It is not possible to look tough while stuffing your mouth full of gummy bears.
It is not possible to look tough while stuffing your mouth full of gummy bears.
When I first clicked on this link, (that was in another blog I was reading while doing research.) I was a bit confused. The Post didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but after reading the comments, everything clicked together and I started laughing. I mean we have all heard the stories about elderly people trying to use a computer that isn’t plugged in, or that their “cup holder” is stuck, but this really takes it to a new level. I mean how did they find this guy’s site? Probably through google… Anyway the comment that got me laughing pretty hard was this one.
hello i am 82 years old and google is on my computer withour permission IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. my compoter is slow now and i want to contact the internet what is the number?
FYI – Those are not my spelling mistakes.
Hope you all get a laugh like I did.
I hate laying cable. If you have ever done your own home/small office network, or setup a surround sound system, and hid the wires, you most likely know what I am talking about.
Toss in the fact that someone has left the area above our false ceiling tiles a bit of a mess, and add that no one besides me is tall enough to run the cables, and you can understand why I hate running cables at the office more the usual. FYI for those that don’t know the proper standard to do your own network cable, it is :
Orange White / Orange
Green White / Blue
Blue White / Green
Brown White / Brown
Anyway, back to why yesterday sucked and why I hate cabling in this office. I mentioned that it is a mess above the ceiling tiles, and that is putting it mildly. This created havoc with falling dust and fiberglass that got everywhere (including my eyes) when we moved tiles to string the cables along the top. Now keep in mind I had an interview yesterday with a potential employee, so I was dressed decently (IE not wearing jeans, and I had on a button down shirt). This became an issue when I tried to step down from a desk I was standing on to the ground. Apparently I am more flexible then the pants were, because the inside seam from my right knee up tore. We aren’t talking a little tear either, it was a pretty massive one, thank god I had a belt on. So my first reaction was ok, I am going home to change, but I had less then an hour to go, so, I took off my button up shirt and tied it around my waist so I looked like a ’90 grunge wannabe (I had a regular T-shirt on so it was fine). I finished out my day, and decided I needed a chocolate shake to smooth the BS of the day away. So my roommate and I go from the office to McDonald’s to grab food and a chocolate shake for me. mind you my pants are still ripped and I look like a dirty grunge wannabe, so we go through the drive through. We get the food and the drinks with minimal issue, made a quick stop at 7-11 cause the roommate needed his cigarettes, and made our way home. In the attempt to get out of the car, I was handing the drinks to my roommate and the drink carrier broke with one of the teas in it, spilling it all over my left leg and the car. The rest the night was pretty much a wash, I changed into some shorts and just played FFXI the rest the night (Yes I started playing that again).
Anyway today is turning out to be better, so I hope yesterday’s crap is done and over with. Feel free to laugh at my crappy day in comments below.
I will never buy an IPhone. I know it is a brash statement, but as it stands right now, and for the foreseeable future, it is accurate. All service providers aside ( I feel Verizon is a better Cellular Service Provider then AT&T, but that is not what this post is about), I used to be envious of the people that could get an IPhone, but recent (and not so recent) activities have made me decide I am never going to get one.
In my job, I have seen a ton of hacking attempts and exploits targeting servers and websites. Most often, when someone is hacked it is because some part of their website has allowed for an injection into the code, or a remote file include (Yes, there are other methods, but these are by far the most common).
The reason why exploits like that are so common is because content management systems (like WordPress or Joomla) are fatally flawed. They were not designed with security as the primary goal, they were designed to be easy to use. Don’t get me wrong, Darksideofperfection.com is a WordPress Blog, and I think it is great, saved me days of work from the start, but the question is, how do you prevent yourself from becoming a victim of a hacker?
I got called a cracker today by a one of our customer’s customers. (For anyone that is keeping track that makes her nothing to us.)
I was a little thrown back, because I was taking over the call from another admin, and I had not been on the call for more then 15 seconds which I think is a new personal record for being insulted in a call.
This blog is progressively turning into my “omg, wtf, did he/she do what I think they just did?” moments. This one was caused by someone that isn’t one of our customers, so I am going to toss their name out for the world to see, and show people that you really do need to watch who you hire to do your computer work.
So, we have a customer who hosts his account with us. Lots of people do, this particular customer, who we will call x.com, also is a customer of rescuecom.com, which is where the shenanigans start.
So I have started using google buzz, the new social service from google, and I have to say, I like it a lot. I first found out about it when google maps updated on my Android OS phone, and mentioned the me “Google Buzz” Feature. So while I was out for sushi last night I posted a comment about how great the sushi is. Now at first I had no clue what was going to happen, but when I woke up this morning I found several messages regarding my post. Now how this is an improvement over twitter is two fold:
First – I can set a comment for a location, it then is visible on google maps, for anyone to see, on google maps via their cell phone, or via google.com/buzz
Second – This is Powered by Google. I highly doubt they are going to have the “fail whale”-itis… and it integrates with all my other google services, awesomeness.
I think I hear the fat lady warming up in the background for twitter…
So what is your take on google buzz? Is it going to be the Twitter Killer? Post Comments below.
I have always been huge on keeping backups (this is why I have most my ripped songs music from Middle School still). In the last couple weeks we have had at least 3 people call in about their servers being down, we found that the hard drive was either :
1) Corrupted beyond repair, due to a Virus
2) Corrupted beyond repair, cause the user had a itchy trigger finger on the reboot button
3) Or the hard drive failed entirely
All three of these cases expected the host to have backups of files for them, and were bitten by the harsh reality when it came to light that they had not paid for that service, and what was worse, their ‘IT’ person didn’t even know what backups were.
Unless you are on some sort of shared plan, don’t expect your host to do your dirty work of backups for you. It takes time, resources and man power to ensure that backups are done, and done correctly. I recommend that you review your backup, and recovery plan in the event something should go down. You should do this even if you are on a shared plan, because hosting providers are not infallible, just ask dreamhost, or rackspace.
So normally, I wouldn’t post about some “out of control customers”, or people giving me grief about something dumb, but today I feel like sharing some of my more choice stories, one being from today. I will not include anyone’s name or domain, to protect the ill-witted, and my job.