Posts by Crazy Operations Guy

Re: I can't believe...

I assume they tested the envelope of bank notes they were handed.

Re: As boring as watching...

The Boston Molasses disaster happened with molten Molasses not your standard off-the-shelf variety. Glass or pitch (or anything for that matter) heated sufficiently could also travel at 35 mph...

Re: It takes quite a bit...

Yes, temperatures in factories and kitchens do regularly exceed 38c/100f but the law states that any time a worker feels their health is in danger (such as feeling dehydrated in this case) their supervisor must allow them to recover before putting them back to work. Something the supervisors involved in the warehouse incident denied the workers.

Welcome to social media.

Re: Using multiple OSes to test pages

Most of the engines out there will render things differently depending on the underlying OS. Even Firefox on Windows 7 will render a slight bit differently than the same build of Firefox on Windows 8. The engine and the OS are not entirely separated, specifically in the image and video rendering and in the appearance of certain controls. While something like SuperPreview or the like will give you a good idea, it doesn't give you a completely accurate one.

I went to plain text just to ward of the gigantic signatures that are nothing but a single image (To make sure the formatting stays and to prevent people from stealing their contact info [I know, but they won't listen]).

My email client is does allow clicking and following links in plain-text emails, but it can't be obfuscated.

Re: but why?

I was thinking that the filing was pointless anyway. It'd be as useless as making a filing for every variation they make such as having a different patent for "iPad 3, 32 GB, WiFi" and another for "iPad 3, 32 GB, 3G AT&T edition"

I suspect that this is more marketing than 'brand protection'

I would have assumed someone would have already pointed this out since this is wasting money and companies hate spending money, hell most companies are so serious about that that if they could, they'd go to strip clubs and throw naked women at money.

Re: "Disallowing EXEs to run"

because we all know that viruses only come as compiled binaries and never anything like a java package, a PDF, or really any other file format (None are safe). Most e-mail / internet borne viruses are just using scripting in PDFs or Java applets to infect the machines.

Hell, there are text editors that can be exploited by putting the EOF character in the middle of a TXT file with the malicious code following that character; the text editor only counts the file size until it hits the EOF character but the OS might load the whole thing in memory, stomping over the rest of the editor's code.

Lately I've been getting:

The servers don't need patching, they are running Linux!

They continue to say that even after I report that postfix on the DB servers is spewing spam all over the place (we are a sendmail shop, so there is no reason for postfix to even be installed, let alone sending out mail to world+dog)

Re: "UNIX-based operating systems such as Linux"

Linux isn't based on UNIX, it is merely UNIX-like. GNU is Not Unix after all...

Re: Panic ye not!

Windows 7 is signed with Microsoft's private keys and would be allowed to run under SecureBoot, XP, Vista, Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 will all also run under SecureBoot.

Texas Instruments makes an ARM-based with 2x GigE ports and a crypto-accelerator for $199. It also has a touch-screen and some other goodies (no video-out though).

http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdssk3358

I've been using a couple of these for firewalls and VPN gateways for remote sites and built a very simple GTK-based UI for the office staff that just kicks off a couple of simple scripts.

Re: I'm *so* happy that I've divested ...

It'd be easier if you just said "I'm so happy I sold all my stock".

Wireless gear that isn't complete crap usually has a setting to change it to a different frequency. That and production companies are required by law to use equipment that has been certified by the proper authorities of the nation where they want to use said equipment.

And how exactly are we supposed to do that? trains can't cross the pacific and boats take weeks to get anywhere.

Re: clueless alert

I'm annoyed at idiots that misunderstand basic technical concepts. I've seen far to many people believe this trash to think that the poster was attempting humor.

Re: "as secure as secure gets."

That would be OpenBSD, run by people that actually care about security, unlike Torvalds who has publicly stated that he doesn't give a shit about security.

Re: I'm guessing South Korea.

Actually they do, just not much. They have a couple gig connection and 4x /24 IPv4 allocations coming out of China.

http://bgp.he.net/AS131279

They also have a very large 'Cyber warrior' division (Something like 1500-200 members last I heard) and the motivation to steal rocket data mostly since their current rockets are made out of old ICBMs from the Former Soviet Union and they aren't really bursting at the seams with rocket scientists.

Re: If it were Apple...

Hell, they'd probably say its a feature; saying that since phones get a bit wonky when left on, it automatically reboots so it stays stable and functional.

To keep us from wasting our time

IF they didn't report that it was all crap and actually presented the facts, we would have wasted time reading the story from a mainstream outlet, which pads the hell out of these types of articles.

Re: Am I missing something?

OR just numbers/letters like in almost every bit of documentation I've seen.

especially on updates

I don't mind asking to install some crap on the first install as much as I do when it asks on every single fscking update (I'm looking at you Java)