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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Working with others is hard to do
Office/cubicle jobs include a certain level of stupidity. This is true whether you’re working for a large corporation or the federal government (the largest corporation of them all). I was inside a government building at work today when I noticed a poster on the wall. And by poster, I mean a piece of 8.5″x11″ paper. It was, well, less than genius. The subject was:
QUALITY
The creator of this poster decided to assign a phrase to each letter, apperently to help employees remember the importance of quality. They are (literally) the following.
Seriously?
I’m buying a new car in a month and a half or so…hopefully. A Honda Civic Si.
Since vanity plates are only $10 in VA, I’ve been looking into getting one. My current plate says MWNERD.
Suddenly, I had a revelation, but god dammit, THE PLATE WAS ALREADY TAKEN.
I would shake this man’s hand.
Adventures with cabling!
We have an IP KVM that needed to be configured through its console/serial interface in order to get it on the network. Unfortunately, the original cable was lost in the black hole that is the storage room, so we decided it would be easier to make one, rather than buy a new one. After figuring out the pin-out conversion between the Cisco console cable and the Avocent console cable, I made this:
I do good work.
I felt a little uncomfortable trying it on equipment “in production,” but much to my surprise, it worked.
Sector930 Is Now Global!
We recently set up an account with Google Analytics here at Sector930. (That’s right, readers. We’ve got an eye on you.) I was perusing the reports this fine evening, looking at traffic sources and bounce rates.
One of the more interesting features is a map that shows you where on Earth traffic is coming from. I noticed that we got a hit from Tunis, Tunisia. This person from Tunisia landed on our site by doing a search for “the more you know the more you dare.”
Bypassing OpenDNS
Apparently a couple people stumbled across our humble little blog while searching for how to bypass OpenDNS’s content filtering. Originally I scoffed at the idea of using OpenDNS as a security, because I thought it was just blocking evil or malicious DNS queries. But after doing more research, it’s actually sets up a full web proxy! So much for an easy bypass. All that is left to do is change the DNS servers your computer uses to some other than OpenDNS. Although if you are in an environment which filters your web traffic, you probably will not be able to do this. But, if you can, just set it to one of these bad boys: