[SPAM] FW: RE: The logs could do with a courtesy flush

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Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

lament.cfg posted:

Polite, problem statement up front, previous attempts to resolve described. This is a perfect ticket for a low skill user.

They even used a ticket and didn't email out IT director!

Glorious

:unsmith:

# ? Dec 15, 2021 01:28

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# ? May 30, 2024 08:22

Mr. Fix It: Oct 26, 2000; 💀ayyy💀

larchesdanrew posted:

Can you imagine being able to place a curse on users

can dumb childish pranks count as curses? i had a colleague that kept using the chattr command to keep our configuration management system from overwriting things he modified locally. seeing as this is :wrong:

, i wrote a wrapper script that was something like this, and copied it to /usr/local/bin/chattr:

code:

#!/bin/bash
if [ -n "$SUDO_USER" ]; then
     user=$SUDO_USER
else
        user=$USER
fi
rand=$((RANDOM % 20))
if [ "$rand" -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "gently caress You, $user"
else
        /usr/bin/chattr "$@"
fi

i think a few weeks later he was freaking out thinking we had some sort of intrusion and i took responsibility and cleaned it up. we still work together and one of his most recent freakouts was when another team rolled out some sort of azure active directory auth thing and he was aghast that he had to submit his credentials to an external microsoft site.

# ? Dec 15, 2021 03:40

sixth and maimed: Mar 20, 2012; Fun Shoe

Bob Morales posted:

We just launched a brand-new website for our company and I received a mail from the internal project team that the site didn't work in Internet Explorer (it gave a message the site wouldn't work, apparently) and if I could fix this.

I explained them the only reason we still have IE is for compatibility with some systems that don't work with anything else, to use Chrome and that if it had to run on IE, they should have included that in their requirements to their supplier (who would have told them to get hosed, and rightly so).

# ? Dec 15, 2021 09:47

CaptainJuan: Oct 15, 2008; Thick. Juicy. Tender.

Imagine cutting into a Barry White Song.

senior director of some poo poo posted:

every workflow is failing

oh sounds serious. i'll follow the trail of fw:fw:fw back to the original source...

actual human posted:

one field is not shown, sometimes

i just need to stop talking to management entirely

# ? Dec 15, 2021 17:22

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

CaptainJuan posted:

i just need to stop talking to management entirely

if only

# ? Dec 15, 2021 21:01

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

Bob Morales posted:

Right up there with �we need Flash Player on the iPads�

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:07

A Frosty Witch: Apr 21, 2005; I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

quote:

Our nest thermostat doesn't work sometimes with the new access points

Golly jeepers that really isn't ideal. Maybe, and just hear me out here... Maybe... Don't have the shittiest consumer smart thermostat ever invented as your primary method of climate control for your whole business.

Just, you know... Just one professional's opinion :shrug:

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:46

Thomamelas: Mar 11, 2009

CaptainJuan posted:

oh sounds serious. i'll follow the trail of fw:fw:fw back to the original source...

i just need to stop talking to management entirely

I went from a job where I spent hours a day interacting with various managers to one where I talk to my boss once a week. Sometimes less than that even. And it is glorious.

# ? Dec 15, 2021 22:52

Dirt Road Junglist: Oct 8, 2010; We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

Bargearse posted:

Right up there with �we need Flash Player on the iPads�

"Why can't we hardwire the iPads into the Ethernet?"

# ? Dec 15, 2021 23:30

you ate my cat: Jul 1, 2007

Bargearse posted:

Right up there with �we need Flash Player on the iPads�

We had a vendor say to us, just the other day, that "customers typically resolve <this issue> by finding an old computer that still has Flash installed and using it to administer the system." Absolutely not, get the gently caress out.

# ? Dec 16, 2021 00:38

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

I think Intune was hurriedly moving things over to their Azure-style portal as the Silverlight team were busy killing off the plugin that their previous management console relied on.

