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December 19, 2005

You wanted to firewall that one down mate...

Just been looking at some server logs on one of the Linux machines on campus I have the pleasure in helping maintain... there was a really annoying long list of broken packets been sent out by one computer in particular... so I went and had a looksy at what the services the computer had runnning. It appeared to be running a webserver, ftp server and a telnet server... so I visited the webserver, to see what I could see, could see...

Lecture Theatre Control Screen

Yup, folks, it's the control thing you'll see many a lecturer fighting with at the begining and thoughout the lecture trying to get the screen down... the projector on... and the Powerpoint presentation coming from their laptop...

It's a pity that it's out of term time, or I could caused much confusion and hilarity by randomly clicking the buttons... making the lecture theatre become possessed as it were!

I've decided to tell the departmental computer bod, as I know he'll take great pleasure in telling Information Services that one of their computers isn't locked down as much as it should be! They love sending him a weekly email with a list of all the wrong goings on that are happening in our department with the machines over here... so now it's his turn to get his own back!

Posted by Ed at December 19, 2005 4:37 PM | Geek |