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Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
"It guy name, capitalized"suxb4lls!

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kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
How do I install Disco Elysium on my work computer without admin privileges? I'm never gonna open the loving thing again unless I can put Disco on it and my IT guy definitely has his cell-phone clipped onto his belt and would scold the bejesus out of me through his mustache if I even thought about asking to install Disco Elysium on my new work computer. AFAF

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer

kntfkr posted:

How do I install Disco Elysium on my work computer without admin privileges? I'm never gonna open the loving thing again unless I can put Disco on it and my IT guy definitely has his cell-phone clipped onto his belt and would scold the bejesus out of me through his mustache if I even thought about asking to install Disco Elysium on my new work computer. AFAF

You wouldn't believe what IT guys allow if you just wank them off

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Just bully the IT guy into submission imo. It might have been a few decades since the last time Chad from middle school gave him a swirlie but all the framework is still there!

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Big Beef City posted:

Thanks for telling us what YOU use.
lol why the hell would people use that combination? That's way less obvious than just keeping the same first seven chars and rotating the last digit

your extreme aggroposting itt leads me to believe that you are the shithead IT admin making dumb loving decisions and pushing poo poo to prod without even trying it in the test environment. can you fuckin try fixing the issue in my ticket without sending four "we've never seen this before so it can't possibly be happening to your machine" responses before finally going "oh actually we looked into it and you were right the whole time" and closing it

ncumbered_by_idgits
Sep 20, 2008

Lmao that you don’t all use 32 digit hashed security for everything in your life that requires a password. Yes, every single thing.

dirty shrimp money
Jan 8, 2001

Passwords haven't been a problem for me, I let my Bonzi Buddy take care of those

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Inside every it admin there's a useful worker like a ditch digger or a plumber aching to get out

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Colonel Cancer posted:

Inside every it admin there's a useful worker like a ditch digger or a plumber aching to get out

i've dug some ditches and i would legitimately prefer it to IT if i could make the same money. maybe not in the summer though.

what i'm saying is pay ditch diggers more

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

i'd much rather be working in a kitchen than being a computer toucher having to balance the needs of users with the demands of management with the desire to do what's best-in-practice, but the pay is poo poo and my body is breaking down on me, so you'll use special characters in your password when you change it every 90 days and i don't give a poo poo about your complaints.

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

Icochet posted:

You wouldn't believe what IT guys allow if you just wank them off

I twerk from home a dozen states away and have never met this IT guy so I can't do that sorry

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
One word: teledildonics

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

barnold posted:

your extreme aggroposting itt leads me to believe that you are the shithead IT admin making dumb loving decisions and pushing poo poo to prod without even trying it in the test environment. can you fuckin try fixing the issue in my ticket without sending four "we've never seen this before so it can't possibly be happening to your machine" responses before finally going "oh actually we looked into it and you were right the whole time" and closing it

I've worked in qa testing :q:

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Tried contacting user, no response. Closing.

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:
Not our bug. Ask upstream. Closing.

e: Working as designed; not a bug :smuggo:

barnold
Dec 16, 2011


what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

Big Beef City posted:

I've worked in qa testing :q:

oh gently caress. oh poo poo. oh fukc

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
The gently caress is “loading” lol. :downs:

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Big Beef City posted:

Tried contacting user, no response. Closing.

User, do you still require assistance with this?

User, it has been 48 hours since you replied to this ticket. If you do not reply by the end of the next business day, this ticket will be automatically resolved.

User, this is your final reminder that you have not replied to this ticket and it will be automatically resolved a the end of business today.

User, your ticket has been closed.

User: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I PUT IN A TICKET AND IT DIDN'T HELP ME I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER OF COMPUTERING!

Sushi The Kid
Sep 10, 2005
<img src="https://forumimages.somethingawful.com/images/newbie.gif" border=0>


I'll set your password to WTF ever you want cause I just don't give a gently caress anymore.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Antigravitas posted:

Not our bug. Ask upstream. Closing.

e: Working as designed; not a bug :smuggo:

*67 bounced response notices on the ticket around dev teams, literally around the planet*

Can you confirm that the user is still experiencing the problem?

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

*managers taps you on the shoulder*
"Hey, have you seen that ticket that just came in about that issue? Can you confirm that the user is still experiencing that problem from like a month ago?"

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Sure I can install those printers, too. Now, about that problem on the ticket...

General slowness, huh? Hmm. Well, lemme check.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

No, it's fine.

No one else needs anything and there's no reason things slow down in IT, why? What else can I do for you?

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Go ahead, Big Beef City, let it all out.

grillster
Dec 25, 2004

:chaostrump:
I hear if you yell Aloha into a canyon, you'll hear Hello echo back.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

bbc is getting angry!

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

look, i can work on fixing the problem, or i can give you updates about me not being able to try to fix the problem because you want by the minute updates on the problem from me

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

My manager say he's working on the ticket but I don't see nothing, so my manager contacted his manager and now his manager contacted him and I still ain't seen anything and now my computer is slow

Catastrophe
Oct 5, 2007

Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright
Most IT employees have about as much control over company password policies as you have over guidelines regarding endangered wildlife.

And hate when the ignorant blame them personally for their own idiocy.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Big Beef City posted:

My manager say he's working on the ticket but I don't see nothing, so my manager contacted his manager and now his manager contacted him and I still ain't seen anything and now my computer is slow

Problem: User cannot enter form data correctly.

