[ale] Godaddy Suxs!!!

[jc.lightner at comcast.net]

BOFH is some of the funniest stuff I've ever read.

I've never gone to his extremes. 

However, for years since finger read and displayed .plan files in UNIX/Linux my .plan contained:
"World Domination!
Now that you know I have to kill you.
Adding user to hitlist.txt..."

Back in my DOS days I had a co-worker named Barry who said there was nothing I could do on a PC that he couldn't.  
Accordingly I wrote a file called "c1s.bat" which simply set his PROMPT to "Barry can't find me.>"  I then updated his autoexec.at to run c1s instead of the usual clear screen command, cls, found in most autoexec.bat files.   😈

On booting up he saw the prompt and couldn't figure out how to undo it.   I finally relented, telling him how to fix it when he got the DOS installation disk planning to reinstall to default settings.  💩

At another job someone (not me) had come up with script that would auto-invoke on login to UNIX.  In the script it would show it had gone to the normal command prompt, pause for a second or so then say "Dialing into" giving the name of our largest, most important customer site.   It would ask "Are you sure?  Y/N".  Regardless of what you hit would say "OK dialing in".  It would then show a prompt as if you were dialed into that site.  It would ask a series of questions such as "Are you sure you want to delete all files from the data filesystem?" and "Are you sure you want to remove the data filesystem?" along with various other critical filesystems.  It would then ask "Are you sure you want to format the hard drive?"   Finally it would ask if you were sure you wanted to shutdown.   Of course every question resulted in it telling you it was proceeding as if you answered yes, regardless of what you actually entered.   They put that script in the profile of every new person that started in support as a hazing thing.   😄

Supposedly, there was one new person who went through the entire thing without stopping to scream for help as was usual.   They terminated that person for being dangerous to our operation.  😬

-----Original Message-----
From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of Bob Toxen via Ale
Sent: Saturday, December 7, 2024 12:09 PM
To: Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org>
Cc: Bob Toxen <Transam at verysecurelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] Godaddy Suxs!!!

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 08:32:53PM -0500, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> Living with apathy has its advantages....
Yeah, but I don't care!

(Sorry, it had to be done.)

> On December 6, 2024 8:05:19 PM EST, DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >On 12/6/24 19:14, Jeff Lightner via Ale wrote:
> >> Typically Registrars will send you notice of upcoming domain expirations.
> >> 
> >> The problem with that AND calendar reminders is they usually are aimed at a
> >> single person.   If that person is no longer with the company/organization
> >> OR that email has changed things might slip through the cracks.  I 
> >> often complained to registrars and certificate issuing authorities 
> >> about their processes not recognizing having single contacts for notifications didn't
> >> work well for larger shops.   (Of course we could try to use shared
> >> mailboxes but they often resisted that.)
> >
> >Email aliases are amazing things.  You can have an alias that sends email to 1 or 500 people.
> >
> >OTOH, if you are dead, you probably don't care that a cert or domain registration didn't happen. I wouldn't.
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