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Notes on an overheard conversation in the Ft. Lauderdale Office of The
Corporation to Bob of Technical Support
“Hello, Bob of Technical Support [1]. How may I help you?”
“Yeah, I can't log into The Corporate Overlord Corporation web site and I
think I need it reset.”
“Again?”
“Sigh. Yes. [2] I didn't change the password after ten days and—”
“That should still work.”
“What?”
“Yes, that obviously weak and ill considered password [3] we are forced to
force upon you should still work.”
“But when … oh … ”
“Yes?”
“That's a one, not a lower-case ‘L’, and that's a dollar sign, not an
uppercase ‘S.’ Stupid font … this is a clear case of PEBKAC [4]. I'm sorry to
bother you.”
“Okay then, I shall log it as an ID10T [5] error then … ”
“Thank you.”
[1]
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/atsrfaq.html#xx1224xx
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2015/07/15
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/07/15.3
[4]
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/PEBKAC.html
[5]
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/idiot.html
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