Jesus and Vista Passwords

SMS

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Mar 12, 2009, 10:35:30 PM3/12/09

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Someone dropped off an Acer laptop that was dead. After pressing F8 and
restoring the system to the last known good configuration in about
thirty seconds, I wanted to boot into Vista but she had failed to tell
me the passwords. The password hint was "Jesus" so I tried various
passwords, "god," "swiss," "lord," "Christ," "Horatio" etc., before
giving up, booting my Hiren Boot CD, and using a password recovery
program to reset the passwords. I set the password to "Jewish" and the
hint to "Jesus's Religion." The owner couldn't figure out the password
from my hint and I had to explain to her on the phone that no, his
religion wasn't "Hebrew" or "Christian" or "Christianity".

Gerry

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Mar 12, 2009, 10:57:29 PM3/12/09

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In article <XDjul.14139$W06....@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com>,
SMS <scharf...@geemail.com> wrote:

> Someone dropped off an Acer laptop that was dead. After pressing F8 and
> restoring the system to the last known good configuration in about
> thirty seconds, I wanted to boot into Vista but she had failed to tell
> me the passwords. The password hint was "Jesus" so I tried various
> passwords, "god," "swiss," "lord," "Christ," "Horatio" etc., before
> giving up,

Maybe your friend is an old SF Giants fan and the password was Alou.

Phil Nelson

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Mar 12, 2009, 10:59:13 PM3/12/09

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SMS wrote:
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> hint to "Jesus's Religion." The owner couldn't figure out the password
> from my hint and I had to explain to her on the phone that no, his
> religion wasn't "Hebrew" or "Christian" or "Christianity".

So what was the password? OK, never mind, don't want to compromise
security in case she re-uses it. Also, maybe you never found out?

BTW, if your customer wants you to refer her to someone who won't
go all pedantically passive-aggressive on her because she chose a
"Christian" password, I am available.

Now, who wants to talk politics?

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Phil Nelson

Bill Z.

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Mar 12, 2009, 11:50:19 PM3/12/09

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SMS <scharf...@geemail.com> writes:

Did you try "saves" as in the old joke, "Jesus saves, Moses invests",
which curiously sort of fits the password you provided? :-)

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My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB

David Kaye

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Mar 13, 2009, 5:26:00 AM3/13/09

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On Mar 12, 7:35 pm, SMS <scharf.ste...@geemail.com> wrote:

> I set the password to "Jewish" and the
> hint to "Jesus's Religion."

Doesn't "Jewish" refer to the people and "Judaism" refer to the
religion?

SMS

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Mar 13, 2009, 12:26:16 PM3/13/09

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Yeah I guess, but you'd never say "Jesus was Judaism" and she'd never
have gotten that in a million years. I know this person, and I knew she
wouldn't be mad about be messing with her.

Does anyone else here use the Hiren Boot CD
("http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd")?

Phil Nelson

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Mar 13, 2009, 1:36:53 PM3/13/09

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I never heard of it, but thanks for the link. I use

http://www.sysresccd.org/

Not good unless you are comfortable with Linux utilities and
syntax, I suppose.

BTW, can I use Acronis without paying them? I didn't expect that.

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Phil Nelson