DeadFatDuckFat
Oct 29, 2012

This avatar brought to you by the 'save our dead gay forums' foundation.


WE GOT HIM.

- Mitch

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Big Beef City posted:

Thanks for telling us what YOU use.
lol why the hell would people use that combination? That's way less obvious than just keeping the same first seven chars and rotating the last digit

Right? I'm WAY smarter and use the SEASON, not the month. :smug:

No lie, I do that for one of my work accounts. It's typically [Season][year][CompanyNameAbbreviation][random punctuation]

When it's due for a password change, which used to be every 3 months but is now every 6*, I only have to change the season and sometimes year, then often I do the punctuation too.

*Boomer mangers all complained that 3 months was too often, so it was lowered to 6 but the PW length was increased from 8 to 12, and complexity increased from "Has to be at least 2 from the list of: Uppercase, lowercase, number, punctuation" to at least 3 from that list.


We've got 2-factor, too, so even if someone gets my username (which aren't based off of your actual name or email here, more like WO12345) it's still going to be tough to log in (it's a text message code, not just "Click approve" and I don't allow texts to be read on my lockscreen.)

But not everyone is that secure, plenty of people here just get the authenticator app that allows approval on the lockscreen.


That being said, SOME sort of system you can remember is good. But too many people out there just go from like:
Ruffles1234!
To
Pringles7890.

And then can never remember what they changed it to, have it reset AGAIN and write it on the ol' post it hidden under the keyboard.

If they went to:
Ruffles1234@ then in six months, Ruffles1234#, etc... you can basically loop around all the allowed punctuation and then go back to Ruffles1234! and by then it will be allowed again.


AND ANOTHER THING, I am sick to DEATH (especially in these COVID work from home times) of having to remind all you idiots that if you get a password change notification on your laptop, you HAVE TO BE ON THE VPN BEFORE YOU CHANGE IT. Otherwise all you're doing is changing the local cached PW on the laptop, not your domain PW, and now they're out of sync, SSO won't work for poo poo, and you're going to get pissy and put in a ticket and act like it's IT's fault somehow.

DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Sep 9, 2020

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

one time, i, a computer toucher, had my monitor shut off on me while i was working and it wouldn't turn back on. it was plugged into the wall, it was plugged into the back of the monitor, the hdmi was plugged in securely at both ends, i rebooted my computer, i unplugged and re-plugged everything from walls and devices and rebooted again and finally put in a ticket and my buddy in internal came over and plugged the brick back into the cord plugged into a wall and we both laughed about it and i owed him a jack and coke at lunch

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

DrBouvenstein posted:

Right? I'm WAY smarter and use the SEASON, not the month. :smug:

No lie, I do that for one of my work accounts. It's typically [Season][year][CompanyNameAbbreviation][random punctuation]

When it's due for a password change, which used to be every 3 months but is now every 6*, I only have to change the season and sometimes year, then often I do the punctuation too.

*Boomer mangers all complained that 3 months was too often, so it was lowered to 6 but the PW length was increased from 8 to 12, and complexity increased from "Has to be at least 2 from the list of: Uppercase, lowercase, number, punctuation" to at least 3 from that list.


We've got 2-factor, too, so even if someone gets my username (which aren't based off of your actual name or email here, more like WO12345) it's still going to be tough to log in (it's a text message code, not just "Click approve" and I don't allow texts to be read on my lockscreen.)

But not everyone is that secure, plenty of people here just get the authenticator app that allows approval on the lockscreen.


That being said, SOME sort of system you can remember is good. But too many people out there just go from like:
Ruffles1234!
To
Pringles7890.

And then can never remember what they changed it to, have it reset AGAIN and write it on the ol' post it hidden under the keyboard.

If they went to:
Ruffles1234@ then in six months, Ruffles1234#, etc... you can basically loop around all the allowed punctuation and then go back to Ruffles1234! and by then it will be allowed again.


AND ANOTHER THING, I am sick to DEATH (especially in these COVID work from home times) of having to remind all you idiots that if you get a password change notification on your laptop, you HAVE TO BE ON THE VPN BEFORE YOU CHANGE IT. Otherwise all you're doing is changing the local cached PW on the laptop, not your domain PW, and now they're out of sync, SSO won't work for poo poo, and you're going to get pissy and put in a ticket and act like it's IT's fault somehow.

ok

Antigravitas
Dec 8, 2019

Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

DeadFatDuckFat posted:

WE GOT HIM.

- Mitch

:allears:

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
computer janitoring is such an intense job that it requires three whole separate threads in sh/sc

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

computer janitoring is such an intense job that it requires three whole separate threads in sh/sc



i feel like it's unfair to criticize the forum for jerking off computers for having multiple threads about jerking off computers professionally

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

one of the problems of working with computers is that somewhere along the way you will have to end up working with people about their computers and most of us work with computers because we want to work with computers, not with people, but that is an increasingly vanishing market space because we're a service based economy in the US.

El Chupacabras
Oct 12, 2002

Big Beef City posted:

Thanks for telling us what YOU use.
lol why the hell would people use that combination? That's way less obvious than just keeping the same first seven chars and rotating the last digit

Beats me, I’m part of the currentmonth+fixedrandomyear crew. I guess people worry the may forget the digit they are changing.

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
"I need admin rights to install this lovely program that totally isn't a virus"

Narrator: It was a virus

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