My first day, I was on the job at 7:30 am and learned that the incumbent, who would be schooling me, would not show up until 10:00 am.
So, I looked around his office and spied an old abandoned notebook that had the line: "backup password is steelers."
I logged in (Novell 3.1) and inquired about the user "backup." It had god privilege.
I made myself an admin and started touring and documenting stuff, finding shit like a backdoor into the system via a dialup modem that the firm new nothing about.
When my mentor showed up, he said, "Well, the first thing is to make you admin."
I said, "No need. I already did that and, BTW, you're no longer admin on my site."
We worked until 11:00 pm each and every night. goddam
A week later he was gone and I ordered a dry erase and listed all the fucking reasons I was working until 11:00 pm.
I tackled each line item and cleaned up the mess, automating as much as I could (I threw the modem in the trash).
A month later, management said they noticed that I didn't work overtime anymore. I told them, that's true, and you don't pay me to so so.
By 3 months I had fully automated mundane tasks and sat in the rocking chair except for when new tech came along.
In my opinion, keeping things out of the ditches is a valuable talent.
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... I'm going dark at that time.
Agree.
Wanna join a pool about how fast it's hacked?
I already got the 15-30 minute slot.
... screw the rural Bubbas who voted for the pussy-grabber.
Be sure to call just the landlines.
+1, Insightful
... my ass.
Yelp contamination anyone?
It will be worse than Amazon recommendations, Rotten Tomatoes, Google Reviews, and all those 5-stars from aunts and uncles.
... when I first hired on at a law firm.
My first day, I was on the job at 7:30 am and learned that the incumbent, who would be schooling me, would not show up until 10:00 am.
So, I looked around his office and spied an old abandoned notebook that had the line: "backup password is steelers."
I logged in (Novell 3.1) and inquired about the user "backup." It had god privilege.
I made myself an admin and started touring and documenting stuff, finding shit like a backdoor into the system via a dialup modem that the firm new nothing about.
When my mentor showed up, he said, "Well, the first thing is to make you admin."
I said, "No need. I already did that and, BTW, you're no longer admin on my site."
We worked until 11:00 pm each and every night. goddam
A week later he was gone and I ordered a dry erase and listed all the fucking reasons I was working until 11:00 pm.
I tackled each line item and cleaned up the mess, automating as much as I could (I threw the modem in the trash).
A month later, management said they noticed that I didn't work overtime anymore. I told them, that's true, and you don't pay me to so so.
By 3 months I had fully automated mundane tasks and sat in the rocking chair except for when new tech came along.
In my opinion, keeping things out of the ditches is a valuable talent.
No guilt here.
Two problems:
1.) cre 1 mer
2.) 5440320
Can Slashdot do something about pastebin bots?
Go to the creimer YouTube channel.
... not actors.
You'd be surprised how many people conveniently log in to other sites using their Facebook account.
... since America is sharing the Dream with Japan.
So, fuck you very much mr president.
... is to make sure you don't carry incriminating material in your wallet or purse. Remember those?
They have been subjected to search since Moby Dick was a minnow.
How long did it take for people to wise up to that?
As technology gets smarter, people become dumber.
You could apply the math if you were really interested in being correct.
When 51% of the population is barred, without due process, from contributing to science, who do you think that hurts?
How many Einsteins have we told to shut the fuck up?
How many men have taken credit for work by women?
The times, they are a-changing.
Swoosh
I see what you did there.
Well, shit.
I was going to match you IQ for IQ and say that your momma wears combat boots, but these days that's a compliment.
I want to express my "thanks," to all the moms who have served, are serving, and will serve, while wearing combat boots.
... attack.
I'm with ya.
Back when I was young and foolish, I used Chrome.
I logged in to Gmail at work to get an attachment I had sent myself.
Of course, I logged in to YouTube, Google+, and every other goddam property Google owns and my desktop Chrome synced up bookmarks and shit.
What a mess. I used a tree branch tied to a horse to cover my tracks and I got strange looks that morning.
And BONUS!
Your embarrassing and potentially job-losing shit shows up on your BYOD or work desktop and on the firewall logs.
Management sent some people home for just that reason.
Because you're too goddam lazy to click next door.
Browser Market Share Worldwide - August 2018
Chrome 59.67%
Safari 14.51%
UC Browser 6.28%
Firefox 4.93%
Opera 3.5%
IE 3.03%
When I worked COBOL there was no Internet.
Like buzzwords are for boors.
I programmed in COBOL. I liked it.
It was easy for me to understand.
What was damned near impossible was straightening out the spaghetti code already in place.
The way to understand an existing system is to fuck around with it and get inside the programmer's head.
Once done, I can anticipate what's coming.
When a system is a hybrid of decades of code by quacks and pros alike, it's a goddam maze.
Management doesn't take that as an excuse and I excused myself from the management.
While the wage was competitive, the stress wasn't worth it.
I'll do startup with COBOL, but there's no market for that.
Appreciate it.