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Cenodoxus posted:Helpful tip: When you work for a company of 10,000+ and you're not a C-level executive, you don't need to (read: shouldn't) send a goodbye email on your last day to DL_ALL_EMPLOYEES waxing poetic about what a great time you had and how much you learned, and giving everyone your personal phone number and Gmail address. Why do plebes have access to that alias? Lock that poo poo down son before you end up in a reply all storm that generates a half million replies.
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Dick Trauma posted:Users continue to leave laptops in their cars in plain sight and then are shocked when they are stolen. loving idiots. I'm tempted to send today's lucky winner one of the old Vostro 1720s. Not dockable, weighs a ton. Enjoy your boat anchor! You really hate your users, don't you. ConfusedUs posted:Why do plebes have access to that alias? In the dark days before Outlook was called Outlook, and was just called "Exchange Client", we crashed the entire email system for a couple days before someone figured out how to lock those down. This was after a few of them went out successfully. One even promoted revolting against our superior officers! Good times. Ynglaur fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Ynglaur posted:You really hate your users, don't you. I really don't, and have never been that sort of I.T. person. But these people are using poor judgement that not only costs the company alot of money and me a lot of time they are then getting aggressive about their replacement machine. The last one prior to today had a Latitude 6420 before it was stolen from his car and I gave him a decent 6410 as the replacement. He was in my office Friday complaining that he was still using his "temporary" laptop and hadn't been saving files on it or taking it home because it was not his permanent replacement. When I told him his boss was slated to get a new laptop before him he threw his hands up in the air and walked away. The person before that also had his laptop stolen from his car and switched to a local spare, and even though I got his permanent replacement shipped to him the same goddamn day he wouldn't switch to it for over a month, all the while bitching about being too busy to go through the migration process. When he finally let me move him to the replacement he then started complaining about having to use an "old" laptop and I was eventually ordered to buy him a new 12" 7420. People have to earn my dislike, and more often than not they do.
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Healthcare goons: what just happened at CHS? Looks like someone just had a HIPPA "oops".
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Dick Trauma posted:Laptops I wonder how many of these are stolen, and how many are "stolen."
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I wonder how many of these are stolen, and how many are "stolen." I'm naive, because I never even considered this.
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meanieface posted:Healthcare goons: what just happened at CHS? CHS? As in Catholic Health Services? My mom worked with them for ten years, and it was a clusterfuck of mismanagement from their tech side. Whatever it is, somebody please spill the beans 
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death .cab for qt posted:CHS? As in Catholic Health Services? My mother was a site manager at a CHS homeless shelter for about 5 years, do tell.
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death .cab for qt posted:CHS? As in Catholic Health Services? http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/18/us-community-health-cybersecurity-idUSKBN0GI16N20140818
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ConfusedUs posted:Why do plebes have access to that alias? Oh no no no, stuff like that and the reply all button makes the best of humour. One place I worked at was one guy who requested a spam E-mail to be released, to which the tech support replied "Are you really sure you want to release [dubiously labelled penis enlargement product message]? All of this happened over a national distribution group, where this moron thought it was a prime opportunity to put in a ticket; to which the drama/hilarity unfolds.
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Super Slash posted:Oh no no no, stuff like that and the reply all button makes the best of humour. One place I worked at was one guy who requested a spam E-mail to be released, to which the tech support replied "Are you really sure you want to release [dubiously labelled penis enlargement product message]? I love those on a small scale, but when you have 10k people? poo poo like this happens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
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Cenodoxus posted:Helpful tip: When you work for a company of 10,000+ and you're not a C-level executive, you don't need to (read: shouldn't) send a goodbye email on your last day to DL_ALL_EMPLOYEES waxing poetic about what a great time you had and how much you learned, and giving everyone your personal phone number and Gmail address. At my company it is occasionally A Thing to create a Severity 1 ticket on your last day. A Sev 1 ticket pages the CEO of the company, the entire executive team, every manager and a few ops guys. Worldwide. quote:On 18 September 2013, a Cisco employee sent an email to a 'sep_training1' mailing list requesting that an online training be performed. The list contained 23,570 members. The resulting storm of 'unsubscribe', 'me-too' requests, sarcastic facepalm images and recipes for broccoli casserole resulted in (by the time the list was closed) over 4 million emails and generating over 375GB of network traffic. The following month on 23 October 2013 a nearly identical email storm occurred when an employee sent a message to a Cisco group containing 34,562 members. The thread was flooded with "remove me from the list", "me too", "please don't reply-all", and even a pizza recipe. This is awesome. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Agrikk posted:At my company it is occasionally A Thing to create a Severity 1 ticket on your last day. A Sev 1 ticket pages the CEO of the company, the entire executive team, every manager and a few ops guys. Worldwide. This sounds like an amusing way to discourage RIFs.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:36
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You need a recipe for pizza? 
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I imagine you would if you wanted to make one without using pre-made stuff. There are different sauce and crust recipes available.
