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Heh :) Just realised that my last post is saying "Scary Linux install" and then I haven't updated. Fear not, the computer is still working and the Linux install went well. So far, it scores big points by being the first linux install I've done where the internet worked first time and for being very easy to install things on. It's dual booting with Windows because that machine is also our primary games machine but I'm hopefully going to get a bit of use out of it. It would be better if I could install it on my laptop but when I tried to run the LiveCD on here the graphics crashed (which was the problem I had when I tried to install Debian on here). Next time I get a laptop, I'll definitely try to check compatibility beforehand.

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Malicious Security Crackers: "We used to take an account and try out about 40,000 passwords on it in about 5 seconds to see if it would unlock. LJ doesn't let us do that anymore. Damn that LJ! We'll show them! Here, have a malicious script!"
Malicious script: *takes 5 most commonly used passwords, tries them on 40,000 different accounts*
4000 LJ accounts: *unlock*
Malicious Security Crackers: "Score!"
LJ Geeks: "O RLY."
LJ: *stops allowing even remotely easy passwords*
4000 LJ users: "Hey! That was a perfectly good password! Why'd you make me change it?"
LJ Support: *facepalm*

See http://azurelunatic.livejournal.com/4817217.html for this and the rest of the story of what LJ has been up to this week :)