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Rhymenoserous posted:And I guess I'm history degree number six. Time to discuss the Divine Right of Sysadmins.
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TWBalls posted:This is me. And that one cert I have is a lovely old A+ from 1998. At least mine is an expired CCNA. 
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Dec 18, 2013 20:41
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stevewm posted:Yeah, that would never fly in my company.. It was hard enough getting approval to replace most of these computers. Yaos fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Dec 18, 2013 20:42
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Dick Trauma posted:Time to discuss the Divine Right of Sysadmins. That's creepily close to the truth. Whenever someone gets a 'new' computer, IT has already spent a night with it.
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Dec 18, 2013 20:46
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Well that was pleasant... My clients CEO went right to the owner with an intranet issue at one of the satellite locations. This is the first I've heard about this location having any kind of issue in months. Nobody has reported it to me until today when I was CC'd on the email to the owner. The owner went off on me like he did before with the other internet issue earlier and added some more fun when he started accusing me of entrapment and trying to get the Sr fired by enabling auditing. Apparently its a company policy not to security audit.
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Dec 18, 2013 20:47
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blackswordca posted:Well that was pleasant... Do you need to borrow money to put a down payment on a car or something? Why haven't you put in notice?
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Dec 18, 2013 20:49
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Do you need to borrow money to put a down payment on a car or something? Why haven't you put in notice? Ive just had a quick phone interview.. don't have the job yet.. Edit: Although I will be including the definition of 'Entrapment' in my resignation letter to that owner.
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Dec 18, 2013 20:50
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Next time the Sr idgit breaks something don't fix it. Files and folders mysteriously vanish? Guess they have to be reloaded from back up.
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Dec 18, 2013 20:53
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blackswordca posted:Apparently its a company policy not to security audit. I don't even know if  is a strong enough emoticon to respond to this statement.
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Dec 18, 2013 20:55
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Kyrosiris posted:I don't even know if Is there a :stonkicide: ? No. No there is not. Maybe  ?
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Really not convinced your company owner knows what entrapment means. Hint: It's not discovering that someone is loving up. With someone that stupid running things every else makes a lot more sense. Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Dec 18, 2013 21:02
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I think it's now painfully obvious that the company he works for makes its money by fraudulently creating billable tasks, and that this business model has the owner's backing. That is literally the only sane reason to chew someone out for turning auditing on - they don't want their fraud to be exposed. blackswordca, I too am rooting for you to get the hell out of there and will join the pool of people willing to throw  into a car fund if you end up needing one for the next job.Once you're out and have a confirmed position somewhere else, I would consider reporting the fraud to someone. rolleyes fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Dec 18, 2013 21:42
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blackswordca posted:and added some more fun when he started accusing me of entrapment and trying to get the Sr fired by enabling auditing. Apparently its a company policy not to security audit. what the gently caress rolleyes posted:I think it's now painfully obvious that the company he works for makes its money by fraudulently creating billable tasks, and that this business model has the owner's backing. That is literally the only sane reason to chew someone out for turning auditing on - they don't want their fraud to be exposed. this is the only explanation
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rolleyes posted:I think it's now painfully obvious that the company he works for makes its money by fraudulently creating billable tasks, and that this business model has the owner's backing. That is literally the only sane reason to chew someone out for turning auditing on - they don't want their fraud to be exposed. I came to that conclusion a long time ago. The writing was on the wall. Now it's printed in neon colors.
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Dec 18, 2013 21:45
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If he wants the option of a car fund then I too will throw in
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Dec 18, 2013 21:49
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Caged posted:I once got told to "phone Microsoft and ask them when Skype is coming out on the Xbox, we have a project that wants to use 3 of them for video calls". XBox One? http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/apps/skype-faq
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Started off with an IT degree, realized I knew more than the dude teaching the first couple of classes (I hate jumping through hoops), switched to photography, realized it's impossible to get a job not doing wedding photography, went back to IT, then dropped out all together because of more hoop jumping. One of the guys I replaced at the job I have now is a history major though. Edit: I don't have much but I'm willing to throw  at blacksword. He really needs to be anywhere that's not his current job.
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Dec 18, 2013 22:01
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stevewm posted:Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have seen now you need to have a VLK/MAK key, which means buying OS licenses for computers that already come with OS licenses.... I could have sworn you could get a bare-metal machine from Dell, but I can't find any way of doing that anymore.
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Dec 18, 2013 22:09
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It wouldn't matter anyway - volume licensed Windows are upgrades only, you need a qualifying OEM license on the hardware.
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stubblyhead posted:I could have sworn you could get a bare-metal machine from Dell, but I can't find any way of doing that anymore. You can get N series for some of the products, which ships without an OS. Though since volume licensing requires an OEM key you're screwed.
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Dec 18, 2013 22:33
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Caged posted:It wouldn't matter anyway - volume licensed Windows are upgrades only, you need a qualifying OEM license on the hardware. I remember when I did support in college being explained this by my boss. He said he just needed any Windows license on there to be complaint. If I recall correctly he as ordering Vista Home Basic with each tower as it was the cheapest at the time.
