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nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



nene posted:

No

They're talking about the "new" SSL VPN thing that Cisco does. OK, so I suppose it's good at what it does, but I'd rather use IPSEC.

The SSL client is fantastic, the only issue is Cisco raping your rear end on licensing costs.

Anyway the point is now moot, as there is a x64 IPsec Client from Cisco. Forget the Shrewsoft one, that POS BSODs like a motherfucker

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nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



yaoi prophet posted:

I remember a while ago I was trying to figure out how someone used up their 500GB hard drive given that they didn't have a lot of music or movies. Turns out Yahoo Toolbar had a 400GB crash log.

arcserve 11, filled a c:\ with 1 million + 1kb log/error files on a F/P server one day.

I think the end count was over 2 million. Took a few hours to fix.

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



Stonefish posted:

Self-checkouts? Yeah, the local Woolworths put one of those in a few months back.
I wouldn't mind it, if there was a SHUT THE gently caress UP button available on page one.
I can read. I don't need some canned speech telling me how to press a button, at 90db.

morrisons in the uk

please place the item in the bag
please place the item in the bag
please place the item in the bag
please place the item in the bag
please place the item in the bag

every
single
item
I
scan

doesn't help that morrisons is also inundated with slow old fucks as well

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



FISHMANPET posted:

The thing is, VMWare Server is a pointless product. It's cool for a few neckbeards like us who want to run VMs in daemon mode on our desktops, but basically there's no market for it, and that's never what it was meant for. It was meant to be installed on servers. Did they even have ESX when Server came out?


Yes, when VMWare server was known as GSX server around the time of ESX 2.5 I think, then GSX came free and was re-branded into VMWare server 1 then got aborted and raped into VMWare server 2

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



rscott posted:

poo poo that's pissing me off lately: People rebooting network equipment without permission from IT. Twice now in the last 2 weeks or so, people have completely reset WAPs because of perceived network problems, which is a pain in the rear end because it resets the SSID and the wireless security settings and kicks everyone else off that access point until me or the IT Guy goes to fix it. I think its time to send a pointed e-mail to all office employees to not gently caress with the network gear.

what consumer grade crap resets it config to default on a reboot? or are the users actually factory resting the gear?


former :
latter :

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



seadweller posted:

Request Tracker 4.0


Ahh RT; took 3 hours to fail on installing the perl stuff it needed

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



Telex posted:

I don't know how it is at other companies but this just pisses me off:

Good: I get to go to NYC for a week to help on an office move and set up a studio since things are lagging and they need help.

Bad: The corporate hotel is booked tomorrow night, I have to pay for it myself ($500 wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee midtown Manhattan prices). The corporate hotel charges a $200/night deposit, which is $1200 out of pocket (temporarily) because it has to be charged in the name of the guest staying there, not the company renting the room. It's a $50 cab ride to/from JFK to Manhattan where my hotel(s) are. It's not cheap to eat in NY, at least as expensive as SF if not more, so I'm probably out $50-100/day for food and such.

Long story short, I've gotta drop $2000 to fly to NYC for a week. I get it all back at some point in the future, but I do not have $2k on-hand to cover all this poo poo and the official word from work was "work something out, it's not like you won't get paid back when you expense it all". So, my "work something out" is call Dad and ask for 2k for a couple weeks and give him the same "you'll get it all back in a couple weeks" line that my work gave me and hope he's cool with it.

I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be cool with this. I am going to clock at least 20hrs of overtime to make up for poo poo though, maybe 40.


so? this is what Credit Cards are for, unless you're a hippy who doesn't have one

I had to do this when I was shipped to Egypt, 2G USD on my NZ CC, big whoop

edit: Also is this a USA thing? At my company my boss and I do this all the time, hell went TV shopping the other day. Of course I get 55 days interest free on my CC

nzspambot fucked around with this message at May 24, 2011 around 08:17

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



2 things:

The company who produce daily reports for us did a forced upgrade over the weekend and failed to inform us that the reports will now only work in Adobe Reader X. Not 8, not 9 but X only cue us having to deal with fucktards who need to upgrade Adobe

THEN we get a stinkyhole bag who email this lovely email:

quote:

I assume you are aware that iPad does not support Adobe Reader!!!!

