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Thanks everyone. This makes me a lot less anxious about this, one less thing to lose sleep over. greatapoc posted:I use Guacamole for this. Integrates with Active Directory for logging into the web portal and then connects them straight to their desktop through RDP inside a web browser. https://guacamole.apache.org/ This is pretty cool.
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greatapoc posted:I use Guacamole for this. Integrates with Active Directory for logging into the web portal and then connects them straight to their desktop through RDP inside a web browser. https://guacamole.apache.org/ This is quite slick and one more of those times when I'm like "yeah, the $10 I spent 14 years ago to join this forum was one of the best investments I've ever made". I probably don't even have a use for it right now, but at least I know what to suggest when someone asks. Thanks for the recommendation! fake edit: just thought of a perfect use, oh man, exactly suited to fix something a customer's been annoying us with for months
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If anyone has any concerns or doubts about Guacamole, it's the same product that Microsoft uses as the web interface for Windows Virtual Desktop. It's good, but there are some limitations. For our purposes, certain information wasn't passed through properly. A local client WOULD pas the critical details through. That meant rejiggering some back-end stuff to place nice.
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At my last place we were going to move all remote people on guacamole. Create a couple VMs for their day to day on a server. The issue was getting people to understand how to use it and security issues.
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One weird trick to make me not apply to your job posting: say that previous hires didn't work out because they weren't available 24/7/365.
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The era of work from home is over as of next week at work. No real reasons were given, just orders to managers that people should be back on the 29th. According to the boss, even though people worked well and there were no serious problems, there is no policy in place to account for people at home. Now, you'd think the 3 months that people have been locked down would be a good time to write the policy, but here we are. Even more mystifying is that there has been no company wide directive, so people who work in states with massively rising infections are presumably treated like people in saner states.
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CitizenKain posted:The era of work from home is over as of next week at work. No real reasons were given, just orders to managers that people should be back on the 29th. I'm in a place that has handled the rona better than almost everywhere in the world (yes except for NZ), yet we got told the other day to expect to WFH the next year :|
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CitizenKain posted:The era of work from home is over as of next week at work. No real reasons were given, just orders to managers that people should be back on the 29th. There is no place in the United States where it is safe to go back into the office. Period. I'm in Pennsylvania, one of the 3 states that has had declining infections, and it's still not safe to go back into an office and sit with other people, breathing the same air. It's not going to be safe until there's a widely distributed, effective vaccine. That's just the plain unvarnished truth. Honestly, if I were in your situation I would be lawyering up at this point because compelling people to report back into the office when work can and has been performed to requirements remotely is gross negligence and it is going to get someone killed (even if it isn't someone that works for the company.)
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CLAM DOWN posted:I'm in a place that has handled the rona better than almost everywhere in the world (yes except for NZ), yet we got told the other day to expect to WFH the next year :| Place handling it well continues to handle it well. Checks out.
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CitizenKain posted:The era of work from home is over as of next week at work. No real reasons were given, just orders to managers that people should be back on the 29th. I've been told that theres no reason for me to come back to the office again. If I want to wfh permanently, I can. We arent opening our offices again any time soon. Maybe late this year/early next year. This is going to save me about £350 a month and 3 hours a day in commuting costs and I get to spend more time with my son.
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My company ate our own dog food to send a survey to everyone asking if we were happy working from home, and if we'd like to go back to the office or not. So in september they want to start a staggered approach where everyone that said they want to move ASAP to the office can go, those who said they want to work from home will be able to. Seems like a good compromise.
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Our client from England is starting up work again and I'm expected to travel in about 3-4 weeks, really not keen on this (don't have to travel to England, but to the east coast) especially since my wife has an auto immune disorder and athsma. Honestly, if I could afford it I would just quit if they force me to go on this trip.
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I'm in a country that wasn't proactive enough and had to go into lockdown but managed to slow down the epidemic (for now). My workplace has had us working from home during the lockdown but we've been back in the office since the beginning of the month with a setup where half of the staff is present on alternating days, to respect social distancing rules. Having to ride the crammed subway to work was not a good excuse to keep working for home 100%. I still got permission to do it for health reasons. We're supposed to all go back in the office in September.
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Work's Phase II starts July 6th. That'll bring in another few hundred researchers and lab techs, plus some Manufacturing and QC people. We'll be at 15% normal population. I'm onsite a day or two a week to help cover tickets and sometimes I really do need to touch a specific computer. Intra-campus shuttles are on-call only. Commuter buses require reservations. The cafeteria is handing out entrees, beverages, and bags of condiments, desert, and plasticware as fast you can walk past the stations. People in the labs are coming in, starting experiments, and leaving. I'd say that's an acceptable level of risk, especially since we're making tests, palliative drugs, and working on a vaccine.
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mllaneza posted:Work's Phase II starts July 6th. That'll bring in another few hundred researchers and lab techs, plus some Manufacturing and QC people. We'll be at 15% normal population. I'm onsite a day or two a week to help cover tickets and sometimes I really do need to touch a specific computer. Intra-campus shuttles are on-call only. Commuter buses require reservations. The cafeteria is handing out entrees, beverages, and bags of condiments, desert, and plasticware as fast you can walk past the stations. People in the labs are coming in, starting experiments, and leaving. Seems very reasonable to me!