# ? Dec 16, 2021 01:03

Kurieg: Jul 19, 2012; RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20

Relevant to the thread title.
https://i.imgur.com/nhBuIRI.mp4

# ? Dec 16, 2021 03:02

Fantastic Foreskin: Jan 6, 2013; A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

xiw posted:

this has been a hard learning for me - i'm walking away from a job after building completely bonkers things on top of saas platforms that fundamentally don't support it, and i'm getting a whole bunch of 'well, you should keep on supporting this after you go because we can't find anyone who can look after it' pressure.

It's kind of a psychological trap for tech people I think because, after all, there isn't much that isn't *technically* possible.

Lmao. If its that important to them, quote them a half mil a year for support and shrug if they say no.

# ? Dec 16, 2021 04:40

Fragrag: Aug 3, 2007; The Worst Admin Ever bashes You in the head with his banhammer. It is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass! You have been struck down.

Kurieg posted:

Relevant to the thread title.
https://i.imgur.com/nhBuIRI.mp4

I bet that Thinkpad managed to still start up properly afterwards

# ? Dec 16, 2021 14:40

my cat is norris: Mar 11, 2010; #onecallcat

does anyone here use the salesforce itsm solution

i really don't want to, i don't like it, but i'm looking for strong arguments against adoption compared to something like freshservice

our sales and client services teams use salesforce, so some of our leadership (outside of IT) are strongly in favor of IT also adopting salesforce, but...we're just not that impressed by their itsm offerings

# ? Dec 16, 2021 18:19

A Frosty Witch: Apr 21, 2005; I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

Kurieg posted:

Relevant to the thread title.
https://i.imgur.com/nhBuIRI.mp4

These log4j remedies are getting ridiculous tbh

# ? Dec 16, 2021 18:45

Dirt Road Junglist: Oct 8, 2010; We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

my cat is norris posted:

does anyone here use the salesforce itsm solution

i really don't want to, i don't like it, but i'm looking for strong arguments against adoption compared to something like freshservice

our sales and client services teams use salesforce, so some of our leadership (outside of IT) are strongly in favor of IT also adopting salesforce, but...we're just not that impressed by their itsm offerings

Salesforce doesn't even use their ITSM solution internally.

Not for any good reason, but still.

# ? Dec 16, 2021 20:35

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.

# ? Dec 16, 2021 22:14

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Kurieg posted:

Relevant to the thread title.
https://i.imgur.com/nhBuIRI.mp4

Nothing weird here; Just a laptop with a liquid crystal display.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 03:37

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

you ate my cat posted:

We had a vendor say to us, just the other day, that "customers typically resolve <this issue> by finding an old computer that still has Flash installed and using it to administer the system." Absolutely not, get the gently caress out.

At the time I was working in the public school system, and the teacher who raised the ticket complained to the Department of Education and Training that I was either too lazy or too incompetent to help her.

My reply was a simple, one-line "Apple have never supported Flash Player on any of their iOS devices, and even if they did it would present an unacceptable security risk". The whole thing was quietly dropped and I never heard about it again.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 12:10

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.

Some good stuff: https://imgur.com/gallery/Hs6kywf

# ? Dec 17, 2021 14:45

Sywert of Thieves: Nov 7, 2005; The pirate code is really more of a guideline, than actual rules.

GreenNight posted:

Some good stuff: https://imgur.com/gallery/Hs6kywf

Oh god, the CPU that's cleanly snapped in half :stare:

# ? Dec 17, 2021 15:12

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

lol

# ? Dec 17, 2021 16:51

Hughmoris: Apr 21, 2007; Let's go to the abyss!

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

lol

That's a load bearing cable.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 16:57

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 fine, there's a second cable there. That's N+1 redundancy :colbert:

# ? Dec 17, 2021 17:28

SlowBloke: Aug 14, 2017

GreenNight posted:

Some good stuff: https://imgur.com/gallery/Hs6kywf

Stop doxxing me, I have a intel cpu on my keychain too(it�s an old slot a sepp core)

# ? Dec 17, 2021 17:30

A Frosty Witch: Apr 21, 2005; I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

I took one of those 32MB PC-100 memory sticks from my Christmas wreath when I worked at the television station and fashioned it into a keychain for my bookbag.

