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Sirotan
Oct 17, 2006

Sirotan is a seal.


Irritated Goat posted:

:( Hereditary was really good. I admit it does ask that you love slow burn horror a bit though.

I think I just really don't like horror movies. The film had some great performances, but I feel like they could have cut out about 45min without losing anything. I know there's a 3hr cut of it somewhere, watching that would probably put me into a coma.

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SEKCobra
Feb 28, 2011

Hi
:saddowns: Don't look at my site :saddowns:

dogstile posted:

"poo poo, can I get a copy? I've been meaning to expand my pornhub profile"

Threaten him with legal action for sharing your paid porn videos!

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



A ticket came in. To update ACH information in really poor English referring to us as “customer” and referring to nonexistent due invoices. I asked the AP person to call the company to confirm. I hope that if it is real I don’t get blowback.

Renegret
May 26, 2007

THANK YOU FOR CALLING HELP DOG, INC.

YOUR POSITION IN THE QUEUE IS *pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt*


Cat Army Sworn Enemy
Hey yo ticket thread

like, I know my job is all about outage resolution but there's been too many stupid fuckkin' outages going on today, I'd like it to stop please. Maybe start on a better note.

Cisco, when we say "hey don't make any changes to this switch, we've got other active services on it" the correct response is not to start loving with the switch gosh hecking gently caress it.

e: I work maybe 3-4 critical outages a week. I've done 4 today.

"Hey we're doing a non-customer impacting maintenance to reboot this device"

"Okay then why are customer impacted right this very second?"

"uhhhhhhh.....brb"

Renegret fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jun 28, 2018

Sprechensiesexy
Dec 26, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Renegret posted:

"uhhhhhhh.....brb"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqB8v14U_zs

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?
My business critical poo poo was while I was on holiday, they sent out the mailers for some event and the website certificate went down the same day.

All of the people who received the mailer and actually checked the website was presented with a "THESE PEOPLE MAY NOT BE TRUSTWORTHY FLAG".

I guess we're paying our web guy to do... what exactly? I mean I don't particularly work hard, I keep on top of my deadlines, but its a small shop. I can appreciate someone not being at gogogo levels 100%, but come on man this is literally one of your like 2 responsibility's you have even less to do than me! Why are you calling me on holiday to do your job!

(Guy's been working with us for nigh on 30 years or so)

Steakandchips
Apr 30, 2009

We had a developer in our team who had been with the department for 32 years.

He couldn’t be arsed to do anything for the last five years and finally retired instead of waiting further for a redundancy (we were not going to give him one at £100k).

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



Well, everyone else involved said the email seems really fishy. I told my manager and the director about it. The person who originally got the email and I are doing Symantec full scans and they’re trying to reach out to the vendor by phone. This isn’t how I expected to spend the first half of today.

Yes I know AV is worthless, but that’s what I’ve been told to do so I’m covering my rear end.

kensei
Dec 27, 2007

He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!


22 Eargesplitten posted:

Well, everyone else involved said the email seems really fishy. I told my manager and the director about it. The person who originally got the email and I are doing Symantec full scans and they’re trying to reach out to the vendor by phone. This isn’t how I expected to spend the first half of today.

Yes I know AV is worthless, but that’s what I’ve been told to do so I’m covering my rear end.

Do the headers look legit? Is it a new payment method for this vendor? We've seen some interesting stuff recently, the spoofers are getting better at some parts but still include lines like "Our CFO Mrs Lisa" with a Gmail address...

ChubbyThePhat
Dec 22, 2006

Who nico nico needs anyone else

kensei posted:

Do the headers look legit? Is it a new payment method for this vendor? We've seen some interesting stuff recently, the spoofers are getting better at some parts but still include lines like "Our CFO Mrs Lisa" with a Gmail address...

This would be where I start with it. Make a list of all the stuff that seems out of place about it. Obviously the easy answer here is to contact the vendor and say "did you send this email requesting these things". Did the email come through the correct channels? If not maybe have them resend it. Is this vendor known for going around said channels for stuff like this? There's likely a non-technical pattern you can fit the whole situation into.

