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Dillbag posted:I am in no way calling you out or suggesting anything, but I have seen things like this happen to "the stinky guy". I at least know this isn't me so no worries! I once worked in a gaming shop and had to deal with the cat piss guy, was terrible and a constant reminder that I should smell nice. Sickening posted:They were wanting to talk about you right away. Again, none of these would make sense. I now work at a company that serves pretty high end clients (AKA, very rich and judgemental) and i'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been hired if I didn't present myself properly. I just don't think I got along with them, we were pretty different politically and we didn't really agree on film taste (for example, rogue one was better than the force awakens, they didn't agree). Fakeedit: Saw the post that you were joking about the boogers thing. Didn't know if you were at first. Ghostlight posted:I'm interested in how you reach this dismissive and unhelpful conclusion. They weren't socially awkward nerds who never talked to eachother at all. I want to get this straight, 90% of them were completely likeable people, with the other 10% being people who I shared absolutely nothing in common with, but I also never interacted with them so maybe I was wrong. If anything, my girlfriend looked at them and said "dude, you work with mega nerds" but the mega nerds were still cool dudes who both didn't smell/weren't assholes. I just don't think I got along with them like the last dude who worked there and they decided that based on that and that my scripting wasn't particularly up to scratch, I wouldn't be working there any longer. Don't get me wrong, I was doing a mix of support and other tasks and stayed well within my deadlines, but if you don't like the people you're working with and they're on probation, it doesn't surprise me that they'd try again. You're working with that person for 8 hours a day and everyone in that office went home and continued interacting with eachother via games. Like I said, sucks for me, but I landed on my feet, they gave me some time to find another job and I found one before they stopped paying me. It truly sucks because I liked the place, but i understand. Hopefully the next guy they hire is what they want.
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Methanar posted:Buy a used Fortigate 100d and FortiGuard license for like, 2000 dollars altogether on ebay and use that. The 100d/e should easily handle the traffic load from your campus. Let Fortinet do the heavy lifting of categorization. It's been a while since I've used one, but I'm pretty sure if you use FortiGuard, you get multiple updates a day. Based on the angry "why is this porn site blocked I thought this was America!" emails the firewall team has shared, it does a pretty good job at blocking specific categories of sites.
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Today in "Why you should check your software patches on a test domain before rollout": our software deployment team rolled out a Malware Bytes update (ie: just let it pull from the update server from the actual company) and it completely hosed DNS on all the machines on our network. So we helpdesk grunts are seeing call hold times of 10+ minutes while we manually remote into each device and remove the software, and hope SCCM doesn't reinstall it tonight. at least we're getting catered lunch? I hope it's not pizza
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I see A/V vendors are following the Microsoft way.. Let customers be your testers.
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stevewm posted:I see A/V vendors are following the Microsoft way.. Let customers be your testers. They pay you, instead of you paying them = genius.
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RedMagus posted:Today in "Why you should check your software patches on a test domain before rollout": ...how the hell did that even happen? More to the point, SCCM will absolutely reinstall it, depending on how the update was rolled out. But unless the deployment has been removed from the device collection, it's just going to keep reinstalling on every machine.
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RedMagus posted:Today in "Why you should check your software patches on a test domain before rollout": Wait... didn't this happen before back in 2014 or something?
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Malek posted:Wait... didn't this happen before back in 2014 or something? What was old is new again
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RedMagus posted:Today in "Why you should check your software patches on a test domain before rollout": So that's what happened to a clients SQL server we access and suddenly could not access. After politely informing them server platforms shouldn't really need malware bytes at all their IT replied with "we need it for security."
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Malek posted:Wait... didn't this happen before back in 2014 or something? I think it was longer ago than that, but worse. McAfee flagged svchost.exe as malicious on an update and a fuckton of places auto-updated in the middle of the day and royally shat the bed.
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AlexDeGruven posted:I think it was longer ago than that, but worse. McAfee flagged svchost.exe as malicious on an update and a fuckton of places auto-updated in the middle of the day and royally shat the bed. This happened to us. Was all hands on deck with us and all our consultants to fix this gently caress up. We went straight to Sophos after that.
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GreenNight posted:This happened to us. Was all hands on deck with us and all our consultants to fix this gently caress up. We went straight to Sophos after that. We had operating room computers bootlooping in the middle of the day. Forefront rollout began within days.
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AlexDeGruven posted:I think it was longer ago than that, but worse. McAfee flagged svchost.exe as malicious on an update and a fuckton of places auto-updated in the middle of the day and royally shat the bed. No this was Malware Bytes and they pulled the update within about an hour of putting it out. It was kinda "Wow" but they had a great response. It was 2013 actually according to my emails... so... OH here it is https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2013/04/yesterdays-database-update-issue/
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RedMagus posted:Today in "Why you should check your software patches on a test domain before rollout": We ran afoul of this issue over the weekend. All our internal network services are hosted within the blocked range of addresses, so that was great.
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Client put a request in a month ago to load balance their Exchange 2013 servers on a Netscaler, and get a process down for adding Exchange 2016 servers when they're built. I go guide hunting and co-worker poking, find out all 9 of the web services (along with the SMTP and IMAP ports) that need to be load balanced, prep a document with every step I'd need to take (over 100 lines of commands to paste in to the cli), and get ready to do it all today.Client posted:Oh we just need SMTP load balanced, we've got a hybrid setup with O365 Did it all in like 11 commands...