I always hoped the CE would notice, but he never did. Wasted opportunity, that.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 17:48

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

I remember similar RAM sticks being thrown out when I was enjoying my first ever internship and they were kind of amazed that I cared to keep them. In retrospect it's pretty weird how fast things changed between 1998 and 2006 in storage and memory terms. poo poo got cheap fast. I took them home and happily maxed out the memory in my old Win98 retrogaming machine.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 18:00

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

We have 16 and 32GB SO-DIMMs in a junk closet. Why and how much was spent butting those fuckers from like CDW. They look a couple years old

# ? Dec 17, 2021 22:27

SyNack Sassimov: May 4, 2006; Let the robot win.
��--Captain James T. Vader

Bob Morales posted:

We have 16 and 32GB SO-DIMMs in a junk closet. Why and how much was spent butting those fuckers from like CDW. They look a couple years old

Sir I don't think they're supposed to go in your rear end.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 22:30

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.

SyNack Sassimov posted:

Sir I don't think they're supposed to go in your rear end.

It's a free country.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 22:33

SyNack Sassimov: May 4, 2006; Let the robot win.
��--Captain James T. Vader

GreenNight posted:

It's a free country.

Oh poo poo well I'll take all of it then. I can probably sell it for scrap at the least.

# ? Dec 17, 2021 23:04

AlexDeGruven: Jun 29, 2007; Watch me pull my dongle out of this tiny box

SyNack Sassimov posted:

Oh poo poo well I'll take all of it then. I can probably sell it for scrap at the least.

Ok, dad

# ? Dec 18, 2021 01:31

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

larchesdanrew posted:

I took one of those 32MB PC-100 memory sticks from my Christmas wreath when I worked at the television station and fashioned it into a keychain for my bookbag.

I always hoped the CE would notice, but he never did. Wasted opportunity, that.

I'm glad you've been in a much better place these days, but the stories from your TV Station days is still some of my favorite SH/SC things ever.

Specifically:

The afore mentioned Christmas Wreath of RAM
Buffalo Drives
"That is not your concern"

# ? Dec 18, 2021 15:01

GnarlyCharlie4u: Sep 23, 2007; I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

Ticket came in, via email, from within the office:

"Is the internet out?"

...you sent an email to ask if the internet was working?
Also, no the internet is not out. Closed.

# ? Dec 20, 2021 23:43

Hughmoris: Apr 21, 2007; Let's go to the abyss!

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Ticket came in, via email, from within the office:

"Is the internet out?"

...you sent an email to ask if the internet was working?
Also, no the internet is not out. Closed.

Immediately makes me think of this class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGljemfwUE

# ? Dec 20, 2021 23:45

incoherent: Apr 24, 2004; 01010100011010000111001
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I'm giving people one more year before I'm curt about "no, the emails are in the cloud now" response if they email about internet outages.

# ? Dec 21, 2021 00:05

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Ticket came in, via email, from within the office:

"Is the internet out?"

...you sent an email to ask if the internet was working?
Also, no the internet is not out. Closed.

Hey AWS could be broken again

# ? Dec 21, 2021 01:41

A Frosty Witch: Apr 21, 2005; I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

Taking a week off for surgery and I gotta tell you, loving off and turning off all of my notifications felt really great this morning.

# ? Dec 23, 2021 05:58

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# ? May 30, 2024 08:22

Bargearse: Nov 27, 2006; 🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.

larchesdanrew posted:

Taking a week off for surgery and I gotta tell you, loving off and turning off all of my notifications felt really great this morning.

The best part of any time off is leaving my work phone and laptop behind at the office where I can safely ignore them.

# ? Dec 23, 2021 11:10

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