Freescale doesn't want to be bothered

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:19:58 -0400, keith wrote:

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:33:15 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
....
That was such a joy I damn near wet my pants ;-)

The only thing I've seen close to that was a receptionist who was
running her porn site from behind the security desk. That didn't go over
too well either.

Geez - I've been trying to convince my PHB that we could run porn
right from my office here - I think we'd specialize in used
underpants; the primary reason being that porno is about the only
thing on the internet that actually makes money. ;-)

I guess I could run my own porn site - just download nudies from
the a.b.pictures.erotica.* groups, upload them, and charge people
$3.50 to look at them. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Pooh Bear]

John Larkin wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There *had* to be a freescale addy that should work. Anyone fancy trying
this one ?

Administrative Contact:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Larry Gwinn
2100 E. Elliot Road .
Muenchen, AZ 81829
US
Phone: +1.4804137088
Email: interreg@freescale.com


Graham

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:28:34 +0100, Pooh Bear
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There *had* to be a freescale addy that should work. Anyone fancy trying
this one ?

Administrative Contact:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Larry Gwinn
2100 E. Elliot Road .
Muenchen, AZ 81829
US
Phone: +1.4804137088
Email: interreg@freescale.com


Graham

Somebody should tell thm how much fun we're having with their
registration rules.

John

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:28:34 +0100, Pooh Bear
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There *had* to be a freescale addy that should work. Anyone fancy trying
this one ?

Administrative Contact:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Larry Gwinn
2100 E. Elliot Road .
Muenchen, AZ 81829
US
Phone: +1.4804137088
Email: interreg@freescale.com


Graham

Not likely.

2100 E. Elliot Road is in Tempe, AZ

There is NO Muenchen, AZ

Zip code 81829 is in Wyoming.

The phone number DOES have the right area code.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Pooh Bear]

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:28:34 +0100, Pooh Bear
rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There *had* to be a freescale addy that should work. Anyone fancy trying
this one ?

Administrative Contact:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Larry Gwinn
2100 E. Elliot Road .
Muenchen, AZ 81829
US
Phone: +1.4804137088
Email: interreg@freescale.com


Graham

Not likely.

2100 E. Elliot Road is in Tempe, AZ

There is NO Muenchen, AZ

Zip code 81829 is in Wyoming.

The phone number DOES have the right area code.

...Jim Thompson

LOL ! I know that 'whois' info is often inaccurate ( esp for porn sites ) -
but why would Freescale do that ?

Graham

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:01:57 +0100, Pooh Bear
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:28:34 +0100, Pooh Bear
rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There *had* to be a freescale addy that should work. Anyone fancy trying
this one ?

Administrative Contact:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Larry Gwinn
2100 E. Elliot Road .
Muenchen, AZ 81829
US
Phone: +1.4804137088
Email: interreg@freescale.com


Graham

Not likely.

2100 E. Elliot Road is in Tempe, AZ

There is NO Muenchen, AZ

Zip code 81829 is in Wyoming.

The phone number DOES have the right area code.

...Jim Thompson

LOL ! I know that 'whois' info is often inaccurate ( esp for porn sites ) -
but why would Freescale do that ?

Because they don't want to be bothered?

John

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:01:57 +0100, Pooh Bear
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:28:34 +0100, Pooh Bear
rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There *had* to be a freescale addy that should work. Anyone fancy trying
this one ?

Administrative Contact:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Larry Gwinn
2100 E. Elliot Road .
Muenchen, AZ 81829
US
Phone: +1.4804137088
Email: interreg@freescale.com


Graham

Not likely.

2100 E. Elliot Road is in Tempe, AZ

There is NO Muenchen, AZ

Zip code 81829 is in Wyoming.

The phone number DOES have the right area code.

...Jim Thompson

LOL ! I know that 'whois' info is often inaccurate ( esp for porn sites ) -
but why would Freescale do that ?

Graham

I just pulled up the 'whois'.

Looks like someone fudged the data to keep from getting slammed.

