hardware vs software

hardware is neat, hardware is impressive, but without software, the led does not blink.


software is neat, software is impressive, but without hardware the bits flip, but the LED does not light.

hardware tech vs software engineer.

password rules for corporations

What the crap is it with companies that they want to make their passwords so onerous that you end up WRITING THE PASSWORD DOWN in order to have ANY chance of logging in later. And, wow, heaven forbid that you seldom log into that particular system. I have had more than I can count experiences where I had to reset a password for some system I used maybe 2 or 3 times a year. so, here, without delay, is the new passowrd rules for any company where the IToids are in charge over common sense.

Password selection rules

CORPORATE DIRECTIVE NUMBER 08-570471

In order to increase the security of all company computing facilities, and to avoid the possibility of unauthorized use of these facilities, new rules are being put into effect concerning the selection of passwords. All users of computing facilities are instructed to change their passwords to conform to these rules immediately.

RULES FOR THE SELECTION OF PASSWORDS:

1. A password must be at least six characters long, and must not contain two occurrences of a character in a row, or a sequence of two or more characters from the alphabet in forward or reverse order. Example: HGQQXP is an invalid password. GFEDCB is an invalid password.

2. A password may not contain two or more letters in the same position as any previous password. Example: If a previous password was GKPWTZ, then NRPWHS would be invalid because PW occurs in the same position in both passwords.

3. A password may not contain the name of a month or an abbreviation for a month. Example: MARCHBC is an invalid password. VWMARBC is an invalid password.

4. A password may not contain the numeric representation of a month. Therefore, a password containing any number except zero is invalid. Example: WKBH3LG is invalid because it contains the numeric representation for the month of March.

5. A password may not contain any words from any language. Thus, a password may not contain the letters A, or I, or sequences such as AT, ME, or TO because these are all words.

6. A password may not contain sequences of two or more characters which are adjacent to each other on a keyboard in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal direction. Example: QWERTY is an invalid password. GHNLWT is an invalid password because G and H are horizontally adjacent to each other. HUKWVM is an invalid password because H and U are diagonally adjacent to each other.

7. A password may not contain the name of a person, place, or thing. Example: JOHNBOY is an invalid password.

Because of the complexity of the password selection rules, there is actually only one password which passes all the tests. To make the selection of this password simpler for the user, it will be distributed to all supervisors. All users are instructed to obtain this password from his or her supervisor and begin using it immediately.

feb 1

getting my digit back.

atmel

well, they finally found a pen, and we finally got together.

I really do appreciate DRC and Sherman for stepping up and working with me
after mot gave me the k.o.d., but they pay way below market.

this should get my digit back. and cut my commute costs by >80% as well.

more later

dreams

what a bizarre dream.
several of us standing around where I used to work.
Jo, Tim, Knox, me.

Jaime in his office, and some sort of panel had come loose on the wall.

we began our bad geek jokes about escape hatches, etc.

jaime came out with the panel he had been trying to get back in place, and it was
a shelf cubbie. He opened it and inside was an old MS office set of manuals
from when word, excel, ppt were all individual, and were just boxed together
and called office. In this were some Microsoft pencils for some reason. I quickly grabbed
2, pulled the eraser off one and held it up and in my best TV announcer voice, noted:
Microsoft: Word 1.0
then held up the other one and announced:
new from Microsoft: Word 1.1, now with undo.

wow. geek much?