I think your provides need to participate in the 21st century!!!!

we just supply the PDF you loving cuntface, oh btw yes ipad does support it dick as we tested it

and die

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



for fucks sake JTAC, read the loving case.

Now I see why JTAC gets slated vs TAC

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



FatCow posted:

Yay, apps update.


Oh.

Google apps is the worst thing that has happened in the history of computing.

ever since they did their new account poo poo or whatever it was it has been hosed. Pity cos it was good then it got hosed.


Cable ties.

Have zero place in a rack. Why oh god why did you cable tie network cables tightly, bend them in half, add more cable ties then add a cable wrap?

If I find you I will kill you with cable ties.

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



quote:

Pham Nuwen posted:
Things that make my hand hurt daily: mice with scrollwheels instead of a third button. The editor I use tends to use midclick a lot, as does pasting text in X. After a few hours my hand is aching.

It's drat near impossible to find a 3 button optical mouse. I ended up grabbing a Kensington trackball with 4 buttons arranged around a big central ball. Got it 3 days ago and my hand already feels better.

you like those mice? HP send a shitload of them with out z200 workstations and they suck.

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



~Coxy posted:

Why do they suck? Or is it just the lack of the scrollwheel?
I'm interested in buying one also but so far have balked at the shipping the Australia on ebay, send me a few if you like.

yes, no scroll wheel makes me

Dunno how many I have total, I know I have at least 7, if you're interested I might be able to work something out (PM or email)

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



Volmarias posted:

It's just going to turn into a PDF anyway so who cares.

Personally, I hate the fact that there are a lot of things that can and are done right, but so many other things with office that aren't.

DID YOU KNOW: you cannot "find" inside of an email, unless you reply to it? It's true! You have to be in edit mode to search for a word inside the email you're staring at,

Works fine for me, Office 2010, plain text and html

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



tell me how you really feel


today:

L1 retard: please allow LDAP from the internet to our DC
Me:

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



theperminator posted:

We have a customer with two VM's, one is an AD server and the other is their Application server
The customer didn't want to pay for a private network or a private cloud implementation, so my colleague set up AD over the public interfaces for them.. "Oh it's ok, I've set firewall rules so that only their machine can access it"

After the 8 hours it took him to actually get it working and firewalled correctly, it ended up costing them more than it would have if they'd just paid for a private network.

and I hope the ldap is over ssl

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



Crowley posted:

Is that a trick question, or am I missing something?

ksh rocks

Life is funny. Headhunted off Linkedin for a Sysadmin/Infrastructure Architect role Onwards and upwards I shall go

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



Powdered Toast Man posted:

Wait, are you making GBS threads me? People actually still use ColdFusion?

Yes, our PoS time sheet thing runs on it

Hunk of loving crap

Anyway feels like the Ponderosa here, ah well, last day friday!

edit: lol @ the dev cowboying his install

nzspambot fucked around with this message at Sep 26, 2012 around 03:17

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



Casull posted:

Setting up tftp

I don't understand why I can only run xinetd's tftp service as root; setting it to another dedicated user on the system returns

code:
Sep 26 12:05:40 localhost in.tftpd[2662]: cannot set groups for user tftpuser
tftpuser owns the tftp folder as well, and there's a tftpuser group, so I don't get WTF.

<1024 ports are restricted to root only IIRC (thats if I read your problem correctly )

quote:

Lean is a business philosophy typically associated with a myriad of other terms like Value Stream Mapping (VSM), kanban, demand-pull, Total Quality Management (TQM), Toyota Production System, and Six Sigma

time for some bullshit bingo

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nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010



Fil5000 posted:

Run. Run away. Stay away from lean as if your life depended on it.

last day here brah

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