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Soopafly posted:Replace all of that with "Tenured / Emeritus professors" for me. I work for a law school, so I have lawyer professors to appease. It's a loving nightmare sometimes.
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Naramyth posted:
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My christmas bonus is having to work 12 hour days on some of the campus wide days off over christmas to deploy some big project. Payraises were cancelled and so were bonuses. Not even a card. I doubt I'll get even time off to match the days I was forced to work.
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Dec 22, 2009 01:59
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g3k posted:Do not go into e-discovery, you will probably kill yourself. I thought the whole point of truecrypt was that you can't break into it without the passwords? Is there some kind of secret forensics knowledge that exploits something? We use either truecrypt or some mobile data armor thing at work for protecting laptops due to the number of idiots losing them.
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Feb 11, 2010 18:39
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g3k posted:Exactly. We use a type of rainbow table to accomplish this. EFS was another thing I had to learn, we can build a custom dictionary file based off of keywords on the registry/stored passwords/other things. It's pretty neat stuff. I'll never use it where I'm at, but it's still cool to know. I will never have a need for this kind of thing but it still fascinates me. Like how they can piece together images that are fragmented over the entire drive looking block by block, rather than relying on the filesystem. So much cool technology comes out of such a specialized field.
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Feb 11, 2010 19:50
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I hate the price of Splunk. It's a good product (and we use it, but sparingly), but it's not worth the crazy prices of the higher licence. It's just a bloody database and search engine, why can't they charge sensible prices?
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Spermy Smurf posted:Soooo: What tool(s) should I buy to capture and filter all of the logs to an easily readable and "big red X findable" list? I currently have Snare capturing logs to a Syslog server, but it's not simple enough to review logs. Something pretty with graphs and pictures would be great, the auditors eat that poo poo up. You're pretty doomed. Your best bet is something super expensive like Splunk but you'll still need to define all kinds of custom searches and notifications based on known issues and all that crap. It's kind of nice once you get it running however 
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Apr 23, 2010 21:41
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Casao posted:Splunk is log searching Jesus. Except for all the scheduled searches and PCI compliance applications and other poo poo that it has that is a lot more than just searching.
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Dick Trauma posted:No, I posted from home. But once the report comes in they'll figure it out pretty quick and I'll be gone, one way or the other. It's not like this is the kind of job one should fight for. It's not like there's any sense of ethics among the C-level. Even at really successful companies in the end they just act like animals when they feel threatened. That's probably one reason they are successful. You may get lucky and they'll just shitcan your boss for it and then promote you and you can fix everything! *lives in an optimistic dreamworld*
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Apr 28, 2010 00:29
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Just the fact they are having the helpdesk guy report to Dick Trauma is a sign that they fully intend to give him the job. In my experience any move towards having a guy report to you is followed up by management if you don't gently caress it up totally.
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Apr 29, 2010 01:04
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Dick Trauma, I hope the HR director eventually freaks the gently caress out and finds a way to fire your boss. He's such an rear end in a top hat!
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Apr 30, 2010 23:39
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Dick Trauma posted:Oh god eight pages worth. Ahahaha I seriously hope it was unapproved. I bet it was, considering he's in trouble for absences you'd think he would want to make a good showing until next Wednesday.
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May 6, 2010 14:29
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Dick Trauma posted:Aha ha ha he's taking half the day off again. Two Fridays in a row he's leaving at 12:00p. He cites a "plumbing emergency" at home and how he'll "work from home" for the rest of the day. Funny timing, those plumbing emergencies. I can only hope he fails to notify the CEO's assistant. I left a copy of the email in an envelope for the HR Director. I cannot loving BELIEVE he pulled that again. I can only imagine the HR guy is going to be loving FURIOUS when he sees the email. Nobody is going to fall for this plumbing emergency. In fact, if you're fast you should get over to HR and get them to call him at home and ask him to do some work remotely. Something that'll take an hour or so. I bet he's not even at home so you can bust him good.
