Re:Like emailing while drunk?
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I throw all the outbound mail to a certain group of special people into a special Postfix queue that gets flushed at 1630 every day. (I get home around 1600.)
Yeah, I could flush the queue manually, but so far I've managed to avoid that in drunk mode.
I was really thinking about a setup where I go into drunk mode before drinking; the root password automatically changes, init patches to disallow "init=/bin/sh" and so forth, an http proxy flips on and keeps me from doing any POSTs...
Hmm. You know you're an alcoholic sysadmin when...
I bet I could do the same. Not to say perlhacker's arguments weren't well-thought-out and well-researched, just that there may very well have been a good reason for it -- to play devil's advocate.
I'm a fan of a strong national defense. Too bad whenever I see anyone use that phrase, they really seem to mean a strong national Offense. I guess "that's the best defense" in some minds.
That saying didn't come from nowhere, y'know. Though some people seem to forget that the first word in the saying is "sometimes".
Apparently, 0x0e and 0x0f are ASCII SI ("shift-in") and SO ("shift-out"). I guess the idea was to switch the terminal to and from an alternate character set or something? I dunno.
(I meant Ctrl-O in the same context -- e.g., <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-O><Enter>. The magic happens when bash echoes it to the terminal in a "command not found" message. A/usr/bin/reset will fix it, too.)
Those are both pretty informative. I just go to the first line, set a mark (say, "ma" to set mark "a"), go to the last line ("mb" for mark "b"), then:'a,'bs/foo/bar/g
I bought a little $20 motion detector from Rat Shack, layed it across RTS/CTS on the serial port, and wrote a little bash script that would do a statserial [-x] once per second. If the motion detector was going (I'm reasonably sure it was normally-closed, so it'd open the circuit and clear CTS when it detected motion), it'd start taking pictures with the webcam, emailing them to hell-I-forget-where, and dial my pager. Took me a few tries to get the ATDT string right.;-) I even got creative, picked up a little keyswitch, and routed some wires through the wall to the outside, where I could hold the circuit closed even when the motion detector was going off. Alas, no tamper switch (would've been easy enough to wire, though). I believe the system it was hooked up to even turned all its volume controls all the way up and started blaring some generic alarm mp3 at top volume.
This was all more for fun than anything else, in case you hadn't guessed.
I know another guy who did the same thing (which is where I got the idea from -- I think he used the parallel port, though, and no camera). He put the motion detector on the heater. It took him a minute to figure out why he kept getting so many false alarms -- the motion detector went off every time the heater kicked on.:-)
Not really the same vein, but nowadays my laptop detects when I'm home from work via scanning for the Bluetooth signal from my phone, reads me how many messages I have and from whom, how many days until payday, how many days until whatever (e.g., election day), and a fortune [-s -a]. Used to be with my own bash script, but I've found blueproximity works okay, if a little slower. It might be interesting to do the same thing with the Bluetooth part integrated, so the alarm part only goes off if my phone is around...
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I throw all the outbound mail to a certain group of special people into a special Postfix queue that gets flushed at 1630 every day. (I get home around 1600.)
Yeah, I could flush the queue manually, but so far I've managed to avoid that in drunk mode.
I was really thinking about a setup where I go into drunk mode before drinking; the root password automatically changes, init patches to disallow "init=/bin/sh" and so forth, an http proxy flips on and keeps me from doing any POSTs...
Hmm. You know you're an alcoholic sysadmin when...
Why was this modded troll?
I bet I could do the same. Not to say perlhacker's arguments weren't well-thought-out and well-researched, just that there may very well have been a good reason for it -- to play devil's advocate.
Name's taken.
(Linked to the dead site to illustrate the fact that I'm kidding. Relax, mods.)
Preparation G caused hemorrhoids.
I'm a fan of a strong national defense. Too bad whenever I see anyone use that phrase, they really seem to mean a strong national Offense. I guess "that's the best defense" in some minds.
That saying didn't come from nowhere, y'know. Though some people seem to forget that the first word in the saying is "sometimes".
There needs to be a Godwin's Law corollary for Bush.
Here's to you, Mrs. FE31BB076800267D0BA / Jesus loves you more than you will know / whoa-oh-oh
I always wondered about macros. Usually I'd miss the ":" key or something, see " - recording - ", and go "wtf?". (Thanks!)
Apparently, 0x0e and 0x0f are ASCII SI ("shift-in") and SO ("shift-out"). I guess the idea was to switch the terminal to and from an alternate character set or something? I dunno.
/usr/bin/reset will fix it, too.)
(I meant Ctrl-O in the same context -- e.g., <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-O><Enter>. The magic happens when bash echoes it to the terminal in a "command not found" message. A
Pics or it didn't happen. ;-)
Hard.
I prefer (Ctrl-O gets you back. ;-))
Those are both pretty informative. I just go to the first line, set a mark (say, "ma" to set mark "a"), go to the last line ("mb" for mark "b"), then :'a,'bs/foo/bar/g
:'a,'b>
Also great for indenting:
fc - Command editor.
You can most certainly go "Oh sh*t!" after typing: sudo cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sda
Actually, no, you can't. Unless you're already root.
I take it you've never seen "It Takes a Thief", wherein every dog the guy encounters is friendly and non-hostile?
I bought a little $20 motion detector from Rat Shack, layed it across RTS/CTS on the serial port, and wrote a little bash script that would do a statserial [-x] once per second. If the motion detector was going (I'm reasonably sure it was normally-closed, so it'd open the circuit and clear CTS when it detected motion), it'd start taking pictures with the webcam, emailing them to hell-I-forget-where, and dial my pager. Took me a few tries to get the ATDT string right. ;-) I even got creative, picked up a little keyswitch, and routed some wires through the wall to the outside, where I could hold the circuit closed even when the motion detector was going off. Alas, no tamper switch (would've been easy enough to wire, though). I believe the system it was hooked up to even turned all its volume controls all the way up and started blaring some generic alarm mp3 at top volume.
:-)
This was all more for fun than anything else, in case you hadn't guessed.
I know another guy who did the same thing (which is where I got the idea from -- I think he used the parallel port, though, and no camera). He put the motion detector on the heater. It took him a minute to figure out why he kept getting so many false alarms -- the motion detector went off every time the heater kicked on.
Not really the same vein, but nowadays my laptop detects when I'm home from work via scanning for the Bluetooth signal from my phone, reads me how many messages I have and from whom, how many days until payday, how many days until whatever (e.g., election day), and a fortune [-s -a]. Used to be with my own bash script, but I've found blueproximity works okay, if a little slower. It might be interesting to do the same thing with the Bluetooth part integrated, so the alarm part only goes off if my phone is around...
Much greater scale? Doubt it, greater? Probably. Often? Probably not.
But would any other species in the same scenario care? Probably not. But I'd say we keep things as they are because we want to.
...You just had an entire conversation with yourself. :)
Changes like this may mean that this is no longer possible. What shall we do, just let huge populations of people die?
Yes.
When you come home from the pub at night after a few beers you don't want to wait for BitTorrent, you want it NOW!
After a few beers, I'm streaming a whole different kind of torrent.
Icing on the cake: modded +5 Interesting.
More magic?
"SMS". Cute.
Go look up Operation Able Danger.
"It's a bird!"
"It's a plane!"
"No! It's... The Whiner!"
Cue narrator...