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Dec 18, 2013 22:38
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I think a Campus Agreement is the only way you can get away with that - everything else needs a Pro version. Edit: MS licensing is so so so terrible to try and work out. The fact you pretty much have to defer it to a reseller means you can never really be sure if they are trying to gently caress you over to increase the sale.
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Dec 18, 2013 22:41
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You know, I really hope blacksword tips off the client he works with about the fraud when he leaves.
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Dec 18, 2013 22:57
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Apparently I should have actually majored in Russian instead of CS. Not really though, the Russian profs were slave drivers.
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Dec 18, 2013 22:57
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Holy poo poo, thats shady beyond belief, black. I wasn't so sure at first, the phrase "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" came to mind but... holy poo poo.
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Dec 18, 2013 23:08
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I'm stupid, wrong thread.
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Dec 18, 2013 23:15
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blackswordca posted:Ive just had a quick phone interview.. don't have the job yet.. Send it as a response to the email he sent you, and CC every client.
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Dec 18, 2013 23:37
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Yaos posted:This is correct. Also, there's certs for Microsoft licensing, I'm not joking, that's how complicated this poo poo is. If you think you understand Microsoft Licensing, you don't understand Microsoft Licensing
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Dec 19, 2013 01:13
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Because I didn't want to have a billion e-mails to read when I got back, I decided to check my e-mail. A client replied to me... CC'ing my bosses bosses boss... Who then saw my Out of Office and forwarded my users request to my direct managers... Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh things'll be fun when I get back.
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Dec 19, 2013 01:43
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The Microsoft Licensing that can be spoken is not the true Microsoft Licensing.
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FISHMANPET posted:You can get N series for some of the products, which ships without an OS. Though since volume licensing requires an OEM key you're screwed. We ordered some Optiplex 3010s a couple months back and buying then without the license was actually more expensive than buying them with. 
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Dec 19, 2013 04:41
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Are we at the point where maybe it just makes sense to kick start a new car for poor blackswordca? Blackswordca I hope you are printing every email 
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Caged posted:They also changed from wanting to collect the busted parts at the same time as giving you a new one to letting you arrange the collection for the faulty part separately, so you don't need to be around when the UPS man arrives. My predecessor RMA'd a 24 port switch from Cisco. And apparently sent it to the wrong address. I've just this week had the second email about it. Now I gotta waste some time searching his mail. fake edit: bonus licensing story So 3 weeks ago I buy a couple of Office licenses with some new machines. The reseller submits the addition to my Volume Licensing. I check the next day, hoping to see a slightly larger number next to my allowed activations. The first thing I notice when the list of licenses comes up is that it's whole pages longer and there are exciting new categories like "Software Assurance". I decide that when my sales rep consolidated all the email addresses associated with our IT purchasing in VL, that unlocked vast new tracts of previously unknown licenses for me to use. I click the Keys entry for a license I actually need right now and was about to pay for. Click. The details expand. There are indeed lots of licenses listed. All of them next to the names of companies I don't recognize. I check the long list of domains we have registered. I research the names. I resort to asking one of our founders. We have no idea who these people are. I screenshot it, shoot it off to my rep, and wait. Ha ha, my reseller was doing two Volume Licensing permissions updates at the same time and messed up a copy & paste operation. That was two weeks ago. I hope the manager I spoke to can get this sorted out this week. The next step of escalation is to call my counterpart at the company whose licenses I have access to. fake edit 2: quote:One of the engineers will call you during the business hours. There's gonna be a second batch of bottle openers someday.
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Yaos posted:Next time the Sr idgit breaks something don't fix it. Files and folders mysteriously vanish? Guess they have to be reloaded from back up. Hah you think they have backups. 
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Send it as a response to the email he sent you, and CC every client. Actually this is a horrendous idea. Apparently Canadian whistleblower laws are utter poo poo and even though you'd be right, you'd open yourself up to a libel case. IANAL and what not.
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chia posted:Hah you think they have backups. There are backups.. in another city.. on a shared 3mbit connection..
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blackswordca posted:There are backups.. in another city.. on a shared 3mbit connection.. Please add "on a raid 0 array"
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blackswordca posted:There are backups.. in another city.. on a shared 3mbit connection.. ..so you don't have backups then? Moey posted:I remember when I did support in college being explained this by my boss. He said he just needed any Windows license on there to be complaint. If I recall correctly he as ordering Vista Home Basic with each tower as it was the cheapest at the time. Crowley fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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Crowley posted:..so you don't have backups then? Hey, the backups are there. They can't be restored of course but they do exist.
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I hope in future you're just going to start running restores when people's poo poo gets moved around instead of trying to locate it. I mean since the guy isn't out to sabotage anything he can't be moving it on purpose because then he'd email you when he made changes.
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