The Red Brick Times

One of the tech sites I read (NetworkWorld Compendium) will occasionally include a "strange but true" posting from the wonderful world of computing. As a (more or less) 'puter professional I think they're a hoot. Here are two I found particularly ammusing:

#1 - Not your typical dry bug report:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create 2 unique user accounts (for steps sake, let's call the two accounts Joe and Mary) in Windows XP Home.
2. Logout and sign-in under Joe.
3. Open Firefox and go to an e-mail site or to jdate.com or wherever.
4. Attempt to log-in to the site so that Firefox will ask whether or not you want your password saved.
5. Choose not to save the password.
6. After successfully logging in and having selected the "never save password" option, logout.
7. Log-in as Mary and open Firefox.
8. Browse, browse, browse ... but you don't really have to. Just go to "View Saved Passwords," click on the tab that will show you sites to never save passwords for, and you'll see whatever painful site Joe denied to save a password for.
9. Break-up with fiancé.

#2 - Why every city council needs at least one geek.
Posted 6:21 AM by whatley (1) comments

       Comments:

Flame, flame, flame. TV went from wonderbox to wonderbread. The Web is heading there. Op-ed is an online cocktail party. It would be funnier if it didn't smack of road rage and checkout counter rage and IRS rage and all the rages that come from being taken over and out of control.

# posted by  Andy : March 29, 2006 9:40 AM
 
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