reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for eyeout3.airnetlink.com failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT!
I use rsa keys and have aliased ssh to add -2v to make logins as fast (and geekily detailed) as possible on both this server and the debian box I have at the office.
Disabling the reverse mapping check on my mac is confounding me.
So we are continuing to need people at work. Interviewing has been a curse and a treat. A networking fundamentals exam and an interview with myself or an associate (or both) are the next step up from a decent resume and a phone interview pre-screen.
The exam is very telling, although seemingly simple. Staffing agencies will rave up a candidate so under-qualified that I’ve had to apologize for wasting people’s time driving to our office. Some people phone interview well and bomb in person. Some ace the test and bomb in discussion. Some ace everything and then refuse the background-check (or fail it). Government contractors ace 1/3 of the exam and leave the rest blank (I kid, I kid.).
The hated “strength/weakness” question as well as the “where do you see yourself in a year… three years… five years?” actually aren’t as dumb and obviously answered as I thought. I still hate the questions, but some times a person is so hard to read or not forthcoming that it is the only hope of determining ego and goals respectively. Ditto “what are you into besides this field?” and “describe an achievement you are proud of.” :gonk: cliche alert.
If a candidate answers every one of these questions absolutely perfectly in discussion, cool as steel, and seems like a real winner that might need some technical ramp-up for how behind their test showed, there is a 95% likelyhood that they are a sociopath and will fail the background check. Red flags should go off.
I pepper the cliches with resume buzzword skeet shooting. “Uh, you have VOIP listed here… tell me about it?” “Linux?” “VPN?”
If someone is obviously nervous at first but lightens up when hobbies or interests are discussed, they are likely human beings with real interests. This is a win.
What’s the dumbest thing you ever did in an interview? What’s the dumbest thing an interviewer has asked you or done?
I filled out a questionnaire for a used record store clerk position with an honest answer to the “Have you ever stolen anything from your employer?” question: Sure, food sometimes from McDonald’s when I was in the grill section, everyone did." thinking I was being honest. :downs:
Employer hiring me after arriving over an hour late to the interview (I got lost, had no cell phone, didn’t anticipate traffic well, blah blah)
…a guy that knows his way around computers. 😃 haha… I mean that in a good way of course. 😃
– Anonymous, technical consulting meeting, 2005
I should clarify that I was the subject of the statement.
Headlines only.
I can only assume it’s because he didn’t care enough to configure it, wrote the feed generator himself and stopped at “functional”, or the log-watcher in him wants to keep hit counts accurate. A younger-me probably would have ranted about the frame based site and font=arial tags, and it’s still an asshole-move pointing it out in a statement about not pointing that sort of thing out anymore, Captain Manipulative.
Check out Marcus playing MythBuster.
The EFF have sent an open letter re: this whole SONY/BMG rootkit fiasco.
EFF:
We look forward to hearing that you are in the process of implementing these measures by 9:00am PST on Friday, November 18, 2005.
It’s mildly interesting watching an industry die.
Huzzah challenged fans!
We are finally done our CD and will be having a giant fun CD release show on November 26th at the Talking Head.
That’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving so you’ll have two full days of gluttonous recovery before the show.
We’ll get back to you when all the details are shored up but make sure you hold that date now and mark it down and make necessary travel arrangements as flights will start to fill up once the word hits the street if you take my meaning.
Stay mysterious,
-CC
I spied this in a parking garage in Silver Spring today, tucked under the driver’s-side windshield wiper of a non-descript blue Ford Explorer.
The only good
hunter is …
A DEAD
hunter!!
Masterful use of the ellipsis and double-exclamantion-points. Handwriting analysis says female to me but I could be wrong. A pro could probably trace the shape of the T, D, and H strokes to a decade and a region of the country in which the person was instructed in the arts of writing - I’m going to pull for the 1960’s if not earlier but can’t place a region.
I saw nothing indicating that the owner of the truck was in fact, a hunter. The owner could be named Hunter and this is a personal death threat. Ideally, the Hunter is actually named Dead Hunter – if true this note can be taken as a love note.
UPDATE:
As I was backing out, I snagged a shot of the front license plate. The picture sucks but it says HUNTER Ford, NC with mountains on either side, black on yellow - looks like a dealer plate.
Google shows that there are a handful of dealerships in Henerson, NC that the Hunter family owns.
What a moron.
Did you document how often the six year old piece of crap you are forced to use at the office crashes?
I mean really document it.
Like, every single crash.
Sometimes you have to have patience.
For a while, I was driving to a nasty client pretty regularly in DuPont (not the above pictured at all) who had thrown out multiple other techs, and literally slammed doors in my face before because AOL wasn’t working for her. I saved every single parking garage windshield number that I got when going there and had them hanging in my cubicle. I felt like they were hash marks just under the canopy of my fighter jet or something:
Like this:
|||||||
I’m talking confirmed-kills here. Like this:
Take that printer-not-working! Bomb’s away downed-Verizon-line! Computer that doesn’t work but is really just asleep? I have your number!
So yeah, it got silly. I started keeping parking and valet tags from other places and hanging them as well. Sure, they might not be confirmed-kills but it made the signs on my metaphorical fighter look hardcore. That lasted for a few months at most. I’m over it.
I lack discipline.
Floor to ceiling. The man has since gotten a new machine. The list is gone. It has not been replaced.
I wanted to frame it as a reminder of whatever artistic deconstructionist metaphor that one feels like making of it, because it can be interpreted so many ways, but it was likely just trashed.
Or he framed it.
Before I got my current job, I was temping answering phones. Literally, the receptionist / typist / data entry monkey at an auto-loan subsidiary of Ford. Every car-salesman’s name and dealership that called was noted on a half-sheet pad before I put him on hold or attempted to transfer him/her, in blue ball-point. After transfered, I’d cross out the name and dealership in red ball-point. I kept it orderly, but not names in a row, just ever line is more or less parallel.
No, of course my system wasn’t that refined on my first day. I started it on nearly the last week of my placement there. I have four of these five-year-old sheets, saved for framing. Should make for quite the conversation piece eh?