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I was the last employee actively using a company issued Blackberry when our last Exchange upgrade broke our BES server. Instead of fixing the BES server, they upgraded my phone.
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We just dropped our BES. We use mobileiron for our phones and its pretty slick for exchange poo poo. Our sister company uses it to manage apps to keep people from having fun.
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Sep 19, 2013 17:56
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We still use BES and only issue Blackberries. It actually works really well.
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Sep 19, 2013 18:29
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Dick Trauma posted:Does the "B" still stand for "Blackberry?" That's enough to determine if I'll install it. Let's be fair, it's called UDS not BES when you use it for non-BlackBerry devices!
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Sep 19, 2013 18:39
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Alctel posted:We still use BES and only issue Blackberries. It actually works really well. Same here. I don't do bes admin but know the guy who does and he doesn't complain. We've never had a problem except that time the whole world's blackberrys went offline because they're for some reason routed through RIM's datacenter. I do new activations and support for the BB feature-phones themselves. While they sure are boring & suck to use, support is a dream, they never have problems other than hw failures. We used to let anyone connect anything byod or any random phone they bought through the company to an activesync server and that sucked in every imaginable way. Especially password changing time, every day is someone's password change day. We're going byod with GOOD! here sometime soon. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Sep 19, 2013 |
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Sep 19, 2013 18:42
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I can get 5 iPhones opened, activated, and pulling down emails in the time it would take me to get one blackberry activated properly.
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Sep 19, 2013 18:46
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I used to handle the Blackberrys at the last place and it was a pain. 70+ units. My users got very good at popping out the battery to try and cure the endless issues. And don't get me started on Entrprise Activation. It's like you get one shot and if it fails (10% of the time) you get to wipe the BB and try again. Pieces of poo poo. I've exorcised almost all the BBs here in favor of iPhones and it has been smoove sailing.
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Sep 19, 2013 18:51
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Vin BioEthanol posted:for some reason routed through RIM's datacenter. NSA snooping probably.
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Sep 19, 2013 18:56
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If you only need to manage iOS devices then Casper owns bones. There's a cloud option launching shortly as well if you don't want to host on-site.
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Sep 19, 2013 18:58
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Dick Trauma posted:I used to handle the Blackberrys at the last place and it was a pain. 70+ units. My users got very good at popping out the battery to try and cure the endless issues. And don't get me started on Entrprise Activation. It's like you get one shot and if it fails (10% of the time) you get to wipe the BB and try again. Pieces of poo poo. How you fix the activation problem is how you fix all of BB problems. Pull the battery out and if that doesn't fix it, wipe it. The new BBs are going to be annoying. Some of thema re going the no removable battery route of iPhones. YOTJ: Just got another email from a government position that I was in the running for was canceled. This makes for the second or third project to get funding, look for people and then get canceled. Another position that looks interesting went up today, I want to rewrite my CV, anyone suggest a good resource? Ive found a bunch with google, but they are all useless. One site will say "Do A, B and C in your CV and you'll be good" The next will say "Do D, E and A. If you do C or B you wont get the job" and so on. Website: Hmm been almost a week since the domain expired and not a peep from the guys about the site. Ive sent emails and left voicemails with no reply, I think I may have been fired. blackswordca fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Sep 19, 2013 |
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Sep 19, 2013 19:01
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gently caress Blackberries almost as hard as printers. gently caress their tiny, lovely little keyboards and terrible trackball/touchpad things. Yes it is nice to be able to set up their e-mail via a web interface but when it doesn't work and the error messages tell you nothing, then gently caress that too. BYOD, I'll setup Exchange on it and then you can proceed to do whatever the gently caress you want because it's not my problem.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:10
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Sickening posted:The only instance I have seen of this we paid it and then did a chargeback on the credit card. Fast, simple, and it helps get the wiretransfer service used shutdown faster. How did you do a charge back? Everything I've read says that Cryptolocker only accepts payment through Bitcoin or prepaid services like MoneyPak.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:11
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Hiyoshi posted:How did you do a charge back? Everything I've read says that Cryptolocker only accepts payment through Bitcoin or prepaid services like MoneyPak. I think they changed to the prepaid services because of the chargebacks.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:14
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Vin BioEthanol posted:
There is nothing good about Good. On Android, at any rate.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:22
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deimos posted:NSA snooping probably.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:26
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Citizen Z posted:There is nothing good about Good. On Android, at any rate. We only have one pilot user of it at my site, iphone. I only played around with it for a few minutes, thought it was neat you can access intranet pages. What's wrong with the Android version?
