I also put my passwords in an OpenOffice Spreadsheet protected by one strong password and stored on a separate flash drive backed up to another flash drive. I never keep any financial stuff in any of my computers and generally use a Linux partition to work on financial docs etc, but always save them to the flashdrive.Just out of interest, and maybe to help users, without giving personal information, how do people record passwords?
With Windows 10 a couple of weeks away and much comment about it on the BHF, I started thinking about when I first used a computer way back in 1979 and then much later the Internet. My first contact with the Internet from home was in 1998 using Windows 98. I used a system called 'dial-up' with a program named Freeserve provided completely free on a CD from Dixons. With 'dial-up' I used to hear that strange buzzing and swishing noise from the modem as it connected and no telephone calls could be made while online, and emails with a photo attachments could take 5 minutes to send. I was still on dial-up when I first joined the forum and usually waited until the evenings to come on when telephone calls were cheaper.
So roll on Windows 10 even though I'm using Apple's iOS 8.3 to post this ....
oldMohawk, I was 'grounded' whilst in RAF due to eyesight problems and finished up at Bletchley Park which was the RAF's main signal centre, I was put on teleprinters which were the latest thing in the 50's, it involved both hand typing and feeding paper tape using a 5 digit punched code. Not sure how long the RAF occupied the place but it as got a chequered history. Eric
Hi Maurice, I suppose the one good thing with Windows computers is you can usually set them up as you want whereas with Apple devices you have to use them like Apple want you to.Now that would really screw my eyesight, especially as all the icons look the same. Still using Windows 7 here with icons reserved for programs (with browsers, email & windows explorer on the task bar) and websites in regular use on an organised bookmark system. I'm happy with that.
Maurice