I'm not sure its the right place but all the talk of passwords etc has reminded me that I've got my 'crib sheet' of bank card pins that I use, it could be enlarged or improved I'm sure but I use something like this, the numbers have been changed to protect the stoopid.
84932
82134
02131
34537
92626
As long as you mind which order you do them in then you can leave it as a chit of paper in your wallet for credit cards etc that you don't use very often. I've only used it once when I 'needed' money to get even more squiffy abroad on a jolly, its a question of priorities.
If anybody is thinking of getting a new USB drive for the purpose, I have just bought one of these which seems good value.
64GB USB3 with microUSB £14.99 inc P&P I don't have a portable device that uses microUSB but could be useful to those that do:
I watched a video on youtube and it looks the mutts nuts mate, back up photos directly from your phone. An android is pretty much a full powered computer (comparible spec to an old desktop I suppose) but it's deliberately limited to 'mobile' functionality. This is a step in the right direction!
I'm deffo upgrading my EDC pen now. Thanks for the tip!
I love motorcycles like a fat guy loves cake. I also love cake.
You may also want to look at getting a pen drive with Hiren's Boot CD on it. This allows you to boot a PC into a mobile version of Windows XP. Meaning that even if a PC is windows password locked you can still use it. It will even run on a machine with a faulty or no hard drive. It comes with a huge array of software than can then be run.
That's a brilliant idea! Does it work on work computers too? The administrator locked ones? I wonder if there are any newer versions of windows that it will work on, I heard that XP a lot less useful these days since its not supported by microsoft. Also, I wonder if there is a version that might work with macs and linux - it seems to me that there must be a way of making it that versatile.
I'll be looking into this. There must be a way of adding that onto any pen as long as it's big and fast enough.
I love motorcycles like a fat guy loves cake. I also love cake.
You may be able to run HBCD on a work computer but if it is BIOS locked then you will not be able to change to boot order. The Windows XP OS is simply there to give you a familiar user interface with which access the software tools. It will work on any computer that can run windows or linux but Macs do not allow you to boot from a USB stick other than a copy of Mac OS so there is probably no way of making a similar software suite for them.
