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SlowBloke
Aug 14, 2017
Oh gently caress, another dead site to separate the computer touchers age brackets. Anandtech shut down today, it was in zombie mode since Anand left but i used to consider it as gospel for their reviews when he was there.

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pointlessone
Aug 6, 2001

The Triad Frog is pleased with this custom title purchase.

Dandywalken posted:

It was in reply to a template "Your login is ready, it may take 2 hours to activate" too! So weird

"I'm going to go ahead and just deactivate that now, HR will be over soon."

What the actual gently caress.

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




Dandywalken posted:

It was in reply to a template "Your login is ready, it may take 2 hours to activate" too! So weird

What the hell? Is there a definition of "kys" that I'm not aware of? Cause the one I know is definitely not something to be sent as a reply to that.

Old person unironically telling you to stay safe? What the gently caress?

wizard2
Apr 4, 2022

Dandywalken posted:

Got a "kys" reply working helpdesk today. Wasnt easy to not reply "lol"

Dandywalken posted:

It was in reply to a template "Your login is ready, it may take 2 hours to activate" too! So weird
It would have been really funny... Im so loving sorry that happened to you.:911:

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Turns out it's just some confused old person who was trolled into thinking "kys" is how the kids abbreviate "ok thank you"

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



In Danish written like that, it would actually mean "kiss". As in, that expression of love you do with your lips. But in all my time working helpdesk I've never seen anyone respond like that.

wizard2
Apr 4, 2022

nielsm posted:

In Danish written like that, it would actually mean "kiss". As in, that expression of love you do with your lips. But in all my time working helpdesk I've never seen anyone respond like that.

but what if you did a really good job of reseting the router?

GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

We had something like that the other day. Random folks could no longer resolve our VPN address. Rebooting their router fixed it. A dozen folks from all over the country so far.

BlankSystemDaemon
Mar 13, 2009





nielsm posted:

In Danish written like that, it would actually mean "kiss". As in, that expression of love you do with your lips. But in all my time working helpdesk I've never seen anyone respond like that.
I’m pretty sure it’d qualify as inappropriate either way.

BaseballPCHiker
Jan 16, 2006

God I'm old. I had to look up what kys meant.

I had fun this week doing a bunch of cloudformation work. I know it might be sacrilege but..... I think I like it better than terraform! Mind you I only work with AWS and never need to do any mutli cloud poo poo.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I would probably give the person a chance to explain what they think kys means, it's a difficult one to deal with because if they meant it then that should be a dismissal. There does seem to be an effort for people to shitpost that it means "keep yourself safe" so it's possible they just fell for that.

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

New ticket! "my jon not workin"

First of May
May 1, 2017
🎵 Bring your favorite lady, or at least your favorite lay! 🎵


Dandywalken posted:

New ticket! "my jon not workin"

Troubleshooting: checked logs.

Resolution: user advised to upgrade to fiber connection.

Methylethylaldehyde
Oct 23, 2004

BAKA BAKA

Dandywalken posted:

New ticket! "my jon not workin"

Discovered log overflow, cautioned user to flush logs on regular schedule to prevent log storage issues.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
One of the VIPs complained that he could successfully send a large email attachment to one of the other VIPs but not one of the analysts who was on the same email, and he wanted that fixed. I took a look at the M365 settings and found that the default maximum attachment size for new accounts was 30 megs, but that some of the employees who had been here for a long time were set for 50 megs. So I set them all to 30 megs as well. Problem fixed!

JPrime
Jul 4, 2007

tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales!
College Slice

Dick Trauma posted:

One of the VIPs complained that he could send a large email attachment to one of the other VIPs but not one of the analysts and he wanted that fixed. I took a look at the M365 settings and found that the default maximum attachment size for new accounts was 30 megs, but that some of the more employees who had been here for a long time were set for 50 megs. So I set them all to 30 megs as well. Problem fixed!

malicious compliance best compliance.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


:hmmyes:

AlexDeGruven
Jun 29, 2007

Watch me pull my dongle out of this tiny box


When they put a 1y retention on all email I stopped using the delete button. Since they're going to delete it for me and gently caress up my search, why should I expend the effort?

I manually save info I need and now email is ephemeral for me. Probably use a lot more storage than if I managed it because I get a lot of attachments, but oh well.

Not my pig, not my farm.

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


tbf relatively short retention with archives is the objectively correct policy

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Delete messages that look like they're bad news before reading them

devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
We (IT) have been fighting for a retention/purge policy for yeeears and there is no appetite for it, even with legal.

Won’t happen until a lawsuit bites us in the rear end.

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952




We're a Google Apps shop. Our email retention policy is 90 days unless you apply a label to it, in which case it's 3 years. Or if you use our Save As record function to drop a PDF on a Shared Drive, which gets you 10 years.

