Real Life Picture Thread.

[TheSkai]

black hurr

[Shelbat]

WHAT? YOU KNOW ME? ;-------;

[Gorgarath]

WHAT? YOU KNOW OF ME? ;-------;

Yes.

[Shelbat]

orly....who am I then? -.-

[Lady Playtime]

It's the Squirtle Squad, Shelby.
Shelbifer of Ruairi.

Spelling may not all be correct.

[Marck]

Some RL pics from me...


Stitch ate all my candy. T-T


Beastie and Stitch chilling on top of the DeepFreeze server.

DeepFreeze! HAH.

I know you well...


too well...

Gorg, are you like part of the IT department at a high school/university? That's primarily where I've seen the program deployed.

[Lady Playtime]

Deepfreeze is so bad...

[Skitty]

DeepFreeze! HAH.

I know you well...


too well...

Gorg, are you like part of the IT department at a high school/university? That's primarily where I've seen the program deployed.

[Gorgarath]

DeepFreeze! HAH.

I know you well...


too well...

Gorg, are you like part of the IT department at a high school/university? That's primarily where I've seen the program deployed.

IT at a school district, yes. DeepFreeze isn't my favorite program in the world, but it does reduce IT calls a lot.

And Shelby, GF of Trav, Tzse, The Doctor, yes, I know of you. Don't know you, just of you. Hard not to notice the regulars.

Playtime, did you ever get around DeepFreeze yet?

[Shelbat]

*o* I feel special now.

[TheRamos]

Me at the party to celebrate my Grandmothers life.
What do they call it? The rise?

Well whatever, I'm getting fat >:I

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[Lady Playtime]

IT at a school district, yes. DeepFreeze isn't my favorite program in the world, but it does reduce IT calls a lot.

And Shelby, GF of Trav, Tzse, The Doctor, yes, I know of you. Don't know you, just of you. Hard not to notice the regulars.

Playtime, did you ever get around DeepFreeze yet?

Yes I did, however I couldn't tamper with the image which made me kinda sad.  I did get to fix up a lot of things though, so you my good sir are hero.

[TheRamos]

Dyed my hair black =w=

A girls room is messier than mine.
What sorcery is this?

[Marck]

IT at a school district, yes. DeepFreeze isn't my favorite program in the world, but it does reduce IT calls a lot.

And Shelby, GF of Trav, Tzse, The Doctor, yes, I know of you. Don't know you, just of you. Hard not to notice the regulars.

Playtime, did you ever get around DeepFreeze yet?

DeepFreeze is actually rather simple, just boot from a different location. e.g. USB. 

Only works if the IT department is un-proficient in their job, and doesn't protect the BIOS. (We had this at my former high school) But that was two years ago.

[Lady Playtime]

DeepFreeze is actually rather simple, just boot from a different location. e.g. USB. 

I wish I had a larger USB drive, it would have been SO much simpler, than getting rid of it temporarily.

[Marck]

I wish I had a larger USB drive, it would have been SO much simpler, than getting rid of it temporarily.

All you would have needed is a MS-DOS boot... Delete necessary files, then reboot on the actual OS. That's like, what, 10MB's at worst?

Although I have to say, I do like DeepFreeze for your basically admin-capability when you run the machine (If applicable.) Run whatever programs you like without worry of reprimand.

[Lady Playtime]

All you would have needed is a MS-DOS boot... Delete necessary files, then reboot on the actual OS. That's like, what, 10MB's at worst?

I don't even have that, my drive has a mind blowing 1800kb

I am going to pick up an 8GB flash drive, on my way home today, I REALLY need one.
Or... I could finally go and fix my beast of an external.

[Marck]

I don't even have that, my drive has a mind blowing 1800kb

What is this, the 90s? Cheap USB's for at least 4GB start at 8$ or so from a Target, or such.

[Lady Playtime]

What is this, the 90s? Cheap USB's for at least 4GB start at 8$ or so from a Target, or such.

Canada, bud.

If I remember correctly though, you told me my other one is a cloud drive, that I could run mabimods off of.

