9) Just For Grins

Jerry Slaff dug a very, very weird item out of the Microsoft Knowledgebase:

If you log on to an MIT realm, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, click Change Password, type your existing MIT password, and then type a new password... you get the error

Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords

Wow: 18,770 characters. Now, *that's* a password!

The Knowledgebase offers a fix, but not before noting helpfully: "Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1."

If you want to read the item in all its weird glory, it's at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q276/3/04.ASP

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2001