Comments on: IT List http://skippyslist.com/2008/06/23/it-list/ The Official Site of Skippy's List: military humor and other things that make Skippy giggle for more than 15 seconds Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:01:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: TGOBG http://skippyslist.com/2008/06/23/it-list/comment-page-1/#comment-6565 TGOBG Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:06:05 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/?p=160#comment-6565 I like the ones i get with the message " your mailbox is over the size limit" then it seems like you receive it about every 15 minutes. this is really wonderful when you are traveling and all the overlimit messages block the important stuff. I am away from my network for weeks at a time, and even though i can log remotely into my email, it doesnt let me delete the crap. (Even though it says it did) so i wind up with 300 over limit messages and no actual emails. I like the ones i get with the message ” your mailbox is over the size limit” then it seems like you receive it about every 15 minutes. this is really wonderful when you are traveling and all the overlimit messages block the important stuff. I am away from my network for weeks at a time, and even though i can log remotely into my email, it doesnt let me delete the crap. (Even though it says it did) so i wind up with 300 over limit messages and no actual emails.

]]> By: Matt http://skippyslist.com/2008/06/23/it-list/comment-page-1/#comment-6563 Matt Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:57:19 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/?p=160#comment-6563 Wow! Are you an Air Force IT guy? I swear that kind of stuff happens ALL the time around here. We get server outages, and then when it comes back up there will be 4 admin messages saying the server is going down/is down/will be back up in 'x' time... Not to mention all that other stuff... Fun with Captcha: 30 bearing? What distance? Wow! Are you an Air Force IT guy? I swear that kind of stuff happens ALL the time around here. We get server outages, and then when it comes back up there will be 4 admin messages saying the server is going down/is down/will be back up in ‘x’ time… Not to mention all that other stuff…

Fun with Captcha: 30 bearing? What distance?

]]> By: Jon http://skippyslist.com/2008/06/23/it-list/comment-page-1/#comment-6457 Jon Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:32 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/?p=160#comment-6457 Let's see... I am guilty of making an etherkiller... in more than one variety. The first was a run of the mill molex connector for a harddrive connected to mains, but the second I got fancy and connected a high voltage transformer normally used as an ignition point for a furnace to a system. 30k volts does some interesting things to hardware. In another instance, I once changed the startup sound on my bosses' windows system to the theme from the Six Million Dollar Man remotely. He never turned his sound on, so for six months he wondered why his system took so long to login. One day he actually left his sound turned on and finally figured out why it always took so long... my office mate and I were laughing for a long time on that one. Let’s see… I am guilty of making an etherkiller… in more than one variety. The first was a run of the mill molex connector for a harddrive connected to mains, but the second I got fancy and connected a high voltage transformer normally used as an ignition point for a furnace to a system. 30k volts does some interesting things to hardware.

In another instance, I once changed the startup sound on my bosses’ windows system to the theme from the Six Million Dollar Man remotely. He never turned his sound on, so for six months he wondered why his system took so long to login. One day he actually left his sound turned on and finally figured out why it always took so long… my office mate and I were laughing for a long time on that one.

]]> By: Smashalot http://skippyslist.com/2008/06/23/it-list/comment-page-1/#comment-5958 Smashalot Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:28:16 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/?p=160#comment-5958 I would like to know why the UNIX machine if off limits. I would like to know why the UNIX machine if off limits.

]]> By: Scarlet http://skippyslist.com/2008/06/23/it-list/comment-page-1/#comment-5846 Scarlet Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:12:02 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/?p=160#comment-5846 Oh, the glorious days of I.T. I laughed at all of these. A few more: -- Not allowed to use "rm -rf *" to clean up the over-full users directory -- Even though it works -- Not allowed to direct nightly backups to /dev/null -- Not allowed to use sudo to take over managers' accounts -- Even if said manager(s) was/were too stupid to (a) change their initial password or (b) not leave their passwords on a post-it note on their desk in plain sight -- Not allowed to erase manager's 10MB mailbox file -- Even if it is crashing his PC -- Even if I really did back it up just in case he ever wanted that e-mail again -- Not allowed to include daily Starbucks run on expense reports -- "F**k Microsoft" is never appropriate in status reports Oh, the glorious days of I.T. I laughed at all of these. A few more:

– Not allowed to use “rm -rf *” to clean up the over-full users directory
– Even though it works

– Not allowed to direct nightly backups to /dev/null

– Not allowed to use sudo to take over managers’ accounts
– Even if said manager(s) was/were too stupid to (a) change their initial password or (b) not leave their passwords on a post-it note on their desk in plain sight

– Not allowed to erase manager’s 10MB mailbox file
– Even if it is crashing his PC
– Even if I really did back it up just in case he ever wanted that e-mail again

– Not allowed to include daily Starbucks run on expense reports

– “F**k Microsoft” is never appropriate in status reports

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