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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • My current job.

    Many SQL servers use scripts that run as domain administrator. With the password hard coded in.

    Several of the various servers are very old. W2K, 2003, 2008. SQL server, too.

    Several of the users run reports via rdp to the SQL server - logging in as domain admin.

    Codebase is a mashup of various dev tools: .net, asp, Java, etc.

    Fax server software vendor has been out of business for a decade. Server hardware is 20 years old. Telecom for fax is a channelized PRI carrying POTS - and multiport modem cards.

    About a 3rd of the ethernet runs in the office have failed.

    Office pcs are static IP. Boss says that’s more secure.

    We process money to/from the Fed.













  • If I can offer something…

    Those are not your embarrassment. My father confessed to his other daughter only as he was dying. She was 30 at the time - I was over 40. He had hidden her from us for all that time, disguising all of his time with her as business meetings.

    Before he died, my mom got to hold HIS first grandchild while she still had none. She held my stepsister blameless - all she had done was be born. And my mom cried at my father’s wake - they had a lot of years together, and some were good. But we’ve all moved on. It’s been 20 years since he died.

    My advice is to let the past stay in the past. It was, and reliving it won’t make it different. Be in the now and work towards your better future. I truly wish you peace on your journey. We all find it in the end.