Robot Pride posted:

dude, i worked at a classified lab for years where we had both siprnet (SECRET) and unclas machines on every desktop (240+ desks) and was the sole systems guy for all of our unix/linux machines to include the networking gear like the crypto that we had to re-key once per month

i personally KNOW how lovely it is and then you have republicans on the one hand deriding the gov workers for lovely work but when hillary goes out to a private free-market firm they act like the gov system is the bastion of security and correctness

Robot Pride posted:

another funny item was that our server rooms had dial combos on them to get in but you could just pull up the floor tile where the wiring runs and just slide in the 14" crawl space to go under the whole frame and pop into the room. those doors prob cost the gov like 30k$.

another time we got these 250k$ SPARC racks with data arrays in crates parked in the server room to prepare for a large project expansion. they sat in the room for like a year unboxed till it was announced that the thing was cancelled so the BRAND NEW servers got wheeled out right to DRMO

brand loving new and unopened SPARCS with fiber arrays in the giant gray and purple cabinets running solaris 9

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

i had to do contractor work for a federal agency and they arent allowed to mail logfiles, no matter what they are, through their email.

however, a contractor on the visitor wifi could.

usb is banned (for obvious reasons, plugging anything usb into a device sent security into the room and the machines were isolated and sent for inspection, but they mostly just scrapped them).

so it meant copying a bunch of logfiles to another laptop via the most efficient of media: burning cds

since we had to deal with a vendor, we had to send a dozen variations of the logs. each time burning a new cd for the ~70kb file. i quickly understood why everyone in the office had a 500 spindle of CDs at their desk.

Radio Paranoia posted:

how do you buy your internet from amazon? does it come in a box?

Anaconda Rifle posted:

what does El Salvador's even mean? "The 45 minute country". How fast you can drive through it?

Improbable Lobster posted:

Gazpacho posted:

how the gently caress does anyone show up at those tech events anyway? seeing as they're scheduled either during business hours or evening commute time

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Shaggar posted:

nice selection of lovely keyboards

Sophian posted:

If you watch the larger version, she clearly swats his hand away with the back of her hand. Pretty sure she hates his guts and I'm pretty sure he's stressed from the job and takes it out on her. Piece of poo poo...

Optimus_Rhyme posted: