*is vaguely insulted*

[trinityofone]

Hey, has anyone else gotten a message from LJ saying that their password is "too easy to guess"? What's up with THAT?

Comments

[spazatron.livejournal.com]

Apparently they want our passwords to contain numbers and no dictionary words. Fascists.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

We don't have to change them, do we? I mean, not that I enjoy LJ insulting my password-making skillz every time I post, but...seriously. There's only so much of this crap that I can remember.

[spazatron.livejournal.com]

I did, but I'm easily intimidated. You don't have to change it.

Also, please let me know when I can call. I'm all eager and such. (Cheap phone calls to Europe make me giddy.)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Oh! Right, duh. My brain has died.

My evenings correspond to your afternoons, where 12 noon for you = 8 p.m. for me. So if you want to call me tomorrow or Friday somewhere in that range, that'd be good. Let me know a *specific* time, and I'll make sure my phone's, y'know, on.

[emidala.livejournal.com]

I did, and I just added about nine digits to the end. :)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooo!

*is lazy and obstinate*

[caseymae.livejournal.com]

Mine's in a foreign language, I've never said it aloud or typed it as a non-password, and I've only encountered it once before. I really don't think it's too easy to guess at all.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

You know what I think? LJ is on teh crack. And not the good kind, either.

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

Same here. My guess is they want an assortment of numbers and captial and lower case letters. I wrote a program that spits those out, but they aren't easy to remember.

http://www.geocities.com/rdcldrmr/PassGen.zip

If anyone wants the random-y, hard to remember type passwords.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Random computer question for you! If you were going to teach someone with absolutely no experience to program, what language would you use? How would you go about it? Is there a good website with some basics or something?

It's for a story. Because I like to write about things I know absolutely nothing about.

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

I'd teach them C, which is pretty standard, and can be expanded on into C++ later. It might be a bit tricky for someone with no computer experience, but it's what's used.

Basics:
http://cplus.about.com/od/beginnerctutoria1/l/blctut.htm
Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/

Now, for buzzwords. C is a procedural language, as opposed to an object oriented language, such as C++. The files with code in them are called source files beacuse they contain source code. In C, they are .c files, and .h files. Mostly .c. In order to turn the source code in to a binary or executable, you'll need a compiler. Let me know if you want more info/buzzwords, and I'll be glad to help.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that's a great help. I'm probably going to need to bug you again later, 'cause, you know, stupid, but this gives me somewhere to start making a mess of things, anyway. *g*

[dizzyditz.livejournal.com]

? I haven't gotten that message *yet*. What is your password - "barber" spelled backwards?

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

My password is very dorky, but not exactly something I would consider guessable.

No, no, you got me--it's actually "rebrab." How did you know?

[dizzyditz.livejournal.com]

My guess came from an ancient source of knowledge : an episode of "Clarissa explains it all"(her dad uses 'rebrab' as his password and she guesses it).

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I love you.

[taosterman.livejournal.com]

It's actually "Arabrab" - his wife's name (Barbara) backwards. Oh Clarissa.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I love you, too, Rich.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Shep gives the best WTF? doesn't he? *pets him*

[boysnoggage.livejournal.com]

Omg me too.



DUDE IVE HAD THAT PASSWORD FOR FREAKING 3 YEARS.