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TwistedFate · 07-18-2003, 10:08 AM

I can't even begin to tell my stories. I just don't know where to start.

I can tell you that most of mine involve some form of massive data loss and me telling myself "Don't ever do this again, stupid" while bashing my head against a wall, at the end.

I do have a similar 'password' story. I was using a top of the line (at the time) 386-40 and was concerned that my dad was snooping around it when I wasn't at home. So I enabled the BIOS password setting and rebooted to test it. I neglected to look for somewhere to set the password to what I wanted it to be. So here I am with a locked computer, at the BIOS level with no fancy F5 tricks for me, and no idea what the password was. So I puzzled over it for a while trying a few possible passwords to no avail. Being a nerd I had plenty of nerd friends to call on, but none were at home. Finally in a stroke of genius I tried '1234' and SUCCESS! I immediately turned off the password feature and wrote a logging program instead.

07-18-2003, 10:08 AM	#2 (permalink)
TwistedFate Crazy	I can't even begin to tell my stories. I just don't know where to start. I can tell you that most of mine involve some form of massive data loss and me telling myself "Don't ever do this again, stupid" while bashing my head against a wall, at the end. I do have a similar 'password' story. I was using a top of the line (at the time) 386-40 and was concerned that my dad was snooping around it when I wasn't at home. So I enabled the BIOS password setting and rebooted to test it. I neglected to look for somewhere to set the password to what I wanted it to be. So here I am with a locked computer, at the BIOS level with no fancy F5 tricks for me, and no idea what the password was. So I puzzled over it for a while trying a few possible passwords to no avail. Being a nerd I had plenty of nerd friends to call on, but none were at home. Finally in a stroke of genius I tried '1234' and SUCCESS! I immediately turned off the password feature and wrote a logging program instead. __________________ If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.