The Official Status Thread
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@chubertdev said:
The remnants of my wife's Detroit sports stuff.
I'm confused ... What were the claymores targeting again? ;)
Two birds with one Claymore.
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Borrow someone's cat to live in the garage for a few days?
make sure it's a mouser, not a birder if you do....
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make sure it's a mouser, not a birder if you do....
Ugh...now I'm thinking burning the house is a better option.
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Borrow someone's cat to live in the garage for a few days?
Thought about it. My wife is horribly allergic to cats though.
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Other updates: Over the weekend, our cooktop decided to shit itself and refuses to stay lit. Likely a bad thermocouple, but it is old enough as to not want to fix it. Also, the cold weather killed the strength of the lift spring on the garage door, so now you have to help it up the first foot or so.
Then, when I got home just a bit ago, I was missing the keyless entry remote for my SUV. I noticed a while back that the plastic loop that attaches it to my key ring. I guess it wore through. The really odd thing is, I obviously had it when I got in my damned vehicle, but it is not in the floorboard, etc. Apparently it chose the narrow window between when I unlocked the doors and when I got in in order to fall off.
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Better yet, a Mauser. Mice don't stand a chance.
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Borrow someone's cat to live in the garage for a few days?
@Intercourse said:
Thought about it. My wife is horribly allergic to cats though.
Perhaps a snake would be a better option, then?
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Status: can't do anything interesting with my PC while it's rendering hours of videos. So. Uh. Just surfing the web I guess.
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Got assigned a few tickets to check out the Wiki server. Even though I'm a software developer, and I don't develop that software.
Oh well, looking into it anyway. Turns out that my company thinks that "security" means close out all access that anything has ever had, and seeing who screams, instead of asking for justification as to why something would need access.
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Notice too late that I am sitting on, and taking a dump on, the hem of my bathrobe.
The TMI thread is over th...er....er...carry on @HardwareGeek
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Status: putting together a bunch of lazy quick-and-dirty let's plays of various indie games, specifically so I can uninstall them. SSD space getting low.
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@Intercourse said:
@boomzilla said:
Borrow someone's cat to live in the garage for a few days?
Thought about it. My wife is horribly allergic to cats though.
Perhaps a snake would be a better option, then?
We sometimes get rats under our house. We have a high-set Queenslander that's not built-in underneath so there are lots of quiet nooks and crannies for them to get into. We did once find a 2 - 3 foot carpet python living under there but he's since moved on. Shame really as I preferred him/her to the rats.
Filed under: Life in the sub-tropics
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We sometimes get rats under our house. We have a high-set Queenslander that's not built-in underneath so there are lots of quiet nooks and crannies for them to get into. We did once find a 2 - 3 foot carpet python living under there but he's since moved on. Shame really as I preferred him/her to the rats.
Yeah, I'll take the python over the rodents as well. Maybe that's what @Intercourse should get for his next pet?
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Security through obscurity. My company tries to prevent employees from using USB thumb drives by not advertising that it exists. Doesn't show up in Explorer, but if you're
luckysmart enough to guess the drive letter, it pops right open.
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Status: Apparently I had a lot on my mind today and put dishwashing soap in the dishwasher. Imagine the look on my face when I got home from picking up my son and the kitchen had 4" of foam across the floor....
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impromptu bubble bath for the floor!
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I infer, perhaps incorrectly, that you were not unique in having nothing positive to say about the system.
I almost forgot that I was successful in using the word "janky" in the conversation.
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impromptu bubble bath for the floor!
Yeah, and I think I figured out what actually happened. It is still my fault, but I did not put dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher. A few years ago, when I changed out our dishwasher, I noticed that the drain hose did not have a backflow preventer. I remember thinking that I would get that done when I got a:
Fast forward to today. I noticed that the drain side of the sink, without the disposer and where I rinse dishes, was draining a little slowly. I will take care of that when I get a:
http://jbburrows.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/round-tuit.jpg?w=450&h=435
I drain the sink and my extra-sudsy water backflowed in to the dishwasher, turning it in to a bubble machine suitable for the best foam party ever held in my kitchen (also the only one, but that is beside the point).
It really was not too hard to clean up. I grabbed my XL, extra manly, Shop-Vac and had the foam up in just a couple of minutes. A quick mop and grabbed this:
..from the garage and it was all taken care of before my wife even got home.
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@Intercourse said:
it was all taken care of before my wife even got home.
As long as your wife doesn't read TDWTF, you're good!
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As long as your wife doesn't read TDWTF, you're good!
Meh, if you have not noticed, I am pretty self-deprecating. I laugh at my failures more than anyone else will. I told her as soon as she came through the door.
Also, it is pretty rare that I mop and our tile was fucking sparkling. Not exactly the sanest way to deep clean the kitchen floor, but it is hard to argue with the efficacy.