At the start of every month, I slap a label on everything I don't need as a reminder in my inbox. Most months this lets me start off with single-digit emails, and as a bonus I have three years' worth of saved email for CYA and documentation purposes.

SlowBloke
Aug 14, 2017

devmd01 posted:

We (IT) have been fighting for a retention/purge policy for yeeears and there is no appetite for it, even with legal.

Won’t happen until a lawsuit bites us in the rear end.

Lot of corpos had incredibly tiny mailbox when they had it hosted onsite and jumping to 50+ gigs means they don't feel the need to cleanup, ever. We moved from 2gbs mailboxes to 50+50gbs for instance.

Wibla
Feb 16, 2011

Hypothetically, the mailbox export from my $shitjob email account hit quite a few GB across nearly 10 years...

SyNack Sassimov
May 4, 2006

Let the robot win.
            --Captain James T. Vader


A ticket came in from a new employee.

"Id like to have my password reset please, and i think self service should be enabled for our organization"

A) we've set up passwordless authentication for this client (so SSPR is completely irrelevant) and B) all of this is carefully documented with clear instructions for setup in the standard onboarding documentation this person was sent.

What is this employee's title, you ask? Why, senior security engineer, naturally.


(edit: also, maybe it's just because I'm a grammar persnicketer but no apostrophe in "I'd", uncapitalized "I", and no period at the end totals three typos in one sentence, from someone who should be caring about the details and no, it does not appear English is their second language.)

SyNack Sassimov fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Sep 4, 2024

Arquinsiel
Jun 1, 2006

"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady
It's depressing to struggle for a job and hear that so many places hire the most stunningly unqualified security people. Like sucks for you, but also implies that my problem is appearing competent enough to make people's lives inconvenient or something.

my cat is norris
Mar 11, 2010

#onecallcat

SyNack Sassimov posted:

A ticket came in from a new employee.

"Id like to have my password reset please, and i think self service should be enabled for our organization"

A) we've set up passwordless authentication for this client (so SSPR is completely irrelevant) and B) all of this is carefully documented with clear instructions for setup in the standard onboarding documentation this person was sent.

What is this employee's title, you ask? Why, senior security engineer, naturally.


(edit: also, maybe it's just because I'm a grammar persnicketer but no apostrophe in "I'd", uncapitalized "I", and no period at the end totals three typos in one sentence, from someone who should be caring about the details and no, it does not appear English is their second language.)

my coworker has terrible grammar and sends communications of this quality to our clients and it drives me up the wall

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

Week 3 of helpdesk: My metric stat padding has been exposed............... I will no longer be saying goodbye and wishing users well

SyNack Sassimov
May 4, 2006

Let the robot win.
            --Captain James T. Vader


my cat is norris posted:

my coworker has terrible grammar and sends communications of this quality to our clients and it drives me up the wall

:whitewater:

Personal Lucubrant
Oct 18, 2016

Just thinking about what to do with all the money I don't have.

Dandywalken posted:

Week 3 of helpdesk: My metric stat padding has been exposed............... I will no longer be saying goodbye and wishing users well

How dare you show common courtesy in a customer facing helpdesk role. The audacity! Is this not the "Jaded Helpdesk Megathread for Cynical Buttholes"? Get those platitudes the hell outta here!

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001



You may be surprised to know the problem was not, in fact, with her cell phone.

You will not be surprised to know the body of the ticket was also typed in all-caps.

Agrikk
Oct 17, 2003

Take care with that! We have not fully ascertained its function, and the ticking is accelerating.

First of May posted:

Troubleshooting: checked logs.

Resolution: user advised to upgrade to fiber connection.
:laffo::laffo:

kensei
Dec 27, 2007

He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!


Knormal posted:



You may be surprised to know the problem was not, in fact, with her cell phone.

You will not be surprised to know the body of the ticket was also typed in all-caps.

So what was it

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




A walk-up came in

"Do we have a way to burn files to a CD?"

nielsm
Jun 1, 2009



Always keep a USB DVD drive on hand.

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013




nielsm posted:

Always keep a USB DVD drive on hand.

We do, it was just funny that this was the first thing I hear from a user within 10 minutes of starting my first day after two weeks off

devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
The only use my usb dvd-rw has gotten over the last several years is to rip dvds borrowed from the library.

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

Just had a user who didnt know what a postal or residential address was.

She kept telling me the zip code even though I narrowed the question down to "the place that you live"

Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

kensei posted:

So what was it
I didn't work the ticket, but based on the notes, the user forgot their login for some web app they were trying to log into on their CELL PHONE.

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Knormal
Nov 11, 2001

Also, our KMS went down over the weekend and after the earlier discussion in this thread I keep reading as the Kill MySelf server in all the threads about it.

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