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computershack wrote: »Smileys noted. Well we did quite well this time around. 8.10 broke Windows network browsing and prematurely killed hard drives. 9.04 broke Intel drivers which was a big problem for 90% of the laptop users. They didn't do that this time but instead broke 3g dongles which again, is a problem for a great many laptop users. However, this time they also used EXT4 as the default filesystem which has known data loss issues with large file movements.It's morphed into another 'Linux sux' thread.
Boring.:cool:
Additional Mac Wars!0 -
Top tip for passwords:
Take the first letters of a song or nursey ryhme
for example: The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men
would become :
tgodoyhhttm (first letter of the above)
you could then add in numbers /non alphanumeric passwords such as:
tg0d$yhhttm/
the o's have been replaced with a zero and a dollar sign and at the end a slash put in.
So when you enter in the password you are singing/saying the words in your end as you type!0 -
^Ingenious0
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