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



It’s from the name of the AR person using the company’s domain, but I don’t know if DMARC is set up and for all I know their small business may just have been hacked. It sounds like the kind of thing you would blast out to everyone in the client list. They also sent a W9, which would suggest either being legit or the latter.

Our lead admin is going to take a look at the metadata.

They also have an AR address and are just using an address with her name.

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

Today one of our people got a thumbdrive from another agency that makes any PC you plug it into bluescreen. Neat trick.

tactlessbastard
Feb 4, 2001

Godspeed, post
Fun Shoe

Knormal posted:

Today one of our people got a thumbdrive from another agency that makes any PC you plug it into bluescreen. Neat trick.

I need that so bad

Malek
Jun 22, 2003

Shut up Girl!
And as always: Kill Hitler.

Knormal posted:

Today one of our people got a thumbdrive from another agency that makes any PC you plug it into bluescreen. Neat trick.

So USB bootable Windows Vista then?

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

Probably just infected with malware which relies on a partially patched vulnerability.

Sywert of Thieves
Nov 7, 2005

The pirate code is really more of a guideline, than actual rules.

Or maybe it just does this. :v:

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


I had one of those moments during a doctor's appointment where we were trying to get some software working to read the data from my equipment (gently caress me, right? Can't go anywhere) and the doctor handed me a thumbdrive so I could give him a CSV of my treatment history.

Internal pause, am I going to plug this stranger's thumbdrive into my laptop, ah gently caress it.

Did briefly consider cloning it while I was at it but I don't wanna see that poo poo probably.

Malek
Jun 22, 2003

Shut up Girl!
And as always: Kill Hitler.

Merijn posted:

Or maybe it just does this. :v:

Oh the NMI function.

I've used this to troubleshoot softlocks.

Squatch Ambassador
Nov 12, 2008

What? Never seen a shaved Squatch before?
Last year I had a thumb drive that would cause OptiPlex 7010 and 7020 PCs to display a pattern of coloured stripes on screen, then turn off. Looked like the same pattern as the dell self-diagnostic thing. It would only happen on those models, and only on the front USB ports :shrug:. It was one with that stupid spin mechanism that always start to fail after a few months of regular use. But usually they just start getting flakey connections instead of whatever that was.

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



Well, turns out the email was fraudulent. Our administrator team is looking at the metadata, the vendor is sending out emails to all of their customers warning them about emails like the ones we got, I sent in a report about it to my manager, guess it’s pretty much done at this point.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Malek posted:

So USB bootable Windows ME then?

Fixed

iospace
Jan 19, 2038



:barf:

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



A network outage came in: we can’t access our hosted ERP system or our ticketing system, which means I can’t get any work done. It’s out in Comcast-land somewhere according to our admin’s traceroute. Fun.

Corsair Pool Boy
Dec 17, 2004
College Slice

22 Eargesplitten posted:

A network outage came in: we can’t access our hosted ERP system or our ticketing system, which means I can’t get any work done. It’s out in Comcast-land somewhere according to our admin’s traceroute. Fun.

gently caress yeah, time to get some reading done

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


22 Eargesplitten posted:

A network outage came in: we can’t access our hosted ERP system or our ticketing system, which means I can’t get any work done. It’s out in Comcast-land somewhere according to our admin’s traceroute. Fun.

Our internet is Comcast too and no internet

Regrettably, most of my work is over local network so I can still do it :rip:

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

22 Eargesplitten posted:

A network outage came in: we can’t access our hosted ERP system or our ticketing system, which means I can’t get any work done. It’s out in Comcast-land somewhere according to our admin’s traceroute. Fun.

Yeah pretty sure comcast is having issues everywhere, I've been randomly having problems.

uPen
Jan 25, 2010

Zu Rodina!
Our email and remote access software just blew up so I guess I'm gonna go take a 6 hour lunch or something.

Renegret
May 26, 2007

THANK YOU FOR CALLING HELP DOG, INC.

YOUR POSITION IN THE QUEUE IS *pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt*


Cat Army Sworn Enemy
Comcast is melting right now.

I was about to say "bad day to be a Comcast customer" but in hindsight, every day is a bad day to be a Comcast customer.

