Author: john lewis Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Password problem on first boot up of Acer Aspire One
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:23:10 +0100
Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
> On Friday 10 July 2009 17:49:29 Sean Gibbins wrote:
> > I tend to use a combination of upper and lower case alphanumeric
> > characters plus the odd non-alphanumeric characters for my
> > passwords. Could it be the latter that is tripping you up?
>
> Bingo! I got rid of the non-alphanumeric characters one by one - and
> I have been able to progress. But why the *$%^&* couldn't they say
> "alphanumeric only" instead of letting me input the password twice,
> and then saying that "specific characters" are not allowed. Grrrrr...
I have generally found that underscores_are_OK but other punctuation
characters like ! are not. I had assumed because they have
specific meanings in some computer languages.
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John Lewis
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