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My work laptop was 3300 canadian dollars lol.
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I feel lucky with my work laptop after reading some of the answers here. I have a Dell 5580 - i7-7820HQ, 32 GB of RAM, 512 GB NVME SSD - 4 lbs weight Preeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttty nice compared to the brickhouse Dell M4800 I had before.
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Feb 13, 2018 10:03
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My work laptop is overkill. Lenovo IdeaPad Y700-15 Intel Core i7-6700HQ, GeForce GTX 960M, 256GB SSD, 2TB HDD, 16GB Ram, 2.6KG weight I'd trade it in for a lighter laptop if I could.
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Feb 13, 2018 10:21
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Bob Morales posted:"Why are emails being delayed? <whoever> sent me an email at 8:47 and it just came in at 9:07a." "I received your email at XX:XX can you tell me what time you sent it?"
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Feb 13, 2018 12:48
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Wiggly posted:My dream job. Boss still buys hard drives. I make up the entirety of the IT "department" so I get to set the standards 
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Feb 13, 2018 14:30
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Things you don't want to hear as the MSP provider: "I think it'd be faster, and cheaper, to build a whole new dc, build out a clean domain, and reconnect all 250 users to this new domain than to go through and fix all these network and gpo issues."
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Feb 13, 2018 20:46
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They’re probably not wrong.
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Feb 13, 2018 20:58
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That sounds like an insane amount of billable hours either way, so yeah certainly not the worst thing to do.
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Feb 13, 2018 21:49
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The Fool posted:They’re probably not wrong. Yeah sometimes it's the far better choice. Like this client I'm doing it for who have a Windows 2000 domain with all FSMO roles living on long-decommissioned DCs (and by decommissioned I just mean turned off, natch, not actually decommed) with servers on the domain running such an old version of Oracle that Oracle has said they're happy to sell the client extended support (because, Larry) but they don't actually have anyone who would know how to fix it anymore. Plus any and all other misconfiguration problems you can imagine in a W2k domain that's still being used in the year 2018. So yeah..... 
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Feb 13, 2018 21:50
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One day we will burn down our existing AD, and all the cruft and dead accounts and garbage GPOs with it. One day 
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Feb 13, 2018 22:52
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Antioch posted:One day we will burn down our existing AD, and all the cruft and dead accounts and garbage GPOs with it. One day Our AD is a .local... Started life as a 2000 functional level, was raised to 2003, where it stays to this day. We still have 3 active 2003 DCs, so still using FRS replication. One day I will be able to switch to DFS replication... One day... But I have also been good about keeping it clean. Old accounts are deleted when no longer needed. New GPO for every setting, GPOs are named for what they do. Makes cleanup easy. Unlike an acquaintance of mine that puts EVERYTHING into the Default Domain Policy. stevewm fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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Feb 13, 2018 22:55
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Ours also started life as a .local, but I had to go through the rigamarole of converting it late last year when our Exchange SSL cert expired and they wouldn't issue us a new one with the .local domain included.
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Feb 13, 2018 23:04
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ilkhan posted:Things you don't want to hear as the MSP provider: "I think it'd be faster, and cheaper, to build a whole new dc, build out a clean domain, and reconnect all 250 users to this new domain than to go through and fix all these network and gpo issues." Now, before the sun comes up, we're going to build on this site an exact replica of the DC...
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Feb 14, 2018 00:11
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You son of a bitch, you remade the domain but you left the buffaloes, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the buffaloes and you only moved the dc!! YOU ONLY MOVED THE DC!!! WHY?! WHY?!
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Feb 14, 2018 00:24
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Ghostlight posted:You son of a bitch, you remade the domain but you left the buffaloes, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the buffaloes and you only moved the dc!! YOU ONLY MOVED THE DC!!! WHY?! WHY?! 
