On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 15:50 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Well, I am a BOFH, you know. Letting him find out the hard way was the
> easiest way to get rid of the git, especially when you consider that the
> tech he connects to when he calls back to clean up his mess won't be
> anywhere near as experi
On 01/22/2024 01:47 PM, Tim via users wrote:
I remember trying that out on Win98SE, just within a LAN. Gawd, it was
a pain. And I'm sure it was full of buffer overflows, like all
Microsoft products.
Well, I am a BOFH, you know. Letting him find out the hard way was the
easiest way to get ri
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 09:57 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Back around the turn of the Millenium, I had a caller who wanted to know
> if he could use MS Home Web Server (I think it was) to set up a
> website. (If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be doing it.) I
> tried to explain the risks, b
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 09:49 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
>
> On 1/22/24 00:30, Tim via users wrote:
> > Then, when it went haywire one day I had to tell telephone support
> > the
> > password to sort things out. Embarrassing, and quite satisfying at
> > the
> > same time.
>
> When I was doing tech sup
On 1/22/24 04:49, Tim via users wrote:
I'm sure it would have been cheaper to have designed their security
better, in the first place. They probably spend more on their
advertising budget than IT, so it's not like they can't afford it.
Back around the turn of the Millenium, I had a caller wh
On 1/22/24 00:30, Tim via users wrote:
Then, when it went haywire one day I had to tell telephone support the
password to sort things out. Embarrassing, and quite satisfying at the
same time.
When I was doing tech support, the ID10Ts in IT decided to make our
passwords expire after 60 days o
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 00:02 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Add to injury, if they get hacked and they pencil
> whipped, they become responsible for all costs
> involved. Telling them that their grandchildren
> will need lawyers does not phase them.
You would think that "you hate your legal
On 1/21/24 23:30, Tim via users wrote:
On Sun, 2024-01-21 at 16:39 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
I needed a password eight characters long
I picked "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
Okay, that was a "Dad Joke" but it probably is a really
strong password and easy to remember. I recommen