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Sep 19, 2013 19:28
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Dead Cow posted:I can get 5 iPhones opened, activated, and pulling down emails in the time it would take me to get one blackberry activated properly. It takes about 5 minutes to activate a blackberry, they are so easy. The best thing about it is that you can control EVERYTHING about the devices, so can restrict the hell out of 3rd party apps, restrict the camera, force complex passwords and autolock-out-of-holster etc. This probably isn't a big thing for most companies but most of our stuff is protected A/secret level. A nice side effect is that the phones hardly ever break since there is no crap on them, and literally everything can be done remotely. EDIT: of course when BES shits itself, it REALLY shits the bed. Alctel fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Sep 19, 2013 |
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Sep 19, 2013 19:30
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blackswordca posted:Another position that looks interesting went up today, I want to rewrite my CV, anyone suggest a good resource? Ive found a bunch with google, but they are all useless. One site will say "Do A, B and C in your CV and you'll be good" The next will say "Do D, E and A. If you do C or B you wont get the job" and so on. I got pretty good results from the resume goon, he's got a thread in BFC and/or SA-Mart I think.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:47
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Vin BioEthanol posted:We only have one pilot user of it at my site, iphone. I only played around with it for a few minutes, thought it was neat you can access intranet pages. What's wrong with the Android version? It's very badly written. It likes to stop working if it hasn't been checked for a while(Usually overnight). It's a resource hog, crash prone and worst of all destroys battery life. Users(Myself including) typically report a 25-50% decrease in battery life. I've tested it on my device with it just running, not ever opening it after the initial check to make sure it's synchronizing for the day and seen a 40-ish percent reduction in battery compared to when it's not running.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:48
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blackswordca posted:How you fix the activation problem is how you fix all of BB problems. Pull the battery out and if that doesn't fix it, wipe it. The new BBs are going to be annoying. Some of thema re going the no removable battery route of iPhones. My YOTJ is my contract runs out next week, and it got rebid, so I am getting laid off and we're spending this week working and hoping the new contract bidder decides to bring us back on. Talk about the office being on pins and needles.
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Sep 19, 2013 20:13
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Alctel posted:It takes about 5 minutes to activate a blackberry, they are so easy. You may be using a different cell phone provider but everytime I've ever called to activate the phone it's been 40 minutes a phone.
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Sep 19, 2013 20:23
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Hiyoshi posted:How did you do a charge back? Everything I've read says that Cryptolocker only accepts payment through Bitcoin or prepaid services like MoneyPak. Can't you pay for your MoneyPak or bitcoins or whatever with a credit card? At some point through the chain, unless you're driving to Russia and paying in cash, you can pay for it with a credit card.
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Sep 19, 2013 20:28
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Can't you pay for your MoneyPak or bitcoins or whatever with a credit card? At some point through the chain, unless you're driving to Russia and paying in cash, you can pay for it with a credit card. I think moneypak has to be bought with cash. I know nothing about bitcoins.
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Sep 19, 2013 20:34
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Those charge backs will never hold up. You getting a virus, purchasing a greendot at CVS or 7-11, then using that to pay the ransom is not a valid charge back. Not only that, special rules apply to cash and cash like products
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Sep 19, 2013 20:35
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I imagine any charge to moneypack, a bitcoin reseller, or anything these guys would accept are all over the illegitimate market, and the bank would likely waive it off as a fraudulent charge and nuke the card over fighting it. I haven't seen anything like that greendot here, but I don't live in the US and figured it was all online though. Buying something in a store might be a different story.
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Sep 19, 2013 20:37
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You could theoretically file a dispute with Green Dot if you bought a Moneypak to pay this thing off. Good luck with actually seeing any money back, though, and crucially, even if you did it wouldn't hit the scammer at all, who has long since cashed out and gone on to the next mark.
