kdccrosby wrote:evening all. Trip to one of our plant locations today went well. The people were nice, which helps.

That helps a lot. Did you go by yourself?

kdccrosby wrote:evening all. Trip to one of our plant locations today went well. The people were nice, which helps.

They usually feed you well at the plants ,least they did when I was in the petro chemicals biz. It's where the money is made.

pooflady wrote:That helps a lot. Did you go by yourself?

My boss and a co-worker from another corporate department went too. But the presentation was all mine.

Iceback wrote:They usually feed you well at the plants. Least they did when I was in the petro chemicals biz.

lunch was good. This was one of our fabrication plants in essentially a small town. Local restaurant catered wraps & sandwiches - They were yum!

kdccrosby wrote:lunch was good. This was one of our fabrication plants in essentially a small town. Local restaurant catered wraps & sandwiches - They were yum!

Yay for a good lunch!

Was woot really slow for everyone else? I thought my internet had gone to crap, couldn't load Google, Facebook, here, Hulu, anything, it was all slow, then one of the sysadmins said there was a huge DDoS attack on a bunch of sights. Now everything is good again.

KtCallista wrote:Yay for a good lunch!

Was woot really slow for everyone else? I thought my internet had gone to crap, couldn't load Google, Facebook, here, Hulu, anything, it was all slow, then one of the sysadmins said there was a huge DDoS attack on a bunch of sights. Now everything is good again.

I haven't had any problems. What's DDoS?

KtCallista wrote:Yay for a good lunch!

Was woot really slow for everyone else? I thought my internet had gone to crap, couldn't load Google, Facebook, here, Hulu, anything, it was all slow, then one of the sysadmins said there was a huge DDoS attack on a bunch of sights. Now everything is good again.

I've only been on FB, gmail and here. All have been slow, but that may be my internet.

pooflady wrote:I haven't had any problems. What's DDoS?

Distributed denial of service attacks on root nameservers are Internet events in which distributed denial-of-service attacks target one or more of the thirteen Domain Name System root nameservers. The root nameservers are critical infrastructure components of the Internet, mapping domain names to Internet Protocol (IP) going to and other information. Attacks against the root nameservers can impact operation of the entire Internet, rather than specific websites.

Iceback wrote:Distributed denial of service attacks on root nameservers are Internet events in which distributed denial-of-service attacks target one or more of the thirteen Domain Name System root nameservers. The root nameservers are critical infrastructure components of the Internet, mapping domain names to Internet Protocol (IP) going to and other information. Attacks against the root nameservers can impact operation of the entire Internet, rather than specific websites.

Oh.

pooflady wrote:Oh.

that's kinda what I thought when I read it.
short(bus) version:
something bad that makes websites run slow and/or not at all.

pooflady wrote:What's a nic? Can I have one?

Blankety Comcast. Would not allow me in my Email accounts and could not get online. Why? After hours on the phone "we are upgrading to make your experience much better." Don't do me any favors, Comcast. Nic - sign in - screen name. I still am not sure who is whom exactly. I need to read back I guess. Orc is someone else here? for example.

Anyhow, I had a bit of soft food - scrambled egg - for dinner and now the tooth is rebelling from all of the insults to it today.

ThunderThighs wrote:Evening all. How goes it. Back in the saddle here finally even if I'm not 100% functional yet.

Picked up something in WI. I think it started as allergies but has settled into an infection. Gonna give it another day to see if it will fix itself.

Sorry TT. I remember going to work and feeling like I should just be home under the covers sleeping. Hope you feel really well soon.

Iceback wrote:that's kinda what I thought when I read it.
short(bus) version:
something bad that makes websites run slow and/or not at all.

Maybe I owe Comcast an apology?

Iceback wrote:that's kinda what I thought when I read it.
short(bus) version:
something bad that makes websites run slow and/or not at all.

That's better.

klozitshoper wrote:Blankety Comcast. Would not allow me in my Email accounts and could not get online. Why? After hours on the phone "we are upgrading to make your experience much better." Don't do me any favors, Comcast. Nic - sign in - screen name. I still am not sure who is whom exactly. I need to read back I guess. Orc is someone else here? for example.

Anyhow, I had a bit of soft food - scrambled egg - for dinner and now the tooth is rebelling from all of the insults to it today.

Orc is rarely here anymore, but he's KtC's husband.

ThunderThighs wrote:Evening all. How goes it. Back in the saddle here finally even if I'm not 100% functional yet.

Picked up something in WI. I think it started as allergies but has settled into an infection. Gonna give it another day to see if it will fix itself.

Hope you're feeling better.

Does son feel better having talking to the cardio guy?

Iceback wrote:Distributed denial of service attacks on root nameservers are Internet events in which distributed denial-of-service attacks target one or more of the thirteen Domain Name System root nameservers. The root nameservers are critical infrastructure components of the Internet, mapping domain names to Internet Protocol (IP) going to and other information. Attacks against the root nameservers can impact operation of the entire Internet, rather than specific websites.

Pretty much yeah. And it sucked.

Now we are having a flash thunder shower. I might have to go find a book (and some flashlights).

Night all. Tomorrow.

Good morning all.

Mornin', folks.Last full day on this job. Have a real prospect in the works and a good backup. May be a case of who pulls the trigger first.

AZGman wrote:Mornin', folks.Last full day on this job. Have a real prospect in the works and a good backup. May be a case of who pulls the trigger first.

Sending good job thoughts your way!!!!

Morning!

kdccrosby wrote:Sending good job thoughts your way!!!!

Thanks!

AZGman wrote:Mornin', folks.Last full day on this job. Have a real prospect in the works and a good backup. May be a case of who pulls the trigger first.

That's great. Some down time in between? Does that mean you'll be here all day, too?

Morning all.

pooflady wrote:That's great. Some down time in between? Does that mean you'll be here all day, too?

Hopefully not much; just received a call from one of the outfits I'd been hoping would call back!

dontwantaname wrote:You are the master of just throwing us a tiny bit of information, once in awhile.


Best of luck. Hope you get something on your side of the beltway!

You all know enough about me.

AZGman wrote:Hopefully not much; just received a call from one of the outfits I'd been hoping would call back!

Wonderful!

Morning all. Had to put pw in three times before it took - either typos or bug. Whatever. Semi sunny day with more storms expected - nothing heavy - hot and sticky.

dontwantaname wrote:SWM mid 50's. DC area. Hates sitting in traffic. Has dog that never seems to leave the property.

There is more, but that is most of what we know.

Technically, I'm a DWM.

dontwantaname wrote:OK.

And terminally grumpy.

AZGman wrote:And terminally grumpy.

Good luck with your (job) prospects!