Quoted from Durzel:
People end up coming up with all kinds of well intentioned nonsense (no offense) like saying it’s fixed if you visit the website “without www” or typing pinwiki.com in at no faster than 1 character per second etc.
LOL, no kidding. Rumors like this have spread at my job so much so that now the control center is recommending everyone type a code into their device to get it working, and it's complete nonsense. But it worked right for someone once, so that's the fix forevermore. Forget the part about the department responsible for the device putting out correct information, which certainly isn't "type this 4 digit code into it". In fact, if more than 1 person logs on with that code, any subsequent entries just locks everyone else out.
Don't even get me started on the people that set the same IP address on 3 supposedly communicating pieces of equipment. Someone in management doesn't understand how IP addresses work. Every place I've worked with addressable equipment I've had to prove to management why DHCP is the way to go.... all that happens is the modem gets to use its IP since it comes up first, then the other pieces of equipment try to use the same IP, and windows assigns them internal ones automatically because the IP in already in use. Great job guys.
Previous job the IT admin didn't want to keep logs of the DHCP addresses dished out in case the secret service needed to question a student about a threatening email. (This actually happened... secret service showed up once for this). Good thing he actually kept the logs on the proxy server everyone connected to for internet access. I did finally manage to convince them to go straight DHCP everywhere, after I convinced them that imaging desktop machines was the way to go as well. Previously they were installing each piece of software on every machine individually, not even scripted. What a nightmare.
That was the same job that told me that linux wasn't any good because it was free, that BIND was a horrible DNS server and that we should use microsoft DNS instead (again, because it was free), and that mac emulation had been looked into a long time ago and wasn't feasible to replace the mac classics in the one math lab. Ignoring the advances made in emulation since then, of course.
Sorry for the slight thread hijack. I hope Casey gets this straightened out once and for all.