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SPICE-E BACoN (UDTQ#110) - CIA

Happy Oden’s day folks!

The Recap:

Yesterday’s question asked about Triple DES, and, more specifically, which of the options best described it. Around 70% of you correctly chose the option “Encrypting using 3 (hopefully different) symmetric 56-bit keys” which is essentially just encrypting with DES three times in a row. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my link to my source for this one, so I’m just going to leave a link to Wikipedia and RFC 2828 for now, but will try to find that and update this :slight_smile:

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The Ramble:

How much shelf space do you have?

Click to expand my ramble on shelving

I have always managed to fill every horizontal surface I have immediate access to with stuff. Be it projects, trinkets that I enjoy, game systems, art supplies, tools, and, of course, (perhaps most prominently) monitors and keyboards.

I never particularly liked shelves, though, and I think the reason is that I grew up having the wrong kind of shelves.

I don’t typically like to think about my childhood for a bunch of reasons, but growing up I only ever had shelving that was either falling apart, or some very cheap wire shelves that were designed for long-term bulk storage in totes, and were basically useless for anything else.

Now that I’m blessed enough to not be in that situation, though, things have changed pretty drastically, but I may have went a bit overboard on buying bookshelves.

When I got this job, I moved my home office into a smaller (but nicer) room in our house, and very quickly ran out of horizontal space to pull all of my stuff in here (other than the floor, which I’m making pretty extensive use of right now, :joy: ) so the SO and I spent a day figuring out what shelving we wanted, and took advantage of a free shipping deal from her favorite Swedish furniture store (which is a 2 hour drive from us for to get to one of their worst locations, or a 3 hour drive for a decent one)

That free shipping deal must have been highly used, though, as we’re still nearly a month out from our stuff even shipping. But now that I’ve lived in this room for a few weeks, I’m not 100% sure I’m going to be able to fit all of the shelving I ordered in here the way I intended to.

Anyway, that’s a lot of words to basically just say I think I ordered too many shelves, but :person_shrugging: maybe someone found it entertaining. :joy:

The Real Question:

Since we naturally seemed to have ended up on a security-themed week, let’s keep that rolling!

In terms of Security, what is the CIA Triad?
  • Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
  • Classification, Intelligence, and Action
  • Correlation, Isolation, Annihilation
  • The people in the black van outside your house, trying to steal your bacon
  • I’m not sure, but I’m excited to learn more!
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There is never enough shelving. Ever.

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That’s sorta where my brain went when we were ordering.

Is it going too far if I remove some interior walls and replace them with shelving? :joy:

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Until you have to move it…

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What’s a shelf?

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It’s like a multi-tiered table/workbench :joy:

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I grew up with plenty of shelving, especially bookcases, and fortunately they were all good ones, maybe apart from the cheapo metal shelving I bought myself to give myself more shelving in my bedroom when I was in my teens. Most of the shelving in our house was good quality wooden shelving … and I mean real wood. :+1:

One of the wooden bookcases that used to be in the lounge and made its way into my bedroom was at least 6’ tall (approx. 2m for those who don’t understand out-moded imperial measurements) with about 8 shelves of a variety of heights. I distinctly remember one night being woken up by it banging against the wall due to a decent sized earthquake, probably between 5 and 6 on the Richter Scale. That was about the only time an earthquake of any size (even over 6) has ever woken me up, and it wasn’t actually the earthquake waking me up, but the bookcase!

Thanks for triggering that memory. :smiley:

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It is the things against the wall that hold all of the swag, gadgets and doodads that you acquire, purchase or are given along the way.

Some of those items may be books, some of them may not be.

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Of all of the books I have, I don’t think any of them are currently on what I would consider a “bookshelf” right now :joy:

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I may wear a tinfoil hat at times, but I must not have it on today. As a result, I just couldn’t bring myself to vote for the answer I most wanted to…

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:wink: All I’ve got these days is my over cubicle … bins? That are damped to keep you from opening them too fast but, will allow it fall closed. :man_facepalming:

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The Black van shall never get my Bacon.

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Nature abhors a vacuum.

I just moved last month and probably went overboard on getting rid of stuff. I finally decided it was time to get rid of 3 bookshelves worth of paperbacks I will never read again because moving books sucks. I kept all my hard covers and everything from Neil Gaiman, and I only have a single 3 shelf bookshelf now.

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I’ve seriously considered this in my home office…

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I try not to think of myself as a messy person, but there’s almost never a single scrap of usable tabletop, shelf, drawer or cabinet free of something.

I have a whole extra desk I put in my home office, which I originally planned to get rid of, and now it’s just got all kinds of somethings. I don’t know how or why I always have too many somethings.

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We’re still somewhat seriously considering moving at some point (the house we actually wanted before we settled on our current home recently got foreclosed on which brought the subject back up,) so I’m still hesitant to tear out any walls in our house, but if we commit to not going down that path, I legitimately want to tear a few rooms down to the studs to modernize the electrical and replace the old phone lines with cat7/fiber (or just conduit,) and might legitimately put in some in-wall shelving this in either my office or the bedroom. :joy:

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My childhood bedroom had been a kitchen for the previous inhabitants, so I had drawers and cupboards galore! Ever since, I am very drawn to rooms with shelves, drawers, and other built-in storage.

Also, I just had to choose the black van/bacon option (not my usual, but I need humor today)! :vulcan_salute:

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Every kitchen I’ve had has always been an odd shape, and/or too small to fit a bed in, but that’s pretty interesting!

Why don’t more people put kitchen cabinets in every room? :joy:

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I desperately needed more shelving in my garage/workshop, but didn’t have room for more, so I decided to build a 16x8 shed. Still haven’t finished the shed, but it’s full of stuff…half of which is on it’s floor since it doesn’t have enough shelves installed yet. It’s been three years since I started building it. :rofl:

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The kitchen we used was right below it, and was a good size. My room had plenty of floor space too, and I used the sink to brush my teeth (and make water balloons). I’m not sure if that house was built to have an apartment upstairs, or updated. I think the people who owned most of the houses on the block bought it when we moved and made it apartments again (I was 14 at the time, so I’m not sure).

I fill every surface I can with stuff, too, including the floor! :grin:

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