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Comment Re:Amateurs (Score 1) 144

by dagard (#51478245) Attached to: Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues

Hey, cowboy?

When did I say it was on a work PC? You do realize what a camgirl is, right?

And way to escalate with the child porn reference. Your problem there is that, yeah, I probably wrote the code submitting your images to the NCMEC if they match certain things that are available.

How about you get an actual argument?

Comment Amateurs (Score 2) 144

by dagard (#51477615) Attached to: Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues

Who are these people who would keep something like that?

Because I sure as hell don't wanna work with 'em.

Seen it? Oh, gods yes. I'd need more hands to count how much, over 24 years, of my friends and coworkers' dirty laundry I've seen. Hell, at one point, I had to tell a NOC manager "there are naked pictures of my whole team somewhere on the Internet, so she's a cam girl, chill" (this was 1998).

The person that conversation was about ended up being probably the best hire the company ever had.

You're a goddamn sysadmin. Go in, fix, leave. You don't read their email. You don't copy off dick pics or whatever. You go to the bar and drink the memory out of your head, like a professional.
Businesses

Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love 293

Posted by kdawson from the next-generation dept.
theodp writes "Despite layoffs and a blip in earnings, the Chicago Trib reports that Microsoft's summer interns still enjoy the VIP treatment. Although there were 20% fewer of them this year than last, still 85% of the interns are offered full-time jobs. In addition to being paid $4,600-$6,000 a month, a housing stipend, and relocation costs for the summer, the 600 or so Microsoft apprentices enjoyed other perks — such as a police escort to speed their way to a private museum party where they screened the most recent Harry Potter movie and were given a free Xbox 360. 'You feel like royalty to be escorted by police,' said Joriz De Guzman, an intern working toward his MBA at Wharton. BTW, before he got mixed up with those MBA-types, De Guzman earned some fame as the Doogie Howser of computer science."
Wireless Networking

New iPod Touch Has an 802.11n Chip 135

Posted by kdawson from the more-and-more-like-a-little-tablet dept.
eggboard writes "iFixIt has discovered a Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/n chip in the just-announced iPod touch (32 GB and 64 GB) models that uses single-stream 802.11n. Single-stream doesn't get the full power of N, but it boosts speed enough that — along with space-time block encoding, a feature coming soon to Wi-Fi access points with two or more radios — the iPod touch could be an effective networked media server, for streaming and transfer, possibly through the new iTunes Home Sharing feature."
Security

First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered 254

Posted by kdawson from the shields-up dept.
The Register writes up a Russian security researcher who has uncovered a Linux webserver botnet that is coordinating with a more conventional home-based botnet of Windows machines to distribute malware. "Each of the infected machines examined so far is a dedicated or virtual dedicated server running a legitimate website, Denis Sinegubko, an independent researcher based in Magnitogorsk, Russia, told The Register. But in addition to running an Apache webserver to dish up benign content, they've also been hacked to run a second webserver known as nginx, which serves malware [on port 8080]. 'What we see here is a long awaited botnet of zombie web servers! A group of interconnected infected web servers with [a] common control center involved in malware distribution,' Sinegubko wrote. 'To make things more complex, this botnet of web servers is connected with the botnet of infected home computer(s).'"
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - The return of Zork. On ScummVM (kingofgng.com)

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KingofGnG writes: "While waiting for the opening of Legends of Zork game's world, old and new adventurers can download the daily build of ScummVM that starting from March 7 added support for the MADE engine. Such engine has been used by Activision to create four point&click adventure games in the first Nineties, among which there is the venerable Return to Zork (1993)."

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