A small change

[Couya]

He must have done something bad!
The forum won,t let Couyalair into the forum any more, so he has shortened his name to Couya (don,t tell the Barista, please! ). His other name, Martin, ahas not changed, and he still wears skirts or kilts.

Just back from a good cycle ride along the sea front to Fuengirola. Tried not to look at the uninterrupted line of apartment blocks. The sea looked good, but I know it is far too cold for me -- with today,s wind, the water was too cold for anyone, apparently. A few brave ones stuck it out on the beach, but most sought the shelter of the chiringuitos (beach cafés).
Lots of baggy pants on pink bodies, but not one skirt.

Please don,t turn me away again -- even if I can,t find the apostrophe when I write in English.
Martin

[skirted_in_SF]

You still appear in the members list.
Many systems will lock you out for a time if you miss your password too many times.

[Kirbstone]

Hi Martin,

You can have your password changed if necessary. As one of the most frequent and valued contributors here, not to mention your very fine photos I find it a nonsense that you are 'locked out'.

Tom

[Milfmog]

Martin,

I have looked at your profile and do not see any sign that you have been blocked by any deliberate action, however, there do seem to be rather a lot of password changes on the account, with the most recent two being on 1 July. (Two that day).

Are you locked out or simply getting an "incorrect password" message?

Have fun,


Ian.

[crfriend]

The forum won,t let Couyalair into the forum any more, so he has shortened his name to Couya (don,t tell the Barista, please! ). His other name, Martin, ahas not changed, and he still wears skirts or kilts.

The cat's out of the bag, Martin. The Barista already knows. He's not omniscient, mind, but he does tend to pay attention to things.

What likely happened was that if you had your machine set to auto-logon your cookie got lost or erased, and if you forgot your password (don't worry, I can't remember mine which is why I keep all of them in a file that I can look at) there's a "forgotten password" link that allows one to do a dance with the system to recover or reset it -- but that requires a working e-mail address. There's also a hint to an e-mail address near the top of every page pointing to the Barista's e-mail address (which is not clickable) which I read and act upon. If one uses that address, however, please expect a wee bit of a challenge so I know who you say you are; I've had a number of clowns try to get me to change a password for accounts that they don't own.

Just back from a good cycle ride along the sea front to Fuengirola. Tried not to look at the uninterrupted line of apartment blocks. The sea looked good, but I know it is far too cold for me -- with today,s wind, the water was too cold for anyone, apparently. A few brave ones stuck it out on the beach, but most sought the shelter of the chiringuitos (beach cafés).

Sounds like a lovely time!

Please don,t turn me away again -- even if I can,t find the apostrophe when I write in English.

Here's one -> ' <- for you to cut/paste when you need it. If you'd like another, just ask.

[Couya]

Thank you all for your friendly encouragments.
My message above was tongue in check, of course. I did not really thnk I had been blocked.

After two months away from my Spanish computer, I switched on to find it was annoyed with me, refused to recognize my password (which had not changed since I first acquired the machine) and offered my a dirty grey screen instead of the habitual cheery blue. It finally changed its mind and showed my all my old desktop items, but also insisted on my producing a password to access the keychain. I can't remember ever being asked for that before, not ever having introduced one.
Apparently keys and words have been deleted, but otherwise everything it in working order, though I have not pushed my luck too far.

I seem to have more trouble width Skirtcafé than anywhere else, not finding old posts (that has been solved, I think), not being able to upload photos (though I used to do so, even bruit big ones), and now word problems. It seemed to be easier to change my name than my word. Recently there has been far too. Too much wind to wear a light skirt "couilles à l'air" so perhaps it is just as well I changed my pseudo.

Almost managed without any apostrophes today, but thank you all the same, Carl!

Martin Briefàl'air

[crfriend]

My message above was tongue in check, of course. I did not really thnk I had been blocked.

As was my reply, save for the offer of assistance which was serious and earnest.

Best of luck getting your machine sorted out.

[dillon]

All my passwords are kept on post-it notes all over my monitor!

[crfriend]

All my passwords are kept on post-it notes all over my monitor!

That sometimes works so long as there's no linkage as to what goes with what. Where it falls down miserably is when both the account name and password are on the same post-it note.

In recent years I've taken to using (sometimes very) simple phrases and them passing them through a deterministic set of hash processes that not only destroy the connection to the original phrase (which could be a giveaway) but also generate 20+ characters of utter gibberish that I then use as the "password". I can then leave these things lying around in assorted files, maintain the "map" of what goes with what mentally, and then cut/paste from one window to another.

The control logic and original phrases are kept in a very tightly controlled, encrypted, file that needs yet another key to unlock and only I (and the NSA) know what it is.

[john62]

Wow! That is complicated, maybe I am too trusting.

John

[Tor]

These days I just keep my passwords in a GPG encrypted file. Perhaps not ideal in the event that someone manages to steal and break my key, but other than that it works, and gives me effectively a master password and good encryption.

[Sinned]

Having been a Systems Administrator I have developed about 20 - 30 short phrases containing letters and symbols ( such as Th3c4t1$mIn3 ) which I keep in an encrypted password-enabled XL file. Good enough for me as I don't think for one minute that big bad cyber-criminals would be interested in my one itty bitty machine out of the billions out there. Just in case I am very, very, very careful as to which emails I look at and anything even remotely suspicious or not recognised gets consigned to that waste bin on the desktop and then deleted from it.

[Jim]

All my passwords are kept on post-it notes all over my monitor!

That sometimes works so long as there's no linkage as to what goes with what. Where it falls down miserably is when both the account name and password are on the same post-it note.

Only if someone breaks into your house to read the notes. A monitor can not read pieces of paper.

[Tor]

Only if someone breaks into your house to read the notes. A monitor can not read pieces of paper.

True enough as far as it goes. But if your house does get broken into it becomes yet another headache. And there is risk even with honest pranksters for friends - even if they don't use them, how about if they just destroy or hide them? A lovely picture there, I'm sure.

[skirted_in_SF]

Just in case I am very, very, very careful as to which emails I look at and anything even remotely suspicious or not recognised gets consigned to that waste bin on the desktop and then deleted from it.

If you're using Windows, just shift delete and you don't have to chase things down in the trash folder. Mine is configured to show me an 'are you sure' dialog, but maybe you could even configure around that.