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That's highly annoying. Even more if this is a web proxy password and that, each month, you have to change the proxy password for every f*** application that connect to the web (That Windows OS is really really bad).

I took another approach :

1) informing the computer dpt that it's a very bad idea. Here are some links:
http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/password-change-myths/
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/images/dilbert.png
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?177-le-gilet-de-sauvetage-et-le-tgv (in french)

2) of course, they won't change. So consider : what will you loose if you password is corrupted ? Nothing personal. Only stuffs from the company that didn't want to hear you. Should you have a more complicated life because they are too dumb ?

3) if the answer is no, simply change your password to :
yearmonth. That makes it : january2010. Easy to remember and will change all the time.

4) Share the tip with your collegues. Anyway, they should have access to my files, you are working together, isn't it ? Guess what ? Most thought it's a good idea and do the same.

Result : easier work for everybody.
Security ? You tried to improve it, you were not listened. That's their problem now.

PS: of course, be careful to analyse what you are sharing and what are the risk. I will never do that for my personal stuffs.

PPS: even better solution. Try to think about systems that cannot change their password, like the backup system. Usually, that login/password has access to everything in the company, doesn't change and is really easy to find if you know where to look. (and is, 99%, something like "permanent_pass" or "autologin"). That's make your life even more easier.

That's highly annoying. Even more if this is a web proxy password and that, each month, you have to change the proxy password for every f*** application that connect to the web (That Windows OS is really really bad).

I took another approach :

1) informing the computer dpt that it's a very bad idea. Here are some links:
http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/password-change-myths/
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/images/dilbert.png
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?177-le-gilet-de-sauvetage-et-le-tgv (in french)

2) of course, they won't change. So consider : what will you loose if you password is corrupted ? Nothing personal. Only stuffs from the company that didn't want to hear you. Should you have a more complicated life because they are too dumb ?

3) if the answer is no, simply change your password to :
yearmonth. That makes it : january2010. Easy to remember and will change all the time.

4) Share the tip with your collegues. Anyway, they should have access to my files, you are working together, isn't it ? Guess what ? Most thought it's a good idea and do the same.

Result : easier work for everybody.
Security ? You tried to improve it, you were not listened. That's their problem now.

PS: of course, be careful to analyse what you are sharing and what are the risk. I will never do that for my personal stuffs.

PPS: even better solution. Try to think about systems that cannot change their password, like the backup system. Usually, that login/password has access to everything in the company, doesn't change and is really easy to find if you know where to look. (and is, 99%, something like "permanent_pass" or "autologin"). That's make your life even more easier.

I really like the fact that Benjamin Mako Hill call that "antifeatures" :http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20090624-00

A great great way to explain the problem.

See also the DRMequation:http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?145-do-i-have-to-protect-my-content-with-drm-the-drm-equation

There's no need to judge TPB on a moral ground. There's no such thing as "good" or "bad".

It's just that your way of getting money is becoming obsolete. Just like candles manufacturers who fighted electricity, you are not relevant anymore in the current world.

Don't take me bad : you are right to do as much money as you can right now. But you must stay realistic : it won't stay like that forever :

1) A free software equivalent of your softwares might be created.

2) A big proprietary monopolistic vendor might do a software with the same features for half the price.

So, whatever you are doing, you know that it's a short term gain.

Now, let analyse your situation with your software being on TPB. Have you any evidence that it makes you loose money ?

If I told you that :
- 90% of people downloading your softwares would have never bought it anyway.
- 8% of those people weren't sure about your software and would have never bought it but after using the pirated version for more than one year, they choosed to buy an official version because "hey, it worth it".
- 2% of people wanted to buy the official version and stayed with the cracked one.

In this example, having your soft on TPB was a profit increase for you !

So please, just stop thinking with your guts and start using your brain. You have no evidence that file-sharing is bad for you. Not at all. Just an intuition driven by the music/software industry propganda.

Also, you know that it can't be stopped. It's an evolution. You can maybe make it a little slower (that's what RIAA is trying to do) but it will never be stopped. So, instead of crying, trying to slow evolution at all cost (conservative position), why not trying to take advantage of the future ?

http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?145-do-i-have-to-protect-my-content-with-drm-the-drm-equation

I've build my own "invisible" captcha mechanism : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?150-the-invisible-captcha-mechanism-icm-against-form-spam And in 2 years, it was so efficient that I almost completely forgot the existence of spam on my blog. And nobody ever complained about a false positive. The only drawback I see is that if you write a script to attack me now, it could work well and spam me for one day before my captcha block it.

http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?145-do-i-have-to-protect-my-content-with-drm-the-drm-equation

Firstly, they must see if they will make profit with DRM. See the DRM equation for this :
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?145-do-i-have-to-protect-my-content-with-drm-the-drm-equation

Mmm, I think that changing the name doesn't affect the DRM equation : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?145-do-i-have-to-protec t-my-content-with-drm-the-drm-equation

So we (they) can still use the result.

It's no more brown ! It's orange ! There is even a Dapper Car ! Of course, this was before! If you look closely, you will see that the car has 4 wheels. This is not true anymore as we are now all using flying cars.

BTW, there's even Ubuntu in Belgium now...

I've been using Ubuntu Dapper devel so I've been using the development versions of Gnome 2.14 for some time.
The biggest change for me is probably how much better Epiphany is getting. I was getting tired of Firefox freezing for few seconds every now and then so I switched and love it! There are few issues with it but overall, very nice!
There is an overview of Epiphany here: http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/03/15/100-why-you- should-try-epiphany-as-your-default-browser-with-g nome-214
and here: http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-03-15/epiphan y-is-hype-get-over-it

I also love Deskbar integrated with Beagle! I've just stopped hunting down directories. I search for folders, documents, tomboy notes, web history, bookmarks, applications etc. with Deskbar.

This plus Xgl and all the Mono stuff is making my desktop really good :)
Windows Vista has a really good competitor when it comes out.

There are also a lot of new things with Epiphany.

Read : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?2006/03/15/100-why-you- should-try-epiphany-as-your-default-browser-with-g nome-214 (lot of screenshots) and http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/2006-03-15/epiphan y-is-hype-get-over-it and http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/avahi-epip hany-2006-02-11-17-50

Pfff...

As long as we use so old technology, we will not able to really deal with spam. This is why I have developped a revolutionnar technology. Really, give it a try, you will see : The ultimate way to fight spam

Phear my cool GNOME CVS desktop. Look at that top current Screnshot that I've taken. The Toolbars went through huge usability studies by experts. It's clean, consistent and integrates perfectly, this is the most clean desktop amongst them all.

Ok after I ended consistant puking let's use something better, something with serious future.

Oh by the way have another look here:

Edd Dumbill, valuable member and developer of the GNOME Desktop Environment, author of the "Mono: A Developer's Notebook" book, speaks up his mind about GNOME in one of his recent blog entries.

Mikael Hallendahl, valuable member and developer of the GNOME Desktop Environment speaks out his mind upon GNOME and if there is a possible future.

There are even other key GNOME people who think about stopping the work on their products. Read what Damien Sandras (author of GnomeMeeting) has to say.

Indeed ! It's what I try to say since a few hours !
Firefox is out.. blablabla.. don't use IE.. blabla !

But IE is the best browser, and I explain why !

It 's shame !

Don't be fooled ! Why you must keep Internet Explorer at all cost

Mirror of the AVI file.

Not really interesting but I hope it can help someone