[ale] OT: password gripe

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:48
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: password gripe
> 
> keepass for iPhone gets pretty poor reviews... :(
> 
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> Until later, Geoffrey
> 


Geoffrey,

While were on the subject of pet peeves, Outlook does an immediate send if you press control-enter. I have to use Outlook for work so I can't use whatever I want. This means that on my laptop I can accidently send half finished or empty emails (like the two I have already sent on this thread). Most annoying is that I have not found a way to disable this function . . . yet. Although while typing this I just thought of a way I might be able to override Outlook by reassigning control-enter as a Windows global hot key that does nothing.

Back to the subject at hand:

I have not looked into the iPhone port as I don't have one. Everyone I know who has an iPhone likes them (except some don't like the on-screen keyboard). The people in New York are not very happy with their iPhones at the moment but that is a problem with AT&T and not the phone itself.

I have noticed that the iPhone doesn't take getting dropped very well as evidenced by the number of times friends have had to replace them. My previous Blackberry took several years of serious drops. Several times it popped out of its holster while I was running and I kicked it resulting in it bouncing off a curb in one case and a concrete wall in another. It is a really tough little phone. I eventually found a better holster which solved the problem but not before my old phone succumbed to being literally kicked around. In all fairness I know of one friend who dropped his Blackberry right after he got it and killed it. It was a different model than mine and he dropped it from about 6 feet onto a concrete parking deck while getting out of his SUV. The moral of the story is that all cell phones are equal but some are more equal than others (thanks George Orwell for letting me paraphrase your words).

None of this really has anything to do with the quality of KeePass on the iPhone. Given that KeePass is open source and rather popular I hope someone will eventually do a better job of porting it.

keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280