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Genius!

Captcha: ingenium

As afternoon grew shorter and the evening approached, the jokingly-proposed “someone’s going to have to sleep at the office tonight” became more and more a reality.

Nice one Alex.

Emmanuel put down his cup of coffee, went upstairs to my computer, and then...

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Note from Alex: I sometimes gets his pronouns mixed up.

Emmanuel put down his cup of coffee, went upstairs to my computer

Really? He went up to your computer, Alex? Just who is this Emmanuel guy?

I personally use CD drives as an alarm - I just surround multiple drives around my head and set them to trigger at 6am.

Reminds me of that little resetting machine that was featured here a while ago.

Poor little guy kept ejecting his little tray to no avail.
/something in my eye

Not nerd enough. They should have used a cronjob.

This is how it starts, first the robots open our doors, then they take over the world!

I know a guy who had problems with his computers, and swore it was haunted. He had an all powerful force feedback joystick that would calibrate itself. At one point, waking up and turning the PC on, he was groggily walloped in the head by the self calibrating stick.
At another point, he had the misfortune of a CD tray ejecting into a sensitive already abused shin. This all may be down to him doing all this in a very compact student room at the time, and grog was most definitely involved.

That's not a WTF. That's an Awesome...TF.

MacGyver would be proud.

I AM ITDOORMONROBOT!

The original article says:
3) Ran ~# eject /dev/scd0
And, click, the door was opened.

TRWDF: How can you click to submit a command on the SSH ?

Danny Staple:

...and grog was most definitely involved.

Nice.

I, for one, welcome our door-opening robot overlords.

adi:

The original article says:
3) Ran ~# eject /dev/scd0
And, click, the door was opened.

TRWDF: How can you click to submit a command on the SSH ?

The click of the lock releasing?

You don't, the door switch clicks

The *click* is the sound of the door unlocking.

I would assume the click is the noise of the lock retracting.

CAPCHA: mara

Keithius:

I, for one, welcome our door-opening robot overlords.

Actually, they welcome you. That is their job.

It's the sound of the... oh, never mind.

I appear to have stumbled onto THE DAILY FRICKEN SWEET by mistake.

Why the hell wasn't this implemented as a web service with a WAP interface?

BRILLIANT!!!

Emmanuel put down his cup of coffee, went upstairs to my computer, and then...

I guess Emmanuel lives with Alex. Not that there's anything wrong with that :)

I think the WTF is the need to hire a locksmith for their computerized door security system.

Tom Woolf:

BRILLANT!!!

Fixed

Bob Dole:

Emmanuel put down his cup of coffee, went upstairs to my computer

Really? He went up to your computer, Alex? Just who is this Emmanuel guy?

He meant

Emmanuel put down his cup of coffee, went upstairs to My Computer, double-clicked the icon, navigated to PuTTY's directory, made a mental note that he really should create a desktop icon for faster access next time, ran it, and then...

I wish I had unused Shuttles lying around the office.

That said, I gave my old Shuttle to my grandmother, preinstalled with Ubuntu.

1) Electronic Pass system without a manual override (traditional tumbler lock) - WTF. All my robot overlords have off buttons.

2) I hope the PC was at least on a UPS. An epic WTF would be to show up during a long term power failure, blown breaker, etc. and not be able to get in.

h:

Not nerd enough. They should have used a cronjob.

Also, they should have made it accessible through a website. Preferably an unsecured one.

Code Slave:

2) I hope the PC was at least on a UPS. An epic WTF would be to show up during a long term power failure, blown breaker, etc. and not be able to get in.

And he goes to all the trouble to find an UPS, installs it, sets the little cable up so he can get notifications if the power goes out, sets up nagios to want him if the box does go down, tests the pager function, test the email alert thresholds, and leaves for the night.

He wakes up at 3am in a cold sweat with the realization that the UPS he stole was the one used for the switch that serves the network segment which covers that room.

But then he goes back to bed because he knows that their border router isn't on an UPS anyway, so fsck it...

wee:

Code Slave:

2) I hope the PC was at least on a UPS. An epic WTF would be to show up during a long term power failure, blown breaker, etc. and not be able to get in.

