Category: oops
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Old computer is old, and other asorted bits.
I’ve officially managed to date Jessica‘s computer. Its official age, as of right now, is older than dirt. Yesterday was an adventure in the upgrading of RAM. After finally figuring out this thing cannot keep its various periferals attached while it’s being worked on, I got to playing around … Read the rest
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And on the 8th day, God said, “Murphy, it’s all yours.”.
I should have probably taken the events of last weekend as a hint that this wasn’t going to be as event free a travel year as I’m used to. Shane had to push his departure date ahead a week to deal with a whole new brand of stupid that’s, naturally, … Read the rest
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The Pembroke/Renfrew area gets its very own call and bitch line. Yay?
The big thing that seems to be the default reaction if you live in Ottawa and don’t know something is to call 211. That also seems to be the default response if, as people have a tendancy to do in Ottawa, you simply want someone to bitch to because x … Read the rest
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Canada Post gets a hard lesson in accessibility. And they’re about to get another.
Carin over at the Vomit Comet already laid good into Canada Post for this one, but since I’m procrastinating with this whole packing thing anyway and a little backup never hurt anyone, they get a friendly little reminder from me. In December, I decided I had 30 seconds between the … Read the rest
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In which ConfigServer quite possibly breaks WordPress. Oof.
I’ve been dabbling in the more involved server admin business for the past while. One of the things we’ve been experimenting with for the better part of a month is the firewall provided by ConfigServer. It’s halfway decent for what it does, as long as you’re not trying to … Read the rest
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3 strikes, and the RIAA’s out?
some of you may have been following the developing story about the Recording Industry Asociation of America (RIAA) trying to convince ISP’s to implement a sort of 3-strikes policy that would see people the RIAA believes were involved in downloading music kicked off the internet. They’ve been threatening that for … Read the rest
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The catholic school board’s IT department is *not* smarter than an 8th-grader.
From the department of IT Security 101, courtesy the Peterborough Catholic district School Board, comes this real life lesson of what happens when you don’t tripple check your security. you end up hacked by one of your own students. John Mackle, education director at the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington … Read the rest
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major record labels get beat over the head by their own tricks. Oopsies.
Every couple days if you’re paying attention, you hear some story or another about a record label in either the US or Canada gearing up to sue a bunch of people for supposed copyright infringement for daring to download and/or do whatever they please with the music of whoever the … Read the rest
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It probably isn’t very smart to publicly admit to hacking a cellebrity.
Even if the cellebrity in question could probably benefit from spending a little more time in daddy’s shadow. Just ask Josh Holly how that worked out for him, assuming you can get a hold of him. He admitted to having hacked Miley Cyrus’s MySpace profile as well as her Gmail … Read the rest
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The dog ate my… wallet?
After a certain point, you’re kind of expected to come up with excuses a little better than “the dog ate it” for why you didn’t get your homework done. Or why you didn’t do/fill out/submit the required paperwork for x. That didn’t occur to 22-year-old Michael Macleod, apparently. After being … Read the rest