You might have it bad at your job, but nothing like this guy. Quoted after the jump for posterity, with naughty words edited.
Take Back The Beep
We know what to do at the voicemail beep — why do the cell phone companies insist on wasting more of our time telling us what to do? Well apparently, there’s ways to turn it off, which I didn’t know. If you use Sprint, follow the directions here to disable the voicemail instructions, and Engadget has other ways to shorten the greeting on other carriers.
One More Reason To Not Use A Mac
With a bit of work, the firmware of some Apple keyboards (A keyboard with open programmable firmware? That’s a big mistake.) can be hacked so that the bad guys can have complete control over the system, recording your keystrokes, reinfect the computer if the hard drive is wiped, etc… . In other words, really bad news.
It makes me wonder if other keyboards that features any sort of programmable features could potentially have an issue like this. Scary stuff, indeed.
(Yes, that headline was intentionally written to incite the fan boys. Just relax, it’s a joke, as there are plenty of good reasons for each platform, I know that.)
It’s Sysadmin Day
Everybody thank a sysadmin, because without them, your life would suck. I’m celebrating by remotely trying to bring a network back up after a storm-caused power outage — and it’s not working well, so I’m going to have to go to the office, I think (this is my normal day off).
How To Use Your Printer to Freak People Out
I’ve mentioned before how you can use Google to find unsecured Web cams and printers. The folks at Reddit found another open printer URL, but the best part was this comment, which makes it so you can change the status display on some HP printers, with some hilarious results.
If You’re Going To Photoshop Your Real Estate Listing…
…I’d recommend you actually use Photoshop, and not MS Paint.
Update on 7/30: It looks like they replaced the photo on the listing. The one that was there before is here:
The Good, The Bad…
and the Ugly…
Give it a minute to get going — it starts to roll about 1:15 in.
I Never Knew Sarah Palin’s Words Could Be So Beautiful
This was absolutely breathtaking — or something…