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The only lipsum generator you will ever need is http://slipsum.com/ (bad words, NSFW if you work for a church)
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http://tlipsum.appspot.com/
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Feb 24, 2014 17:19
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I've been using http://hipsteripsum.me/ Good to know there's more.
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Feb 24, 2014 17:30
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I feel like the best prank to pull would be to use one of those ipsum generators with the Zalgo Text Generator. Freak the hell out of some clients.
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Feb 24, 2014 18:07
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A ticket came in... And another... And another... And another... I'm sat here with 17 fairly important tickets in my name, other people have gently caress all, my managers on holiday and his replacement isn't allowed to reassign tickets, so he's not a replacement, he's just a face to complain at. E: While writing this i've acquired three more. I'm tempted to just bounce the drat calls.
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Feb 24, 2014 18:10
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Amateurs... http://theipsumcollection.com/liquor-ipsum/
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Feb 24, 2014 18:21
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That's right... amateurs!
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Westie posted:
Hah, the site is drunk. I can confirm that at some point in the past year it actually did work.
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Feb 24, 2014 18:42
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Ticket came in! The website was hacked, which somehow became my problem because they decided to fire the consultant who built it and never got around to finding a new one. Old version of Joomla (and even older plugins) susceptible to exploits. Hooray.
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Feb 24, 2014 19:07
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Cavepimp posted:Ticket came in! The website was hacked, which somehow became my problem because they decided to fire the consultant who built it and never got around to finding a new one. The people whom my group is the contractor for is specifying we use an old version of software with known exploits. On a public facing web app dealing with sensitive personal information. This can only go well.
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Feb 24, 2014 19:20
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Khisanth Magus posted:The people whom my group is the contractor for is specifying we use an old version of software with known exploits. On a public facing web app dealing with sensitive personal information. This can only go well.
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Feb 24, 2014 19:26
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Khisanth Magus posted:The people whom my group is the contractor for is specifying we use an old version of software with known exploits. On a public facing web app dealing with sensitive personal information. This can only go well. I hope you sent them a letter saying that they're hosed and you're not responsible for the inevitable.
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Feb 24, 2014 19:31
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Collateral Damage posted:Let me guess, they're aware of remote exploits in their version, yet they refuse to pay for an upgrade? It's a loving open source framework, they have just spontaneously gotten paranoid about open source and so are specifying we use the version that comes on the server, which is several years out of date with known exploits. We have told them this is a loving terrible idea, but they won't budge. Oh, and this directly contradicts(and to a degree makes impossible that we use the "n-1" version of all libraries/frameworks/etc. Again, won't budge. Khisanth Magus fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Feb 24, 2014 19:35
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Khisanth Magus posted:It's a loving open source framework, they have just spontaneously gotten paranoid about open source and so are specifying we use the version that comes on the server, which is several years out of date with known exploits. We have told them this is a loving terrible idea, but they won't budge. "Your opinions on network security are a massive liability that we will play no part in indulging."
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Feb 24, 2014 19:40
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Yeah. At that point you either get some signed liability waivers or better yet just back away from that deal slowly.
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Feb 24, 2014 19:42
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AlternateAccount posted:Yeah. At that point you either get some signed liability waivers or better yet just back away from that deal slowly. Ummm, this is an ongoing, multi million dollar contract, so waking away is nor really an option. We will be making them sign off on the fact they are forcing us to deploy this with a version with known exploits against our recommendations and protests though.
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Feb 24, 2014 21:10
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Central IT for where I work have installed a new IDS system. This system is currently randomly and intermittently cutting communications between internal clients and servers as well as external connections. This has made troubleshooting everything network related a million times more difficult. Earlier today is was killing DNS, then it killed my department's printers for a while, then Exchange, then back to some DNS. Secondly, we had a person that was let go a few months back come back recently under a new lab in my dept. We grant each lab networked file storage. This user comes to me and states they do not have access to our file servers and has never had access since they've returned. I go to the user's computer, have them log in and there's the network storage. I open it up, get into the data without a problem. The user's response: "Oh I never tried because I couldn't log into (a non-lab unrelated system)." My response: "Welp."
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Feb 24, 2014 21:38
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So a ticket came in. It started out with some speed issues over the intranet. Turns out the account lead sent an email to the intranet provider to make some changes to the subnetting for the orgonization a few weeks ago. Im not sure what t hey did but they messed up something. I do a normal 4 ping test and get 7 replies.
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Feb 24, 2014 23:08
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Guess who's problem it isn't?
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Feb 24, 2014 23:10
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Caged posted:Guess who's problem it isn't? but it is my fault 
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blackswordca posted:but it is my fault Right, but it isn't the account lead's problem.
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Feb 25, 2014 00:33
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blackswordca posted:So a ticket came in. What address are you pinging? If you're getting more replies than pings sent, I'd bet it's a broadcast address somewhere.
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Feb 25, 2014 00:56
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4 pings out and 7 back is a bit few to be broadcast I'd have thought. Unless you're hitting a broadcast address on a link with a ton of packet loss on it.