Wiggly
Aug 26, 2000

Number one on the ice, number one in my heart
Fun Shoe

22 Eargesplitten posted:

A network outage came in: we can’t access our hosted ERP system or our ticketing system, which means I can’t get any work done. It’s out in Comcast-land somewhere according to our admin’s traceroute. Fun.

Yep, us too in Colorado. Office 365 is just fine though.

ChubbyThePhat
Dec 22, 2006

Who nico nico needs anyone else
I saw an issue with a client earlier this morning where the 365 servers were complaining they were busy and to try sending that email again later. I'm entirely certain this isn't related.

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost
The internet is on fire right now btw.

Just spent the last hour trying to fiddle with BGP to reroute out stuff but lol level 3 transit is loving everywhere.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418


I remember a buddy who worked as a PC tech telling me his company had a policy of just reformatting and reinstalling any ME systems that came in that were around 6 months old, and telling anyone who had an install much older than that to buy a new computer because ME will physically damage the hardware after around 6 months. I never saw any reason to challenge the assertion, it made perfect sense to me

Irritated Goat
Mar 12, 2005

This post is pathetic.
Did some Comcast tech need a few more hours to finish reading a book?

Renegret
May 26, 2007

THANK YOU FOR CALLING HELP DOG, INC.

YOUR POSITION IN THE QUEUE IS *pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt*


Cat Army Sworn Enemy

Methanar posted:

The internet is on fire right now btw.

What blows is that the internet is on fire here too even though it's not comcast land.

The first big temperature change of a season always reeks havoc on cable plants.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


I'm really surprised that the forums are up despite this

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

Shugojin posted:

I'm really surprised that the forums are up despite thisat any given point in time

Gunjin
Apr 27, 2004

Om nom nom

Renegret posted:

Comcast is melting right now.

I was about to say "bad day to be a Comcast customer" but in hindsight, every day is a bad day to be a Comcast customer.

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to reach through a phone and strangle someone more then at the end of a 40 minute call to get a new box flashed when the tech told me to “Have a Comcastic day.” Ok maybe the time I was trying to get a new box activated and the tech spent the entire 25 minute call talking like Emo Philips, then hosed up the activation to the point where I had to call back and get a different tech.

Basically, gently caress Comcast.

drat it now I’m thinking about how they decided to move 1/4 of our boxes to a new account number without telling anyone and then forgetting to put them on the bill so one morning 12 of them just stopped working for non payment and it took them over a week to figure out how to fix it.

gently caress Comcast.

Gunjin fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jun 29, 2018

Corsair Pool Boy
Dec 17, 2004
College Slice

Gunjin posted:

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to reach through a phone and strangle someone more then at the end of a 40 minute call to get a new box flashed when the tech told me to “Have a Comcastic day.” Ok maybe the time I was trying to get a new box activated and the tech spent the entire 25 minute call talking like Emo Philips, then hosed up the activation to the point where I had to call back and get a different tech.

Basically, gently caress Comcast.

drat it now I’m thinking about how they decided to move 1/4 of our boxes to a new account number without telling anyone and then forgetting to put them on the bill so one morning 12 of them just stopped working for non payment and it took them over a week to figure out how to fix it.

gently caress Comcast.

Or the time I had to start yelling and arguing when I was trying to cancel my service after they lied to me both over the phone and in person and left me with a bill about $40 a month (plus an installation fee) more than had been agreed to over the phone. I had to say some variation of 'turn it off' or 'cancel my service' ten times before they did, and then said they could not give me any form of communication confirming it. Fortunately I did not keep getting billed.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Shugojin posted:

I'm really surprised that the forums are up despite this

Don't taunt the forum gremlins like this.

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nexxai
Jul 17, 2002

quack quack bjork
Fun Shoe
Stupid question probably, but for an office of 5 people with no server and no need for local storage (OneDrive for Business is plenty), can Azure AD actually handle the laptop login/authentication portion? Or is it still just only used for Office 365 apps or whatever other broken half-assed poo poo you could use it for in the past?

The client already has the Office 365 Business Premium tenant set up so I'm not really sure what's involved or even where to read up on it more.

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