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It's been almost 2 months of "There I fixed it... *DAYS GO BY* ...wait no it's still hosed." with a linux box running samba and winbind; anyone who had their AD account renamed due to name changes could no longer map the samba drive, with auth.log saying they were trying to log in with the old name. Funny, since the mapping is done entirely through GPO and should pass through with the credentials. After a few reboots, unjoin/rejoining the domain, name changes, and oh so much testing, I thought I finally had it when I accidentally broke the server and had to redo the pam configs and specified some extremely small refresh intervals for the tdb backend. Not a peep from the complaniest user until this afternoon when she says it's still not working. More testing and setting samba log level to something more chatty showed the kerberos ticket was generated using the correct name but pam was passed the old name. Google eventually pointed me in to the direction of the netsamlogon_cache.tdb database and its tendency to not refresh SID mappings. Poking at the db revealed the incorrect username linked to the user's SID, and one DB erase later resolved the issue on the test account, so nothing left to do but wait for the user to confirm it's working. Pre-emptively celebrating fixing a problem by nuking a DB with a somewhat fruity witbier.
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Pyroclastic posted:The superintendent brought the tech department into a meeting. Honestly it sounds like you do have some pretty crappy network admins. I worked at a school very briefly for about 2 months before moving on and it was the most depressing experience in my career. The school was constantly broke, and seemed like specific teachers and administrators had to much influence. They couldnt afford to upgrade their lovely NT servers but an assistant principal could get a brand new macbook air while all of the other teachers in his area were working off of 4-5 year old Dell latitudes.
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Digium Support rep posted:Fortis, That's the entire email. Verbatim. I only edited my name. Also, I have emailed this guy the drat packet capture I took at least 3 times, I've been leaving tech support access enabled solely so he can remote in and download the drat capture himself, AND uploaded the capture to their support portal. 
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Crowley posted:You need a recipe for pizza? I'm partial to Serious Eats Foolproof Pan Pizza.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Honestly it sounds like you do have some pretty crappy network admins. I worked at a school very briefly for about 2 months before moving on and it was the most depressing experience in my career. The school was constantly broke, and seemed like specific teachers and administrators had to much influence. They couldnt afford to upgrade their lovely NT servers but an assistant principal could get a brand new macbook air while all of the other teachers in his area were working off of 4-5 year old Dell latitudes. Something similar here. The head of the teacher's union teaches a computer class for idiots. It's mostly iphoto and bullshit mac software, when he has the full adobe suite and stuff available. His lab is about 5 years old now, when our standard computer is about 10 - we're mostly using Pentium 4s with 2GB RAM. He's been increasingly bitching about his lab, and we finally have some money and want to start looking at upgrades. Our mac tech found a company where we can buy some 2-year old lease-back macs for basically nothing (couple hundred bucks). When we brought the idea to him, he basically said that he's going to use his clout as head of the union to make sure he gets brand new equipment. IT in education can be pretty good, and most teachers are pretty understanding. They do with what they have, and we try to give them what they need without a lot of equipment budget. It's fuckholes like him that have never ending demands that can never be satisfied that ruin it for a lot more.
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Super Slash posted:Oh no no no, stuff like that and the reply all button makes the best of humour. One place I worked at was one guy who requested a spam E-mail to be released, to which the tech support replied "Are you really sure you want to release [dubiously labelled penis enlargement product message]? I had a funny one for an (unnamed) software suite about a month ago. They sent out their usual blah de blah newsletter, and then my box started filling like it was on fire. Turns out everyone on the list was getting everyone else's replies. So at first it was a rash of 'unsubscribe' and 'don't send me these' but then once some of us realized what was going on we had an old fashioned multi-email chain conversation going on about how dumb (company) was to set up their newsletter like that.
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Crowley posted:You need a recipe for pizza? For pizza dough and sauce from scratch. Sho'nuff. Hell, I've been tempted to make my own mozzarella. It's super simple.
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flosofl posted:Hell, I've been tempted to make my own mozzarella. It's super simple. Do you keep buffalo in your backyard or something?
