Posts Tagged ‘Work’
<3 My Coworkers
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
Reading thru the work chat backlog:
Severin: from where I sit, I can only see the back of her Stormtrooper monitors, so it’s funny to hear muttered curse words come from them, throughout our overlapping shifts
Severin: “omfg, this guy is retarded”
Severin: sometimes I think I hear her say stuff in Samuel L Jackson’s voice
the progression of the internet is funny
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
Benny just published a post on her site about WP and caching. It makes me chuckle to think about, because essentially the web has come full-circle.
The web was first populated by sites that were all static html pages.
Then, someone thought of using databases and a whole bunch of other neat things to make websites “dynamic” – meaning, you didn’t have to spend hours tediously re-writing static html to make a change across your whole site.
Then, these dynamic sites were great, but if the site was popular, then you needed to back it up with a shit-ton of hardware and load balancing and etc, etc in case you had a lot of visitors.
Now, caching (turning the dynamic site back into simple static html) keeps sites light and serving to millions of visitors.
Strange, innit?
Awesome Phishing Spam
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
Below is the awesome phishing spam I got today, sent to my work email address. Apparently I was the only actual user account to get this email. The actual email addresses/domains have been redacted. However, just imagine if you had received this email in YOUR work inbox? The .exe payload was a virus.
From: "System" <redacted@redacted>
To: <redacted@redacted>
Subject: Attention - Mail system upgrade
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:47:54 +0530
Attention!
On October 30, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour.
The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole.
For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure.
This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.
http://updates.redacted.com.secure.s-data1.net/mail/id=7254828-redacted@redacted.com-patch5370226.exe
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.
System Administrator
Longing for a simpler time.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Remember when all websites were just text and hyperlinks and maybe a few images? Now everybody has to have some crazy php-based content management system application (yeah, yeah, pot-kettle-black, I know). Working in the webhosting industry and specifically, in Security, has really made me long for those simpler times again. Sure, editing html is tedious and time-consuming, but its pretty rock-solid safe once its web-accessible. Nobody can exploit flaws in your plain html code to send spam, upload phishing sites, or kill other webservers.
Life Update.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Just gonna make it a list.
- Work
- Moved to the Secteam in Sept.
- Back on 2nd shift (4pm-12am) in Oct.
- Car stuff
- Bart bought a 2004 Tahoe in Aug.
- Its been in 3 times for repairs. Over $1600 spent before 2 payments were made.
- Tahoe now has pretty white letters on the side expressing our unhappiness. [pics forthcoming]
- Contour is still running like a champ.
- Bonneville had to have the upper and lower intake manifolds done AGAIN, to the tune of $1200.
- Both Bonneville and Tahoe have aftermarket remote start/car alarms.
- Bonneville has back windows darkly tinted.
- Other stuff
- Still checking out apts in Grand Rapids, however moving to Marshall or staying in Lansing are now options as well
- Apt building we are currently in had to have major sewer repairs a couple weeks ago