I finally received my work laptop ThinkPad, almost 5 months after I started. It’s not a new one, but not in too bad of a shape. I also requested a bag, and fortunately for me; they’ve moved away from the crappy I’m-carrying-a-laptop type bags into more inconspicuous types. It took another week to get my hard drive re-imaged, but finally I can legitimately say that I am working from home. I suppose it’s a plus and a minus; I don’t have to come into the office, but now I don’t have an excuse to not work at home.

I haven’t requested some of the other miscellaneous equipment though; a mouse or a cable lock. I had a cable lock in my cubicle, which was left there by the previous occupant. Fortunately for me, it’s not one of those key locks but a numerical one such as those that you find on cheap bike locks. In my spare time, I’ve been trying to crack the code. There are 10k possibilities so it shouldn’t be impossible. I’m thinking that if it takes a very liberal estimate of 2 seconds per try then I can brute force it in 5 and a half hours.

Of course after 500 attempts, I realized that the release seemed to push in further at certain numbers, and so I experimented with the four dials and found the very predictable release code. Now what will I do when I’m waiting for my workstation to do stuff?

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: dumb, hacks, working