I was 30 days from being axed from my call-center helpdesk position. Thankfully I found another internal position working with contracts, away form the IT field, but the other 27 members on my old team weren't as lucky. Now I get to hear transfers from these indian cheap-hires with customers complaining about how thankful they are to have gotten transferred to someone who can speak english and can understand what the rep is trying to say. Dell learned hard lesson, you get what you pay for, and soon, I hope IBM will learn it's lesson all it's own. Until you experience working with these outsourced help, you will never know the impact it has on a business in terms of customer satisfaction or the many times I have to hit mute to laugh because one rep calls himself "Dan" for short when his real name is nasahary"dan"apeptlan, and he is forced to tell customers his name is Dan for the sake of saving everyone some fustration just from his GREETING alone!
...looks like someone already got www.smashdot.org. And here I was thinking of stealing slashdot's website content only to keep everything as it is and replacing the top banner ad with an enlarge your p3nis ad.
I took an old remote control car's motor and put it inot a model car to construct my own pulley system to make the car hop up and down just like the real cars on the road with hydraulic suspension setups.
So I took the motor and attached it inside the car (thank you hot glue gun and glue sticks) and hooked up a "T-model" suspension so that when the motor turns it would wind a string up which pulls the suspension "up" towards the car, thus making the car hop.
Then I took my mothers rice cooker power plug and spliced into it to attach it to the motor. Little did I know at that time in my life (9 years old), the value of toggle switches as well as 120v on a motor that was built to handle no more than a 9v battery. Needless to say, instantaneously after plugging in the rice-cooker plug the car hopped once and then the motor sparked like hell (exploded actually), caught on fire, and melted a hole through the floorpan of my model 1968 Impala.
So in the end my mother slapped me for ruining her power cord, I was out a motor and model car, and my room smelled like burning plastic/metal for 3 days. How I miss my innocent days of playing with electricity.
That was my favorite google search back in the good old days....finding the "service.pwd" or "admin.pwd" files, then cracking them with John the Ripper. Too bad that exploit is patched and next to non existant now:(
do what I did one time when my dealine was 2 days away and I thought it was impossible to get some projects done, I had a friend come over to take my DSL modem and cables away. that way i had no surfing but pure hardcore computer work just on the good ol' comp. I usually do work faster with just the radio on and it works fine for me, but I too had that problem with having the web just a click away. So i recommend doing it cold turkey style. Permanently cut yourself off from the web before starting a project or lock yourself in a room with just the computer (and radio if it helps you concentrate much like it does for me). AND REMOVE GAMES FROM YOUR COMPUTER TOO!!!
Thank you O' holy one who bringeth my salvation of an account. Ever since the NYTimes generator site became useless, I never bothered registering... Thanks again.
...and we lost tons of money. We were down for more than 8 hours and no customer could call in to check on their server problem tickets, hospitals needed service and we couldnt get technicians out there...our servers were swamped. This is serious when companies who deal with the lives of idividuals are at risk. Hospitals had ptient databases that couldn't get accessed, nor banks needed techs onsite to install new software or hardware upgrades before the open of business....nothing could get done. This was the first time IBM got hit this hard where it brought down 95 percent of the company globally. Yikes....Now I got back to collecting the hair I've been pulling out for the past 8 hours.
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The smoke bomb article you speak of is what I used as a science project back when I was in high school...Of course I had to read up on the ingredients used and explain the reaction between the potassium nitrate,alcohol, sugar, etc...but needless to say phrack was and is still a good read for me, now and 8 years ago.
Which IT professional here on/. can guarantee that their cluster of servers that hold important hospital information wont go down and crash. Do they sue you or the manufacturer of the servers and parts that failed? Which IT professional can guarantee theier servers to be up and running forever and that patient life isnt at risk from the servers coming down? Choosing to become a dotor knowing people's lives are in your hand is just as same as being in the IT profession, they expect the best and right choice all the time, but sometimes it just doesn't go your way.
...so what vacation are all of you talking about? I'm behind 12-inch concrete walls, no windows, and a bunch of screensavers flickering away because everyone who left for their holiday off rushed off and forgot to turn their computers off....jeez. Hmmm...Now what's for lunch? Vending Machine raid!
Microsoft also mentions to create a restore point on XP before installing DirectX 9.0 because they don't know if it will cause issues or problems after the install. And there is no way of uninstalling it after you install it, as they mention. Oh boy, I can't wait to see a couple of weeks down the road from now. What issues may arise?
I got a tub of popcorn this year with a design on the outside that makes it look like a drum. This year we got 3 flavors instead of 1 like last year! Shows we are 3 times as successful as we were last year, huh!
Why should I? Am I not livnig in the cyber age...oh please intrigue me with your blissfull interpretation of communicating via the noise you make when you shit on yourself?
Just another way for the FBI to track your movements, see who you are and log your IP's, etc, etc...I think that they hope these terrorists will actually click on the banners and expose thierselves in the open via the net and potentially get caught. I think its just another big brother tool...use with caution!
I've been reading a lot of these posts and some have it right when they say it's just an over-sized Palm with XP. So, where shall I put the next device when I walk through the office with my Palm on the left side of my hip, my 2 cellphones on the other side with one of them having an ear-piece in my ear, my pager clipped to my pocket, and my laptop around my shoulder?
