Tired, bored, confused...
My shifts have shifted back to an 8-5 timeslot. 8:30 to 5 to be exact.
Today we had a meeting and it went well. When I hear meeting, I don't always think good things... So, I'm happily disappointed. Seems this year, we've/they've managed to get 85% of incoming students registered on the network within opening weekend. Usually, It's much slower than that. In a way, if you think of it, that can be a bad thing. Instead of keeping 4 people, perhaps they'll only want two... Maybe they'll end it early. I don't know. A coworker and I went around to a few labs and we organized and took their inventory... Then we mosied on back to the central office and hung out. After I went back to the lab and spent a lot of time stumped by a Symantec Corporate problem. I couldn't get past it's password to uninstall it to get a pc prepped to register. Luckily one fo the other workers remembered that Symantec often autoprotects installation and sets its own default password, which was "symantec" *groan* By them it was time for me to leave. More of the same tomorrow.
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A girl asked me for some help. When she logged onto her friends account, to change her password, she couldn't create a password. There are some good rules at the uni they employ to make it tough to crack. It must have a capital letter, must have a number, must have some other sort of character !#$%^*()_- and must be at least 6-8 characters long. Good stuff, right? To furtherly clarify matters, they state you can't use a dictionary word, which in my experience makes this task nigh impossible to complete for freshmen. (where exactly did a generation or so miss the train on thinking abstractly or imaginatively anyways?)
So I sat down with her and taught her the "bouche way" to make a memorable, tough to crack password.
1. Think of a word you like, almost any word, person place or thing.
2. write it out.
3. now do you notice some special characters could almost look like or replace vowels? even sometimes consonants? 3 could be a backwards E, 0 an O, @ or 4 for a, $ for S and so on. You can even use a few characters |-| (if allowed)... Now in these word I wrote here: (for example) big waves, can we make any substitutions? (she take the pen): B1g_w4v3 Excellent. Got it? she nods.
Following this, she turns to the keyboard and types in B1g_w4v3s and I inhaled a little and she turned and smiled and I said 'excellent' and walked away. This was also in a room kinda full of people. What're ya gonna do?