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Feb 25, 2014 01:10
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Some anycasted addresses come back with multiple replies, usually it will say (dup!) after those though.
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Feb 25, 2014 01:18
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Khisanth Magus posted:It's a loving open source framework, they have just spontaneously gotten paranoid about open source and so are specifying we use the version that comes on the server, which is several years out of date with known exploits. We have told them this is a loving terrible idea, but they won't budge. To save on costs and to catch up with current technology, the agency in question wanted to migrate from WebLogic to JBoss, however the version of the framework currently used was only compatible with WebLogic. The up to date version of the framework was compatible with both WebLogic, WebSphere and JBoss. However the application would not work with the new version, but require an estimate of thirty man-days of programming to be brought up to date and work with the new version of the framework. At the price of the consultants they hired to develop the application, this would come to roughly €20,000. The other alternative would be to outright buy the source to the outdated version of the framework and adapt it in-house to work with JBoss. This would require no change to the application code, but would cost almost €150,000 to buy the rights to the outdated source plus an indeterminate amount of hours to adapt it to work with JBoss, with no guarantee that it would actually work in the end. Guess which option they went with? Collateral Damage fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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Feb 25, 2014 01:34
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Caged posted:4 pings out and 7 back is a bit few to be broadcast I'd have thought. A lot of devices don't respond to ICMP on the broadcast address. It would make it too easy to amplify traffic for malicious purposes.
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Feb 25, 2014 01:57
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Collateral Damage posted:Speaking of sticking with old versions, a previous governmental agency I worked for had an in-house developed application that was central to their organization. Said piece of software was based on J2EE, using a third party proprietary framework developed for WebLogic. The framework was now 4-5 years old and about 1 major and 5 minor versions behind the current version. Option 3: Not update anything
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Feb 25, 2014 02:02
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Option 4: lay offs!
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Feb 25, 2014 03:03
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The obvious answer is they blamed IT for their lack of foresight, canceled their raises, and chastised them for not being team players.
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Feb 25, 2014 04:40
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A ticket came in... Owner notices stapler not being used. Reason is that someone shoved about an inch of staples past the loading area, jamming it on the hinge and bending the spring. He pries at it for about four seconds then hands it to me saying "You can take over."
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Feb 25, 2014 16:03
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CDW posted:A ticket came in... "I'll do the needful, sir." *Throws stapler in trashcan.* Quickest turnaround time for a ticket. Make sure you note this when you request your next raise.
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Feb 25, 2014 17:48
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quote:Laptop tag #84 has keys that have been moved around on the keyboard, as in: c and a switched, e and t switched, b and n switched. When I type in "baker" as the password, it says "the user name or password is incorrect." The laptop is in the library on the circulation desk. This is from the teacher that teaches typing. She teaches typing, notices the keys have been rearranged, and still doesn't understand why her password is wrong. 
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Feb 25, 2014 21:38
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SopWATh posted:This is from the teacher that teaches typing. She teaches typing, notices the keys have been rearranged, and still doesn't understand why her password is wrong. I hope I never get to an age where I stop insight-fully looking at things.
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Feb 25, 2014 21:42
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CDW posted:A ticket came in... Johnson! This stapler is tragically underutilized! What do you make of it?
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Feb 25, 2014 21:46
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Erwin posted:Johnson! This stapler is tragically underutilized! What do you make of it? This? I can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl...
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Feb 25, 2014 21:48
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SopWATh posted:This is from the teacher that teaches typing. She teaches typing, notices the keys have been rearranged, and still doesn't understand why her password is wrong.
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Feb 25, 2014 21:51
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Collateral Damage posted:Reminds me of the old "I can't log in while standing up" story. Care to share? A Google search brings up a bunch of incontinence issues. EDIT: Welp, there's a joke there... SopWATh fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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Feb 25, 2014 22:02
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SopWATh posted:Care to share? A Google search brings up a bunch of incontinence issues. http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html Totally unrelated but this is my favorite "debugging" story: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html Demonachizer fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Feb 25, 2014 |
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Feb 25, 2014 22:46
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I don't remember the source now, but the gist of it was someone had switched M and N around on a user's keyboard. It didn't affect him though, because he'd normally be touch typing. However at some point for whatever reason he was standing up and thus looking down at the keyboard, and couldn't figure out why his password didn't work because he saw that he was typing it in correctly. edit: ^^ That's the one. And the 500 mile email is definitely my favorite tech support story.
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demonachizer posted:http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html Now, this comes after years of experience and if you add the hours together probably days or weeks or months of wasted time and thoughts of "this thing doesn't work. I'm a bad programmer, I'll never get it, the documentation always sucks, maybe I should become a lifeguard or Forrest ranger" when seemingly magic and impossible bugs and behaviors popped up. Now a days I can reduce the hunt for bugs to a couple of minutes. Starting out programming video game mods probably helped, since those are kind of overly complex and impossible seeming for a starting programmer.
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