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Sickening posted:I think the issue of relying on an intern for a critical job roll is both idiotic and unethical. I mean this is a bank who decided to have a single device that does literally everything. The social media intern is getting paid to watch the ship sink. Sounds win/win to me.
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Anybody have experience in recovering an admin password on a Synology NAS? The defaults don't work. This thing has a degraded drive and we can't get in the admin portal to see the exact error.
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Reset the box: https://www.synology.com/en-uk/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/General/How_to_reset_your_Synology_NAS#t2 You won't lose data* * Usual disclaimers apply
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 I'll definitely try and get a drive backup prior to doing that.
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Chickenwalker posted:Ubiquiti is not a sinking ship just because some dumbass writes an article with no actual forensic accounting evidence to back up his accusations of fraud, and even better fundamentally misunderstands why Ubiquiti is a great product. Sounds like I struck a nerve. Serious question though; does anyone have any experience with the new Unifi switches? I need a couple new gigabit switches with PoE and at least one SFP port on the cheap for my new house. Are they poo poo? do they die/catch fire/drop packets? I've already got the security gateway and Pro AP's and would prefer to keep everything on the home network managed with the NMC software. I've got an HP procurve switch and a Mikrotik RB2011. So I could make it work with some PoE injectors and a whole lot of v-lanning but I'd rather keep my work/dev/test environment completely, physically separate from my home stuff in case there's ever a problem and I'm not home to fix it. I can't imagine trying to talk my wife through re-loading a configuration file on the Mikrotik.
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So I am still in my first month and I am doing some heavy poking around in lots of systems. PDQ inventory is an absolute godsend for these purposes. The scanning and the reports I can make from what it gathers is a huge benefit. It however has recently uncovered some very interesting patterns. We are on skype for business. This was a fairly new transition for the company and happened less than a year ago. Part of my scanning is making sure everyone is on the same software versions for the critical things. I am noticing out of 400 laptops I have scanned, 12 of them don't have the correct skype version. They are in fact on an early version of skype for business and didn't get upgraded. Fine, no big deal. The concerning part is that all 12 of these people have something in common. They are all women and to put it bluntly, are among the easiest on the eyes in the entire company. The names stood out right away. First I try to figure out why they didn't get the upgrade as the latest upgrade is done by group policy. I look at the group policy object and see right away there is an security group exception setup. This security group contains all 12 of these employees. Hmm, well that is it. Why though? Why the gently caress would these employees have this setup this way? I talk to my boss and he is baffled. He doesn't recognize the security group. The group policy object appears to have been made by my predecessor. We are both confused why this is the way it is but instead of spending more time on it I remove the group from the object and the systems upgrade to the latest skype. Fine, fixed, whatever. But now I am at lunch and it bothers me. Something doesn't feel right. I dig some more on the specific skype version. It appears this version has one major difference than the current version per the googling I am doing. This version keeps chat history in a local database instead of in the outlook OST like the new version does. A light bulb comes on. This creepy fucker did this so he could read their loving chat history. 
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Just had a recruiter call me and leave a voicemail with using two very distinct different names in the same message. Tech recruiters are strange e; good thing Skype is going away for you then!
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Sep 25, 2017 18:31
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Sickening posted:This creepy fucker did this so he could read their loving chat history. Wow. As soon as you said there was a security group my 'oh poo poo' alarm was going off. When you said you deleted it I cringed. I guess you said you already asked your boss about the security group, but man make sure you let him know about the possible chat logging issue. That is something I would 100% not want to be the only person who knows.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:37
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Internet Explorer posted:Wow. I just removed the security group from the object. It still exists. We are having a meeting about it right after lunch and the CIO is invited. Not the only sketchy thing I have found so far.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:39
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I was expecting the group to be a "do what the gently caress you want on your computers" group as some sort of favour to the people involved, which had somehow prevented Skype from updating. I guess I am naïve to the level of creepiness that people can descend to.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:40
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Might want to do a sweep of the women's bathroom for pinhole cameras while you at it.
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Sickening posted:I just removed the security group from the object. It still exists. We are having a meeting about it right after lunch and the CIO is invited. Not the only sketchy thing I have found so far. Ah, must have misread.  Do please keep us in the loop. This one sounds interesting.
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Sickening posted:This creepy fucker did this so he could read their loving chat history. WHAT... THE... gently caress.... ewwwww
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Sep 25, 2017 18:43
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Sickening posted:I just removed the security group from the object. It still exists. We are having a meeting about it right after lunch and the CIO is invited. Not the only sketchy thing I have found so far. I would backup image and flatten those laptops. Do they have webcams?
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Sep 25, 2017 18:53
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IT has some creepy motherfuckers in it. The guy who was in this role before I had it would regularly tell the women he had to back up their phones every few months and stockpiled photos of them. They didn't find this out until after he left, and women in the company give me weird looks when I ask to back their phone up to itunes for a new phone.
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Sep 25, 2017 18:55
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H110Hawk posted:I would backup image and flatten those laptops. Do they have webcams? At this point it might be the next step. The url filtering by the firewall had some strange entries too. jockopodcast2.com jockopodcast.com *.unfinishedman.com My creep vibe is loving rising, quickly.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Sounds like I struck a nerve. I installed a 48 port for a customer a month back or so. Configured easily, but it wasn't exactly a complex configuration. Didn't catch fire, ran 15 or so Ubiquiti APs via a mix of 802.3af and 24v poe without issue. I haven't touched it or talked to the customer since the install though.
