Frack you very much Microsoft!

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

So, I work helping folks with email ,webhotells and domains.

Client comes in with a simple "can I get a password for account x?".

Sure thing says I, I randomgenerate one, drop it into email and off to the client it goes.

Client tries, tells me "Nope, fails"

I try it, works perfectly.
So I search through logs and see  "Oh silly client, you put a lowercase u instead of an uppercase U in there!"

So I take the password and paste it into a new email in outlook , I press enter and THEN I notice that helpfull outlook
TAKES MY PASSWORD and CHANGES IT from :

t68BUeRw    to
t68BueRw

with autocomplete.

%¤&#¤%/&#E%&/%¤!!!!!

No wonder my client is confused. 

So a big thank you Microsoft, thank you for wasting my time with a FUCKED up shit for brains autocomplete! 

Time to turn all spellcheck and shit off I suppose.

Can I start drinking now?

Comments

[melstav]

Time to turn all spellcheck and shit off I suppose.

You mean that wasn't one of the first things you did when you first received your workstation / installed the software?

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

Only had the new comp for 2 weeks. haven't had time to tweak it yet.

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

Logs which indicate submitted passwords? This is scary to me.

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

Regular Dovecot imap/pop3 log does that when they type the wrong password.

Makes it easier to see what the client does wrong.

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

That's not too bad then, I guess. Just as long as the proper password isn't logged.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

I would *so totally love* to be able to tell a user "what I told you to type is not what you are typing. Please concentrate on what I said, and on your keyboard, and carefully type what I told you to type." I have gone as long as 20 minutes on a password reset before. ::twitch::

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't care for autocomplete usually, either.. until the day I discovered I'd registered on a forum with a typo (Two N's instead of one) and couldn't get back in until I saw the autocomplete list... That actually saved me a lot of hassle.

[cheezemeister-x.livejournal.com]

I actually find autocomplete very useful. We have a lot of product names that have special characters, such as a dot between words, or a TM symbol or others. I use autocomplete to automatically insert these symbols when I type the product names without them.

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

That's one reason I wrote the policy prohibiting e-mail of passwords.

The other is that I can't trust my users not to leave them up on the screen for all to see.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Some of the external vendors we have for our financial stuff, their administration interface only does "email new password to email address on file." Seems very un-SarbOx to me.

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

OMG your icon - that's my favourite Bugs Bunny cartoon ever!

[digitalraven]

You're the one using Outbreak. Problem exists on a higher level than with specific indicences of braindamage in software.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I hate autocomplete, hate DNS hijacking, hate happy-clappy 404 pages full of autopulled unrelated crap generated by browsers, and in general hate any time a computer acts on what it guesses I might have meant, without checking with me first.

I don't mind a computer making suggestions off where they won't interfere with what I'm doing (histories, spellcheck indicators), and I don't mind it attempting an autocomplete after I specifically ask it to (tab-complete is useful, for instance), but any time a programmer or their boss thinks that they know better than me what I want and stomps all over my actual request, it drives me nuts.