Re: Passwords

Lueko Willms wrote:
> .    On  18.03.05
>   wrote  howard@brazee.net (Howard Brazee)
>      on  /COMP/LANG/COBOL
>      in  d1evfn$ofh$1@peabody.colorado.edu
>   about  Passwords
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> HB> The problem with passwords is a serious problem.   We can't use
> HB> passwords that are easy to remember, and we can't write them down and
> HB> post them next to our computer.
>
>    A couple of years ago I had made a count, and found that I had to
> memorize 20 passwords (including PINs for bank and phone cards). With
> all the web sites and web forums, this number has multiplied.
>
>

Under Linux, I can put them all in an encoded wallet, and have it
remember them for me. If you get one of those half gig memory devices on
a keychain, they plug into your USB slot, then place the wallet on the
keychain device, you have a nice key to everything your's that will fit
in your pocket. Under $100.

Donald

James J. Gavan wrote:
> Donald Tees wrote:
> 
> What's the official name for the 'half gig memory devices on a key
> chain' ? Somebody in Future Shop demoed one to me while he was
> discussing a new XP Machine, putting it into a USB slot to look at his
> Word documents.
>
> I've not yet seen one of those 'wire less' Mouse/Mice you once referred
> to. Not that I spend my time sauntering around computer stores.
>
> Jimmy

Flash memory ... though the cordless mouse would be someone else. I have
a single optical mouse on a server switch.  The mouse/screen connected
to four boxes.

Donald

docdwarf@panix.com wrote:

Thanks for that Doc. In describing I would have said the smaller ones
reminded me of a cigarette lighter.

Jimmy
> In article <ABM_d.719347$8l.101571@pd7tw1no>,
> James J. Gavan <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> I've heard them called 'flash drives' or 'thumb drives' or 'pen drives'...
> try a look-see at
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> I picked up one of those at a discount store (a US chain called Ross Dress
> for Less) but was dissatisfied with its weight, feel, and sensitivity...
> outside of that, of course, it was fine.  I received a gift of a Microsoft
> brand version and have been quite satisfied ever since... well, as
> satisfied as one can be with such a device... it takes my fingers away
> from the keyboard where they belong, you know.
>
> DD
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