I've been known to do that too, before I switched over to GoDaddy and
a locked account.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Tim Wescott]

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:12:35 GMT, Tim Hubberstey <bogus@bogusname.com
wrote:


Pooh Bear wrote:


Charles Edmondson wrote:


Boy, this thread hits way too close to home! I have a 'letter' in my HR
package now, because I spent almost an hour trying to change my company
password, and in the process, was somewhat verbally abusive to two
different IT folks, and physically threatened (requested name of
induhvidual who wrote password program, so that I could inflict bodily
injury upon him...) a fellow employee.

Believe it or not, but 1, 2, and 5 are all on the official requirments,
but 1 is modified in that the password must be (deleted to keep out of
trouble with security folks... )

Password history goes back to EVERY password you have ever used. After
6years, that leaves out a lot of letter sequences! I don't know how the
long timers with 15 years manage to do it!

They don't call the IT staff 'network nazis' for nothing you know.

You could always make your pw completely out of special characters. As
far as I know, &$&*)@$%#$ isn't a word in any language, except for
"comic strip".

Many years ago, I encountered an IT guy who set the system up so that
your password expired every month, and the last 5 pws couldn't be
reused. Plus, the damn thing started warning you 2 weeks before the
expiry date so you were getting warnings 50% of the time. On top of
this, the system had no connection to the outside world and all
terminals were behind locked doors.

No amount of talking to this guy would convince him that this was a bad
idea so I just connected the serial port of my PC in place of the VT100
and whipped up a quick program to output the password change commands 6
times in a row. The first 5 pws were junk and the 6th was my preferred,
and quite secure, password. I used this once a week for several months
until the IT guy had some sort of run in with a higher up and was
released to inflict his nonsense on some other company. His replacement
adopted a much more reasonable expiry period (6 months IIRC), so I was
able to retire my program.


I think the natural definition of an IT person is SCUM.

Twenty-some years ago now, back in the days when I drew schematics
with a pencil, numbered nodes and loaded a netlist into a VAX780, I
had a problem with an IT guy...

Since there would be periods of terminal inactivity while I drew and
numbered, this ASS would automatically log me off.

So I devised a little circuit that twiddled a keyboard signal
periodically.

So this ASS came by one day and said he was going to revoke my VAX
privileges.

I allowed as how that would not sit well with the management, since I
was, after-all, the ANALOG GOD; AND I would distribute my schematic to
everyone in the company. He decided to leave me alone.

Some months later, working from home, from a dial-up... remember...
twenty years ago... I had a drop-out.

Dialing back in, I rolled right into the system, without logging in.

What I saw was some traffic that made no sense to me, but looked
suspicious, so I reported it to my boss.

About a week later I'm walking in the front door, and the IT guy and
his assistant are being walked out the door, in HANDCUFFS.

Seems they were working a side business on GenRad's computer
facilities.

That was such a joy I damn near wet my pants ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I have worked with excellent, supportive IT folks in the past (one of my
past employers who's now a client). It is pure joy -- particularly
since they are willing to let the whole engineering crew maintain their
own software while still taking care of the "corporate" stuff on our
machines.

I know how rare they are, so I'm always being _very_ nice to them.

P.S. I worked at GenRad too! Only I was a temporary stock-room clerk
while I was changing from an Oregon school to a Massachusetts one.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

 

[Pooh Bear]

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:01:57 +0100, Pooh Bear
rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:28:34 +0100, Pooh Bear
rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There *had* to be a freescale addy that should work. Anyone fancy trying
this one ?

Administrative Contact:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Larry Gwinn
2100 E. Elliot Road .
Muenchen, AZ 81829
US
Phone: +1.4804137088
Email: interreg@freescale.com


Graham

Not likely.

2100 E. Elliot Road is in Tempe, AZ

There is NO Muenchen, AZ

Zip code 81829 is in Wyoming.

The phone number DOES have the right area code.

...Jim Thompson

LOL ! I know that 'whois' info is often inaccurate ( esp for porn sites ) -
but why would Freescale do that ?

Graham

I just pulled up the 'whois'.

Looks like someone fudged the data to keep from getting slammed.

I've been known to do that too, before I switched over to GoDaddy and
a locked account.

...Jim Thompson

Turns out that 81829 is the zip code for Muenchen in Germany !

