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[cirobi.livejournal.com]

so, we're making several security updates at my job and utilizing the remote capabilities of XP's computer management function. my coworker has been taking care of this while i research some things and got the following error message.



Mind you, this is an XP Pro box, latest patches, no firewall service on and has an NTFS file system. plus, managing it anyway allowed my coworker to still make all of the needed changes and have them stick. so much for not being able to manage it!

silly MS and your goofy error messages.

this has been xposted to my personal journal as well.

Edit: sorry about that linking glitch. I don't often link pics on LJ and the way I tried before was how I had to for other forums. Thank you to bassgirl for the correction.

stop hogging my damn bandwidth!

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

The major function of our (very well paid) intern seems to be to stream video all day long, grinding our internet access to a halt. After the billionth time discovering I couldn't get patches downloaded in a reasonable amount of time because our T1 was getting hammered by the intern watching YouTube videos, I hit the router and slapped an output filter on youtube's netblock. This was a couple weeks ago. Surprisingly, I never did get any questions about "hey is the internet working?" (although the coworker across the desk from me did.)

Today, I got this cut and paste from said coworker:

(14:25:00) Coworker: help us all ... here goes the bandwidth
           (14:24:27) Intern: yea its getting on my nerves
           (14:24:33) Intern: im bored maybe i will watch a movie on netflix

O RLY? Fuck that, I have source to download and packages to build. AKA, you know, "work".

/me slaps an output filter on netflix.com's netblock

Hey, somebody wants to IM me!

(14:46:51) Intern: is something wrong with the internet?
(14:47:08) Me: nope... why do you ask?
(14:47:16) Intern: it keeps saying problem loading page
(14:47:26) Me: what page are you loading?

My coworker and I are howling laughing at this point. How ballsy is our fearless intern? Will she go for it?

(14:47:32) Intern: netflix

Hell yeah she will!

(14:47:46) Me: that's because netflix is blocked
(14:47:56) Intern: blocked?
(14:48:03) Me: blocked.
(14:48:15) Intern: well how can it be blocked if i was just looking at it like 5 mins ago
(14:48:53) Me: I dunno... try youtube
(14:49:16) Intern: i was just updating my movies 
(14:49:17) Intern: its cool

BOFH: 1. Bandwidth hog: 0.