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Methanar posted:Anyone else going to Velocity NYC 2017? I was looking at that, but we kinda blew our "training" budget with scheduling a trip to AWS re:Invent in Vegas
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Serious question though; does anyone have any experience with the new Unifi switches? I need a couple new gigabit switches with PoE and at least one SFP port on the cheap for my new house. I have one US-24-POE at a customer location powering a few phones, cameras, and an AP. It does what it does well and I have no complaints. It's a bit more expensive than the competition, so I wouldn't recommend them by default, but if you have any Ubiquiti 24V gear it's really nice and if you like the Unifi software the central management is really cool. If you have the APs and USG already I'd definitely recommend going with the USW as well just to complete the package. You get basically the same utilization stats off your wired ports as the UAPs give you on wireless. If you haven't seen what a USW shows in the controller, here's some screenshots I took after installing it: https://imgur.com/a/W11Ab
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Well, I logged off at about 0230 this morning. We were still down, but getting better. When I woke up at 0700 we were back in business. So somewhere north of 24 hours of outage. But the Network team pushed though, by God, and got the new switch in place. Still some ATM outages, which we're working on. Things seem to be settled down. Executive team offered up some tickets for tonight's NHL game, as a thank you to people for all the long hours and hard work. I am not taking advantage, because I might be near the Network team and I will not be able to guarantee I won't say or do something stupid to them. I doubt there will be anything in terms of staff fallout. We don't fire anyone. Probably not even any write-ups. Oh well.
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Antioch posted:Well, I logged off at about 0230 this morning. We were still down, but getting better. When I woke up at 0700 we were back in business. What team is playing?
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For what it's worth, all UniFi equipment is moving to 802.3af/802.3at PoE rather than the passive stuff that they used before: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/Update-on-24V-Passive-PoE-Support-on-UniFi-Switch-Product-Line-8/m-p/2041057 They've changed their minds a couple of times but new products are all standards-based PoE, so plan accordingly.
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Sickening posted:So I am still in my first month and I am doing some heavy poking around in lots of systems. PDQ inventory is an absolute godsend for these purposes. The scanning and the reports I can make from what it gathers is a huge benefit. It however has recently uncovered some very interesting patterns. As soon as you said they are good looking women and skype, I figured something with profile pictures (does skype have these? I've only really dealt with jabber) or similar, but the reality is somehow worse. Sickening posted:jockopodcast2.com Also I don't even want to know what these are, but were they to disable filtering, or implicitly filter them? MF_James fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Yeah are you going to like tell them they've been spied on? I mean I guess that wouldn't be a good idea since they'd probably freak out and try and sue the company. Which I mean is fairly justifiable.
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Vargatron posted:What team is playing? This is important.
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Vargatron posted:Yeah are you going to like tell them they've been spied on? I mean I guess that wouldn't be a good idea since they'd probably freak out and try and sue the company. Which I mean is fairly justifiable.
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Unless not telling them results in them finding out several months later that you discovered this but then didn't tell them. There's no easy answer to this.
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My former company had a "you have no expected right to privacy" thing during orientation but I'm not sure how valid that was in the grand scheme of things.
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Thanks Ants posted:Unless not telling them results in them finding out several months later that you discovered this but then didn't tell them. There's no easy answer to this. There is, and it's to make it legal+HR's problem. You are not lawyers, do not pretend to be.
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Vargatron posted:My former company had a "you have no expected right to privacy" thing during orientation but I'm not sure how valid that was in the grand scheme of things. In the US, in regards to company property? Pretty valid.
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This is exactly what HR departments are for. Give them all the details, let them figure out what they want to do. If HR does nothing and the women are outraged that they weren't notified, that's HRs problem now and not IT. e; gently caress H110hawk you beat me to it.
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H110Hawk posted:There is, and it's to make it legal+HR's problem. You are not lawyers, do not pretend to be. Yeah, that is true. I was thinking more in terms of the company rather than the IT department. Letting my CYA game slip.
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Yeah, while it's likely it's a "well you don't have any expectation of privacy on work PCs" but better to let HR make that judgement call.
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H110Hawk posted:There is, and it's to make it legal+HR's problem. You are not lawyers, do not pretend to be. This right here is correct.
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Man who is paid more than me just deleted our live print server without any warning or consultation of the department or users or anything. We do have backups so it should be fine but seriously.
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Could be worse, he could have deleted your core router with no hope of restoring services to it.
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MF_James posted:This is important. Edmonton/Carolina (don't doxx me k?)
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n0tqu1tesane posted:I installed a 48 port for a customer a month back or so. Configured easily, but it wasn't exactly a complex configuration. Didn't catch fire, ran 15 or so Ubiquiti APs via a mix of 802.3af and 24v poe without issue.  wolrah posted:I have one US-24-POE at a customer location powering a few phones, cameras, and an AP. It does what it does well and I have no complaints. It's a bit more expensive than the competition, so I wouldn't recommend them by default, but if you have any Ubiquiti 24V gear it's really nice and if you like the Unifi software the central management is really cool. If you have the APs and USG already I'd definitely recommend going with the USW as well just to complete the package. You get basically the same utilization stats off your wired ports as the UAPs give you on wireless. Thanks Ants posted:For what it's worth, all UniFi equipment is moving to 802.3af/802.3at PoE rather than the passive stuff that they used before: That's literally what I was just looking into. I'm 99% sure the new switches I'm considering are 802.3af/at only which is fine when it comes time to install the access points, and cameras. I'll have to doublecheck the phones, but I can always use one of these to convert it. The old UAP's I had needed to use passive PoE injectors because 48v but the new UAP-Pro is 802.3af/at so I'm golden there. Having a couple SSID's and VLAN configs on the Wifi is gonna be really nice. brb gotta do some math real quick and make sure the switch I'm looking at can actually power all the things... GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Man who is paid more than me just deleted our live print server without any warning or consultation of the department or users or anything. Good. Quit printing
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