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MF_James posted:Our client from England is starting up work again and I'm expected to travel in about 3-4 weeks, really not keen on this (don't have to travel to England, but to the east coast) especially since my wife has an auto immune disorder and athsma. Will they cover your 2 week quarantine bill (hotel room or whatever) when you get back from that trip?
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mllaneza posted:Work's Phase II starts July 6th. That'll bring in another few hundred researchers and lab techs, plus some Manufacturing and QC people. We'll be at 15% normal population. I'm onsite a day or two a week to help cover tickets and sometimes I really do need to touch a specific computer. Intra-campus shuttles are on-call only. Commuter buses require reservations. The cafeteria is handing out entrees, beverages, and bags of condiments, desert, and plasticware as fast you can walk past the stations. People in the labs are coming in, starting experiments, and leaving. Our current situation (pre-any sort of "work that can only be completed on-site" return) is one person per elevator, masks 100% of the time, strict social distancing in shared lab space, and if social distancing isn't possible then we have to don hazmat-style suits. Cafeteria closed indefinitely, I forget what they said about the campus shuttles but you definitely have to call for them now. No new non-covid experiments but that's been the policy since like March anyways. We're not allowed to go on site to touch machines if it isn't both coronavirus-related and critical. Sheep fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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bull3964 posted:There is no place in the United States where it is safe to go back into the office. Period. I'm in Pennsylvania, one of the 3 states that has had declining infections, and it's still not safe to go back into an office and sit with other people, breathing the same air. It's not going to be safe until there's a widely distributed, effective vaccine. That's just the plain unvarnished truth. You must not live in the US. In order to sue your employer you must prove you got sick at work. The company will take the necessary measures to protect themselves from lawsuits. 6 feet distance for desks mandatory mask policy (company can’t control if people actually wear them).The company is following OSHA and CDC guidelines, you can’t sue them for being unsafe.
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This thread has been one of the biggest boons of my career. If this Lowtax stuff shakes out in a bad way it's gonna be a real shame to lose this community.
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George H.W. oval office posted:This thread has been one of the biggest boons of my career. If this Lowtax stuff shakes out in a bad way it's gonna be a real shame to lose this community. Wait what happened?
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CyberPingu posted:I've been told that theres no reason for me to come back to the office again. If I want to wfh permanently, I can. This is where my (US based) company is, too. No plans to reopen anytime soon, and when they do, it sounds like it will be very optional to actually come in on a regular basis. I'm honestly kind of stunned by it because previously they were pretty hard core about butts in seats in the offices. I'm sure my illusions will be shattered eventually but it seems like senior leadership may have actually taken some of the right lessons from all of this poo poo. Turns out a bunch of people building software don't REALLY all have to be collocated at all times to do their jobs successfully. Froshty posted:Wait what happened? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3928980
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GreenNight posted:IRC or bust. Feel free to also visit us in #she-it on synirc, we are the remnants of the late #bofh just minus a couple rear end in a top hat misogynists. It is a chill place that won't ban you for mentioning that you're a goon.
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https://join.slack.com/t/somethingawfulitgoons/shared_invite/zt-8xixxar7-4_miJVqB6K7NZ_fe9G~rgw here's the IT goons slack
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I joined, I only really lurk or beg for help when building a new gaming PC but reading this thread absolutely keeps me sane about my work. Eg: you are the only people that care about conferencecall.biz, which is art
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I'm just discovering all this poo poo after waking up this morning and I want to go back to bed now. Everyone join the slack linked above, and let's try to keep this thread on topic for now please.
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I basically never post here but I love this and the other IT threads. I'm too much of an old man for slack/discord stuff though. You drat whippersnappers.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I'm just discovering all this poo poo after waking up this morning and I want to go back to bed now. Pretty much.
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So someone told me if you put images in that folder you can use them as your own custom fake background on teams. It probably says something about the way my mind works, but the first thing I did was step away from my desk, take a picture of my wall and use that as my fake back ground It worked surprisingly well and I look forward to the opportunity to pretend I'm in the office
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angry armadillo posted:So someone told me if you put images in that folder you can use them as your own custom fake background on teams. Zoom can do this as well. I do actually have a picture of at the office, though it's our lobby logo wall. ...brb, turning around and taking a picture of the cubes behind me, since I happen to be in the office today for hands-on stuff. I tend to use the Engineering section of the Enterprise (NCC-1701D) or outer space or something for my background. Zoom can even use video loops.
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quote of a quote posted:A while ago, some presumed goon wrote a thread scraper for SA. It was a chrome extension supposed to turn an entire SA thread into a single HTML file so the browser user could save it to their HD. It wasn't working so 'Mojo asked me to see if it could fix it. Somebody please post the torrent for the SA_FoRuMs_complete.tar.gz I wonder what the total size would be. E: A data point! SneezeOfTheDecade posted:Okay! If you are interested in archive links, in case the site goes down, here you go! These are pure HTML, and don't include any images - they're linked but not downloaded - but it's still nearly half a gigabyte in total: BallerBallerDillz fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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