i hacker so i got to work yesterday. booted up my pc. started the script that does all my dailly chores. and blamo. nothing. my pc is not on the corporate network. ipconfig shows all media is disconnected. huh. okay check the cables. mac laptop is fine. huh. check the drop box ports. all of them work with the mac laptop. sigh. swap the cable to the pc. reconnect the hdmi cable. stupid piece of shit design that is. anywho, not the cable. at this point i'm thinking the nic died. sigh. okay. file a ticket with IT. rebooted. netops guy suggested removing the power supply. wtf? there's no way i'm opening up the box and physically removing the power supply. oh wait. that's netops guy speak for unplug the power cable for 60 seconds. so here i am under the desk again. when the IT guy comes running up. wants to know if i have a 192 address. okay you see those movies where the hacker glances at something and has perfect recall of it forever? okay, so that's me under the desk reciting the ipconfig from 10 minutes ago. there's a strange example.org. and the IT guy says 192 address in the 40s block. i say no no no. mine's 192.168.0.26. no idea how i pulled that number out of my ass. didn't even think of the super hacker thing until much later. otherwise i'd have had a lot more fun with it. anywho. someone was running a dhcp server in a linux vm for some thing they were testing prototyping developing. the IT guy showed them how to add a firewall so they don't fark people up when their leases expire. wee.  ¶ 8:00 AM