passwords and people that can not remember them.

bigaudiofanatic

I am a patient person by many peoples eyes. Many say I do not get this from my father who has no patience.

After me getting a new Acer tablet a few weeks ago he decided yesterday that he wanted one. So we went and picked one up. After helpinf him start to set it up we get to setting up your gmail acount for the app store. He was not understanding at all that he needed this and hated that he had to put in all this info. No CC required but he put in a random password which it asked for again and he could not remember what he out. He simply said ill never use it so I just put something in. After fooling with that for ten min.
We got the tablet all up and running. Than I had to setup his glorious yahoo email. So I simply asked him to put in his password. It continued to tell him it was the wrong password. Even after looking at his word document of all his passwords. So he threw everything in the box and is planning on taking it back. I simply asked why his reply was. Because it is not user friendly. :eek:

Come on its not the machines fault you can not remember your passwords and he should not be mad that a company is trying to help people out by putting safety features in like minumal of six characters for a password and other things.


So in the end help us IT guys out and do not use the same password for everything and remember them better than just putting them on a word document or under a keyboard.

Ugh

bigaudiofanatic

To add to this he was planning on taking this to Alaska with him to use for email. Now he is going to be mad at the computers over there because they will tell him its the wrong password.

TouchOfEvil

I laughed. It's not funny but it is if your sick lol.

scottyboy76

I do the same thing, sometimes i get to typing, hit the button and start a separate post, i feel like i should title it "AND ANOTHER THING"

Is your dad an older man?

If so, i hate to tell you it just gets better as the child, but hang in there.

God loves those who honor their parents, although its not always apparent, you will be blessed.

bigaudiofanatic

He is older but he is military and has everything down to his jewelry box organized. He has never been a patient man and gets mad quickly when things do notbwork like he wants. A good example is we use yo have a hot tub and one jet broke about two years later. Instead of letting the dealer fix it he put in a new one and it did not work. So...he took a chainsaw to it.

audiocr381ve

bigaudiofanatic wrote: »

He is older but he is military and has everything down to his jewelry box organized. He has never been a patient man and gets mad quickly when things do notbwork like he wants. A good example is we use yo have a hot tub and one jet broke about two years later. Instead of letting the dealer fix it he put in a new one and it did not work. So...he took a chainsaw to it.

He didn't literally take a chainsaw to it did he? :eek:

How old are you guys? This is too funny...

danger boy

get your dad a password generator program. it will store all his passwords without him having to remember them... it works and is highly secure..

bigaudiofanatic

Yes he did really take a chain saw to it. He is about 54 I'm 22. Password generators are good but as soon as you add a new system this will start all over with why do I need this a count why does it need a password why does it need to be more than six characters long and this is BS.

cnh

That's not surprising. What does 'anyone' do when they get to 128k plus encryption and have over two dozen key entries to 'remember' when most people have trouble remembering more than a random phone number--putting that into memory.

Then you're told to 'randomize' your passwords. As though your 'memory' will actually get better as you 'age'? Right..! lol

I sympathize. My Father (no longer with us) never touched a computer if he could help it. And I'm a lot closer to 'your' father's age. What I do now is try to use a number of different languages simultaneously in a long password..as well as punctuation and numbers--something 'nonsensical' that no one could ever guess.

cnh

DON73

Good thing for you he didn't get pissed if he ever changed your diapers.:mad:

audiocr381ve

DON73 wrote: »

Good thing for you he didn't get pissed if he ever changed your diapers.:mad:

Changing diapers is NO fun. Thank God for your dad and bare with him!

Sherardp

I like Danger's comments. A password safe or gen will surely do the trick and work for him every time. What branch of service did your dad serve? Former Marine?

bigaudiofanatic

He is still in air force reserve.

sucks2beme

What's "older" got to do with it?
More like, not in the habit of using /dealing with computers and apps.
Yes, older people are more likely to fall into this class.
But some of us old geezers use computers a lot.

bruss

Keepass2 is awesome. I feel you though. Watching my dad on a computer is like watching a cat swim

bigaudiofanatic

Well he decided to try again tonight come to find out he was not putting the capital letters in his password like he should of. Thank god lol

kappclark

danger boy wrote: »

get your dad a password generator program. it will store all his passwords without him having to remember them... it works and is highly secure..

Good idea .. I remember asking an Avaya tech how he kept track of all the passwords for all the equipment ... he said he used only 2 passwords...if not one, then it must be the other one !!