Right, so we’re busy doing some top secret email stuff in the office relating to client support and generally being more efficient when it comes to queries and stuff. And part of this testing involves the transmission of emails that needs to comply with RFC specifications, and generally having the correct headers and content in it, blah blah blah. All good fun. And then this gem landed in my inbox (tracing the Received headers reveals it was Stephen – perfectly spoofed in every other way from Darth.Vader.This.is.legit@gmail.com, quite a mean feat seeing that I haven’t yet received spam from professional fraudsters that managed this):
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We should be glad Darth Vader isn’t a spammer
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010The Story of a Mugging
Friday, April 16th, 2010So I’ve got a weird, non-tech one today.
Monday afternoon one of my technicians got mugged, they took his cellphone and his company issued laptop. Yesterday I get a weird phone call. The technician. Informing me he found the laptop in a pawn shop, being sold for R4000. Apparently nobody managed to get the ULS sticker off so it was still stuck on the laptop for easy recognition. He got hold of the cops and even had the laptop returned to him yesterday. The cops are busy following the sales trail in an attempt to locate the perpetrator (They sound positive … apparently threatening to arrest people and throw them in jail until they co-operate is still effective). Total damage? Laptop bag and hard drive needs to be replaced. The hard drive because they replaced it for whatever reason (Amongst others probably because having Linux on a notebook is bad for saleability). The bag because it’s, well, gone.
Google supporting the bulls?
Friday, October 30th, 2009So today we just could NOT resist the temptation to have some fun with couple odd Cheetah supporters in the office, and we decided the perfect target is … well, let’s just say a picture really can be worth a thousand words:
Well, that is what google looks like in our office today.
The minor crack that turned into a nightmare …
Thursday, June 4th, 2009So about 7 weeks ago I noticed a minor, minute little crack on the left hand side of my laptop’s screen. Probably about 10 pixels in total that was dead. Nothing major, but seeing as the laptop was (is) still under warrantyI decided to push my luck about a week later and see if Incredible Connection would book the laptop for repair under warranty. They did. They also gave me a loan unit (which turned out to be useless because I had a 64-bit Linux installed and the CPU on the loan unit was a 32-bit, but that’s ok … managed to work around that). Three weeks (finally!) later I got the laptop back. Yay … or was it?
