I have a couple websites I limit access to with apache .htaccess files. I also use Google Chrome on my iPhone, and for some reason, it was being blocked even though I specifically allow my internal subnet. Looking at the logs, I saw the request was coming from IP 66.249.84.145, or google-proxy-66-249-84-145.google.com. Ah! There’s a Data Saver feature in Chrome on iOS (guessing it’s there for Chrome on Android too). The iOS Chrome uses a Google proxy to download the webpage, do some compression/minification/etc, and then send it to the phone. They call this “Data Compression Proxy“. According to the App, it saves me about 20% of my data (which, I don’t care about when on Wifi, but on cell, it’s not a bad idea).
Archives for January 2015
I am a cog…
Disclaimer: This is a personal post, so feel free to skip it if you don’t want something non-tech related. Thanks.
I recently applied for a promotion at work. I was(n’t) completely qualified, but I held out hope that I’d make it at least to the interview stage considering my long history with the school, my reputation, and really, because I was an internal candidate (who the hell throws out an internal candidate from a job?). I figured that if I could make it past the first hurdle, I’d have a decent shot, and hell, at least I’d get something out of the experience. But, as you’ve probably guessed, I didn’t make it. In fact, I was pre-screened out as not meeting one of the the minimum requirements — 2 years IT Supervision ((Supervision is a specific term in HR, meaning Hiring/Firing/Reviews. It is different than “lead”)). Now, I only gave myself a 30% chance or so of making it past this hurdle, as I had to angle the experience I did have toward making it seem like I had what was needed. And at the time I turned in my application, I didn’t really expect anything.
But, once I heard I’d been pre-screened, I realized I was pretty pissed off about it. Mainly because, as I said, I had really nothing to show for it. No notes on my application, no feedback from an interview, nothing. And all the while, I thought “shit, how do you get into Management if no one ever gives you the chance to manage?” Also that a single word change that happened sometime between the draft the IT group approved, and the one that was posted, went from me being qualified, to me being unqualified.
Annoying Mac Malware/Trojan
Just a quick post since I just had to clean this damn software off a computer. It’s Genieo/MacInstaller. On the computer it was on, it kept downloading, and mounting a DMG with an Installer on it saying “Double click here” (see picture). No, that doesn’t seem sketchy.
The best info on uninstalling it I’ve seen is here. Obviously, if you don’t know what you’re doing, I wouldn’t suggest blindly following these instructions, but I don’t see anything that could go horribly wrong from any of this. Just make sure you’re deleting what it says to delete, and not something else… Mac’s are pretty resilient, but if you delete some things, it will cause issues.
In case you do see this, it looks like the primary vector this is spread by is fake Adobe Flash Player installers. Never, ever, just click a link asking to install/download Flash Player, or Java, or anything like that. Go through the effort of Googling or typing the address of the actual vendor (Adobe, Oracle, etc), and download from there. If your Flash player downloads from “www.thisistotallylegit.com”, it’s probably not.
Anyway, good luck, and death to Mac (and any other) Malware.