BBS

No shit.

although, right now, it's a battle of wits. and we'll win.
i've already figured out a way to connect to the icq and aim networks using my old client (they wanted us to use antepo, which is a jabber-based client that allows them to log all of our conversations, and only have like 35 contacts on your list at any given time). i've also got imap working for receiving mail from my home server, though i still don't have esmpt. :(

but i fucking hate this shit. there's absolutely no reason to block the vast majority of ports for an internet fucking company. i realize that they want a lot of security, but they should fucking do it right -- you know, like take all the financials and put it on a subdomain that only the hr folks have access to, rather than all internal clients, and then restrict all internal connections.

dude, this is fucking retarded. they have no idea what they're really doing.

I would have put this in "Things that piss you off", but this goes beyond just being pissed off.

The IT department of our company just instituted a ton of restrictive firewall settings that turn off everything, then allow (for specific users) e-mail (not real e-mail, just Exchange protocol) and web access. FTP access is on a per-client-per-destination basis, as is ssh.

Now, these fuckers have no idea what they're doing. Ever since they took over e-mail from the New Media division, it hasn't worked right. You can send me e-mail with attachments, but only if it's a virus. If I send you (say, a big client) an e-mail with an attachment, not only do you not get it, but I get no notification that you don't get it.

These same fuckers are now turning things off on the Internet. Appearantly, they turned the phones off (WTF?!?) just before the quarterly meeting with outside investors.

Goddammit...I'm going to be spending all day trying to get ports turned on just to do my fucking job. >:0