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Malek posted:No this was Malware Bytes and they pulled the update within about an hour of putting it out. It was kinda "Wow" but they had a great response. Ahh, the McAfee thing was even longer back, then. Edit: April 2010. AlexDeGruven fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Jan 30, 2018 |
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I understand all but that last one. Last one just looks like finger smudges getting caught in the light.
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The last one is infuriating! Monitor != touchscreen !!!!!
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RFC2324 posted:I understand all but that last one. Last one just looks like finger smudges getting caught in the light. people poking at an iMac screen thinking it's a touchscreen + no cleaning.
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Oh, i expected something gross like moldy frog or mummified lizard, not just dumb.
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I was thinking it looked vaguely like a bird strike, but on closer inspection it's just smudges.
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It's probably just children. My toddler thinks everything that looks like a play icon ( ▶) means he can tap it and start a movie. Tablet, phone, TV, newspaper, magazines... tap tap tap tap
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Merijn posted:It's probably just children. My toddler thinks everything that looks like a play icon ( ▶) means he can tap it and start a movie. Tablet, phone, TV, newspaper, magazines... tap tap tap tap I'm in an ongoing debate with my six year old over her opinion that ▌▌ means play, because that's what the button changes to while things are playing. No amount of evidence has yet convinced her.
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Nth Doctor posted:I'm in an ongoing debate with my six year old over her opinion that ▌▌ means play, because that's what the button changes to while things are playing. No amount of evidence has yet convinced her. Get her a cassette tape deck, with mechanical buttons not electronic controls.
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We had a GD here that sneeze and say and spray all over her screen, her iMac looked ten times worse than that. Never cleaned the drat thing either.
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Bob Morales posted:We had a GD here that sneeze and say and spray all over her screen, her iMac looked ten times worse than that. Never cleaned the drat thing either. 
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A ticket came in "Customer states *company* hotspot is causing health issues with her body. Customer requests callback" Well that one's getting added to the recordbooks. I feel bad for whoever has to call them back.
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Renegret posted:"Customer states *company* hotspot is causing health issues with her body. Customer requests callback"
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Renegret posted:A ticket came in We put a cell phone extender in 2 offices that we have because we're in a poo poo cell phone reception area.  Nobody wants to sit by the 'cancer box'. So they'll unplug it and think we won't know.
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Renegret posted:A ticket came in When I worked in local government I went to a public meeting to act as the technical details nerd for questions about a p2p microwave network project to extend broadband coverage to remote county locations. We spent two hours or so explaining how these were not govt mind control ray emitters and how they do not cause headaches or cancer in people living 50 miles from a highly directional transceiver on a mountain. Wireless crazies own.
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Nuclearmonkee posted:When I worked in local government I went to a public meeting to act as the technical details nerd for questions about a p2p microwave network project to extend broadband coverage to remote county locations. You'll know if you're in the affected area of a microwave antenna by the drink in your hand starting to boil on its own. That and the bigass dish antenna in your immediate vicinity.
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Renegret posted:A ticket came in Ugh, brings back memories... We had a now former employee that claimed the CCTV camera hanging from the ceiling several tens of feet from her area was giving her headaches due to its "negative energy magnetic field". The thing is, this camera wasn't even live anymore, hadn't been for years, and never was during her employment there. We had upgraded our CCTV system several years prior. Instead of ripping the old cameras down, the wire going to them was cut off and we left them in place. We did this to make it appear that we had more cameras than we actually did. (retail store). There where many other cameras close by that where actually active, but she claimed it was only that one she "felt"; the one that wasn't actually working. Upon being told this she still claimed she could feel the "negative energy". She was a bit of a strange one. Talked about healing crystals, oregone, etc.. the whole nine yards of crazy. Her crystals certainly didn't help her keep the job.
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Bob Morales posted:Nobody wants to sit by the 'cancer box'. So they'll unplug it and think we won't know.
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https://clientsfromhell.net/post/170186662589/a-client-sent-me-one-excel-document-with-five Saw this and thought of you, thread. quote:A client sent me one excel document with five sheets.
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Turtles alllllllll the way down. Had a recent repeat of the ol' "What do you mean I can't attach a DVD/2GB video file to an email? Next thing you'll tell me is that we can't stream this video to our users over the LMS server!" Actually, that was indeed the very next thing I was about to tell you. The Macaroni fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jan 30, 2018 |
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Bob Morales posted:Nobody wants to sit by the 'cancer box'. So they'll unplug it and think we won't know. I think the correct response is to contact the office as soon as monitoring shows it going offline. "Our monitoring shows that the cell antenna is failing. We just wanted to inform you before it becomes business critical, so you can plan around it."
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Renegret posted:A ticket came in I bet the number the customer gave was a cell phone.
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spog posted:I bet the number the customer gave was a cell phone. My mother recently forwarded some article to everybody in the family about how you shouldn't keep your cell phone in a pocket because or radiation etc. I pointed out that I didn't really want to carry around a lead-lined container for my phone, especially since my parents get mad when I don't answer their calls. The article also implied that the radiation from the cell towers get "shot at" your phone when you use it as if there are a jillion little monodirectional antennae pointing at people when they use their phones. All of this also ignores that I live in New York City, so even if I threw my phone into the river I'm surrounded by them and probably breathing more dangerous poo poo in 24/7.
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GreenNight posted:This happened to us. Was all hands on deck with us and all our consultants to fix this gently caress up. We went straight to Sophos after that. And then https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/20/sophos_auto_immune_update_chaos/ happened to you?  I started work at Sophos literally just after that happened. Made for an..interesting atmosphere (though fortunately it wasn't my or my team's problem).
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