The other day a former colleague pinged me with a screenshot from one of our secondary RADIUS servers, asking if he could remove my former user account from a bit of Perl code (we used Radiator).
That ‘if’ block exempted me, the CEO and the CMO from traffic limits (which at the time would forcibly disconnect you) and make sure we had 24/7 access (I had set it up during testing because they kept calling us to remove the blocks, and one night I couldn’t log in either).
We found out during that exchange that another former colleague had left a cron script downloading Dilbert and User Friendly comics that had filled up the hard disk since 2008 (the machine had nearly 12 years of uptime).
Hm, 10 years at 200KB/day (about average for a Dilbert strip) would come out to 730000KB or 713MB. That seems rather quaint compared to the ~50GB git repo we have :)
That ‘if’ block exempted me, the CEO and the CMO from traffic limits (which at the time would forcibly disconnect you) and make sure we had 24/7 access (I had set it up during testing because they kept calling us to remove the blocks, and one night I couldn’t log in either).
We found out during that exchange that another former colleague had left a cron script downloading Dilbert and User Friendly comics that had filled up the hard disk since 2008 (the machine had nearly 12 years of uptime).