I'm surprised the cookies didn't turn into dumb-yet-funny pills.
So that's it...
Zoe: Don't think it's a good spot, sir. She still has the advantage over us. Mal: Everyone always does. That's what makes us special.
'Serenity'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Jan 29, 2008 7:37:25 am PST #6059 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
sarameg - Jan 29, 2008 7:37:56 am PST #6060 of 10001
I'm still fumbling with the logic where it is prefered that we use a master account to perform certain tasks "because that way only that account has permission to make those changes, so we'll control who does what." And then 10 of us all have the id and password.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 29, 2008 7:41:50 am PST #6061 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm still fumbling with the logic where it is prefered that we use a master account to perform certain tasks "because that way only that account has permission to make those changes, so we'll control who does what." And then 10 of us all have the id and password.
We have a similar logic here with keys to important areas. Somehow it is more secure for one person to keep a key in her desk for us to use to access "secure" areas than to give each person who needs to access the area a key. And then people take the key from the person's desk, lose it, and she is the one in trouble for giving out her key.
hippocampus - Jan 29, 2008 7:42:13 am PST #6062 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
And then 10 of us all have the id and password.
oh man, I have to deal with one database where users can have either read access for everything or write access for everything. not module specific.
which is a lot like everyone using the same master account.
I hate that database and all of its totally unstable information.
sarameg - Jan 29, 2008 7:46:19 am PST #6063 of 10001
It's a similar case, Sox. It's great that there is only one account with global privs. Safer, right? Except so many people use the account, you can't tell who really did something!
askye - Jan 29, 2008 7:55:02 am PST #6064 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
We have to change passwords fairly frequently here and there is another system I have to sign in on, that the password changes at a different rate. I know a lot of people here have a baseword and then a string of numbers. I rotate through fandom passwords mostly.
hippocampus - Jan 29, 2008 7:56:58 am PST #6065 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
you can't tell who really did something!
a-yup. which helps some people out tremendously.
brenda m - Jan 29, 2008 7:57:01 am PST #6066 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
t has spik-el-oost flashbacks
juliana - Jan 29, 2008 7:57:43 am PST #6067 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
has spik-el-oost flashbacks
I wore that t-shirt the other day! It made me giggle.
§ ita § - Jan 29, 2008 8:03:33 am PST #6068 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I won't even get into how insecure that type of user name system is. All some needs to do is get a company directory and they have everyone's username.
Is it really practical to exercise security measures when it comes to usernames? I've never worked on a system where they weren't predictable. After all, you often have to look at a user ID and work out whose it is.
My magic secure password trick is to pick a word I'll remember and stick punctuation in the middle of it "carabiner" becomes "cara%biner" and if they need numbers it can be "cara1%biner" and we're good to go. If I have to change them regularly, just increment the number.