Very nice. I saw the first answer, "North Pole", as soon as I read the question, and did not think it much of a trick question for someone interviewing at a place like SpaceX.
But these answers you guys offer are cool.
So the question ought to be, "... other than the north pole, where might you be?"
Still, I hate interview trick questions.
I agree. Who knows. But I've taken a look and I think there is something fishy on the machine.
We are going to do a careful system restore this weekend
(and hopefully not drag an infected file back into the system from the backup).
By the way, I don't mean to imply one of the course-ware apps was infected or the direct cause;
some of them simply did not work well until we let down our guards, and probably we probably exposed too much, and I'm also betting we did not restore all the safe guards when done. Ultimately our fault really.
But it is a hassle to keep up with this kind of crap; She just wants to study and I don't want to come home after work and be the IT guy. So I also partially fault software designers that create applications that need excessive system privilege, etc.
So I thank everybody for their suggestions. I'm going to make an effort to setup some sort of throw away "sandbox" method for the next time, by using VMware, and secondary imaged hard drive, etc. using all the suggestions I received.
I might try to write up what I do and post the instructions and how it turned out.
I was reading about the history of Lockheed (spelled Lougheed back then).
The Lougheed brothers named there first aircraft Model G for similar reasons.
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Very nice. I saw the first answer, "North Pole", as soon as I read the question, and did not think it much of a trick question for someone interviewing at a place like SpaceX. But these answers you guys offer are cool. So the question ought to be, "... other than the north pole, where might you be?" Still, I hate interview trick questions.
I agree. Who knows. But I've taken a look and I think there is something fishy on the machine. We are going to do a careful system restore this weekend (and hopefully not drag an infected file back into the system from the backup). By the way, I don't mean to imply one of the course-ware apps was infected or the direct cause; some of them simply did not work well until we let down our guards, and probably we probably exposed too much, and I'm also betting we did not restore all the safe guards when done. Ultimately our fault really. But it is a hassle to keep up with this kind of crap; She just wants to study and I don't want to come home after work and be the IT guy. So I also partially fault software designers that create applications that need excessive system privilege, etc. So I thank everybody for their suggestions. I'm going to make an effort to setup some sort of throw away "sandbox" method for the next time, by using VMware, and secondary imaged hard drive, etc. using all the suggestions I received. I might try to write up what I do and post the instructions and how it turned out.
I think the one that was a real pain involved PeopleSoft.
I was reading about the history of Lockheed (spelled Lougheed back then). The Lougheed brothers named there first aircraft Model G for similar reasons.
I've never worked anywhere, large company or small, where the systems were not set up with admin accounts.