Architect, engineer, techie, pillager! purveyor of (black) pearls of wisdom, love bikes,cars, and campers/motorhomes!
The High Seas
Joined November 2018
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There's one that lives on the canal by me, see it every time we walk down there, lovely looking bird
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The Pirate Architect retweeted
Winter’s drawing in, and we still have space at Hangar Vaults.
If you’re putting your car away for the winter, we offer secure indoor car storage at the former RAF Upper Heyford for £175 per month + VAT. Transport and service options also available.
Come and visit us on the base. We’d love to show you around. DM us to arrange a visit.
#HangarVaults #RAFUpperHeyford #WinterCarStorage #Oxfordshire
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James Herriot on his way to an out of the way farm to thrust his arm deep into a bovine
Walked to pub for a pint, came back via the car graveyard. Jag has been there for years, the landrovers look interesting, though might need some welding
Afternoon on the #gordonkeeble, horn button rewired but horn intermittent, needs swapping. Brake lights working but requires a lot of pressure, think switch needs replacing as it's flaky on the multimeter. Starts and runs a treat though
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Time to bring this out again
I revisit this when BST ends and the leaves start to drop and It gets dark early, lovely little film. Dedicated to everyone out there in car and bike twitter land who's waiting out winter
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Recorded this when it aired, finally got round to watching. A stunning car, amazing restoration and a worthy recipient in @revslimiter , not going to lie I shed a tear. #itsgoodtotalk
Landrover meet at Severn valley railway this morning, some great examples, and i particularly liked the gun accessory rack, ideal for today's road journies when the dummies are on the road
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Popped round to see the son,he brought out the biscuit jar. It's pottery filth! 🤣🤣 allegedly it's an acorn, my mind instantly went elsewhere 🤣
The Pirate Architect retweeted
My race van is for sale!
Ex parcel force so always been looked after and serviced.
Big double garage
Double bed
Apple play
20” alloys
Toilet room
Smart TV
Gas hob and sink
Awning
New leisure battery
Inverter
Been re mapped
Loads of storage
Just spent 2k on the following….
2 new tires
New water pump
New disks and pads all round
New coolant bottle
New handbrake cable
Fell service (new oil, filters)
I’ve owned it for 3 years and been all over the UK in it and it’s never let me down.
Looking for £16,500 Ono
[email protected]
I’ll add more pics over the weekend
Please RT
Out for a walk exploring some new footpaths around the village , be rude not to quench our thirst @BCA_RealAle The Old Bush
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You only get old when you stop being young! Great time razzing about on the Barbie bike ths morning to the bike shop. Plenty I want but don't really need but that might not stop me #c90
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Cheers for the tip @andredidlick , found it in the 2nds section, did a deal for cash, £35, that'll do me 👍👍
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Spent the morning on Grindr. Not that you dirty lot! Cutting leaves for the skull, will join them on tomorrow #stainedglass
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Picked the #gordonkeeble up this morning, drove back beautifully even in biblical rain. Few small jobs to attend to but it's back running and stopping as it should. Some beauties in the garage getting fettled
Result, found the right disc on eBay for the CRF off-road wheels, the final part of the jigsaw I'd been looking for for a while. 19quid with free delivery and the disc bolts.
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The Pirate Architect retweeted
Security called me at 6:12 AM today.
"Patch every PHP server immediately."
I asked what happened.
"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."
Cool.
How many PHP servers do we have?
According to inventory: 12
According to reality:
Nobody knows.
We found one running WordPress.
Three running old internal tools.
One under someone's desk.
Two inside vendor appliances.
A forgotten employee directory from 2016.
And a server named:
PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH
Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.
Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.
I asked who owned it.
The documentation said:
BRIAN.
Brian left in 2019.
We called Brian.
He said:
"Oh wow, that's still running?"
Excellent.
By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.
CEO:
"Can hackers actually get in?"
Security:
"Potentially yes."
CEO:
"Without a password?"
Security:
"Yes."
CEO:
"Then why do WE need passwords?"
Not the lesson.
Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.
Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.
Finance asked for a cost comparison.
At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.
Marketing refused.
"Our campaign is live."
So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.
We finally patched everything we could find.
Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.
Hostname:
TEMP-PHP-2014
Uptime:
4,512 days.
Nobody knows what it does.
Nobody owns it.
Nobody can shut it down.
But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.
Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.
It is running PHP 5.4.
The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.
The emergency patch took four hours.
Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.
The internet isn't held together with code.
It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.