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My company tries to prevent employees from using USB thumb drives by not advertising that it exists.
Do they not realize that DropBox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, etc. are a thing?
Security through obscurity.
...never works.
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How is this possible?
Good question.
@Intercourse said:
Do they not realize that DropBox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive, etc. are a thing?
Those are all blocked.
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Good question.
I believe it is done through GPO. I would have to look. The GPO options to stop the use of removable storage are not that effective, so I am pretty sure that is how they are doing it.
Those are all blocked.
Personal email? Does your workstation have a burner? I guarantee that I could find a way to get files out of the building within just a few minutes using only the shit in my laptop bag.
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For anyone with any tech sense, it is extremely easy.
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Yeah, even without guessing drive letters though. Although that is usually the easiest way.
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@Intercourse said:
Yeah, even without guessing drive letters though. Although that is usually the easiest way.
I just realized that my CD drive also does not appear, but is still available by drive letter.
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I just realized that my CD drive also does not appear, but is still available by drive letter.
You have to be shitting me? Does autoplay still work?
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@Intercourse said:
You have to be shitting me? Does autoplay still work?
I don't have a CD around to test with.
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Is RDP locked out for you?
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No, but they did revoke access for quite a few of the servers that I use. They mostly took away my access in the support environment (where I spend most of my time), took away access from the test environment from QA, and the developers...you can probably guess where they lost access.
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RDP to home machine, copy, paste. Files are off premise.
I could think of a few other ways to get the files out of there, without even trying. Most security policies just plain suck.
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@Intercourse said:
RDP to home machine, copy, paste. Files are off premise.
I could think of a few other ways to get the files out of there, without even trying. Most security policies just plain suck.
RDP outside of the network is disabled.
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Is it disabled? Or are they just blocking outbound traffic on 3389?
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@Intercourse said:
Is it disabled? Or are they just blocking outbound traffic on 3389?
I'm not motivated enough to care.
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I'm not motivated enough to care.
Caring enough to try to find out seems like the sort of thing that could lead to needing to update your resume.
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Caring enough to try to find out seems like the sort of thing that could lead to needing to update your resume.
You haven't been paying close attention to this thread, evidently.
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You haven't been paying close attention to this thread, evidently.
Which of the 700 conversations in this thread should I have been paying closer attention to?
I've been paying close enough attention to know that your employer, like so many here, is not as competent at IT as they probably should be. That doesn't necessarily mean that whoever sets the stupid security policies can't look at firewall log files and see an employee poking at ports he shouldn't be.
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Ahhh, I misinterpreted your prior comment, then.
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I misinterpreted your prior comment
Just out of curiosity, how did you interpret it? I don't see any other obvious interpretations, but then I know what I meant when I wrote it.
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Just out of curiosity, how did you interpret it? I don't see any other obvious interpretations, but then I know what I meant when I wrote it.
That it's not worth staying here, but then again, I didn't really read it. Busy with messy JS right now.
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I'm not motivated enough to care.
Boo. I will not be able to sleep tonight. Inquiring minds want to know!
Seriously though, understood. I was just exploring my curiosity as so many sysadmins get it wrong and I make money off of it.
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Status: 4 YouTube uploads, only one of them has ContentID by a scammer. Unfortunately, I did some research and it looks unlikely that this scammer will release the claim. Oh well, it was a shitty game anyway.
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Status: came across this little bit of trivia:
(Interestingly, the makers of 2014's Alien: Isolation video game actually reverted to 1970's video technology to make the game feel more like the original movie. The game's menu screens were first rendered in software, then recorded on to VHS video tapes, played on a CRT display, filmed, and imported back into the game.)
Pretty cool.
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Notice too late that I am sitting on, and taking a dump on, the hem of my bathrobe. Yeah, wonderful way to start the day.
Wow, a canonical use of that emoji. Nice.
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I wear a bathrobe. Then again I don't have a job.
Do you walk around on your front lawn in slippers, wearing a dazed look, as if you came out to check the paper and then forgot what you were doing?
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GAAAAAAAHH! WHERE'S THE BRAIN BLEACH?!?!?!
If he's wearing a bathrobe, you aren't going to see what you would have seen if he weren't wearing the bathrobe. I think @Intercourse failed at impersonating @algorythmics here.
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@Intercourse said:
At no point in my life have I been so broke that I would accept 50 cents to handle a dead mouse carcass.
Wow, you have missed out. You don't even need to be broke--you could feed the things to neighborhood cats, or pretend you're feeding them to zombies.
20+ years ago I had a cat that would be perfect for your house. She depopulated the entire field across the street from us of mice. Or at least, that's what we assumed happened when she stopped bringing mice carcasses home and started in on moles--one day she brought home 9, after having been yelled at for tripping a housemate and being thrown out of the house. We found 3 dead ones at each door.
Later she moved on from moles to shrews. All this in just under a year.