Duh. Oh right. There’s this remote administrator named Vznyk from Albania or Ukraine or some place like that, who has full access to all the internal company stuff, right! Just kind of “slipped Tim’s mind” to mention him. He’s just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SOMEONE renamed those servers, but who? It’s like when there are two people in a room and one of them farts. The one who didn’t do it KNOWS they didn’t do it, and the one who did maintains their innocence[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You DO NOT want to dump an active database that people are connected to. Instead if it you have a master/slave setup ( the slave a passive copy) you dump the slave. The master will be locked out from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tix is astonished that Tim wants her to suck an entire behemoth legacy database down via the network. It would be kind of like trying to suck the water supply for an entire town through a straw. That is going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When you’re a little kid and you take your lunch to school, remember how you had to have the “right” food at lunchtime? No matter what you actually liked to eat. The other kids would make fun of you if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Farty Poop just doles out surprise after surprise. First Tim assumes that Tix knows all about token ring networking, an old technology that is still in use in some very very conservative installations. (Here’s a link for the IT geeks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you just dropped in here, the Farty Poop story arc begins with this comic. There are 3 episodes prior to this one. Everybody at one time or another builds a working computer out of old crap (AKA e-waste). It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you just dropped in here, the Farty Poop story arc begins with this comic. There are 2 episodes prior to this one. Despite the little voice of intuition screaming “NOOOOOOOO!” very loudly, Tix accepted the position at Farty Poop,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By “old geek” (AKA “mature” geek) I am not talking about someone who can collect social security. I’m talking about anyone over the age of 38 or so. It turns out that experience isn’t always your friend and a mature[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…