Had a fun day out of the office today. Went to a large IT support company for a large car company. I had to wait 30 minutes to use their computer as they had a security alert when one of their personnel accounts was logged onto even though the person was somewhere on the motorway network at the time….Anyway, as you can tell they are pretty security conscious. Everytime I needed to logon to our server, I had to get them to type the username and password in. This is at a telnet prompt (which is insecure to start with) on a localhost but using Microsoft’s SMS as the server is about 100 miles away. Anyway, the screen refresh is very slow and the guy types in his username, he *thinks* he has hit return and then he types his password in…unfortunately he did not type return and his password was displayed in full view of me and the rest of the office who also did not know the password – until then..It was very hard not to spill my coffee with laughter….
Reminds me of the time I did something similar when I thought I had pressed tab after logging onto a NT server. Instead I was still in the username prompt and I proceeded to type in my password whilst my manager was sitting next to me. The password was move2usa Needless to say he was not amused as it gave away my intentions of leaving – oops!
Lesson learned – never use the same password in the office that you use elsewhere and do not make it embaressing or personnal in case you display it by accident/the sysadmin guys crack your password/you are forced to hand it over to fix a computer problem.
An amusing post about figure blogging!
The Parking Clowns site has been shutdown reports The Register due to claims of police intimidation as they didn’t like people reporting on their dirty tactics.
Realised this morning that I hadn’t checked the 300 exposures project for a while. Some of the pictures are amazing. They really know how to frame a view well!
I’ve sorted out my RSS feed now so that the title is displayed correctly, so if you have this page shown via RSS you may want to change the URL. Incidentally, how many of you use RSS to read this page?
Marketing to morons have a great idea – send spam mail only to those people who are stupid enough to respond to previous adverts – like ” get a gallon of goop out of your colon!”
Pst – can you tell I’ve got an rss aggregator working????
Slashdot reports that the SysAdmin guy could be redundant if the software gets its way. However, *someone* has to install the software in the first place and patch and test it so I think my jobs safe just yet….AND most of my customers are not running Sun, but Microsoft software *evil grin*
Rumours abound that the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy is to be made a film – cant wait!
Got a letter today saying that my NTL (formerly Cable & Wireless 132) phone service had been moved across to NPower. I checked the rates of calls on NPower vs what I thought were good value Onetel and were suprised to see Npower cheaper apart from the calls to the USA. So guess which one’s I’ll be using from now on! (and I won’t even talk about BT’s prices!)
Downloaded Newzcrawler last night and had a look at the XML output from the blog. Two things I noticed – it doesn’t have a title, and relative links don’t work – they need the full path as the downloaded news gets stored on the c drive of the local computer and therefore the relative links then become links on the c drive 🙁 Still apart from that (the first isn’t newzcrawlers fault anyway) its a good app.