PirateDentist posted:

My place is moving to electronic faxing within the next week or so. They'll all finally go to email inboxes in TYOOL 2019, we receive well over a thousand or two pages a day still between them all. They can even send them right from their email thanks to a special inbox they're making. I'm hoping I can office space those fuckers in a few months, since the outbound lines are still hooked up for the foreseeable future, just the inbound is getting hijacked for the new system.

I'm sure the new system will be jank and broken, but most importantly that side is Not My Problem. Less "Clean Corona Wire" hell and just throwing them out every 18 months or so and dropping a new one on a desk because you can't fix a fax.

sfwarlock posted:

BackupExec was rock-loving-solid until Symantec bought it.

Digital_Jesus posted:

If your router is smokeping I would suggest putting it out!

Renegret posted:

it was one of ours. It was previously down due to a power outage.

I was hitting the management interface

but otherwise, yes I feel like half my job sometimes is yelling at the call center saying "TRACEROUTE CAN NOT BE USED TO DIAGNOSE LATENCY"

Thanks Ants posted:

Unless you aren't verifying the backups

D. Ebdrup posted:

Ah, that makes a lot more sense.
It's an absolute mystery to me how traceroute got associated with measuring latency - is it just that to the uninitiated it looks like it's doing something marginally more complex than sending a single ping every second?

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Unless it's something you can only configure via some kind of front panel that's 100% isolated from any network interface or admin page, it would still be worthless, since by the time they're actively loving with the backup server and services, they likely have a domain admin account to play with.

minusX posted:

An email request from a director with a second director (and a lot of external contractors) copied in. minusX please join this conference to setup VPN for these external contractors.

minusX posted:

Also having a connection to my home PC worked for a website outage for external users and I've had people ask me to stay in this area of IT instead of the new job. It's good to be wanted

quote:

[New teacher] is starting today and her office is [technology storage room]. She tried moving in but it is filled with old computers. Why are there old computers in this teacher's office?

quote:

Larchesdanrew, I requested that the office for [new teacher] be cleaned out and this is not done yet. Please explain why this has not been completed and inform me as soon as it is done.

Eikre posted:

I will gun for SSO on literally anything else, but the very meaning of the word "backup," to me, is that it's a sovereign system and your domain administration can go gently caress itself. Yeah, the syatem should in some way know what all the directory credentials are, but those are just the "please" and "thank you" when somebody politely asks it to store data or give it back; that's just to keep the users out of each other's business. The real words of power are a random 20-character string that you keep in a fireproof safe, and they're only heard when you speak them as close to the metal as your administrative profile makes feasible.

(Not to contradict anything you said; your virtual write-once tape library would certainly conform to the principle.)

larchesdanrew posted:

An email came in from the principal at 8:30 this morning.


Please note this is the first time I have even heard that this woman exists, much less that it was decided without my input that her office would be my tech dumping ground.

Also please note that we have an all day mandatory staff meeting for beginning of the year.

Another email came in from the principal at 11:30, while we were both sitting at the same table for three hours, but this time the director was CC'd on it.


I responded with a screenshot of her first email with the time and date circled, followed by a copy of her signed Technology Agreement with the portion about giving the IT Department at least 24 hours notice for any non-emergency service highlighted. I also requested, since this was my first time hearing about that hire, that she provide me with her information so I can create accounts and activate her keycard to avoid her being further delayed.

The director responded by asking the principal why I was just now being notified of this new hire and the office change after they had discussed it two months prior and he had specifically told her to discuss with me the possibility of the new teacher using the storage room for an office.

I've been internally about it all afternoon.

larchesdanrew posted:

I've been internally about it all afternoon.

Shut up Meg posted:

Did you at any point use the word 'Boom!'?

nexxai posted:

It's a Friday. You're definitely being fired today.

Wibla posted:

That would be typical, wouldn't it?