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Sep 19, 2013 20:46
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I imagine any charge to moneypack, a bitcoin reseller, or anything these guys would accept are all over the illegitimate market, and the bank would likely waive it off as a fraudulent charge and nuke the card over fighting it. Moneypaks can be bought with cash only, they're disposable credit type cards. You can't do chargebacks on them, and can't return them to where you bought it if you have issues. By making people buy bitcoin (which is bought with moneypak funds usually) they're providing a second "launder" of the money to them with no ability to do chargebacks. I don't even think you can buy bitcoins with a regular charge card. http://goldengate.bbb.org/article/bbb-scammers-use-green-dot-moneypaks-to-steal-online-18427
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Sep 19, 2013 20:48
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Haha, how is that sort of thing even legal? I can think of 0 legitimate uses for that.
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Sep 19, 2013 20:55
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Haha, how is that sort of thing even legal? I can think of 0 legitimate uses for that. There's a huge chunk of the population that doesn't have access to banking. This allows that segment access to markets that don't do business in cash.
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Sep 19, 2013 21:03
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Dead Cow posted:You may be using a different cell phone provider but everytime I've ever called to activate the phone it's been 40 minutes a phone. Oh, ours arrive already activated from our provider, then its 5 minutes to add to the BES server. Occasionally if it's a replacement we have to activate them but it's never longer than a 5min phone call.
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Sep 19, 2013 21:09
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Citizen Z posted:It's very badly written. It likes to stop working if it hasn't been checked for a while(Usually overnight). It's a resource hog, crash prone and worst of all destroys battery life. Users(Myself including) typically report a 25-50% decrease in battery life. yep. It's really, really poorly programmed - and for a long time it refused to even install/work without a sim card. So want to have good on your tablet at home for backup email access? Nope. Jellybean support? Pretty much nope, although I think they updated that in the last couple months. Yes, months.. They are about as functional as android in 2007 at this point. As mentioned, they have bigtime wakelocks problem and it will constantly wake up the phone to call home. The only single plus is that it doesn't enforce a pin lock as the lock is correctly on the app itself.
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Sep 19, 2013 21:20
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Every motherfucker has decided to download IOS7 on our public wifi. Thanks assholes!
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stubblyhead posted:I got pretty good results from the resume goon, he's got a thread in BFC and/or SA-Mart I think. Seconding this. I paid the resume goon and was happy with his work.
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Sep 20, 2013 06:05
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Swink posted:Every motherfucker has decided to download IOS7 on our public wifi. Thanks assholes! Well what did you expect? Throttle that poo poo if it bothers you.
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Sep 20, 2013 08:22
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Swink posted:Every motherfucker has decided to download IOS7 on our public wifi. Thanks assholes! http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/19/ios-7-bug-lets-anyone-bypass-iphones-lockscreen-to-hijack-photos-email-or-twitter/ Seriously though, Crowley's right; limit total throughput to Apple's update servers - let the assholes only poo poo up each other's updates. Limit the total bandwidth allowed to 10KB/s for extreme comedy.
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Sep 20, 2013 11:01
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Crowley posted:Well what did you expect? Throttle that poo poo if it bothers you. The internal IT guys at my work downloaded the IPSW updates and iTunes installers or whatever and threw them on an internal share, then throttled Apple to hell. Seems to have worked.
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Sep 20, 2013 13:20
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My registrar somehow managed to make all my domains bounce email with a "recipient does not have an account" error! Whoooo!
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Sep 20, 2013 14:47
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:My registrar somehow managed to make all my domains bounce email with a "recipient does not have an account" error! Whoooo!
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Sep 20, 2013 15:12
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teethgrinder posted:It's a legacy from when mobile bandwidth was the most precious resource on earth. They compressed the poo poo out of data making them extremely efficient on data use. And also conveniently giving them a reason to skive more money off any business that used blackberries. 
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 An email came in: my four man department is getting weekend and after hour call rotations setup with a primary and a backup! Two of the people aren't even on helpdesk, they're admins. No mention of compensation. None of us have offered up our weekends. This new company's tanking morale at an astounding rate. 3/5 of the original team will be gone in less than six months, taking a combined 30 years worth of institutional knowledge with them. I can't :ytoj: fast enough.
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