[ale] Hmmm....

[Jim Kinney]

That's what co-worker windows machines are for - testing recently found
USB devices :-). It's bets to use one that regularly has someone logged
into AD as administrator.

More reasons my entire network infrastructure doesn't use AD
authentication :-)

On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 17:32 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
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> Hopefully nothing nefarious was done to the BIOS or other chips.
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> Some viruses have been spread simply by dropping thumb drives in
> places IT types would find them.   Most of IT types are curious and
> can’t resist trying to find out what is on that kind of thing even if
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>  have no real use for it.
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> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org>
> On Behalf Of Jeff Hubbs via Ale
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> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2019 1:20 PM
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> To: ale at ale.org
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> Subject: Re: [ale] Hmmm....
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> I have been Jim's Goodwill and that is how I came to have a Hadoop
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> Speaking of Goodwill, it seems like they all will *take* PCs but few
> put any up for sale. I scored a couple of decently usable LCD
> monitors at the GW in Athens last year. The one in Macon has been the
> only one I've seen in the past few
>  years that regularly puts PCs up for sale. One of my best scores
> lately was a quad Xeon Dell with hardware RAID; it was sitting on the
> pavement next to an electronics recycling trailer at the Dekalb
> government complex on Memorial Drive. There was nothing wrong
>  with it other than its Windows installation which was quickly done
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> On 5/12/19 7:52 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
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> > More of a "please reuse my old stuff before I send it to Goodwill"
> > than a swap. Or the reciprocal portion is a happy "Thanks!". :-)
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> > On May 12, 2019 12:33:18 AM EDT, Jeffrey Brown 
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> > > I have never attended a meeting, owing more to social anxiety
> > > (and now distance) than any other factor. I like the idea of free
> > > old gear, but might a "swap" create a feeling of a reciprocal
> > > obligation to bring something to contribute? Might
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> > > GPG/PGP Public Key ID: A05E4182
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> > > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 7:06 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org>
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> > > > Wondering if old hardware giveaways at ale meetings would boost
> > > > attendance.
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> > > > Thoughts on a hardware swap?
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