@scottalanmiller said:

@FiyaFly said:

@scottalanmiller In my defense, I think a lot of the reason I'm getting such a desktop is because There's plans of management to install a chain and shackle at the bottom of my desk when I least expect it and just hope that I'm alright with that because of my shiny new toy.

Maybe the new desktop will have one of the Bluetooth dongles that sets off an alarm if you step too far away.

Mark of the beast!!! RFID tags that send you to hell!!!

@Bill-Kindle said:

I encourage people to try to be even just a little bilingual.

I'm a cunning linguist, does that count?

Sorry I haven't got back to you Mike, been dealing with stuff and finally got my lab back online. Always remember to eject your media after you are done with installing things.

Well, it's been a while since I setup SuSE, but it looks as though for 13.x, they did away with the usual booting from LiveCD and having a full blown installer for YaST.

For the live media, you should be seeing this on boot.

If you are not, it's most likely the wrong image. Check the MD5 hash to ensure you got the right one that you need. Or just grab another ISO. That's easy as pie.

Oh, and just in case no one can figure it out, I'm joking. I know what's going on, but I'll let him tell the story.

Oh, you mean that all nude dump on Royal/35E that had the chick with the stretch marks from her neck to the cooch?

@Bill-Kindle said:

@PSX_Defector He went out with you and that's all he had to scrub off? glitter?

There's no sex in the champagne room.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Nic said:

You'll need to be worried about AJ Stringham over here

Haven't seen him in a few days.

welcome to the boards, I too have been wondering what happened to AJ

That's my fault. I took him to a strip club, he's still scrubbing off the glitter.

Here I was thinking you were gonna say this desktop.

@Dominica said:

Scott actually uses his full name everywhere online so that he controls the majority of information available about him online.

Except that one cannot control what others say online. For example, Scott Allen Miller has a proclivity towards wearing fur suits while running around the back yard.

You can say the same thing about me, but ultimately this is just a persona, a unknown avatar who can disappear tomorrow. Yeah, it would probably suck if I had to change my name, but it's something that can be done. Once you release that vaulted name, you are screwed and have to conform and keep things on the down-lo.

Do you think this kid ever used his name again after posting this desktop shot?

@NetworkNerd said:

In regard to exposing the PBX to the public internet...
Strong SIP secrets and the firewall rules mentioned here can be a decent deterrent. Throw fail2ban in there too if your PBX can utilize it. Some SIP providers will allow you to limit the maximum charge for international or LD calling for situations such as Jared mentions (unexplained phone charges). And monitor the logs like crazy.

Or have a provider who will block that out the gate. I know a few who block all international calling from their trunks by default because of the major problem of relaying.

Not to say that this is a new problem. I used to war dial PBXes all the time trying to find some way to relay a call. No better sound after calling a number than dial tone willing to accept DMTF.

There is only one major player in the hosted PBX arena I know of, Broadworks. They can offer this level of customization, their API is pretty slick on provisioning. I know of more than a few hosting companies using it.

Other than that, a line is a line is a line. For a small office, hosted works pretty well for the same reasons Office 365 does.

@Dominica said:

Actually, I completely disagree with that theory @dashrender . Bullying is worse, because children can't get away from it. Cyber-bullying makes it so that bullies are able to publicly attack a kid on facebook pages, via school email and message boards, etc. Instead of it being a "well, school sucks, but at least I don't have to deal with bullies at home", there is no escape.

Really? Cyber-bullying? That's the largest crock of [sh] I've ever heard.

One of the first things kids should have learned on the internet is to NEVER USE YOUR REAL NAME. I take it to a pretty high extreme, Facebook being the only place where I use my real name because I converse with real people in real life. My name as far as anyone on the internet is concerned is PSX_Defector, a long standing name of close to 20 years. I've used it in forums, emails, various chat medium, etc. etc. I never use my internet name in real life, save for the place that shall not be mentioned's convention, but that's because no one there knows me by my real name. I'm careful on revealing where I live, where I work, even my mannerisms. The internet is the internet and real life is real life and never the twain shall meet.

Kids get cyber-bullied because they don't know the technology. They hang out their [moderated] to allow people to find them, friend everyone and anyone on Facebook, never knowing that there is that little button called "Ignore" that easily gets rid of it. Kids are just not that sophisticated to know how to smurf it, nor do they know how to formulate a convincing alter ego. People may say stuff about you behind your back in some way, but that's no different than in any other situation. And if it's a real problem, libel is still a tort in this country. If some mean girls write you are a slut who [moderated] every boy in school and a service won't take it down, any law talking guy worth his salt would be able to screw them over six ways from Sunday.

You don't go screaming at the top of your lungs in real life all the minute details of your day, you shouldn't be doing it on the internet.

I'm going with the school on this one. Articles like this always leave out the other side, mostly because they know they can't respond.

My guess is the kid was being a super annoying little shit, being told to not be an annoying little [sh**], with a mother who can't possibly believe that her precious little snowflake is being an annoying little [sh**] So they run to the media and it becomes a story where someone was told to not wear a backpack because he was "bullied" because of it, not because of his non-stop yammering about any and all things ponies throughout the day.

Have you ever met a hard core brony in real life? Annoying shit doesn't even describe it. Think the crappy prose of erotic fan fiction mixed with A.J. levels of enthusiasm with a healthy dose of Comic Book Guy.

I'm all about letting that freak flag fly, but damn, some folks need to know when to fly it. Do it at Brony-con, not in the perfume department of Macy's. There's a reason why hippies live on compounds.

@JaredBusch said:

The helpdesk job was for their newly spun off DSL division ACI Solutions. It was a regulatory separated company as a condition of the approval of SBC's purchase of Ameritech.

Don't you mean ASI.

@Minion-Queen said:

I need more of the housecleaning barters to happen.

So clean my house and I'll fix your PC. Cook my dinner not because I fixed your printer but because that's your place, woman!

It's been a while but if I'm not mistaken, the installer also does a LiveCD choice on boot.

@Dashrender said:

Seriously? why? Moral judgement? - weak

Probably the same reason why @Addie keeps blanking out [moderated[ and anything else I post.

Sounds like you grabbed the installer rather than the Live version.

Grab an account with SuSE Studio and build yourself a nice little machine.

Before then I worked heavily in mainframe, OS/2 and Mac. Mac because I did lots of video stuff and Amiga was on the way out, mainframe because my friend's father hooked me into working on it, and OS/2 because IBM shops tend to stick with IBM to the end.

The 90's were a strange time to be in IT.

Hence the purity aspect of it. People were bitching like someone [moderated] their grandmothers because you couldn't release source code.

Zealotry is a big thing in certain OSS circles. The [moderated] waving of being the most open was huge back in those days. That's the main reason why I didn't get into Linux then, those people just pissed me off to no end. I went the MS route instead, where there were different battles to fight.