{"id":242,"date":"2005-10-05T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T18:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=242"},"modified":"2005-10-05T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T18:42:47","slug":"i-hate-computers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/05\/i-hate-computers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate computers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nActually, I really<\/em> hate mean, stupid people who take take advantage of weak spots in software to keep me from doing useful, helpful things.<\/p>\n

Last night one of our major UMM CSci web servers got hacked quite maliciously. This was not the polite “You have a security hole that you probably should fix, but I won’t actually damage your data” sort of attack, though. This was “Oooh, I got in, so I’ll delete tons of data, change other data, and see if I can leave backdoors for myself” sort of attack.<\/p>\n

And it’s my fault.<\/p>\n

Well, of course it’s not really<\/em> my fault (never blame the victim!), but I left the damn door open. We were notified of a security problem back in September and I fixed it in one place but forgot to fix it in a second place. And, sadly, locking half the doors doesn’t secure the house.<\/p>\n

Hmph.<\/p>\n

I have a boat load<\/em> of stuff I need to be working on. I’m terribly behind in my grading, there’s lots of committee work that needs attention, in theory I’m organizing a trip to the Cities day after tomorrow, etc., etc. And now some foul twit decides to get his jollies by pooping in our sandbox.<\/p>\n

I’m going to go cry.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, a significant reason that I’m behind on all this other stuff is other computer problems, including something like 30 hours in two weeks on a hardware problem on the same server that just got hacked. And our family news site is hacked and I’ve had no time to deal with it.<\/p>\n

When I logged in to write this, there was a comment that said “I love you”. From a wanna-be spammer advertising mortgage insurance.<\/p>\n

Did I mention that I’m gonna go cry?<\/p>\n

So here I sit rambling incoherently instead of getting real work done. I needed to vent, though, so I don’t snap at some poor student later. I’ve been IM’ing with Apsu<\/a> and venting at him as well. I’m way behind on helping him with a paper he’s working on (in the same way that I’m behind on a paper with the Grandiloquent One<\/a>) and his response was brilliant:<\/p>\n

\nI’ll just keep bitching until you’ve caught up and gotten your work done you overcommitting psychopath.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

“Overcommitting psychopath”.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll end there.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t

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