Archive for June, 2009
Security and stupidity
Okay, I’ll rise to the [http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html bait]. You can’t be serious. There are often people seeing what you type, besides which, if this was adopted then people would _start_ looking. When I’m assisting someone on a computer and they are at a password prompt, I even go to the lengths of looking away – very [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2009 under Life Rants.
Comments: 3
an hour to get the mouse working
Upgraded desktop to Linux 2.6.30 (and newer NVIDIA drivers), this also upgraded me to Xorg 7.4. As a result, my Logitech G7 mouse changed behaviour. Instead of the horrible side “back” button doing middle click as I like, it started doing back. Pressing a scroll wheel as often as a Unix user does is not [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under Life Rants.
Comments: 2
three FAIL
I was setting up a 3 broadband dongle earlier today, shame their website was failing (connection reset). That’s fair enough, these things do happen, though it’s not terribly impressive. However, for a large corporation I’d hope (not expect – I’m not that naïve) they at least set it up a bit better. A single IP [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under Life Rants.
Comments: none