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The Bank

Gotta love high security

September 11, 2007

OK, so we have this system here at work for requesting access. It’s a Lotus Notes database (shudder) that is a real pain in the patoot. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to request new IDs in Active Directory, or to get users moved in and out of AD groups.
Anyway, after you submit a request through [...]

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Stuff and nonsense

August 10, 2007

Time for some various and sundry updates.
The Pupperoni
Carrie and I are experiencing a Scout-less weekend, since he went Up North with Carrie’s sister Becky yesterday to visit the grandparents. He’ll be back on Monday. Our house is very quiet. Also, we finally got a full night’s sleep last night – since we’ve been having t-storms [...]

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Policies of the draconian sort…I love working at a bank!

May 22, 2007

So yesterday I got the following email:
Matt, CSIRT received the alert below showing that you used AOL chat from the JPMC infrastructure. Use of external instant messaging and webmail are violations of the IT Control Policies due to the inherent security risks involved.
Additionally, the firm’s workstation inventory system shows your machine has several unauthorized [...]

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Sometimes I love my life…

April 9, 2007

Jeff just called me. He’s got the Cubs tickets from his work for today. You know. Opening Day.
This necessitated the following IM conversation:
Matt: I know the rule is to request days off in advance, but I just came down with “opening day cough”
Matt’s Boss: lol
Matt: (translation – a ticket for today’s game just dropped in [...]

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Real World Laptop

November 28, 2006

Mugsy – I actually loaded OS X in a virtual machine last night on it. but then I patched OS X, and it stopped booting
Mugsy’s Boss – doh
Mugsy – it was fun to try though
Mugsy’s Boss – lol
Mugsy – I just thought it looked funny to run it in fullscreen and have the OS X [...]

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Gotta get ahead one way or another…

August 7, 2006

Matt Stratton – which is also why I always include my little “playing dumb” thing asking for the documentation on the process
Matt Stratton – which you notice nobody ever provides
Matt’s Boss – lol
Matt’s Boss – I play dumb pretty well too
Matt Stratton – at review time, I’d like it remembered that I refrained from making [...]

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