I hate security system codes! They are quite literally the only 4 digit number I have trouble remembering. You want to know the PIN from a company debit card from 2005? Gotcha covered. Security code you literally just told me? Sorry, can't help ya. I keep them in my wallet.
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You'd make a great Deus Ex NPC
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You know, I think any IT guy must cringe at computer security in video games.
All the employees carry their passwords in their pockets or on nearby bulletin boards.
Or at best via some easy to guess clue like a note in a book that says, "oh this book always reminded me of how SECURE we were together. How we'd PASS the time with nary a WORD between us...".
All the employees carry their passwords in their pockets or on nearby bulletin boards.
Or at best via some easy to guess clue like a note in a book that says, "oh this book always reminded me of how SECURE we were together. How we'd PASS the time with nary a WORD between us...".
3 years in IT (1 of them in infosec, 2 in desktop support) taught me that those games are super-unrealistic with how competent users are portrayed as.
Granted, all that follows is for a low-security open campus but... I once found every single password needed to take over a PhD's life (email, banking, retirement, payroll, etc) taped to the desk, underneath their keyboard. I've lost count of how many users did the post-it-on-the-monitor thing (after being repeatedly told not to). "Hello, you called IT?" is all I need to get someone I've never met before to give me unfettered access to their logged-in work machine--they'd often blurt out their passwords unbidden (they've been told repeatedly that IT has no need for their credentials)... I wore my name badge maybe once a semester (when helping outsiders), not that anyone ever demanded identification (other than campus police and maybe one user/year).
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I had to reset a password for a guy who kept leaving abusive messages. I finally set it at "|l1||lI1|||l" or something equally obnoxious (in our system the l, |, & 1 all looked really close - you had to KNOW what you were looking for). We also told him that we were limited to 1 password reset every 30 days for security purposes.
His boss finally came and said, "Yeah, he's as ass, but could you please...?" His boss was totally cool so we did it.
I think it's safe to say, no matter where you are, once ice getting involved, everything is shitty nightmare.
IRL flip the keyboard over.[DOUBLEPOST=1516155582,1516155524][/DOUBLEPOST]1/4 inch of ice and an 1/8 inch of snow and my office is shut down for two days. Of course none of it melted.
Well, I called that, unfortunately.
I was taking Li'l Z to school this morning and lost control of the car. Thankfully, I had 3 things going for me:
1) In this weather (it's currently a snowing/slushy mix), I tend to drive much slower than usual.
2) It's only a two-lane road, but there was no oncoming traffic and the person behind me was a good distance away.
3) I let Li'l Z bring a book with him in the car, so he didn't realize what was going on until he heard me go, "Shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit!".
I was coming around a turn, albeit slowly, but not slowly enough because the back of our car decided it wanted to go it's own way. I took my foot off the gas and tried to get straightened out, but it decided to go all over the road and someone's lawn before getting control again. Thankfully, it's a spot with no trees, fences or ditches. So anyway, we're all okay, the car's okay, Li'l Z's safe at school and I'm done having adventures for today.
(Maybe a big "fuck you" to the township who decided not to salt, brine, or plow this time.)
When Houston Freezes...
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A pipe in my parent's house froze and burst. There's a two week wait for a plumber to come out and fix it.
Super cold for two days, super nice for two days, now its raining again because South Jersey is the center of chaos and madness. Also pretty sure it messes up my sleep schedule, I don't know why but it does.
They keep bumping the winter weather warning out.
Yeah, and I finally did a detailed examination of the topography between us and the ocean, and realistically it's probably going to take one of those 50 or 100 year storms for us to get hit hard by a storm. The way our valley curves, combined with the prevailing wind patterns, and our location in relation to Cape Blanco, means we're sheltered from most of the worst of the wind.
Edit: All that being said, it rained sideways most of the day today and the power just gave me a hard blink, so with the worst of the wind being forecast for starting shortly, I think it's time to save all my docs/games, and make sure my tablet is charged (the phone was topped off an hour ago), before I bring some wood upstairs and get to heating the stove back up.
Edit: All that being said, it rained sideways most of the day today and the power just gave me a hard blink, so with the worst of the wind being forecast for starting shortly, I think it's time to save all my docs/games, and make sure my tablet is charged (the phone was topped off an hour ago), before I bring some wood upstairs and get to heating the stove back up.
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Aye. They need to sack the whole crew.
. . . of course, that'll just lead to møøse alerts.
I suspect @Terrik doesn't have to manage living in 36% humidity that often.
I'm in Western Kentucky and have been having similar weather as Gas - lowest our humidity seems to be going is 50% overnight - makes the "RealFeel" in the low 100's even if the actual temps aren't in the 100's. Lots of rainstorms too because of the humidity.
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Yeah, I die when the humidity gets above 20% because my body no longer knows what to do when there's water in the air.
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My local college is still rebuilding from the flooding caused by Harvey. Here are some pics of how things looked after remediation, but before reconstruction started.
This was the library:
So many books lost.
The theater, and those seats were nearly new. They and the carpeting had just been replaced a year or so before. Probably all of them at least need new upholstery, with a few rows being gone completely.
All of the costumes in the costume shop were lost. Much of the furniture and props.
He is some of the office spaces:
The theater building is last on the list to be rebuilt, and it won't be done until 2020 at least.
This was the library:
So many books lost.
The theater, and those seats were nearly new. They and the carpeting had just been replaced a year or so before. Probably all of them at least need new upholstery, with a few rows being gone completely.
All of the costumes in the costume shop were lost. Much of the furniture and props.
He is some of the office spaces:
The theater building is last on the list to be rebuilt, and it won't be done until 2020 at least.