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I was 30 days from being axed from my call-center helpdesk position. Thankfully I found another internal position working with contracts, away form the IT field, but the other 27 members on my old team weren't as lucky. Now I get to hear transfers from these indian cheap-hires with customers complaining about how thankful they are to have gotten transferred to someone who can speak english and can understand what the rep is trying to say. Dell learned hard lesson, you get what you pay for, and soon, I hope IBM will learn it's lesson all it's own. Until you experience working with these outsourced help, you will never know the impact it has on a business in terms of customer satisfaction or the many times I have to hit mute to laugh because one rep calls himself "Dan" for short when his real name is nasahary"dan"apeptlan, and he is forced to tell customers his name is Dan for the sake of saving everyone some fustration just from his GREETING alone!
...looks like someone already got www.smashdot.org. And here I was thinking of stealing slashdot's website content only to keep everything as it is and replacing the top banner ad with an enlarge your p3nis ad.
if only microsoft would invest that time and money into their security initiative.
I took an old remote control car's motor and put it inot a model car to construct my own pulley system to make the car hop up and down just like the real cars on the road with hydraulic suspension setups.
So I took the motor and attached it inside the car (thank you hot glue gun and glue sticks) and hooked up a "T-model" suspension so that when the motor turns it would wind a string up which pulls the suspension "up" towards the car, thus making the car hop.
Then I took my mothers rice cooker power plug and spliced into it to attach it to the motor. Little did I know at that time in my life (9 years old), the value of toggle switches as well as 120v on a motor that was built to handle no more than a 9v battery. Needless to say, instantaneously after plugging in the rice-cooker plug the car hopped once and then the motor sparked like hell (exploded actually), caught on fire, and melted a hole through the floorpan of my model 1968 Impala.
So in the end my mother slapped me for ruining her power cord, I was out a motor and model car, and my room smelled like burning plastic/metal for 3 days. How I miss my innocent days of playing with electricity.
That was my favorite google search back in the good old days....finding the "service.pwd" or "admin.pwd" files, then cracking them with John the Ripper. Too bad that exploit is patched and next to non existant now :(
do what I did one time when my dealine was 2 days away and I thought it was impossible to get some projects done, I had a friend come over to take my DSL modem and cables away. that way i had no surfing but pure hardcore computer work just on the good ol' comp. I usually do work faster with just the radio on and it works fine for me, but I too had that problem with having the web just a click away. So i recommend doing it cold turkey style. Permanently cut yourself off from the web before starting a project or lock yourself in a room with just the computer (and radio if it helps you concentrate much like it does for me). AND REMOVE GAMES FROM YOUR COMPUTER TOO!!!
Thank you O' holy one who bringeth my salvation of an account. Ever since the NYTimes generator site became useless, I never bothered registering... Thanks again.
...EVERY time! oh yeah, and....
20yr old self: "You see, 12yr old self, in SOVIET RUSSIA Beowulf Clusters Imagine You!"
12yr old self: "Russia has clusters of Beo Wolves that imagine me?
Wish I could read his German website... jaaa.....
Hate to break it to you, IBM does use them...and lot's of 'em too! :(
...and we lost tons of money. We were down for more than 8 hours and no customer could call in to check on their server problem tickets, hospitals needed service and we couldnt get technicians out there...our servers were swamped. This is serious when companies who deal with the lives of idividuals are at risk. Hospitals had ptient databases that couldn't get accessed, nor banks needed techs onsite to install new software or hardware upgrades before the open of business....nothing could get done. This was the first time IBM got hit this hard where it brought down 95 percent of the company globally. Yikes....Now I got back to collecting the hair I've been pulling out for the past 8 hours.
The smoke bomb article you speak of is what I used as a science project back when I was in high school...Of course I had to read up on the ingredients used and explain the reaction between the potassium nitrate,alcohol, sugar, etc...but needless to say phrack was and is still a good read for me, now and 8 years ago.
Which IT professional here on /. can guarantee that their cluster of servers that hold important hospital information wont go down and crash. Do they sue you or the manufacturer of the servers and parts that failed? Which IT professional can guarantee theier servers to be up and running forever and that patient life isnt at risk from the servers coming down? Choosing to become a dotor knowing people's lives are in your hand is just as same as being in the IT profession, they expect the best and right choice all the time, but sometimes it just doesn't go your way.
...so what vacation are all of you talking about? I'm behind 12-inch concrete walls, no windows, and a bunch of screensavers flickering away because everyone who left for their holiday off rushed off and forgot to turn their computers off....jeez. Hmmm...Now what's for lunch? Vending Machine raid!
Microsoft also mentions to create a restore point on XP before installing DirectX 9.0 because they don't know if it will cause issues or problems after the install. And there is no way of uninstalling it after you install it, as they mention. Oh boy, I can't wait to see a couple of weeks down the road from now. What issues may arise?
I got a tub of popcorn this year with a design on the outside that makes it look like a drum. This year we got 3 flavors instead of 1 like last year! Shows we are 3 times as successful as we were last year, huh!
Another useless patent lawsuit...When will someone patent the useless troll post?
Why should I? Am I not livnig in the cyber age...oh please intrigue me with your blissfull interpretation of communicating via the noise you make when you shit on yourself?
Just another way for the FBI to track your movements, see who you are and log your IP's, etc, etc...I think that they hope these terrorists will actually click on the banners and expose thierselves in the open via the net and potentially get caught. I think its just another big brother tool...use with caution!
I've been reading a lot of these posts and some have it right when they say it's just an over-sized Palm with XP. So, where shall I put the next device when I walk through the office with my Palm on the left side of my hip, my 2 cellphones on the other side with one of them having an ear-piece in my ear, my pager clipped to my pocket, and my laptop around my shoulder?
Who's ready to learn??? I am!