Posts by bl0ke

British Level 4 driverless pods are whizzing along ... er, a London path

Please tell me there’s footage of the ‘safety first’ woman walking along completely oblivious.

Hot chips crashed servers, but were still delicious

Server (Not) Hacked!

I once had a client whose machine was typing stuff and moving the mouse about. He immediately jumped to the conclusion that the (external) web/mail server had been hacked. No I don’t know either.

After failing to make sense of “it’s just doing things on its own” and asking him to unplug the network cable to rule out a remote access attempt, I asked him if he was using a wireless keyboard.

Turns out someone on the floor below was using the same make/model/frequency and operating both machines. At least it didn’t need a trip out.