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Feb 14, 2018 01:15
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The curse raises its head as I promptly receive this ticket: ======= Ticket Summary: [Remote employee] can't hear people on calls Ticket Details: They can hear her (I tested) but she can't hear them. Have restarted Jabra wireless headset but no joy. She does not have the Jabra Wireless as an option in her skype for business dropdown box just mic and speakers by the looks. Can you please check settings Contact Info: Phone Urgency: Urgent =======
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Feb 14, 2018 02:48
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Repair install the Jabra software and/or update it. That was an issue that supposedly been fixed with the newer versions of the software.
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Feb 14, 2018 04:02
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Had a salesman complaining that he couldn't maximize any window in our EDI app. Seems the Windows 10 1709 update brought in a bug with Remote App windows and the taskbar. If you have the taskbar set to auto-hide, when you maximize any RemoteApp window, the RemoteApp window will go haywire and half disappear. Setting the taskbar to not auto hide fixes the problem immediately. https://social.technet.microsoft.co...n10itprogeneral
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Feb 14, 2018 14:56
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Okay why has everyone apparently decided that "cyber" now means exclusively "cybersecurity"?
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Feb 14, 2018 15:23
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Data Graham posted:Okay why has everyone apparently decided that "cyber" now means exclusively "cybersecurity"? Wait, really? That's a thing now? Because when I hear "cyber" the first thing I think of is 2000 era chat rooms and hot singles in my area.
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Feb 14, 2018 16:33
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Garrand posted:Wait, really? That's a thing now? Because when I hear "cyber" the first thing I think of is 2000 era chat rooms and hot singles in my area. the amount of family members who think I do "cybersecurity" is staggering like i investigate endpoints guys. calling that cybersec is ridiculous
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Feb 14, 2018 16:37
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A ticket came in: Customer states that the firewall we manage has been breached and they have been hacked. Their timer board is showing "Glory to Ukraine, Death to USA". Investigation reveals that they have the thing plugged straight into their modem and a public IP assigned to it. Further investigation reveals that no credentials are required to login and modify it. After explaining this to the customer, the only reply we get is "thx".
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Feb 14, 2018 16:45
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Garrand posted:Wait, really? That's a thing now? Because when I hear "cyber" the first thing I think of is 2000 era chat rooms and hot singles in my area. That definition got overtaken by teledildonics.
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Feb 14, 2018 16:47
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Garrand posted:Wait, really? That's a thing now? Because when I hear "cyber" the first thing I think of is 2000 era chat rooms and hot singles in my area. a/s/l?
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Feb 14, 2018 16:51
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Data Graham posted:Okay why has everyone apparently decided that "cyber" now means exclusively "cybersecurity"? I blame CSI: Cyber.
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Feb 14, 2018 17:33
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A delivery came in  Hope the PCs inside boot up. 
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Feb 14, 2018 17:49
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If I have to listen to one more person talk about the "old laptops" we give them because we buy thinkpads and they don't look as modern as their macbooks...
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Feb 14, 2018 17:58
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I blame CSI: Cyber. I picked up the first season of CSI:Cyber super cheap and was watching it just to laugh at everything that was so hilariously wrong. My favorite was their visual depiction of tracking traffic through the deep web as if the deep web were a physical place below the internet, indicated by big scary red glowing letters that said DEEP WEB.
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Feb 14, 2018 20:42
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And then I have to deal with my mom saying "But I saw it on CSI and they say that CSI is based off of real life so it's real!!!!!!"
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Feb 14, 2018 20:50
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GreenNight posted:I do like the 840's. Still using the side dock instead the poo poo USB3 or Thunderbolt docks. I'm using a Lenovo USB C dock with my T470 and it kicks rear end. Every USB3 dock I've seen has sucked, which is the main reason I went with USB C. I figured, surely they've figured it out now?
