"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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__/ [ mlw ] on Friday 11 August 2006 14:56 \__
Linux just runs. It stays running for a long time. You start a machine
and
a year later you have to move it or something. Then you have to remember
what you did a year ago.
I sometimes forget what the bootloader looks like. I sometimes what the
login
manager looks like.
Yeah, one time it had been so long since I rebooted my WinXP box that I
forgot how I had configured the login process. It was configured as "type in
your username, then type in your password", but I had thought it was "Click
on your icon, type in your password". Since I'm the only user on my
computer, I started typing in my password. And it appeared in the username
box. In plain sight. While my friend was over. Boy, was I ever embarassed.
I changed my password that night, and changed the login system back to
"Click on your icon, type in your password". I figured if I accidentally
typed my username in the password box isn't as fatal as if I accidentally
type my password in the username box.
I rarely save work/messages as I go along because, quite
frankly, rarely will anything go wrong.
This is a bad habit to pick up, because occasionally you'll have to work
on someone else's machine, where the apps may not be so stable. I was
working on an A/V project with someone using Adobe Premiere on Mac OS 9. My
partner never saved, and I think we lost 30 minutes to hours of work every
2-3 days 'cause Premiere would crash. FWIW, my partners background was (like
me) primarily Windows, with a bit of Mac.
- Oliver
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