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May 7, 2010 20:11
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I work in Academia and this thread makes me thank god every day that I rarely have to deal with professors directly.
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May 8, 2010 17:12
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gently caress your boss. ARGH, I feel as angry as if that had just happened to me. I hope the job thread helps you bounce right into another job. I'd hire you!
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May 13, 2010 00:03
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Dick Trauma posted:My boss left early. He's got some balls on him, even you have to admit that.
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May 13, 2010 00:48
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Dick Trauma, every day I look up your posts and pray that your boss gets shot in an accidental drive-by. 
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May 24, 2010 23:10
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Dick Trauma posted:
YESSSSSSSSSSS i literally shouted this at my desk like an idiot
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May 25, 2010 21:38
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Dick Trauma posted:As I expected I'm still looking for a job, and I'm still shaking my head at just how screwed up this place is. Good thing I'm too skeptical to buy into any of the crap these people tell me. I hate this stupid roller-coaster ride they are putting you through. I really thought you were winning this time.
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Jun 2, 2010 21:02
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enotnert posted:I started looking at professor iPads quote a little harder since he wants to get the cost to below $2500 so we don't have to do a lot of paperwork. . I work at a University, in IT, and I find this whole situation bizarre. While, obviously, professors often get their whims indulged in it seems this guy is far beyond being indulged at this point and has reached the realms of insane. Could you not somehow track the amount of time you've worked on things for this single guy and then suggest that a personal IT person be hired purely for him. Total up the stats, write some junk about service to other professors being effected, etc etc. I just don't understand it. We'd have found a way to put a stop to this by now, is your boss just totally afraid of professors?
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enotnert posted:We have mentioned this between us, but as it is this guy is a "golden boy" to the university and works in 3 different departments and has 3 different IT teams all playing this hosed up game. I have to ask - does he actually produce/research/achieve anything at all? He just seems to spend all day loving around bugging people. Spin it so having his own IT guy would be a massive benefit to him? Better yet, casually mention another professor elsewhere who has a dedicated permanent IT guy assigned to him and then tell him how it will never happen here as he's not that important. It'll be sorted by Friday.
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Dick Trauma posted:That was the hollow promise of H.R. but in fact I report to him just like before. The only functional change for me is that he no longer signs my timesheets or mileage reports. In all other respects it's the same as before. If you don't care about the job so much just start pointing out he's not your boss and ignore all the poo poo he says. Treat him like a pushy coworker?
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At Harvard I think we just have a /16 as the main space but we probably have even more. We've just moved to 10.x addresses for the wireless space and I'm hoping we'll continue to push down our IP usage significantly in the future. I understand why arin can't just yank it back but I wish they could.
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well done you glorious bastard!
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I hope Dick has been drinking since 0900.
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less than three posted:lol, my work fired me for 'Violations of our blogging guidelines.' You ARE going to link the blog post, right?
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Dick Trauma posted:The CIO finally called. He said that this last month where I've done pretty much all the work proved two things: You know Dick, I think both of these options set you up for failure and you should stick to your decision to move on. The management seem useless there and if you let them move your boss into another role and push you into running the department you will have even more problems. You say it'll just be you and the helpdesk guy. Once you get in charge you'll discover there's a huge amount of management "stuff" that needs doing that has been ignored or neglected by your boss. You're like me and you won't be able to ignore it, and will find a huge part of your day taken up by user meetings, forward planning, policies, procedures, fixing the hosed up licensing and so on. However, there's still all those tickets to be done and you can't leave the helpdesk guy to do them alone. You won't get another person in the team, they'll give you the economy as the excuse for that. You'll be left with twice the work to do in the same time and you've already reached burn out stage.
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Crowley posted:Why would you? I have a 128GB SSD in my laptop and I can't really tell the difference from when I had a regular old HDD. I have attempted to order my new macbook pro via work with a 256G 3rd party SSD and I am eagerly awaiting the meltdown from purchasing when they see the cost.