And he goes to all the trouble to find an UPS, installs it, sets the little cable up so he can get notifications if the power goes out, sets up nagios to want him if the box does go down, tests the pager function, test the email alert thresholds, and leaves for the night.

He wakes up at 3am in a cold sweat with the realization that the UPS he stole was the one used for the switch that serves the network segment which covers that room.

But then he goes back to bed because he knows that their border router isn't on an UPS anyway, so fsck it...

An UPS? Hell! Why didn't they placed two computers there, it's failsafe.

Yep:

As afternoon grew shorter and the evening approached, the jokingly-proposed “someone’s going to have to sleep at the office tonight” became more and more a reality.

Nice one Alex.

Um, that makes perfect sense. What exactly do you have a problem with?

mauve:

I wish I had unused Shuttles lying around the office.

That said, I gave my old Shuttle to my grandmother, preinstalled with Ubuntu.

You must really hate the old gal. Did you really stick it to her by setting up the Ubuntu with a wireless card? What am I saying, no one's ever gotten Ubuntu to work with wireless.

Flatline:

Yep:

As afternoon grew shorter and the evening approached, the jokingly-proposed “someone’s going to have to sleep at the office tonight” became more and more a reality.

Nice one Alex.

Um, that makes perfect sense. What exactly do you have a problem with?

Seconded. That sentence makes perfect sense. Well, except for "afternoon grew shorter", which really ought to be "the remaining part of the afternoon grew shorter" or something.

Code Slave:

2) I hope the PC was at least on a UPS. An epic WTF would be to show up during a long term power failure, blown breaker, etc. and not be able to get in.

I wouldn't be surprised if a power failure disabled the lock itself as well...

It's a cup holder! No, it's a door opener! Ha, you're both right, the PC-OMatic is both a cup holder and a door opener. The PC-OMatic has a 1001 other uses as well!

Thanks a bunch. My entire wireless network crashed after I read that.

Hello? Click is the sound of the door unlocking! Muahahah! How stupid can some people be!

Ghastly, isn't it? All the doors on this spaceship have been programmed to have a cheery and sunny disposition.

<nitpick>

The last command can be shortened to

eject

on modern systems, because eject detects first CDROM device automatically.

</nitpick>

You can do this on a Windows machine too, right?. VPN in to the target computer, open My Computer, right-click the CD drive and click "Eject?"

Zecc:

Bob Dole:

Emmanuel put down his cup of coffee, went upstairs to my computer

Really? He went up to your computer, Alex? Just who is this Emmanuel guy?

He meant

Emmanuel put down his cup of coffee, went upstairs to My Computer, double-clicked the icon, navigated to PuTTY's directory, made a mental note that he really should create a desktop icon for faster access next time, ran it, and then...

The initial text was written as "I", "my" etc. and Alex just replaced "I" with "Emmanuel" but forgot the "my" for "his".

CQFD

Bob Dole:

Emmanuel put down his cup of coffee, went upstairs to my computer

Really? He went up to your computer, Alex? Just who is this Emmanuel guy?

Maybe that was actually Emmanuelle.

bbqsandwich:

You can do this on a Windows machine too, right?. VPN in to the target computer, open My Computer, right-click the CD drive and click "Eject?"

By "VPN" of course I mean "VPN and then Remote Desktop."

ay ess dee eff:

Code Slave:

2) I hope the PC was at least on a UPS. An epic WTF would be to show up during a long term power failure, blown breaker, etc. and not be able to get in.

I wouldn't be surprised if a power failure disabled the lock itself as well...

It's okay for it to fail locked if there's a manual release on the inside.

Anonymous:

It's the sound of the... oh, never mind.

What? WHAT? Don't leave us hanging here! What was it the sound of?

What would have been really cool is if you also told the door opening computer to sigh afterward with the satisfaction of a job well done.

jim steichen:

It's a cup holder! No, it's a door opener! Ha, you're both right, the PC-OMatic is both a cup holder and a door opener. The PC-OMatic has a 1001 other uses as well!

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