Usenet at work

Having initially claimed that I was likely to get viruses onto the work
network by using newsgroups, the snivelling git that organises our computers
at work has told me to stop using the newsreader because it's against
company policy to use computers for non-work stuff.

I've decided to ignore him as basically everyone uses web-based email (incl
both my bosses), but is NNTP traffic likely to be logged like email and
internet traffic? It would be nice to ignore him with impunity.

Tim

 

Just use Google Groups and post from there.

Then when you leave, call him a twat.

 

Depends on how your machine reaches the Internet. It's very unlikely that
they will have more information logged than the general info saying you were
connected to NNTP server z between times x and y. The chances of your
network's NAT or proxy actually interrogating the NNTP packets is highly
unlikely IMHO, so at least they won't tell which binary groups you spend all
day salivating over.

 

Not the point - if your company policy is "no work related stuff" just
because every one else does it won't
help if they take you to task for it - especially if you signed something
saying you wouldn't. [1]

As has been mentioned elsewhere, occasionally it's things like this that
might be used if they can't get rid of you any other way...

[1] my company is the same, everyone does it - sometimes even for work
reasons - but I know full well that if I should be asked
about it, there isn't an awful lot I can say... " I was waiting for a query
to finish running"

 

TimP says...

Ask Jeremy

 

Love to help but rather busy trying to work out if there is a way you
can reboot a windows PC by some combination of keyboard button presses.

--

jeremy
['75 RD250A ] | ['02 Fazer 600 in blue]
_______________________________________
jeremy at hireserve dot com

 

ctrl+alt+del
s
r (for restart)
s (for shutdown)
l (for logoff)
return

 

ctrl-alt-del
right arrow
right arrow
return
up arrow
up arrow
up arrow
up arrow
up arrow
down arrow
down arrow
return

(if not NT/2K/XP, only hit the down arrow once)

Think about it.

 

If it's NT/2K/XP, insert two right arrow keypresses and a return here.

 

But my method works on W2K, is easier and more certain. Which in the
circumstances is a good thing.

 

Ignore what I posted, it was bollocks.

For a change.

 

Or setup a VNC server on your home PC and access it from work and use your
newsreader on your home PC.(Broadband dependant)

 

nonsense.

windows-key
up arrow
return
alt-R
return

 

actually, alt-R only works for pre-XP Windows; for XP, substitute an
up arrow, a down arrow or nothing, depending on which way the machine
was shut down the last time.

For 2003 Server, there's probably more fannying about as you need to
specify the reason for the reboot. Still all keyboard-achievable
though.

 

TimP wrote:

Make sure you subscribe to a suitable newgroup that is work related...

 

That is such a 'useful' feature - I wonder if anyone actually does put in a
valid reason.

I have rather a lot of "sdsdfs" in my reboot logs :-|

 

well, I rebooted a 2003 box twice yesterday, and put in the correct
reason (software installation[1]) both times.

I have a minion to look at logs.

[1] note to unix-weenies: I could have done it without a reboot, but
I'm lazy and it's a dev box.

 

Very Unixy.

Much like a Solaris box - it expects you to use the shutdown command,
give a time delay, a reason, etc. Or you can just type 'init 6' and
watch it all happen straight away.

Pointless.

 

Ah, this just *has* to be the happiest misprint of the morning!

 

We use it on one of our shared production machines (although most are
still W2K), because there are about 20 techies that may be involved in
supporting it, and it's nice to know why something was rebooted if
you're picking up work from somebody else.