Graham

 

[Ken Smith]

In article <qlt261l9er0qk0v7sjo9q8oblkm73v1p5s@4ax.com>,
John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There was I time when I used a lot of Motorola parts. This is just
further proof to my theory that Motorola is going out of business. I
haven't designed in a Motorola part in at least 5 years. I don't think
based on this, the spun off Freescale will get any either.

--
--
kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:51:34 +0000 (UTC), kensmith@green.rahul.net
(Ken Smith) wrote:

In article <qlt261l9er0qk0v7sjo9q8oblkm73v1p5s@4ax.com>,
John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There was I time when I used a lot of Motorola parts. This is just
further proof to my theory that Motorola is going out of business. I
haven't designed in a Motorola part in at least 5 years. I don't think
based on this, the spun off Freescale will get any either.

They do a lot of high-volume stuff... uP's for cars, cell phone stuff,
things like that. That's big-time, insider selling, and maybe they
prefer not to be bothered by small fry like us.

John

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:28:01 -0700, the renowned John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:51:34 +0000 (UTC), kensmith@green.rahul.net
(Ken Smith) wrote:

In article <qlt261l9er0qk0v7sjo9q8oblkm73v1p5s@4ax.com>,
John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

There was I time when I used a lot of Motorola parts. This is just
further proof to my theory that Motorola is going out of business. I
haven't designed in a Motorola part in at least 5 years. I don't think
based on this, the spun off Freescale will get any either.


They do a lot of high-volume stuff... uP's for cars, cell phone stuff,
things like that. That's big-time, insider selling, and maybe they
prefer not to be bothered by small fry like us.

John

If they ignore all the small fry, who are they going to scr*w when the
big guys need 50K parts tomorrow?



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

 

[Greg Neff]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:38:31 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

John

Odd, my Motorola registration carried forward to Freescale with the
same user name and password. I went in to my profile and updated
without any trouble.

Freescale is still strong on promoting products through distributors.
I get hounded by Future regarding Freescale stuff on a regular basis.
Maybe you should try the 'old' method of contacting your disti.

We use Freescale PowerQUICC processors. These are complex beasts, so
lots of information is needed to cope. In my case I think that
registering is worth the bother. I have always had prompt and useful
responses to technical questions posted to the web based service
request system. I have found the knowledge base to be useful. Also,
I like getting the automated notifications of documentation updates.

Our volume is tiny compared to the automotive market, so I would have
to say that Motorola/Freescale is OK with respect to accessibility and
customer service.

================================

Greg Neff
VP Engineering
*Microsym* Computers Inc.
greg@guesswhichwordgoeshere.com

 

[Genome]

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message
news:qlt261l9er0qk0v7sjo9q8oblkm73v1p5s@4ax.com...

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

John

I had no problems at all....

E-mail ilike_spam@yahoo.co.uk
Password Aa0-snookums
First Name Arse
Last Name Fuck
Company Arse Fuck Industries Ltd
Business Industrial Control OEM
Job Professor
Title Top Bosswank
Street Arse Fuck Street
City Arsehole of the North
State Please Select
ZIP CB13RY
Country United Kingdom
Phone +044 123 416890

I am now registered with Freescale.

It's true...... you can see a screen shot in ABSE.

DNA

 

[Joel Kolstad]

"Tomscale" <jkkoch228@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1114044292.656252.65970@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

Authentication also helps us ensure privacy.

Wanting to be "private" about the specs of the products you sell (or hope to
sell) probably isn't a very good business strategy...

 

[richard mullens]

Fred Abse wrote:

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:56:11 +0000, Genome wrote:


a cross between a horse
and a donkey. I wouldn't want one of those poking out of my trousers.


Chance would be a fine thing

Isn't "Arse" just "Ass" with the Southern British long "A"? They say
"Glarse", "Brarnch", and "Farsten", too.

