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Apr/09

7

8-bit Hip Hop

Comments | Posted by Benny Dacks in Art, Funny, Gaming, Geek, Music, WTF

8-bit Hip Hop medley - By Jesse Tugboat [jump]

Jay-Z — Dirt Off Your Shoulders
T.I — What You Know
Chamillionaire — Ridin’
Ludacris — What’s Ya Fantasy
Bonecrusher — Neva Scared
Twista & Kanye — Overnight Celebrity
Ludacris — Move Bitch
Lil’ Jon — Get Low
Kanye — Gold Digger

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Dec/08

8

Top 5 Reasons Why Monday Sucks

Comments | Posted by Benny Dacks in Rants

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5. There’s no coffee waiting for you. Sure that secretary makes enough money to remember to Email everyone when she finds a paper towel on the ground, but not enough to get her ass in there and make some damn coffee. Especially not on a Monday.

4. That one cheeky fucker. You know the one I’m talking about. I’m referring to the one assnugget who insists on ’starting the week off right’ and gleefully romping around the office trying to infect the rest of us with motivation. Good Luck, Asshole. 

3. Everything breaks on a Monday. Before I even get my coffee, I’ll get 10 emails about how the email system is broken, at least 4 phone calls to tell me the phones don’t work, and at least 1 idiot running into my office to tell me the building is on fire (but in reality, its just the toaster). 

2. People forget there are 4 more days in the work week. Just today, I got a phonecall (albeit a very profitable, important one) at 8:35 AM! WTF. My week hasn’t even technically started. I hear this is punishable by chopping off 1 ear in most 3rd world countries. 

1. New Work Week, New Projects. YAY, more crap for me to pretend I’m doing. I’m sure at some point I’ll have Stumbled every blog post, watched every YouTube video and beat off to every hot chick on the internet. Perhaps I’ll start working after I reach those goals. 

Chances are, everyone is as pissed off as you are. 

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Dec/08

4

Top 10 Most Evil IT Office Pranks

Comments | Posted by Benny Dacks in Top 10

 

10. Email Sniping

Server side fun. “Did you get my email?” <<zap>>, “No…(yes)”

9. The Decaff. Suprise

See how the marketing department feels when their java lifeline is switched to non-caffeinated pisswater. 

8. Good ol’ password change.

Make it something like )*(_&ifhu-)*&D)FH_)87fy-09y8Y_)* and insist they memorize it. Idiots. 

7. The straight up crash

Burn their fucking computer to the ground with a few well-placed lines of code. 

6. Torrent framing

“Well Johnny, it seems as if you’ve been using $100,000 of company equipment to download the My Little Pony DVD Box set from thepiratebay. You’re fired.” with a Mac/Unix/Linux based office, one could do this rather easily.

5. VNC Takeover

They will never figure it out. They’ll blame the gremlins and tiny japanese people in the box they know as a computer.

4. Goatse Wallpaper

Not up on your internet lingo? Prepare for a doozie.

3. Share the dirt.

‘Accidently’ share someone’s ‘hidden’ stash of ’special’ files. Make sure you label it “Marks Disgusting Porno Collection On the Company Server”

2. Annoyatron

This amazing little device found at ThinkGeek.com is a great way to piss off any desk jockey.

1. 2girls1cup Screensaver

Just make sure you use your VNC connection to blast their volume. Nothing like walking away from a quiet office, only to come back to 2 girls shitting in a cup, moaning. 

 

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Dec/08

4

The Most Passive Aggressive Email Ever

Comments | Posted by Benny Dacks in WTF

 

I thought this was really funny. 

 

You will probably get ad nauseam from me about caring for our office surroundings.   So here is another approach:

When the trash basket at our “kitchen area” is overflowing DON’T take the time to bind it up and throw it out let the other person do it.   It’s good for their soul.

When you use the toaster oven and microwave and leave crumbs on the table or whatever - DON’T clean it up when you done - leave it for the other person.  It’s good to let your co-worker benefit from this service to you.

When you take the last bit of toilet paper - DON’T replace it with another roll so it’s handy for the next person - just leave it for that person so they can practice their yoga positions while trying to unwrap another roll.

ditto when you take the last but of paper towels to clean your hands - the next person can just wipe their hands on their jeans, dress - it will save the environment some paper.

 

 

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Oct/08

28

DIY Wired Home with an extra PC

Comments | Posted by Benny Dacks in How To

 

As part of our ongoing series, “Building the Wired Home,” we’ve been experimenting with what could be a sea-change in the whole concept of a home computer. Home computers, of course, have long ago become commonplace, and computers have even taken on some roles that used to be delegated to standalone consumer electronics, such as audio and video storage and playback. They’ve gone from being exotic oddities to ever-more-useful home appliances. Interestingly, though, as our home computers have become more powerful, sophisticated, and useful, they have also become decentralized and have, in most inefficient fashion, been chopped up and redistributed around the house. “Read more” to learn how our experiment worked out.

 

What in days not so long ago would have been mind-bogglingly-powerful processing machines are now powering our telephones, video game machines, digital video recorders, media servers, wireless routers, print servers, home automation controllers, ebook readers, multifunction remote controls, and even refrigerators. Much of this processing power and memory lies idle for much of the day, but nevertheless hums along, wasting electricity and representing a considerable monetary investment in technology that will soon be obsolete and needing replacement. It would make a lot more sense for one powerful computer, loaded with RAM and big hard disks (preferably in RAID 5) to act as the centralized nerve center of the house. It would end up being more convenient, more power-efficient, less expensive, and would provide a single point of upgrade.

 

This article will take a look at why systems like this aren’t more common, and what a system like this would look like, and how it works in the real world. We’ll also look at some things that maybe aren’t so common in today’s homes that a centralized home server can make possible.

 

The first step in making our home nerve center are the rather mundane issues of where to put it and how to connect it to everything. This brings up the #1 reason why these kinds of setups aren’t more common: most homes aren’t designed to accommodate the wires and cables required to make these systems work optimally. We covered this issues in-depth in an earlier article in this series, but suffice to say that had I not been able to run various types of cable through the walls while the house was being built, it would have been difficult and costly. Therefore, it would require more that just some clever engineering to make a home nerve center practical; it will take a minor but radical transformation of architectural practices. Nevertheless, I believe it would be a worthwhile endeavor.

See: OSNews for the rest.

 

I designed our home server to be located in a basement utility area right next to the patch panels where all of the home’s electrical wiring, both high and low voltage, converge. I had distributed cat5e, coaxial, low voltage power cable to various areas of the home, along with conduit to accommodate fiber optic or any other cable we’d want to run in the future. I also ran some long DVI and HDMI cables to strategic areas of the house. I did this so I could connect a couple of monitors directly to the machine. That’s one of the shortcomings of a home server that’s merely connected to the various home appliances via network. Though theoretically you can stream video over those network cables, it’s not an ideal situation, since the hardware you’d need is an expensive specialty item, and you’d typically need to dedicate some cat5 wires to the job and not run all that data over the ethernet network. 

 

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