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AOL-Yahoo-MSN Messaging Unified... in the Workplace Only
bakreule writes "Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo! are teaming up to link their separate instant messaging services for use in the workplace, 'the first major step by the industry leaders to enable computer users to communicate with one another no matter which of the three systems they use.' Sound to good to be true? It is. 'What this does not do,' Root said (yes, that's his name), 'is the holy grail of instant messaging, which is to allow anybody on any network to send a message to anybody on any other network.' It seems that the system, which is aimed for corporations, involves some MS software which acts as an intermediary between the different systems. Sounds like a fancy version of all the open source IM clients out there."
AOL-Yahoo-MSN Unified
Man I'd hate to see the baby.
My pics.
No word is MS's text editing software, not chat software.
net send is a source of great fun in an office full of morons.
Name your computer something ominous like "SYSTEM_KERNEL_DAEMON", then do some creative net sends, like:
net send * This machine has performed an illegal instruction and will self destruct in 45 seconds.
etc, etc, and so on.
Hours of fun for the whole family.
Or, when one new employee was fired around here, the next day I named my machine to his login id and sent some:
net send * You cant fire me! You are all fucked now! You'll be sorry!
And watched the panic stricken manager types run up and down the hall screaming "he's in the computer! he's in the computer!".
Aah.. Good times.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
To paraphrase Gary Larson, "Bummer of a username, Hal."
Root said (yes, that's his name)
Hey ! That f***ing bast**d has an account on my computer ! And same on my friends' computers...what a powerful hacker he must be !
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nico
Nico-Live
*shrug* I only know of two cases here where people were disciplined for inappropriate emails here. In the firt case (admittedly before I got here), someone was sending out a mildly pornographic dominatrix video of a guy repeatedly getting kicked in the crotch by a lady in high-heeled boots with a subject title of "At least it's less painful than working here." It probably would have passed under the radar if the guy hadn't used the ML-ALL mailing list that included the general.
The other incident, the higher-ups found out due to word of mouth. With everyone talking, it was inevitable that eventually someone would notice. And so his email logs were requested and he was sent off for sensitivity training. *grumble* And then they went on a hyper-politically-correct workplace bent, making everyone remove pictures of wives and girlfriends from cubicle walls for fear that someone might find them offensive. Oh, the joys of federal government work...
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the tech dept at my school decided to forbid IM programs when they issued everyone with laptops because, of course, they're for academic use only! never mind that since everyone had a laptop, we were now forbidden to have personal computers in our rooms...so anyway, no IM for us. but there was net send, which they couldn't or didn't disable, so they simply forbade any of us to use it. we all ignored it, they attempted to crack down on it, etc. etc. so one evening during study hours, i needed the math hw from my friend and was waiting for her to send me back. ta-da, in walks my counselor. as jenny's msg pops up on my screen.
....
her: what's that?
me: it's a message from jenny.
her: huh?
me: i needed the math hw, so i net sent her about it.
her: what?
me: *sigh* we had that meeting, remember, when you said anyone using net send would get detention?
her: oh! is that what that is? how do you use it?
me: *proceed to show her the command prompt, etc.*
her: how interesting. ok, well...stop in my office tomorrow to discuss your punishment.
me:
*she leaves, i close my door and indulge in some loud and creative swearing*
so that's the story of how i showed my idiot bitch counselor how i was breaking the rules, and how i got detention for using net send.