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Maggot Monster posted:I have attempted to order my new macbook pro via work with a 256G 3rd party SSD and I am eagerly awaiting the meltdown from purchasing when they see the cost. This arrived today and came with: 4G instead of 8G of RAM. The lowest resolution. A Glossy screen instead of the matte I wanted. No adapter for displayport to DVI. Turns out that despite the ticket listing all the custom specs they ordered the base model as is.
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modeski posted:I trust you sent it back and told them to get you what you'd asked for in the first place? Put the drive back in and dumped it off on the guys desk this morning for returning! I want my matte screen  Edit: anddddd got an email saying I have to keep it. Maggot Monster fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Aug 13, 2010 |
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coyo7e posted:Why not claim that ti's too much eye strain for the situations you'll be using it in or something? End users can make up bullshit like that and force it to get pushed through by people who know better. Why not the reverse? Funnily I am trying exactly that - the stupid thing is we're talking a difference of like $500. If they just order it without the RAM then I can use the corp credit card to buy that RAM instantly and end up in the same situation. It's apparently with my boss now, so we'll see what happens.
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We bought a house and now my commute is two hours each way. You bastards are making me sad.
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I ordered a macbook pro with a 256G ssd and because I asked for them to replace the laptop with one that included the $150 screen upgrade they decided to take away the SSD and replace it with a 5400RPM stock drive. Anyone hiring near Boston? I really need to go back to working for places with money. (Which is ironic as I work for a very large and EXTREMELY RICH organization, they just don't ever spend any of it.)
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Aug 20, 2010 16:08
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go3 posted:What did you need this for. So that the laptop I do 100% of my work on wouldn't be slow as poo poo? So I can gently caress around with VMs faster without waiting for th.. I'm a sysadmin, I need it because I am expected to be shackled to my computer all the time. Why would I want something crap?
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CitizenKain posted:No no, you should the same hardware as the users, that way they won't feel jealous when have a laptop with good battery life and good specs. At least thats the reasoning I suspect people use here for why someone who reads office docs all day gets the same machine as someone who will run VM and multiple remote desktops. Everywhere else I've worked has been generous to the guys who spend all day REALLY doing computer stuff. Here I had to fight like HELL to get a 22" monitor that can 1680x1050 and I still have the best monitor of the group. They do certainly try to make us justify every little purchase but honestly if there's one group that should get some nicer hardware it's the guys that spend all day trying to make the broken poo poo work.
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While you guys cross the room to get to work you can spare a moment to think about me and my two hour each way commute.
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TheGopher posted:Not to be rude, but you didn't have to be a dick. Yeah some users are annoying, but it sounds like you work at a school and she has an interest in technology. Why not be nice about it, despite your annoyances with her? Some people just don't know as much about technology as they think they might, and it's not really their fault, they just need somebody to foster their interest and point them in the right direction. These people are dangerous users and need to be crushed as fast as possible. Ideally he would break into her account and send some emails to the Dean about how she can't stop daydreaming of him/her and make sure their future at the school is ruined. Bonus points for the sweet sounds of a gunshot by night.
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Halo_4am posted:It's pretty swell really. You run around booting each machine like you would for a standard image process, when it hits the eban server it automatically collects various asset info on the device and begins a wipe op of choice. My new desire in life is to hack into an EBAN configuration and add every machine to be wiped.. then cut the power!
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Reading back through the whole thing (and being a fellow campus type person) it looks more like they wanted to fire her and didn't want any risk of her trying to smash your face in or blow up your car. I think it was more a case of keeping you out of her face while they terminated her.
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I must be hopelessly naive or something because signing that statement seems to be nothing more than rear end covering so that if that woman brings her lawsuit they can claim it's been taken care of through internal disciplinary procedures and that they took everything very seriously. It honestly just read like stock rear end covering. Do you think they REALLY care that you got angry with the crazy bitch that had to be DRAGGED off campus?
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