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Larches, you're the goon stuck in a well. You're stuck in that well for a lot of good reasons, but stuck you remain.
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Collateral Damage posted:If you can get away with it, just open the filter up. Change it to default allow, blacklist known trouble sites, disable SSL inspection and get the students off your back.
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Fyi, larches, your job sounds a lot like my job as retail management. I've got a million projects to do but not enough time to work on them. But oh, we're fully staffed at least to help customers so we won't be bringing in more people but I still have to get a bunch of major overhauls done in the next week or two.
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https://twitter.com/DHRadio/status/955417545783332864 Thinking of you, Tech Support thread.
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I got a message from a co-worker that Dell pulled all of their Meltdown BIOS updates and sure enough, they aren't on the Dell drivers pages. No announcement, and nothing from our Dell rep apparently. Anyone know what's going on?
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CapMoron posted:I got a message from a co-worker that Dell pulled all of their Meltdown BIOS updates and sure enough, they aren't on the Dell drivers pages. No announcement, and nothing from our Dell rep apparently. Anyone know what's going on? Intel admitted the microcode updates they had pushed out could cause the CPU's to corrupt memory and crash, so pulled them. All the OEM's followed suit. Intel is 'working on a fix'.
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I've been using the list @ http://www.dell.com/support/article...oducts?lang=en, and it's still there, but clicking on a BIOS update gives this error: The file you are attempting to download is no longer available, and may have been updated or replaced with a newer version. Please visit the Drivers and Downloads page and try your search again. I've been slowly patching our Dell workstations and haven't had any issues so far. I wasn't getting this error as recently as Friday.
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The Fool posted:Link? 
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This entire process has been a clusterwhoops. We've now settled on the path of getting McAfee MOVE on our servers and pushing out the registry key to let them patch Windows, and a big ol' "wait and see" on anything else. We asked our "security team" to maybe tell us what patches/BIOS/firmware we need and in what order do we need them, and they basically said they don't know and it's up to us to figure it out.
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A network outage came in. Our server room was basically an oven after the AC went out. I spent the whole morning attempting to get some sort of ventilation going with box fans while attempting to bring everything back up. Also, almost all students are having issues with the web filter because they're all trying to use VPNs to circumvent the loving thing. Once the VPNs are gone, everything works like magic. loving interesting, that.
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It's a common misconception, but that character is actually called Zelda.
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Jaded Burnout posted:It's a common misconception, but that character is actually called Zelda. lol
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Jaded Burnout posted:It's a common misconception, but that character is actually called Zelda. 
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larchesdanrew posted:He is by far the worst person I have ever had the displeasure of meeting, and people are jumping ship like crazy because of him. But since he's the equivalent of the superintendent and we only answer to the state board of education, filing complaints against him is nearly impossible. Newspapers love writing about education. Maybe your local paper would be happy to get tips about lavish trips and start rattling cages.
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larchesdanrew posted:A network outage came in. Do you have any form of logging to prove that? If so - write that poo poo up and send it to directorman every single time students bitch about their poo poo not working. Prove it's not you, it's them, and if they'd stop loving with things they don't understand everything would be fine.
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Linus has been on a tear I the kernel mailing list, the last few days, re: spectre and meltdown. It's been rather entertaining.
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Nth Doctor posted:Not that this holds a candle to what larches is going through, but I'm considering replacing my HP Officejet 6000 due to ink lasting ~3 pages/cartridge. Do your print jobs look like loving Jackson Pollock paintings? What the actual gently caress? 
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EoRaptor posted:Intel admitted the microcode updates they had pushed out could cause the CPU's to corrupt memory and crash, so pulled them. All the OEM's followed suit. Intel is 'working on a fix'. In all seriousness, I would like to see this announcement
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Malek posted:In all seriousness, I would like to see this announcement https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52345 Can't find the original Intel announcement, but here is VMware's found it? https://newsroom.intel.com/news/root-cause-of-reboot-issue-identified-updated-guidance-for-customers-and-partners/
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Malek posted:In all seriousness, I would like to see this announcement I did some looking and this was the closest I've found an official announcement from Intel. https://newsroom.intel.com/news/root-cause-of-reboot-issue-identified-updated-guidance-for-customers-and-partners/
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Jaded Burnout posted:why are you posting metal gear characters in this thread Metal...Gear?!
