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posted by [personal profile] machine_dove at 12:28pm on 01/11/2005
This looks incredibly neat - I'm hoping the full site closer to the release date will be even better. I'm also hoping that FUNi continues what they've been doing and gets us one of the R2 boxes, because those are just cute.

Watching Boss Man's dreams being crushed before his very eyes this morning was satisfying, in a bitter sort of way. There's a distinct possibility that my job is going to get billions of times better somewhere around the end of December. Yay! In the meantime, I'll leave you with this:

You have a network that stretches across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of user accounts. Somehow, you lose a copy of all those accounts with associated passwords. Brilliant! Now, clearly you need to have all your users change their passwords. However, you can't send temporary passwords by email for obvious reasons, and you can't call them with the temporary passwords for less obvious reasons. The temporary password step is necessary for the obvious reasons.

So, you have hundreds of thousands of user accounts, all needing a password change, and you need to be able to do this on a tight schedule and deliver a temporary password in person. How do you do it?

If you're NMCI, you do it like you do everything else - stupidly.

First, you take all your user accounts and alphabetize them...by first name. Then, you divide the accounts by the site they're associated with, and then into "segments" of x% of the total number of accounts. Each segment is assigned the same temporary password and a one-hour block in which they are required to enter the temporary password, then change their password again. If you miss your block? We don't even want to go into that part of the process.

Oh, and the temporary passwords are all variants on the same theme, so if you happen to stumble across one, the rest are trivial to figure out.

I'd love to be the proverbial fly during some of the meetings where these schemes are cooked up.
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posted by [identity profile] izuko.livejournal.com at 06:13pm on 01/11/2005
They didn't even go the "last six of your social" route? Geeze, even if it's not the most secure, it's at least common and well established.
 
posted by [identity profile] nathanbp.livejournal.com at 06:21pm on 01/11/2005
Oooh, that got liscensed? Nice, I'll have to buy it ^_^
o/' Neko mimi modo o/'
 
posted by [identity profile] mordath.livejournal.com at 06:32pm on 01/11/2005
Yup! Negima was also announced over the weekend by FUNi as well.

I'm amused that in three years FUNi has gone from "avoid at all costs, they treat shows like shit" to "Yay! FUNi licensed it! We'll get good prices, accurate treatment, and R2 goodies!"
 
posted by [identity profile] nathanbp.livejournal.com at 06:36pm on 01/11/2005
*suspects he may not want to know what the R2 goodies for Negima were* ^_^;;

Any hints on Monster getting liscensed? Altho hopefully not until someone finishes fansubbing it (8 more eps) ^^;;
 
posted by [identity profile] mordath.livejournal.com at 06:39pm on 01/11/2005
>.< Not yet - I'm still hoping for a Geneon license, but it's possible that Viz may end up picking it up, since they have the manga (inexplicably delayed - potentially to tie into an anime release?).
 
posted by [identity profile] opt513.livejournal.com at 09:44pm on 01/11/2005
Those R2 goodies are probably the only reason I'd buy Negima anime.
*pats 7 volume manga collection*

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