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Feb 14, 2018 21:12
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Kurieg posted:I picked up the first season of CSI:Cyber super cheap and was watching it just to laugh at everything that was so hilariously wrong. My favorite was their visual depiction of tracking traffic through the deep web as if the deep web were a physical place below the internet, indicated by big scary red glowing letters that said DEEP WEB. So darktrace decided to go full bore on the CYBER GRAPHICS poo poo and it's incredibly infurating to use this slow as hell web service that's running a ridiculously fancy and ridiculously useless topology in the background. My dude. If I'm analyzing DNS logs seeing some fancy CSI crap is exactly what I don't want or need.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:16
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Spring Heeled Jack posted:I'm using a Lenovo USB C dock with my T470 and it kicks rear end. Every USB3 dock I've seen has sucked, which is the main reason I went with USB C. I figured, surely they've figured it out now? This one? https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/home-office/Thinkpad-USB-C-Dock/p/40A90090US drat it why did they put a VGA and not either a dvi or hdmi instead >< We're trying to find a usb c docking solution that works with both our macs and our dells and we just keep hitting wall after wall. There's one that my husband uses at his office that is like $300 that he likes alot but we aren't ready to put that kinda cheddar down. We're also looking at possibly changing from the dells to something else if we can find the power of the m4800s at a lower price point with less bulk maybe. Here's to getting more dell try and buys in. ugh.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:29
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I gave up on docks, I plug my XPS 13 into a USB-C DisplayPort MST splitter that outputs to two displays, and then the USB hub in my monitors, and power. If you get monitors that support DisplayPort chaining (newer Dell UltraSharps) then you don't need the MST hub. Yeah it's three things to plug in rather than one, but it's reliable.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:36
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wa27 posted:If I have to listen to one more person talk about the "old laptops" we give them because we buy thinkpads and they don't look as modern as their macbooks... I had one lady email her boss and CC me complaining when she started because she didn't like the "extremely used" laptop we gave her. The only thing wrong with it was the paint on some of the home row keys wearing off. It's crazy how entitled people are - I'd understand if it was your personal property but it's a company PC, you don't get to keep it, why do you care if some paint is missing?
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Feb 14, 2018 21:38
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I bought one of the Lenovo big TB docks and have been surprised that my boss hasn't complained about it. She used to use an X1 with one of those small monolith USB docks and those could get wonky with USB accessories, like wireless mice.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:40
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Sheep posted:I had one lady email her boss and CC me complaining when she started because she didn't like the "extremely used" laptop we gave her. The only thing wrong with it was the paint on some of the home row keys wearing off. Not saying that this is the condition your stuff was in but if you're paying someone decent money and their first day at your company has them sitting on a poo poo chair using a dirty keyboard and staring at a monitor covered in fingerprints then you're doing things wrong.
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Feb 14, 2018 21:56
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Yeah hardly anyone below C level gets new equipment. It just doesn't happen.
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Feb 14, 2018 22:09
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The Iron Rose posted:So darktrace decided to go full bore on the CYBER GRAPHICS poo poo and it's incredibly infurating to use this slow as hell web service that's running a ridiculously fancy and ridiculously useless topology in the background. Also I really didn't like it that you could dismiss a notification almost by accident with no confirmation required, but there didn't seem to be a way to list the notifications that you had previously dismissed so you could examine or restore them. But mostly the GUI thing.
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Feb 14, 2018 22:33
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Thanks Ants posted:Not saying that this is the condition your stuff was in but if you're paying someone decent money and their first day at your company has them sitting on a poo poo chair using a dirty keyboard and staring at a monitor covered in fingerprints then you're doing things wrong. I made sure stuff was clean, and we were on a 3 year lifecycle anyways so everything was quite new. This lady was just being annoying for no good reason. I could have handed her the laptop her coworker had just returned to me which was covered in animal hair and food crumbs, which I actually trashed instead of trying to clean or salvage since it was a borderline biohazard situation and there isn't an MSDS for cat piss as far as I am aware. Unrelated: My first day at my current place I had a desk but my chair was an OSHA violation. Great way to start off on the right foot - "when someone leaves, the vultures swoop in and take all their stuff". My chair is still garbage compared to the ones everyone else has but whatever. Sheep fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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silicone thrills posted:This one? https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/home-office/Thinkpad-USB-C-Dock/p/40A90090US drat it why did they put a VGA and not either a dvi or hdmi instead >< Not sure of the exact model off hand but that looks like it. My coworker with a Mac plugged in his usb c to test it and it came up on my dual monitors almost instantly. I’m using DisplayPort to both my monitors from the dock, so no issues there.
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