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Last night, tried to FTP to my web site as I often do.
It failed numerous times. it was late so I gave up for the evening but I was annoyed but thought I was using the wrong pwd or something.
Today i tried again and tested pwd numerous times.
Every time it failed with a "530 user cannot login" back from the server.
Tried it from command line and Filezilla. Nothing.
Could not get through to any ftp site. Everything else works great (http, web sites, etc).
Finally, I gave up and decided to reboot. Even though I had rebooted just a couple of days ago with the new windows updates.
Yep, reboot fixed it.
I blame Windows 10, because that is the popular thing to do.  But it also seems like the right thing.
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I had a similar problem logging into a system a week ago (from Windows 10) - the password kept being rejected. When I also was unable to log onto a database server I was getting even more concerned that someone had hacked in and reset passwords.
Turned out to be something simple - Windows 10 had switched my keyboard to a US layout from my normal UK one. Both passwords contained punctuation characters which were being switched due to the change of layout.
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Al_Brown wrote: Windows 10 had switched my keyboard to a US layout from my normal UK one
Windows keyboard handling is brain-dead. We have a number of systems in-house that we've had to re-image after a Chinese customer had used them and installed Chinese keyboard support. It wasn't possible to uninstall it, and it persistently reset the keyboard to a Chinese layout.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Al_Brown wrote: Windows 10 had switched my keyboard to a US layout from my normal UK one
Interesting...and quite terrible that Win10 did that.
Not sure how you even noticed the change. Maybe you typed your password somewhere where it showed up and then you noticed the chars were different?
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I knew it had to be a bacon related post!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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That's just ridiculous.
Everyone knows that bacon, pizza, hamburger, etc, were invented in America!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Everyone outside the USA knows that's not true.
Everyone inside the USA knows that people outside the USA don't exist. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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So he ate bacon and he aged pretty well!
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Or ... he stole someones bacon and that's why he was shot?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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He still aged pretty well though.
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I like where you're going with this. Definintely going to increase my bacon intake. 
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Please, no pictures of Donald Trump with bed head! 
Marc
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Do you make test data fun?
I'm currently working on a car reservation system.
I've reserved cars to Mordor, Isengard, Hogwarts, Mos Eisley Cantina and Narnia.
It's all fun and games until something accidentally lands on a production environment (like my Hot Spicy Steak, product code 666, delivered to Sanderville a few years ago).
I know some people, especially customers, need test data to be "the real thing".
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I did this early in my career. But remember not to take it too far. When I used an image of Darth Vader for the CEO and he saw it, we had to revert back to boring test data... The whole IT department got reprimanded once it was found.
Hogan
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That's awesome! 
When I was testing some data with a coworker I used Lil Bub[^] (a special needs celebrity Facebook cat) to test some picture uploading service (it was really meant for receipts).
We've been sending Lil Bub pics to each other ever since
Too bad your CEO didn't approve.
I guess humor is unprofessional 
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snorkie wrote: When I used an image of Darth Vader for the CEO and he saw it
Surely you're considered a living legend by the proles?
snorkie wrote: The whole IT department got reprimanded once it was found.
Worth it!
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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That's hilarious. If I was the CEO I'd have a good chuckle and go about my business (literally). Shame he didn't have a sense of humor 
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C-level execs (sociopaths) never do.
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No humour.
My boss would demand the full size original of the picture.
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Must have been too close to reality for his comfort.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Funny thing is that he was one of the best owners I have ever worked for. He knew everyone by name (about 170 employees when I left) and would talk to anybody in the halls.
Hogan
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Sander Rossel wrote: Do you make test data fun?
..I have learned to first check what the test-data is being used for. If it can end up in a presentation to the customer or the boss, some jokes can be, ehrm.. unprofessional.
But yes, there's often a Bacon Ipsum in each multiline textfield. When creating test-data, I use a fantasized company that insures broom-sticks (complete with logo's ofcourse). The added bonus of reserving for Narnia or Mordor is that when an order actually accidentally makes it to production, it is (hopefully!) easily recognizeale as nonsense-data. So yes, next to humor it is also defendable as being usefull.
Sander Rossel wrote: I know some people, especially customers, need test data to be "the real thing".
How 'real' is data? And what data is involved? Do take into account that it may have some privacy-implications if you are going to use a copy of 'real data', like that it may need to be anonymized.
Remember, security starts with paranoia 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The added bonus of reserving for Narnia or Mordor is that when an order actually accidentally makes it to production, it is (hopefully!) easily recognizeale as nonsense-data
Or a lawsuit for lots of spilled fuel!
Eddy Vluggen wrote: How 'real' is data?
I used to work for meat processing companies (yes, as a vegetarian, I know...) so they had a product, like tenderloin, that I would use for testing. So whenever the customer tried to explain what he wanted and we looked at some test data together he would laugh at me for putting a tenderloin in an order by some French customer that never orders tenderloin and then having it shipped by some Russian transporter (while the customer was in France).
I really don't care what customer I ship too, or what transporter delivers the goods, none of that mattered for the test, but he just couldn't work like that.
So yeah, he'd recreate nearly every test case we had so it fit a real world scenario, whether it was important for the test or not.
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Sander Rossel wrote: So whenever the customer tried to explain what he wanted
Hehe, made me think of this[^] site, but be warned, it can be a time-waster 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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