Posts by Anonymous Anti-ANC South African Coward 439 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Feb 2023
Friend of mine lost internet access. His wife complained that there was no light.
So he used the Luddite way, and switched the power on at the light switch on the wall.
All of the smart bulbs reverted back to factory state and he had a hell of a time to reset and reconfigure these.
He binned them and got dumb bulbs instead.
Same here.
Created a VLAN without any internet breakout, and added our CCTV cameras to this VLAN.
What prompted me to do this was that some d00s was constantly logging into cameras and changing passwords and other settings, and that just pissed me off.
Now everything is stable, the cameras can't see the internet and can't gabble to Dear Leader overseas...
And I do 100% agree to a SHITE (or SHYTE) VLAN for all the IoT tat.
In one of the previous buildings my company was located in, the server room had a raised floor, and an electronic lock + keypad for the server room.
Easy to bypass as the latch was visible from outside the server room. You just need a screwdriver.
If that fails, the false ceiling will also allow you access, and so will the false floor.
The wall was drywall, not brick.
sheesh.
Nowadays in the current building both server room have proper safe doors (thick steel, heavy bigjobs. No raised floors or false ceilings either.
Although we got bitten by flooding in the front server room once - luckily it never happened again as we took precautions after that one time.
And no, the servers are not in a basement either.
The only weak link is the brick wall - all you'll need is a sledgehammer and some qualitay alone time.
"Oh, it's just Uncle Bob, halfway through a crash dump…"
I'm just letting you know that the Terminator took offense at that, and is on its way to your location right now.
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you are dead!
I now wonder if the older DOS (and Win 3.x) applications also have vulnerabilities.
However - I tried to use SuperCalc5 (DOS) once, and we really are spoilt with modern spreadsheets...
But still, if a big pile of brown stuff comes sailing for Windows, we may have to fall back to something different... it just is a matter of when.
Some wag may manage to get the mother of all exploits out there which will pwn any Windows machine (and network) rock-solid...
Going forward, I would update the client contract with the following :
"Any old site will be deleted without any backups as soon as a new site is live and everything have been checked off correctly" or something to that effect, then put the old site behind a firewall which blocks ingress except to yourself.
So if the cuss-tomer start bleating about missing data, you point to that line in the contract, and tell the client $extra to restore the missing data which was not checked for...
All other customers/clients will be business as usual with the exception to this one cuss-tomer, as his IT team will do the same thing again and again.
But then again, just my inner BOFH doing its thing...
Remember the scene in Independence Day where the aliens'computer has been haxx0red and displayed a laughing Jolly Roger?
I think the next alien fleet that decide to invade us will get treated to E1M1 on all their monitor whilst their systems are melting down from a nasty cryptolocker worm/virus combo...
icon - yo ho ho me maties, and a bokkle of rum!
"Here we go!" I say, as the screen starts filling up with text (being hastily cut-and-pasted into the reply box by the PFY in the other room).
So... does this mean that every AI we're using so far usually have some poor unlucky and underpaid sod pasting google searches on the other end?
Then this explains the AI hallucinating.
Time to bring the lean Warp Merlin back?
Warp v3 was optimized for 4Mb RAM back then, but 6Mb was better.
And it's mindboggling to note that we now need 16Gb of RAM for weendooz to run Office365 properly...
C'mon guys, 16Gb HDD space for Warp v3 was oodles and oodles of storage space back then...
Ahhh, 10base-2 networks and Hunt-the-Terminator... one of my favourite pastimes when at a new client with a wonky 10base-2 network...
Luckily said Terminator was not a deadly one, hence the icon for this post.
I do miss those fun days, those times was a lot better than today's fun and games with Billware crap.
