Bob Morales posted:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2004/04/08/109626.aspx

Migishu posted:

I'm horribly tempted to enable "Decline meetings that conflict with others" just to piss someone else off for a change.

Alereon posted:

Not work-related, but I built a gaming computer out of oldish but still decent parts as a favor for a family friend who has a gamer son but not enough money to keep them equipped. A couple months later it stopped booting Windows with an INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error, so I assumed the HDD failed. After running diagnostics I couldn't find the problem, turns out the kid found a Tumblr saying if you went into the BIOS and set the SATA controller to IDE mode, you'd get higher framerates in League of Legends

SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:

Ugh. So now I get to figure out this:

The system we are installing at MAJOR BANK, does LDAP authentication. However, you have to setup a user on our system, and then link it to an LDAP dn, which then allows you to authenticate. Their ldap usernames are, for example mine would be IVEJON, but in our system they requested login in firstname.lastname.

Now, overnight they publish this list of user entitlement changes, so "x user is hired, he gets access to your system, y user is fired, loses access, z username changes due to marriage" or whatever. Our system needs to scoop up this data, and then use it to re-write our users table with all the changes.

This isn't a problem. What is a problem, though, is the only identifier they give us in this list is the users email address. Which is neither the login name for our system or their LDAP username. Furthermore, I need to then figure out their LDAP dn, which includes something like this:

cn=IVEJON,ou=NYC,ou=USA,ou=USERS,ou=ACCOUNTS,dc=bankdn,dc=com

The last five items aren't regular for anyone, also they have several different domains, so each user lives in one of them, but I don't know which. Nor do I know the location or region they are in.

The source of the list has no way of adding more data, because a bunch of other services scoop it up, so if they changed the CSV they generate, it could break all of them. Another problem is that sometimes they move users, so I need to be able to scrub users and change their identity in our table. I need to do this on a linux system that I don't have root on, and I also can't install software on. Then I need to somehow integrate with our java-based servlets that read/write the data.

I told them it's impossible, because I have no way of actually linking what I'm given to any sort of LDAP identity. I think they'll give me their windows login too, which is DOMAIN\IVEJON, so with that, I can get started, but without installing ldaptools on the server, I don't think I can do it.

nielsm posted:

a boot disk usually needs something more than just FORMAT A: /S on it, to be useful.

nitrogen posted:

When i was extendedly unemployed, I did a bunch of extra work fixing pc's and stuff. One of them was for a baptist minister's church.

He was NOT amused when I uninstalled his "CHRISTIAN PROXY" software that would insure that no porn would "accidentally" find its way onto pc's. he did not believe me that porn only gets on PC's if you specifically view and download it.

Apparently, there is (or was) very common malware targeted at christians, that had them convinced that "porn" would magically find its way onto your computer unless you installed their malware.

Skandranon posted:

You laugh, there are people who believe this might be possible.

Dick Trauma posted:

Bob Morales posted:

Dick Trauma posted:

Also their website is a stupid piece of poo poo that won't let me complete extending a couple of warranties.

unclenutzzy posted:

Are you swapping recipes with your outsourced help desk?

Bob Morales posted:

We can have one cup and it can't leave our desks.

I don't follow his stupid rules and run around with Starbucks cups so I get the lecture of $4 coffee.

Dick Trauma posted:

HAVE A NICE DAY YOU ASSHOLES!

Rhymenoserous posted:

Brother, I'm the one driving. The coffee is just the gas. It has no say in direction.

Lum posted:

I've taken a 5000 post break from this thread, but I need to rant today.

I was asked to come to the regional office for a meeting. Project manager forgot to tell the guy planning it that I was coming, so I got left off the email with all the details in,.

Turns out that the "meeting" was actually building 4 server racks, one each, in the warehouse and shipping them off to customers.

Not knowing this I turned up in an expensive dress and 4" heels.

I'm totally justified in adding a pair of jeans to my expense claim, right? If they moan about it, I'll instead complain about being made to work in a steel toe cap and hard hat area without proper PPE.

E: Despite having to run into town, I still finished my rack before the 3 dudes, and with neater cabling, though I feel dirty because I was made to use cableties.

Lum posted:

expensive dress and 4" heels.

Bob Morales posted:

Owner has been getting mad because people bring a treat in on their birthdays. Cupcakes, cookies, whatever.



So I started bringing in a dozen donuts and anonymously leaving them in the break room early in the morning.

Baxta posted:

You want me to design a program to do recursion all over the place? I can sort it out. Grumpily but itll be done. Linked lists for everything? Alright. Binary searches? WTF Why? But ok.

Any other decently high level programming task? I'll get it sorted.

Nice looking website? For some reason I just can't do it. I've tried a million times. Everything is functional but it looks like poo poo. I just don't have the apititude.

ConfusedUs posted:

That qualifies as "checking" in my book.

Every backup application worth two cents will email you success and/or failure for any operation performed, natively. And of course you can monitor in other ways too.

SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:

We used to have a client that wanted someone onsite for 3 hours from 7-10 to do be on the trading floor when markets opened. We had a junior admin/windows CJ assigned to it. I gave him a checklist of things to review, like making sure there was toner, checking all the file servers, reviewing error logs, checking backups, etc, just busy work. I used to sneak things in, like I'd pause the backup at 6am and see if he caught it, and he was pretty good. He was like a robot, you'd give him a task and he's accomplish it specifically and automatically.

He moved away and we hired a new guy, and he would piss and moan and complain that we had him doing all these checks, and that he could just write a script to automate them all, and he could just come in at 10. He didn't understand that the customer was willing to pay us three billable hours a day to have a warm body up there so just sit there and do it. He would go to the customer and say stuff like "you know I'm just doing nothing all morning, I can write a script to check..." he just didn't get it. Sure you can automate whatever, but they wanted a set of human eyeballs to look at everything, and would pay us $750 each morning for that. Why was he insistent on complaining his way out of the job? Eventually we just fired him.

Ynglaur posted:

Pissing me off:

• Certain legislation applies to a handful of employees, and requires training on certain topics.
  
• Don't bother identifying those employees; mandate that all employees take training.
  
• Penalty for failing to take training on time is immediate removal of network access.
  
• (Including access to the training system.)
  
• Have policy stating that 30 days notice will be given for this training.
  
• Actually give 4 days notice.
  
• (Assess no penalty for late notice to the group mandating the training.)
  
• Proceed to ask questions on quizzes that are not covered in any training material. Have employees make guesses as to the legal interpretation of certain terms.
  

I saw a cool idea a few years ago that IT security gets an annual budget. Any time they want to do something to take employee's time, that time gets charged to their budget. They can use the budget for anything IT security-related they want: software, hardware, armed guards in the data center, whatever. But taking people's time counts too.

Thanks Ants posted:

Hey guess what the resolution was. Delete the settings and put them in again, exactly the same as before except this time it worked.

Thanks Ants posted:

Every time I run into an issue that ends up bouncing around their support until it hits one of the supposed top people, the answer is always "yeah I mean technically it's got that feature but I wouldn't use it".

ConfusedUs posted:

EDIT: Oh god the person recording this has 12k items in her deleted items folder and just said she sometimes stores things there she might want to get back later. THIS IS GOING OUT TO THE WHOLE COMPANY HAHAHAHAHA

Rhymenoserous posted:

Pfft. I've never gotten any useful information from a teleconference. Throw that poo poo on mute and play angry birds, ask them to send you the documentation or for a 1 on 1 afterwards. As the number of people on a call go up the amount of time spent hearing answers to the dumbest loving questions in the world increases exponentially. At 90 callers it's basically a stupid apocalypse.