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Old 10-26-2008, 02:15 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I have an old computer funning ubuntu 7.10 but haven't used it in over a year and now when I go to boot it up I can't remember the password to get in. Is there anything I can do to get around this and log on somehow?
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