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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 08, 2010, 03:43:57 pm »

CSS?  Cascading style sheets?  Perhaps you mean XSS. ;p

No, no. I mean my university has very specific mandates on what each university-affiliated page must look like, and their required CSS code is atrocious. I've been troubleshooting a redesign of our internal site, and it makes me want to just destroy the web server to not have to deal with anymore.

shrugs.  CSU was 28k students or something.  The computer science department pretty much runs its own gig, and the network security people have their own little sector on the CS network.

OIT here likes it up the butt (aka they're anal). From a security standpoint it's good, but from a practical aspect, it's really annoying. My old employer flaunted their rules, but my old employer turned out to be douches. My new ones, unfortunately, have to stick to their rules.

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General Discussion / Re: Techniques to turn a 'no' into a 'yes'

« on: November 08, 2010, 03:24:56 pm »

This thread reminds me of: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204516/

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 08, 2010, 03:24:27 pm »

I was "on board".  They just didn't care if I didn't show up to things that didn't sound interesting to me.

If only my current orgs did that... but then, I'd never show up. Reached the pinnacle of my enjoyment about two years ago. Lawlz.

The "network security lab" was just a room with 30 or so computers, its own subnet and a bunch of hardware/software to play with.  They let people run wild.  It was really great

If I wanted I could put things on their own subnet at my own job; we have enough of a backlog in everything that it makes little sense to screw around that much, though. Currently wanting to break the web server because of CSS. :-D

The network security lab is pretty much there so people can do this kind of thing.  That's what was fun about it.  We could do all the naughty things we wanted without getting in trouble.  The professor thought it was pretty hilarious

Ah. With a school of 50,000 that isn't tech-focused like CSM is, we have some different limitations in things we can do. AFAIK we don't have things like that unless research groups are utilizing them.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 08, 2010, 09:13:00 am »

Shrugs... all of the student organizations I was involved with were minimally annoying.  I could show up when I felt like it, take part in any subset of the events I wanted, and I learned quite a bit.

It's different being on the board versus merely involved with an organization, I suppose.

The network security lab was great.  I was a "student admin", although I didn't do anything.  It just meant I got the punch code for the door, and I could run wild on any of the hardware I wanted.  My friend and I messed around with backtrack and ettercap for hours.

Ah, I do a wide variety of stuff. Just switched into my current department; eventually I'll be doing what full-time sysadmins do (server automation, ticket handling, hardware/cluster management, and a small bit of networking).

We were experimenting with ARP poisoning, and injecting data in HTTP packets.  We replaced all images in HTML with a picture of the professor that ran the network security club.  What we didn't realize was we were also intercepting packets that the server hosting the netsec website was sending out... anyone who requested the webpage during our fun times got a page full of images of Professor Dan Massey.  Oops. >_>

If that happened in my department I'm pretty sure I'd get fired. =)

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 08, 2010, 01:19:36 am »

Most of computer science is more concerned with theory than anything else.

Does your school have a network security club or something like it?  My undergraduate university did, and I think a lot of the people there who have pursued work in the field land internships/jobs at pretty neat places.  My friend did an internship working on DNSSEC.

I don't think we have any sort of security club. I don't think I'd get involved with any more student orgs though. I'm sick of them, tbh. I'd rather spend my free time next school year working on my honors thesis research project, whatever it may end up being.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 07, 2010, 03:47:46 pm »

I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you you're STILL being trolled.

It's not like I'm getting riled up. Trolling something that's apathetic is boring; I know this from experience.

wow deadly.  I had no idea you switched to CS.  Cool

I thought you hated programming, though?

I made that switch because I hated everything else and still love computers. Programming, I've learned, is a smaller part of CS and not necessarily what the major's all about. Some sects use it as a means to an end, and don't focus solely on programming. I don't think I want to be a software engineer, but working in iago's area is probably where I want to go with the degree. Having student sysadmin/network admin experience will be a very good segue into a potential internship with a security department, imo.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 06, 2010, 09:47:59 pm »

It's understandable if your job is with computers.

But of course deadly's isn't. His job is the classes he attends and the social life he skips out on. But because he doesn't do his job (he skips out on the social life) he fills his day with hours and hours of human-machine love.

Minus the part where I work as a student sysadmin/programmer, am a CS major, and hang out with people daily, you're correct!

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General Discussion / Re: Should laptops be called Laptops or BurnLaps?

« on: November 04, 2010, 07:05:04 pm »

Like I said, I know a lot of people don't like me here but when I feel like it I post or make a topic. I'm actually helping the forum by posting and makink topics.

I'd rather read Ender's posts than your drivel. And I'd rather read Crazed's posts than BOTH of your stuff.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 04, 2010, 01:34:10 pm »

For what it's worth, I use a computer 10-14 hours/day, too. It's my day job, and also my primary hobby.

LOL MAN UR SUCH A DORK BRO. GO OUT AND GET WASTED AND SHIT, THEN TAKE UP SOME CLASSICS MAJOR AND E-BRAG ON SOME FORUM. THAT'S THE LIFE, DAWG.

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Gaming / Re: SC2 Replay Parser online

« on: November 03, 2010, 03:56:06 pm »

Winner detection is tough - it's not stored in the replay so you kinda have to guess.

I don't/haven't played SC2 so I don't know hwo this works, but doesn't Starcraft 2 eliminate players when they lose? So you can pick out players/teams based on their elimination times.

Also: I now await Blizzard/Activision to sue you for violating their IP'z.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 03, 2010, 02:07:51 pm »

That's un-fuckin-healthy. Plus it makes you a huge dork.

It's funny that you're the one accusing me of being juvenile, and you've shown nothing but that sort of behavior. *golf clap*

Don't you ever get tired of being a stupid douche? Also, if I'm the dork, why are you the one stalking my posts commenting that I'm a dork and need to get laid?

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: November 02, 2010, 01:53:11 pm »

shrugs.  i've had fewer problems with my mac than any laptop i've ever owned, and i use it orders of magnitude more.

they are expensive, but worth it, in my opinion.

I use my HP about 10-14 hours a day and haven't had any issues. What other laptops have you had/what issues have you seen with them?

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: October 29, 2010, 03:28:37 am »

You're supposed to have a very low brightness for text reading, anyway!  It's those sports/video games that require high brightness. 

Truth. When I'm working in my room I leave ambient lighting off and just use a desk lamp near my laptop. So nice.

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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!

« on: October 29, 2010, 01:14:10 am »

deadly have you gotten laid yet?

It's funny that you're the one accusing me of being juvenile, and you've shown nothing but that sort of behavior. *golf clap*

Does anyone else REALLY hate websites with text on a white background? Maybe it's just because my new monitor is way brighter than my old one (even with brightness turned all the way down) but that shit is really uncomfortable for extended reading.

This is why I design in grayscale! Or just fix your monitor's brightness/contrast settings.

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General Discussion / Re: !

« on: October 28, 2010, 04:09:34 pm »

haha.  like draw a screen pass play diagram on my blue death costume thing.

That is probably the worst football joke I've ever heard. You should be ashamed to call yourself a redneck.