• Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    hoodaticus:
    Curious George:
    20 years of the M$ marketeer's proselytizing have preceded you.

    If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

    I refuse to let you rape that illuminating meme into meaninglessness.
    I'm not so sure I'd call that meme "illuminating". It's use is more often "rationalizing" than anything else. Of course, that still doesn't reflect positively on George's use of it.

    hoodaticus:
    Complete this sentence:

    "When all you have is an o.s." ....

    ...it must be Windows! Every other OS these days seems to include/provide actual third-party applications. :P

    All kidding aside, the OS religious battle is complete nonsense to me. I admit, I used to be a borderline Linux zealot, until the day I met a Windows zealot. I could see a bit of myself in him, but distorted and evil. It was like looking into one of those warped "funhouse" mirrors they have at carnivals; it was a terrible sight. And I realized that I probably looked just as frightening to him.

    So these days I'm pretty OS neutral. I use Windows at work, I use Linux at home. They each have great features, and they each have annoying problems. Anymore it comes down to personal preference, which just isn't useful to me in any real argument. That's why I feel the whole discussion about "which is better" is completely stupid.

    I have given up in this also. I pick best tool for job. There is no silver bullet. All OS sucks is some way.

  • Ethics_speaks (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    Most people here very UN-technical.
    You can say that again.

    I first read it as Un-ethical!!

  • TD (unregistered)

    So who took apart the server?

  • JB (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    a few gigs of undecidedly “NSFW” material.

    You are literally slaughtering the English language.

    Maybe Brian was undecided whether the porn was, indeed, NSWF, so had to spend a a bit of time "auditing" it first.

  • Corper of Ullam (unregistered) in reply to Skilldrick
    Skilldrick:
    Mike:
    a few gigs of undecidedly “NSFW” material.

    You are literally slaughtering the English language.

    Naw, he was talking about undecidability - you give all that material to an algorithm and ask it if it's NSFW - it's undecidable. Very clever Mark!

    I think of the files as Schrödinger material - you don't know whether it's NSFW until you look...

  • MetalSearGolid (unregistered) in reply to Greg Brady

    It definitely does happen. I used to work at a Helpdesk at a well known school, and we were asked to evaluate the security of our network (one of my coworkers was specialized in network security). One of the things that he exposed was how all of the office copiers in the administration building (which scan countless amounts of confidential information for both the school and its students, e.g. SS numbers) could easily be hacked via FTP and no login. The next day he showed our boss, and she had to tell her boss about the vulnerability. He was fired the next day for "hacking confidential records" although the school took no additional action against him.

  • erik (unregistered) in reply to fritters

    I would assume so - I would rather be a lowly data entry operator than a sysadmin who has to work for a PHB.

  • Wyrdo (unregistered)

    I feel like this story has a lot of untold missing details.

    -- Furry cows moo and decompress.

  • Jeff (unregistered) in reply to TD
    So who took apart the server?

    Obviously he should have blocked disassembly permissions before leaving work...

  • (cs)

    Some things in this story just don't add up. Firstly, the story mentions a "PC Technician" that was also working with Adam/Brian/Phillip/Whatshisface, but he's never mentioned again. Wouldn't Phillip/Adam/Brian/Whatshisface have said to the other guy "Hey, other PC dude, this FTP is wide open to the internets and there's a lot of porn here" before going to Mr. Repinski's office? The other guy should have known about the server since Phillip/Brian/Adam/Whatshisface was the "junior" sysadmin. It seems like that part is wrong and Adam/Phillip/Brian/Whatshisface was the sole IT person.

    Also with the commented out part if Brian/Adam/Phillip/Whatshisface knew that Mr. Repinski was badmouthing him to other possible employers, why didn't he sue?

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