From the Millers tale (G Chaucer):

The wyndow she undoth, and that in haste.
'Have do,' qoud she, 'com of, and speed the faste,
Lest that oure neighebores thee espie.'
This Absolon gan wype his mouth ful drie.
Derk was the nyght as pitch, or as the cole,
And at the wyndow out she putte hir hole,
And Absolon, him fil no bet ne wers,
But with his mouth he kisste hir naked ers
Ful savourly, er he were ware of this.
Abak he stirte, and thoughte it was amys,
For wel he wiste a womman hath no berd,
He felte a thyng al rough and long yherd,
....

and later

This Nicholas was risen for to pisse,
And thoughte he wold amenden al the jape;
He sholde kiss his ers er that he scape,
And up the wyndowe dide he hastily,
over the buttok, to the haunche-bon;
And therewith spak this clerk, this Absolon,
'Spek, sweete bryd, I noot nat where thou art.'
This Nicholas anon let fle a fart,
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,
That with the strook he was almoost yblent;
And he was redy with his iren hoot,
And Nicholas amydde the ers he smoot,

 

[qrk]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:28:18 -0400, Greg Neff <greg@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:38:31 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

John

Odd, my Motorola registration carried forward to Freescale with the
same user name and password. I went in to my profile and updated
without any trouble.

Freescale is still strong on promoting products through distributors.
I get hounded by Future regarding Freescale stuff on a regular basis.
Maybe you should try the 'old' method of contacting your disti.

We use Freescale PowerQUICC processors. These are complex beasts, so
lots of information is needed to cope. In my case I think that
registering is worth the bother. I have always had prompt and useful
responses to technical questions posted to the web based service
request system. I have found the knowledge base to be useful. Also,
I like getting the automated notifications of documentation updates.

Our volume is tiny compared to the automotive market, so I would have
to say that Motorola/Freescale is OK with respect to accessibility and
customer service.

================================

Greg Neff
VP Engineering
*Microsym* Computers Inc.
greg@guesswhichwordgoeshere.com

Motorola has, possibly, the worst support. Took months to resolve
issues on their PowerPC based PrPMC boards. Both their UK and American
offices were unresponsive or clueless. Web help was clueless. Turned
out to be a BIOS issue and an ugly work-around. So, we thought Force
would be a good alternative since they are very helpful people.
Murphy's Law strikes! Motorola bought Force just as we were getting
ready to switch to them. I'm sure that we'll run into the same lame
support for the Force boards since Motorola took over.

Motorola's home page should have a big banner stating: "Problems?
Bugger OFF!"

Mark

 

[richard mullens]

Charles Edmondson wrote:

Keith Williams wrote:

In article <a703615malcene607cofv6m9pfo2d9km1j@4ax.com>,
jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com says...

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:08:23 +0200, martin griffith
martingriffith@XXyahoo.co.uk> wrote:


On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:38:31 -0700, in sci.electronics.design John
Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


I was registered with Motorola, but I'm not registered with Freescale.
If you're not registered, you can't send them mail, not even to the
webmaster. The password rules are so complex I can't remember them
all: something like requiring the length to be in a range, to have
nothing in common with the user ID, to have uppercase *and* lowercase
letters *and* numbers, to start with something or other...

I'll buy somewhere else.

John


They sounds like a suitable candidate for Dilbert/scott adams
attention


Oh, one more rule: it can't be the same as your four last passwords!
I'm not kidding.



IBM password rules, from A memo passed around some years back:

RULES FOR THE SELECTION OF PASSWORDS:

1. A password must be at least six characters long, and must not
contain two occurrences of a character in a row, or a sequence
of two or more characters from the alphabet in forward or
reverse order.
Example: HGQQXP is an invalid password.
GFEDCB is an invalid password.

2. A password may not contain two or more letters in the same
position as any previous password.
Example: If a previous password was GKPWTZ, then NRPWHS would
be invalid because PW occurs in the same position in both
passwords.

3. A password may not contain the name of a month or an
abbreviation for a month.
Example: MARCHBC is an invalid password.
VWMARBC is an invalid password.

4. A password may not contain the numeric representation of
a month. Therefore, a password containing any number except
zero is invalid.
Example: WKBH3LG is invalid because it contains the
numeric representation for the month of March.

5. A password may not contain any words from any language. Thus,
a password may not contain the letters A, or I, or sequences
such as AT, ME, or TO because these are all words.

