• President_Pyrus@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    That reminds me of a university or company where they had a mission critical server that they couldn’t locate. It was running perfectly, but after numerous searches they still couldn’t find it. Finally it was found behind a wall…

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    I had a client at a law firm who moved to a different city, but continued to remote into his computer at work. At some point someone moved it to some other spot in the building so they could have someone else use his desk, and he continued to use it without issue.

    Until one day it shut down, while he was in the middle of something very important and lawyery. No one at the firm was willing to look for it (as they were all lawyers), so we had to send a technician on site to just check each room until he spotted an old computer connected to power and Ethernet in the corner of a mail room.

    Some months later it happened again, in a the middle of another important time sensitive lawyer thing. Except now he had two headless computers which he used both of (an old computer and a new one he was migrating to), and he still didn’t know where they were physically. Luckily there was a intern on site to do the search this time, but it took some time to figure out which was which when we did locate them.

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, this one is more relevant now than it was 20 years ago, with watches and pens being IP capable nowadays.

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      well someone made that screenshot all by themselves! so, you know… original content 😆

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        I never claimed that it’s original content :) I included the quote numbers for all the IRC posts I did, so people can look it up on bash.org . I also slightly edited the posts - adding some color coding and removing clutter info (if applicable) so it’s easier to read. I would’ve posted as text if that formatting was available.

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          . I would’ve posted as text if that formatting was available.

          when creating the post, there is a text field for title and body. filling the url link or image is not necessary.

          so my first objection is about the form. you could use a text, or you could use a link - http://bash.org/?quote=5273

          turning a text to image is absolutely horrible thing to do - you turned what could have been 28 bytes into 17 kilobytes, so you increased the size by a factor of 600, and you degraded information in the process!

          (https://xkcd.com/1683/)

          my second objection is that that copying bash entries is meaningless activity - everyone can just go to where they already are to see them.

          and last - that post was not funny when it was new and time did not help it 🤷‍♂️

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            Tap dancing Christ, I hope you’re not this dreadful in real life and just being an overly pedantic bore is something you reserve for the internet.

            my second objection is that that copying bash entries is meaningless activity - everyone can just go to where they already are to see them.

            Yeah, and I could browse every other website on my own to look for content I found relevant but the entire purpose of an aggregation site like Reddit or Lemmy is to…aggregate things.

            and last - that post was not funny when it was new and time did not help it 🤷‍♂️

            I found it amusing enough to toss it an upvote. Which is more than I could say for your needless dull reply.

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              Maybe the OP could provide some modern discussion to how foolish the people on bash.org are? Maybe do literally anything to raise the discourse?

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                To what end? It’s a silly little 5 second joke we’re meant to read and move on. If this had originally been a tweet would you have expected the OP here to have given you a dissertation about the history of twitter and why Elon Musk sucks so much for turning it into a nazi-haven? How would that have been relevant?

                Jesus Christ, you people suck the fun out of things like it’s your damn job.

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                  Well you are right, I don’t like reposted tweets with no other effort either. Let’s do better, ilikecheese.

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    Having been working around with a Raspberry Pi for my class, I can’t imagine just randomly throwing mine somewhere without giving a care. Those bitches are too damn expensive 😂

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    This dude doesn’t understand what a CAM table is, so I feel like this quote is just laughing at an idiot who thinks he is smart. Which I’m not necessarily against, but then you have tons of people in the comments who are “good with computers” who don’t understand it either. the tl;dr is that this guy doesn’t have a clue and anyone who is “looking for a computer” without logging into the network infrastructure to find the MAC is just an idiot.