you were mucking about on a box and tried to use sudo, and have gotten the message
“not in sudoers file, incident will be reported”
you want to know what the consequences will be?
It depends. Does the sysadmin watch his security logs closely? at all? What were you trying to do, “sudo chmod 000 myownfile” or “sudo cp evilexe /bin/ls”? The latter, if noticed, is going to get you in trouble, the first is just an innocent mistake.
I got an email, that at first I assumed was amazingly well targeted phishing, but it turns out that after a dry-spell of 5 years, I got a burst of sales in February, and actually was issued my first check, which of course was returned to sender, because I hadn’t updated my address info since 2000.
Glenn Johnson is CFO for Alaskan Airlines. And he thinks you are as stupid as he must be.
Here’s why I know you are a liar, Glenn, your title. It’s not Cheif Fairness Officer, it’s Chief Financial Officer, which means it’s your job to worry about competition.
It’s the fact that you didn’t file this petition when times were good, but when they went bad, that confirms my belief that you, Glenn Johnson, are a liar, and a very bad one at that.
Seriously, Alaskan, you didn’t have anyone in-house that could come up with a more believable story than the idiot Glenn Johnson?
So Glenn the idiot, keep on wasting your company resources whining about how unfair it is that someone can provide better service, at a better price than you. I’ll keep NOT flying Alaskan, not because I’m an anglophile with a hard-on for Virgin Air, but because they do a better job. If you cared about your job, you’d be working on fixing the problems with your company. I hope to see you in the unemployment line sooner than later, you certainly don’t deserve your job.
So there’s been a bit of an internet hub-bub about a mysterious call-home-exe named pifts.exe, found in some Norton security products. I have no say one way or another about what pifts might be doing. I can only speak to the ongoing debacle that their handling of questions in their forums.
Right now, the only example of pifts I can find is in the mac forums. Every other thread with that keyword gets deleted, and the poster banned.
This is just plain stupid on the part of the moderators, and if I were the VP in charge of marketing or PR at Symantetc, you can guarantee there’d be a few less people employed in the forums department, by 5pm tonight. This is the 21st century. The idea that you can supress bad news has been widely discredited, and it’s been proven over and over again that the effects of a blown cover-up are always worse than the original “crime” you tried to hide.
Of course, if you pay for Norton AV products, you can’t be expecting much value for your money. As best I can tell, Ghost is the only product with the Norton name on it, that deserves to exist, much less be paid for. YMMV.
UPDATE: Dave Cole, allegedly speaking for Symantec, has posted a statement that seems untrustable on it’s face, since it puts forth as “fact” several items that are known to be false, especially as relates to the timeline of forum deletions. How anyone could trust a liar so bad at it, is beyond my comprehension. Dear manager of Dave Cole, fire him and hire someone who can at least figure out how to lie convincingly. The truth is clear, you were deleting ANY mention of pifts.exe, well before the 4chan crowd came along, not just spammy comments.
If you are going to lie about something so obvious and verifiable, how can anyone believe anything else you claim?
UPDATE2:
So, symantec is still putting out a bogus story on the post deletions, but have finally started to show some sense on the technical side of things, though Reese Anschultz looks to be getting a little frustrated.
Tim Lopez is still pushing the spam lie hard. I’m amazed that he’s got the heart for it. I can’t imagine how bad I’d feel about myself, that the only job I can get, is one where I’m forced to repeat statements everyone knows are mostly lies. Especially when people keep posting proof that he’s a liar.
Tony Weiss spins a pretty line of BS a couple times too, but it’s pathetically obvious that even he knows he’s not telling the truth; why else would he use such tortured language?
To recap, Reese Anschultz – not a liar, just not very polite with the customers.
Tim Lopez and Tony Weiss – still spreading misinformation, still not very good at it.
UPDATE3: Looks like Jeff Kyle “group manager for consumer products at Symanetc” is repeating the lie, for the UK side of things.
Louis Cheng of Edelman PR isn’t doing a good job either, linking to the statement that people have already discredited. It doesn’t enhance your client’s rep, it only reinforces the idea that they are deliberately spreading false information.
UPDATE4: LOL, the forum registration for Norton uses a editable field for the TOS. I replace their text with, “Norton agrees that I can post anything I like, and will pay me $1000.00 per word that they publish on their website.” That’s like a totally binding contract, right? =p
The bloodwork came back, and the doc started him on some liver related medicines.
Oh the joys of giving a cat first a pill, and then a liquid.
It’s nice that I have the day off, to spend a little extra time with him though.
open firefox on a machine with two monitors.
place the firefox window so that most of the window is on monitor 1, but the search box is on monitor 2.
start entering search terms.
when the auto-suggest feature kicks in, it’s displaying it’s dropdown on monitor 1, far away from the actual text-field on monitor 2.
Is it google, or firefox?
Load the same album from two different locations into the library (not allowing itunes to reorg your collection), manually remove one of the dupes from the file system, and open GetInfo for a file that does exist. Press next to move to a file that no longer exists, everything greys out, as expected, then next over to a file that does exist. All the fields will go back to editable….except for the “part of compilation” checkbox, which stays greyed out.
As iTunes bugs go, this one is suprisingly small, and easy to work around, just cancel the info-edit, and reopen, you’ll be able to set the compilation flag as normal again.