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A ticket came in A cable is unplugged But I'm not IT so it's not my drat problem and I don't know why this lady emails me all the time
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I just found out that despite the recent budget cuts we have received, director sought a pay increase from the state. This request was denied and suddenly he's all about combining, cutting, and downgrading positions. HMMM
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So, like, because I work in an ISP and what not I really shouldn't provide specific details about our outages But, uh, when a phone call starts with "So we heard a really loud 'pop' and the fire alarm went off" you know a ticket's going to be really bad. Really, really, really bad.
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larchesdanrew posted:I just found out that despite the recent budget cuts we have received, director sought a pay increase from the state. This request was denied and suddenly he's all about combining, cutting, and downgrading positions. Seriously, look up your local newspaper, find out who regularly writes the education/school stories, and give them a call. They will love to hear about this.
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AlexDeGruven posted:Linus has been on a tear I the kernel mailing list, the last few days, re: spectre and meltdown. It's been rather entertaining. Yeah, it bubbled up to become actual news today. I'm surprised he's restraint in letting intel continue to contribute for all the poo poo they're trying to pull.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Seriously, look up your local newspaper, find out who regularly writes the education/school stories, and give them a call. They will love to hear about this. The only reason I'd not do this is because it sounds like said director is smear campaigning Larches and if said paper goes to someone else for a second account, Larches might get thrown under said bus... mainly cause of this line: larchesdanrew posted:Emails complaining about the new web filter come in daily to my boss, with a majority of students claiming that "no one likes or trusts Mr. Larchesdanrew." My confidence and feeling of self-worth has never been higher.
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incoherent posted:Yeah, it bubbled up to become actual news today. I'm surprised he's restraint in letting intel continue to contribute for all the poo poo they're trying to pull. Hadn't heard about this, and oh boy https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/22/intel_spectre_fix_linux/
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Thanks Ants posted:Hadn't heard about this, and oh boy
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larchesdanrew posted:I just found out that despite the recent budget cuts we have received, director sought a pay increase from the state. This request was denied and suddenly he's all about combining, cutting, and downgrading positions. Gee, that's awful convenient.
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Malek posted:The only reason I'd not do this is because it sounds like said director is smear campaigning Larches and if said paper goes to someone else for a second account, Larches might get thrown under said bus... mainly cause of this line: If the superintendent knew someone he thought would do the job for less money, he'd have canned Larches already. But as it turns out, the man can't even hire a loving school secretary*. Besides, my understanding is as much as staff are getting frustrated with Larches, they still hate the boss even more. A reporter asking "so how about that expensive trip to Chicago your boss just took?" isn't going to be met with "well it's because our IT guy is such a huge jerk!" *I'm not maligning school secretaries; they can do a hell of a lot of good for schools. But it still speaks poorly that he can't manage to fill a position that doesn't have licensure requirements or even require a college education. Farmer Crack-Ass fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Jan 23, 2018 |
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No one could access their files for an hour because the datacentre suspended us for not paying a £20 late payment fee. You do fine work, finance department.
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bitterandtwisted posted:No one could access their files for an hour because the datacentre suspended us for not paying a £20 late payment fee. You do fine work, finance department. We pay all of our bills late because out accounting department is full of slow senior citizens Every other time we call a vendor for help "uhh you owe us $1200 we can't talk to you until..."
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:If the superintendent knew someone he thought would do the job for less money, he'd have canned Larches already. But as it turns out, the man can't even hire a loving school secretary*. Fair point. Find a bus with deflated tires then to throw him under.
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Bob Morales posted:We pay all of our bills late because out accounting department is full of slow senior citizens At my last job, on at least one occasion they "bought" a company by acquiring all the assets of the company in question, taking over whatever contracts they wanted (lease, copier, internet, etc.) and then when bill collectors come for the others they'd go "sorry we're not bought_company, we just happen to have all of their equipment, staff, and many of their contracts, and occupy the same building space." It was incredibly sketchy and the MSP that the bought company used refused (rightly) to give us any device/network information until the past due balance was paid. Glad they saw through the bullshit and also that I'm not dealing with that mess anymore.
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