Oct

11

phishing/malware email warning

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  So, I open up my email this morning to see what appears to be a nice new approach to getting people to willingly install malware on their computer. A word to the wise people. If you get an email concerning a Microsoft Update, it IS an attempt to install something on your computer which is [...]

Aug

21

What I dislike most about my line of work…

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  When you tell people the best suggested courses of action to resolve their problems and they don’t want to follow your advice. They instead still want to bitch and complain that your IT department isn’t doing their job right. Can I choke you please?
I mean seriously. What’s the point of having an IT department if you won’t [...]

Aug

12

on the list of things not to do on a weekend…

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  accidently delete your entire photo gallery instead of individual albums photos.
Indeed… I became one of those morons I rant about in the tech world on a daily basis. yay for me! I seriously forgot my helmet. Backups? lol yeah funny thing about those… so lets tell the story.
You see my server, being FreeBSD [...]

Aug

8

The latest from the spam world… grrrr.

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  So, I’m not sure if any of you have run into this (if I were a betting man I’d say yes) but the latest round of malware distribution is taking the net by storm in the form of fake CNN news items. You may notice some items in your inbox that have the following subject [...]

Jun

27

*shakes head* stupid kids…

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  FYI - some of the current acronyms kids use these days.  Some are definitely new to me and some I actually find very disturbing. Figured this merited it’s own post seeing as how we were on the subject of Acronyms earlier.
Some commonly used Acronyms by kids on the net today:
ASL - Age/Sex/Location - [...]

Jun

27

NC replacing license plates for “offensive” acronym?!

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  You have got to be kidding me! This is a prime example of how incredibly melodramatic people have become this day in age. It’s a freakin license plate people. It’s made up of letters and numbers put together in a sequence to create a unique identifier for vehicles. It’s not intended or should be construed [...]

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