Ahh, A generous dose of BOFH was just what the doctor ordered for me today!
BOFH: We've made a big mesh, Boss. That's what you wanted, right?
BOFH logo telephone with devil's horns "I need you to find it!" the Boss snaps. "I... Nope... nothing.." I say, perusing my phone screen. "It was there a minute ago." "Yes, but it's transient. It might even just be too far away." "It was there when I was walking over." "Well let's just pop outside the office and check …
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Friday 13th October 2023 16:28 GMT Mark 85
Re: HR Department
I'll have to have a chat with my brother, he started working in HR a couple of years ago.
I've always wanted to know what's on the other side of the event horizon.
Very quietly and with low volume, tell him "you really don't want to know". Give a knowing look and wander off to the pub.
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Friday 13th October 2023 11:01 GMT Boris the Cockroach
Ahhhh the
BoFH, just the thing to give me bad ideas if I'm allowed access to our wi-fi router, and also the thing to take my mind off a very serious work problem.
The fact that I am feeling 2 very conflicting emotions over our esteemed PFY, Pride in that she's learned her training well, and fear because she's learned her training so well.
You see friday lunchtime is taken in the pub, and friday afternoon I wander back to the office in order to 'review' the week's production and list any problems(this is best done with eyes closed leaning back in the chair, snoring optional)
However last friday, after a dispute earlier in the week with the PFY, I wander back to the office worse for wear and a 7th sense stops me from shutting the door.
On closer examination of the door I find contact glue has been smeared around the door frame and on the edge of the door, and the door handle has been unscrewed inside so that if I'd slammed the door in my usual way the door would have glued shut and the handle fallen off when I tried openeing the door to go home.
Ahh but what about the burglar alarm sensor in the corner of the office, that would have tripped if the last man out set the alarm... only it would'nt... because its been disconnected leaving me stuck in the office all weekend......
I think I better make sure I have the high ground whenever I have to talk to her
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Saturday 14th October 2023 05:55 GMT Bebu
Re: Ahhhh the
fear because she's learned her training so well.
I think she has graduated summa cum laude from the Hadian academy of system administration. One might suspect a little cribbing or plagarism from this column. ;) To round out her skills she should probably do a research thesis on constructive defenestration.
I would advise the two of you to have current wills.
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Friday 13th October 2023 12:27 GMT Peter Gathercole
It's the fiction reflecting the reality of LEO procedural drama fiction inventing an IP address.... and coming up with 382.27.915.12 that I liked.
You see it so often on US based crime dramas. You would have thought that their technical advisers would pick this up, but it seems not. I also recollect seeing 192.168 addresses, and I'm sure that I saw a 10.something address once being used for a supposed internet address.
Maybe it's the same thinking as 555- prefixed telephone numbers.
The only thing you could have also included was two people typing on the same keyboard!
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Friday 13th October 2023 13:59 GMT www2
> The only thing you could have also included was two people typing on the same keyboard!
If i think with scene from NCIS you mean my idea is that this is a parody.
And the best thing the leader that in true is a Walking Techbane pull the plug.
The scene in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msX4oAXpvUE
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Friday 13th October 2023 17:50 GMT doublelayer
I'm sure it's because they think someone will try to use any IP address they show on the screen, so they go with ones that can't be connected to anything. I've heard that, when they used phone numbers that weren't theirs and were valid, that the people who had those phone numbers received unnecessary calls. I don't know how many people who would do such a thing would also do it with IP addresses, but the writers probably don't want to take a risk. I'm not sure what I would do in their place, since using any invalid address is likely to look wrong when I know the rules, but using a valid one would probably also look wrong when it's identified as coming from a network where the events of the plot couldn't happen, for example routing to the wrong country or a corporate network that's not supposed to be involved. Maybe that's one advantage of IPV6 addresses: it's very unlikely that a random one will be routable because they've only got a few in a 64-bit block for each assigned prefix and they're long enough that identifying valid ones is rather difficult anyway.
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Sunday 15th October 2023 19:52 GMT John Brown (no body)
"I've heard that, when they used phone numbers that weren't theirs and were valid, that the people who had those phone numbers received unnecessary calls."
I'd imagine it's the same in many countries. It might fail if the fake number shown on screen happens to be valid when it's shown on TV in a different country that uses similarly structured numbering systems. The UK has a number of phone numbers allocated for fictional TV use too. Sometimes they use an invalid number, sometimes they use a reserved and unallocated number as shown by those two Doctor Who examples.
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Tuesday 17th October 2023 04:43 GMT doublelayer
Re: An appropriate message?
Because that show will still be there for people to stream years from now, but will someone still be paying to keep the phone line open? It's not that they can't afford to, although having a low-use number isn't as cheap as I'd like, but it's work and people often don't want to go to the effort. If you're not going to still have that number online in five years, maybe don't put it in the show now.
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