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beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 11:40 pm

I used to think i had a unique online name, but I just did a google search for goodness knows what reason, and found that there is a beowuuf on warezbb!

Anyone else use to think they had a unique name? Anyone still do?

sucinum · Post by **sucinum** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:39 am

i though i was until i tried to register it on ebay...
but i win the google-race

BloodFromStone · Post by **BloodFromStone** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:52 am

I have never encountered another BloodFromStone on the net, except that I couldn't get that name on AIM... I'm surprised that I've yet to find one in a search or anything, since I was informed at one point that it is an album name by some band.

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:07 am

well, Cowsmanaut is pretty unique.. but I've found one reference to it on a obscure post about cows attached to rockets.. which is where I delved the name from in the first place.. I also found a little gif of a cow strapped to a rocket that is very much like the one I first drew but it was made for DIVX.. of all things..

moo

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:04 pm

Ah, the good old ego-search.

PaulH??? Common as dirt

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:19 pm

Same here -- hmmm, maybe it's time I got a more unique nick.....

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:25 pm

Yeah, I was thinking of changing mine to 'ncvdsdufshdaaszdgxxxxseyweyt8wh'. Bugger to remember though.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:38 pm

Eh, it was actually something i had thought about telling someone...if every we lost touch, at least they could search for that name and find me...

but apparently not!

i did a similar search once for a name of the main characte for my novel i would dearly love to get back to. Funnily no one had seemed to use it as a name, but it came up as e-mail addresses for people wuith the right first and second names!

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 3:55 pm

The nickname is limited to 25 characters.

I am afraid that you would have to stick with "ncvdsdufshdaaszdgxxxxseyw","ufshdaaszdgxxxxseyweyt8wh" or sth. in between. Still not very "memorizable"...
slightly off topic;
I asked a friend of mine(->studied informathics), what would be a suitable or a good password, and he told me:
" at least 6, better 8 letters long and with 4 numbers/signs in it. "
A password 4 letters long, according to him, would be like no password at all.
So i wondered if you are having easy to hack passwords, like me, or if yu are all well protected or just don´t care or if you know sth. about password safety issues?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:11 pm

yeah, a 'strong' password is concidered an eight letter alphanumeric, without any proper words in it, small and capitals for the letters if it makes a difference

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:13 pm

or anything Welsh...

I was considering changing my name to the Gaelic version of my surname Hayes, which translates as 'fire'

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:16 pm

but you need good monitor cleaner for afterwards

Post by **PaulH** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:22 pm

Cider from the Valleys is known to have a great cleansing properties

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:27 pm

so the best passwords are near impossible to come up with,even harder to memorize and are best changed weekly. So here we are...

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:47 pm

yes

If you find you cannot get into your own stuff, talk to your friends or order anything online, you have a good password

BloodFromStone · Post by **BloodFromStone** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:29 pm

I have two passwords that I use randomly for everything. One of them is fairly secure by those standards, the other isn't terribly fragile, as it's pretty long, but it's not alphanumeric... I guess if I combined the two, I'd have a pretty safe password.

Selie · Post by **Selie** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 9:30 am

I have a bunch of passwords. Some of them follow some of those guidelines thanks to my school taking precautionary measures about our passwords for our email accounts (which even have to be changed yearly - to save myself the hassle, I switch back and forth between two acceptable passwords). The funny part is that you don't even have to enter the entire password if it's long enough. I left off the last two letters/numbers of my longer password all the time and it went through just fine, which doesn't seem particularly intelligent. If the password won't be completely checked, then limit the number of characters in it!

My first password, which I used for everything, was probably the stupidest password I could have used, short of using something based on my nick/real name or whatever. But I don't use that any more.

Selie is apparently a real name in some part of the world. But otherwise there aren't too many around; I can find myself very easily googling myself. My real name, on the other hand - there's a woman with my first and last name who is a prizewinning playwright. I think that's pretty cool.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:52 pm

Lol, hopefully one day she'll be annoyed that all the google links are about you then!

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:16 am

I haven't searched my name, but I know there are at least three and possibly four (or more) Tom Hatfields in my city, and one of them is my father. The other is some guy I never met who got a traffic ticket from the same cop on the same night several years ago, but for something much worse --- I think it was DWI --- and caused me a smidgen of grief at the courthouse when I went to pay my speeding ticket.

Selie · Post by **Selie** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 9:18 pm

Wow, ouch. I wouldn't imagine that it would be such a common name, but apparently not. I know some Hadfields, but no Hatfields. They have a lot of kids.

I hope you got the speeding ticket thing resolved just fine.