I need to get it fixed so I can use it again

[Gorgarath]

DeepFreeze is actually rather simple, just boot from a different location. e.g. USB. 

Only works if the IT department is un-proficient in their job, and doesn't protect the BIOS. (We had this at my former high school) But that was two years ago.

Yes, but I actually do my job... Only boot options are Hard Drive (default) and PXE (which times out to hard drive if nothing else is selected.) Though, the BIOS password is a bit simple and I haven't password protected any of my PXE boot options yet...

All the machines (except mine and a couple of others) log in as a generic limited user in XP, providing an extra hurdle for both me doing support (having to log in, promote the user account to an admin acount, log back out and in so that it takes effect, we currently use Novell without Zenworks, though we're turning into a MS shop over the summer I think which will remove that as I can just log in with my domain admin rights then) and for anyone to do anything with the computers that they're not really supposed to be doing. lol

But if you can boot from USB or CD, UBCD4Win is an easy way of getting access to the hard drive.

All you would have needed is a MS-DOS boot... Delete necessary files, then reboot on the actual OS. That's like, what, 10MB's at worst?

Technically, you'd need something that could read NTFS, which isn't native to MS-DOS. But on a 1.4 MB floppy image, available via my PXE server, there's a copy of NTFS4DOS which can read NTFS and I do use to unlock a FUBARED install of DeepFreeze. (Image includes the dummy driver from Faronics so it's right there to overwrite.)

Although I have to say, I do like DeepFreeze for your basically admin-capability when you run the machine (If applicable.) Run whatever programs you like without worry of reprimand.

I have a machine sitting around to do just that. Makes testing things rather easy when you can just restart the machine and be back to clean. Granted, can do the same with VM's, but some things just run better on bare metal.

I don't even have that, my drive has a mind blowing 1800kb

I am going to pick up an 8GB flash drive, on my way home today, I REALLY need one.
Or... I could finally go and fix my beast of an external.

Doesn't newegg ship to Canada? That $8 at Target for a 4GB is now looking like $5 for a 16GB or so from newegg*. Not sure what the shipping is, but I doubt it's all that much. Most of the cost is in the time it takes to get there instead of that lovely "I got it right now" feeling.

*Not really sure of the actual prices as I haven't checked newegg's prices recently, but they're usually similar to that from past recolections.

[Lady Playtime]

See, newegg would be a wonderful solution for all my tech needs(I'm rebuilding a computer currently)

My problem though, is that I'm Canadian, and lack credit cards, so being stuck with only cash and a debit card, I can't use newegg, since Canadian debit isn't accepted anywhere¹ accept in store.


¹ Includes Paypal, and other forms of online payment.

[Gorgarath]

See, newegg would be a wonderful solution for all my tech needs(I'm rebuilding a computer currently)

My problem though, is that I'm Canadian, and lack credit cards, so being stuck with only cash and a debit card, I can't use newegg, since Canadian debit isn't accepted anywhere¹ accept in store.

¹ Includes Paypal, and other forms of online payment.

Well, that just sucks. Seems like you need to get a credit card. Just always make sure to not spend more than you can pay off. Which used to be so simple and easy for me to do...

Anyway, to get back on topic, more RL pics...


The wall behind my desk... Yes, my office, while rather large, also doubles as the server room. It's rather noisy.

And slightly to the left of that pic...

is this lovely switch rack which doesn't help with the noise.

[Lady Playtime]

... Please tell me those aren't floppy drives I see.

[Gorgarath]

... Please tell me those aren't floppy drives I see.

Floppy drives? Of course. We're a school district, we don't have money to upgrade servers just for the sake of upgrading them. The old ones we have do the job that's required of them, though we will hopefully be able to get a new server this year to start moving to VMs and reducing the number of servers we have. Just because they have the drives though, doesn't mean we actually use the disks. Or if you were referring to the disks themselves, I don't see any in either of the pics. Closest thing I could see were the backup tapes and the box for the ID card printer ribbon.

[Lady Playtime]

It's the drives, your running antiques there, I haven't seen one of those since I was like 6.

I honestly, miss them, thinking about putting one in my computer I'm building...