as Tom would realize that a 9-pin D connector wouldn't fit into an RJ-45 jack.

    Or at least you'd think that.

    Technically minded: Technically, he had a mind.
  • I'm Mitto (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    JayC:
    Ok, yes, I know..."allergic"...

    Don't worry about it mispelling words on the internet is very hip right now.

    ...among the lower intellect classes.
  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    There are two enter keys? Disregard anything I write today, I'm going on 3 hours sleep.

    I don't know if this is still true in Mac OS X, but on Mac OS 9 and earlier, return and enter were totally unrelated keys. Return generated 0x0D, enter, 0x03. Anywhere where you could both enter a newline and submit, return entered a newline, enter would submit (e.g. text fields in dialog boxes, IMs, and Photoshop's text tool).

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