As far as cleaning up after this crap, I've been relying on Trinity a lot. LiveCD, boots, mounts and scans. http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12

The only problem is, you need some Linux skills to use it. Last time I applied it, it missed the Windows partition and I had to go in and manually mount it.

If I were better with rolling Linux LiveCDs, I would add more scanners and set it up to run out of X

Attempted murder? Now honestly what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted -c-h-e-m-i-s-t-r-y- peace?

10 yrs ago, $11/credit, used books for ~$30-$50 (math books about $75). I'm having issues looking up the current fees.

This already exists... I went to community college for about $300-$400 a semester, including books, supplies and parking. What, just because it's on the internet, it's a new concept?

Oh. RIGHT...

My external IP works from inside too.

Wow. This is the first time that that old fearmongering "Your computer is BROADCASTING an IP ADDRESS!" ad makes sense. :V

God, I love flashing out from under active systems. tldr: Hooray for updates that break wireless and then the whole router. Also, how moronic is it to have the default wireless config be "ddwrt" SSID with no security and no password?

I heard about this on Wednesday, but made sure I had remote admin off [why, God, why would you ever have that on unless you're doing weird voodoo with a wireless point NATting inside your internal network?] and sailed on, planning to takedown and flash sometime Saturday.

This news pushed it to the top of my cut list. People, I know this is old hat to many of you, but backup, backup, backup. I had in hand before I started:

* Settings backed up.
* A copy of the old firmware
* A copy of the new firmware

First flash seemed to go just fine, router said it was rebooting... and then didn't. Uptime still read 20 days. Issued web GUI reboot command... nothing.

Went to the closet, unplugged, replugged. Correct version confirmed, traffic flowing... wireless vanished. What the hell. Went in, redid all the wireless settings. Nope. But I do have a Linksys_SES_blahblah network in view. Nah. Couldn't be.

Unplugged the router again... nope, the SES net is still on the air. Good. Plugged the router back in... "ddwrt" net appears. Aw crap. Plugged the laptop in and changed the password and took the (unpassworded, unencrypted) net off the air. Fuck, that's a moronic default config.

To make a long story less long: flashed back to v24-sp1, reapplied my saved config, flashed the new config, it broke AGAIN. Thought for a minute, applied saved state, crossed fingers... and everything worked. Phew.

Now I have to go around unconfusing all the laptops. Desktops should be fine, since they (hopefully) didn't re-DHCP while the router was at 192.168.1.1 ...

Judge doesn't get tech, nothing to see here. Move along.

Huh. /Someone/ has been playing too much of that nifty little toy The Falling Sand Game and calling it research.

Dude. I am bookmarking this. I am showing it to people. And the next time I have mod points, I'm tracking down your posts.

Off the top of my head:

a) successful sports team = lots of tickets being sold, playoff tickets, memorabilia, etc, etc, leading to lots of tax revenue and a "healthy" local economy. (read: one in which lots of money is flowing)

b) if the salesman takes the client to the ballgame in the corporate luxury box, it makes the client far more likely to buy if the home team wins.

[admin to IT] Do it.
[Competent IT with minimal people skills] No, and here's why
[admin to IT] (tuning out the blah blah techspeak] I just told you to do it. Sales has already told the customer we're doing it.
[IT to Admin] But it's unsafe.
[admin to IT] It's your job to make it safe. Do it or get fired.
[IT] Grumble grumble fuck you. I have documentation that says this wasn't my fault.

Six months later, the shit hits the fan:

[Upper Admin] We've accepted [Admin's] resignation. He will be taking early retirement with full pension. As far as you, [IT], you're fired. Security will escort you from the building. We'll go through the stuff in your desk and ship anything that's not ours to you.

[IT] But... my documentation...

[UA] We don't care.

Oh, and if you're in this situation, good luck finding a new job with either a) a gap in your employment history or b) a poisonous reference. Not That I Would Know Or Anything. Grumble grumble fuck them.

[sales to IT] We need (something that is a huge security risk).
[IT to sales] No.
[sales to administration] waaaahhh.
[admin to IT] Do it.
[IT] Grumble grumble fuck you. *does it*
[sales] yaaay!
[Admin] Damn IT.

Shit hits the fan, IT is blamed. Goto 10.

"They said it was hauled from the Challenger Deep, but I'm positive that beast never swam in terrestrial waters until a week ago."

You opened it. You're screwed.

Ah, Hoyle. They couldn't be happy producing a collection of board games. They had to provide a system when you earn ingame money for certain achievements, which you then spend on useless tsochkes.

Fortunately, there was a great big gaping bug in the Chess game. If you put your opponent's King in check, a music sting would play and your opponent would make a "witty" remark.

If you tried to take a second move while the music sting was playing... the game would let you. And then, if the enemy King were still in check... music sting, witty remark, etc.

Get your Queen out and make a kamikaze attack, and you could clean out the whole enemy side about five moves in, getting credit for each kill and then for a lopsided victory.

(You could have gone on to promote 8 pawns, etc, but it was faster just to kill all the enemy pieces then score checkmate.)