I gave myself a pretty big scare yesterday. I was happily going along, using my computer like usual when I started to run into some internet problems. “Oh, I haven’t changed my DNS servers today,” I thought — sometimes the DNS doesn’t seem to work quite right here and I have to use OpenDNS if I want to go to any websites. So, since I’m running Ubuntu, I opened up System->Network, clicked on Authorize, and entered my username and password. I waited expectantly for it to authorize me, but it gave me a message that said “Error: could not authenticate,” or something along those lines.

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