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Super Slash posted:Oh no no no, stuff like that and the reply all button makes the best of humour. One place I worked at was one guy who requested a spam E-mail to be released, to which the tech support replied "Are you really sure you want to release [dubiously labelled penis enlargement product message]? Certain people in my last job would constantly send time off notifications to the All Employees list, even just for single days. "I will be taking PTO Friday <date>, I will be back Monday <date>. Fortunately during my time there, these never resulted in reply-all storms (though the company is considerably smaller than 10k employees). It was always good for a chuckle though (and at that place, you took any opportunity for levity that you could). Whoever in my department noticed it first would make sure to tell everyone that they didn't have to come in to the office that day, since the Assistant Line Cook or the 2nd-shift warehouse manager was going to be gone.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Honestly it sounds like you do have some pretty crappy network admins. I worked at a school very briefly for about 2 months before moving on and it was the most depressing experience in my career. The school was constantly broke, and seemed like specific teachers and administrators had to much influence. They couldnt afford to upgrade their lovely NT servers but an assistant principal could get a brand new macbook air while all of the other teachers in his area were working off of 4-5 year old Dell latitudes. Thankfully, we're not that bad. While we haven't had a tech levy pass in years, the state superintendent's office has a program where districts can get on a list to get off-lease hardware from government offices and private corporations. That largely kept us afloat with computers 'only' 3-5 years old, but the list got really long with the downturn. One of our paraeducators has some sort of crazy connections and got us in touch directly with the state Social Security, homeland security, and transit systems, who have been directly donating off-lease hardware to us (it's kinda cool having printers with big UNCLASSIFIED labels on them). And there are a couple of companies we use to buy off-lease hardware for a couple hundred bucks. Being a big-wig in the district doesn't get you crap. Most of our staff are using donated desktops and monitors. Our administrators are now on a laptop replacement cycle, but we're only getting like 3 new ones a year. Most of the teachers in my buildings are on 4-5 year-old Dell and Lenovo laptops, but levy dollars are already earmarked to upgrade them, and they're not terrible machines at all (Latitude E5500s and Lenovo L520/T500s). Our CTE program tends to get brand-new labs every couple years and expensive poo poo like Creative Suite, but they have gobs of money not in the general education fund. I was just asked to set up a mobile lab for middle school CTE, but it's all donated laptops. Our tech director is very education-focused and won't let some puffed-up teacher or an admin that'll jump ship as soon as he can get a bigger title bully her into getting a $4000 laptop or a $30,000 lab to replace a year-old lab if an elementary school is struggling with 5-year-old, badly aging 10" Asus netbooks. Our admins are lazy old sticks-in-the-mud (they're both well into their 50s, if not into their 60s), but if a 20-minute network outage in the middle of online testing is the worst thing that happened all year... And it let me bitch about the idiots who wrote the SBAC software some more.
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dennyk posted:Do you keep buffalo in your backyard or something? In some states, it's legal to but raw milk from the market (without a direct relationship with the farmer). :arizona: 
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 4 rounds of interviews, 4 psychometric tests, reference checks and a police check = moving to a new country (  ) in 4.5 weeks and that mean I will be the 3rd in a team of 5 to quit in the next 5 weeks 
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nzspambot posted:4 rounds of interviews, 4 psychometric tests, reference checks and a police check = moving to a new country ( From where, to where in particular?
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Sales people who send emails like this piss me off:quote:Hi Erwin! gently caress off, stop trying to set up meetings during the first contact email. The worst is when they have the balls to send you a meeting invite in the very first email. And of course today I get one of these from a company that I actually want to talk to about their product  It makes me like the company less, and there's no way I'm replying to the sales person's email. I'll go to their main site and request a demo, because I'm not giving them a data point indicating that this tactic is working.
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Erwin posted:Sales people who send emails like this piss me off: It's a call to action. If you don't have a reason to continue talking with them, you very likely won't, even if you think that the software is nifty. I mean, yeah, it's annoying, but 90% of cold calling is just getting your foot in the door and getting someone to speak with you.
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Here's something that pissed me off: the current "offical" build of libssh for windows was built in debug mode, so it depends on MSVCR100D.dll, which is not legally redistributable. No really, go and see for yourself! Ever wanted to beat someone to death with their own keyboard?
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I used to work for a company that did that, and then distributed MSVCR100D.dll - no matter how hard I tried to explain no-one could understand the issue.
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It looks like libssh is LGPL and has a public git repo, so why not build it yourself against the legally redistributable runtime library?
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Che Delilas posted:Certain people in my last job would constantly send time off notifications to the All Employees list, even just for single days. "I will be taking PTO Friday <date>, I will be back Monday <date>. Fortunately during my time there, these never resulted in reply-all storms (though the company is considerably smaller than 10k employees). We're only about 100 employees here. Every morning someone sends out a list of who's absent that day. Then 10 minutes later there's another revised list. And another. And another. It's not uncommon to get 6 or 8 in a day. I've even seen them sent out in the afternoon.
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 "Hi, this is Big Mean Jerk with IT. I'm doing some cleanup on a server that's running out of space and I noticed that you have a 22GB folder marked "AAA YOUTUBE VIDS" "Right, that's a bunch of videos of furnace heater demos I use" "There are at least three files titled 'big_tits_tease.flv'" "...I'll delete them." "That would be wise."And the folders simply disappear.
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I'm surprised nobody got hit with go daddy dns issues https://twitter.com/GoDaddyHelp/status/501720577686507521
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incoherent posted:I'm surprised nobody got hit with go daddy dns issues I'm pretty sure one of our clients did.
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incoherent posted:I'm surprised nobody got hit with go daddy dns issues Oh my God, I love how one of the retweets is some guy pimping his marketing firm under the guise of asking for help.
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Sir_Substance posted:From where, to where in particular? Not stalking me I hope...Akl, NZ to Melbourne, Aus
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nzspambot posted:Not stalking me I hope...Akl, NZ to Melbourne, Aus A solid choice, I've only been to Melbourne once, but I'd say its x10 better then Sydney, although of course not a patch on Adelaide  SamDabbers posted:It looks like libssh is LGPL and has a public git repo, so why not build it yourself against the legally redistributable runtime library? I went and found an unofficial build that didn't have the dep. I'm working on getting some code that hasn't been developed activly for a year compiling again, so I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible.
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