[ale] Godaddy Suxs!!!

[Charles Shapiro]

Very cute, but surely you meant "autoexec.bat".  And what kind of MS-DOS
n00b wouldn't have looked there firstest?

-- CHS


On Sat, Dec 7, 2024 at 1:07 PM Jeff Lightner via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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