6. A password may not contain sequences of two or more characters
which are adjacent to each other on a keyboard in a horizontal,
vertical or diagonal direction.
Example: QWERTY is an invalid password.
GHNLWT is an invalid password because G and H are
horizontally adjacent to each other.
HUKWVM is an invalid password because H and U are
diagonally adjacent to each other.

7. A password may not contain the name of a person, place or thing.
Example: JOHNBOY is an invalid password.

Because of the complexity of the password selection rules, there is
actually only one password which passes all the tests. To make the
selection of this password simpler for the user, it will be
distributed to all managers. All users are instructed to obtain this
password from his or her manager and begin using it immediately.

Boy, this thread hits way too close to home! I have a 'letter' in my HR
package now, because I spent almost an hour trying to change my company
password, and in the process, was somewhat verbally abusive to two
different IT folks, and physically threatened (requested name of
induhvidual who wrote password program, so that I could inflict bodily
injury upon him...) a fellow employee.

Believe it or not, but 1, 2, and 5 are all on the official requirments,
but 1 is modified in that the password must be (deleted to keep out of
trouble with security folks... )

Password history goes back to EVERY password you have ever used. After
6years, that leaves out a lot of letter sequences! I don't know how the
long timers with 15 years manage to do it!

Charlie

Somewhat like on VMS where the system manager can prevent password reuse.
When I encountered this I figured there must be a limit to the number of passwords kept - and wrote a command file to flush out
my old passswords so that they could be reused. Well, this drove the logon monitoring console crazy. In the event I just
filled the buffer - and this made the system generate random passwords for me - but this was against company policy, so I was
allowed my choice of password with no expiry. A victory !

 

[R Adsett]

In article <1114044292.656252.65970@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
jkkoch228@hotmail.com says...

Hi,

Actually, we've been watching this thread since the weekend. Thanks for
offering me an opening to clarify a couple of things.

To anyone who's had a frustrating experience with password restrictions
on our site: It's a fair cop, and new guidelines have been posted.
We're listening.

Authentication also helps us ensure privacy. We have a user agreement
for the same reason. Actually, legalese can be pretty important -- just
check out CourtTV!

I must be missing something, either that or you live in a truly Orwellian
world. You want me to give you information that you will then keep on
file in order to protect my privacy!?

Robert

 

[Pooh Bear]

John Larkin wrote:

On 20 Apr 2005 17:44:52 -0700, "Tomscale" <jkkoch228@hotmail.com
wrote:

Hi,

Actually, we've been watching this thread since the weekend. Thanks for
offering me an opening to clarify a couple of things.

To anyone who's had a frustrating experience with password restrictions
on our site: It's a fair cop, and new guidelines have been posted.
We're listening.

Hey, I thought the rules had changed!

Authentication also helps us ensure privacy. We have a user agreement
for the same reason. Actually, legalese can be pretty important -- just
check out CourtTV!

Thanks for starting the thread. We've enjoyed reading everyone's
anecdotes -- and believe me, we've got them, too.

Tom, Web grunt

So, I did re-register, posted my question, and got a good answer;
namely that the 68332 is still selling well and should stay in
production for some years.

I'd be interested in your input re the 6833X series.

Good: I'm designing another product around
it, 20th or so with this uP now. All I want now is a 3.3 volt, 25 MHz
version and I'll be happy again.

Actually, I've always liked Moto semiconductors and support, but the
password rules seemed absurd

Doesn't everyone agree on this point ?

. There's hardly a privacy issue here, and
if I want to use "ABC123" or "Password" or "John", shouldn't that be
my choice?

But I think a lot of us think the registration/password thing is often
overdone. When I'm a little cranky, or in a hurry, the idea of filling
out a registration form just to ask a question (or worse, just to see
a datasheet!) is annoying, so I go somewhere else.

Most distributors now let *anybody* type in a part number on their
home page, and cut directly to a p&a list. That's progress!

Linear Tech is really a pain; trying to get a budgetary price is a
huge hassle. Sensible people like TI and ADI show the price with a
click or none.

Uhuh. Showing 'budgetary price' is a godsend.


Graham