Seems the director has his back on this one, though.

klosterdev posted:

Where are they expecting you to put everything in storage

Malachite_Dragon posted:

*~*~The Butt~*~*

Malachite_Dragon posted:

*~*~~*~*

larchesdanrew posted:

The director responded by asking the principal why I was just now being notified of this new hire and the office change after they had discussed it two months prior and he had specifically told her to discuss with me the possibility of the new teacher using the storage room for an office.

I've been internally about it all afternoon.

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

We had an absurd directive pushed down to us by our newly minted C-level security officer about a year ago, and somehow this mangy band of unicorns managed to pull it off. We told them it couldn't be done and then did it anyway, basically.

Today, they had a short meeting so management could tell us all how proud they are. And that's great. Appreciation is nice.

Then, my boss's boss, who's sub-director level, starts into his PowerPoint, and towards the end he says, "Also, because we recognize that this has been a lot of thankless work across multiple teams, we're going to make sure each hub office has an off-site, catered celebration, our treat."

In the background, the Director of Infrastructure hastily unmutes himself and says, "Wait, but the budget--"

"I know we're in the middle of a budget crisis," boss's boss says, barreling entirely over his own boss's spluttering. "But we're going to make sure this happens for you."

A few hours later, my boss comes back after meeting with his boss with a huge poo poo-eating grin on his face. "So it turns out there ISN'T any budget for celebrations, and $MyBoss knew it. He also knew if he promised something to that many people all at once, management would have to go along with it. He literally planned that to force them to reward y'all, because he knew NOT doing so would be total bullshit."

My boss's boss rocks. I'm still ultra pissed that my team got schism'd apart and I've been effectively demoted, but the people I report to are the best.

Blue_monday posted:

There are four hospital in the GTA area that I am currently very wary a about getting correspondence to/from via fax. There is one specific 28 page fax that was sent a few months ago that as specialist didn't get. I wasn't the one that sent it originally, or the second time and they were both faxed as the full 28 pages. We have our confirms. I sent it twice more split in half via two different ways and they didn't get it. The last time I sent it they finally got it. I'm 99% sure its not an issue of someone losing the document/loving off.

evobatman posted:

Halfway through reading this I thought you were working for Michael Scott.

wolrah posted:

It's almost like fax is a terrible thing no one should be using anymore...

klosterdev posted:

Faxing and the medical field are one of those messy divorces that will only end when one of the two irretrievably dies.

Heners_UK posted:

Between this and the thread's attitude to printers, I'm concluding that we have a secret general hatred of paper.

Johnny Aztec posted:

Here now,some of my favorite books are printed on paper!

Johnny Aztec posted:

Here now,some of my favorite books are printed on paper!

klosterdev posted:

Faxing and the medical field are one of those messy divorces that will only end when one of the two irretrievably dies.

Thanatosian posted:

Really, we just need to stop exempting faxes from HIPAA.

Heners_UK posted:

Between this and the thread's attitude to printers, I'm concluding that we have a secret general hatred of paper.

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

firewall exception

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

printer

Thanks Ants posted:

quote:

Would this be easy for someone else to understand? If you quit tomorrow, would your replacement be able to look at this and make sense of it? Are you keeping up with your documentation? You know, in case something happens to you and we need to find a replacement?

larchesdanrew posted:

I just had to sit down with the director and all of administration and defend my ACTIVE DIRECTORY POLICY of not deleting user accounts, but marking them deprovisioned, disabling the account, and moving them to a separate OU (I have scripts that run based on users in that OU that disable their ability to login, access email, or sign in to wifi).

Imagine, sitting in a room with 8 people over the age of 60 who are all aggressively ignorant and trying to describe concepts such as "best practice" and "redundancy."

The director attempted to inform me that old employee accounts are taking up too much storage space.

Apparently all this came up because the principal sent an email to an Office365 group she created instead of the official faculty mail group and this is somehow my fault?

Also, the director said the following to me:


Great