pretty much we gave our production guys a choice and half of them are transitioning to our windows workstations instead of loving around with the 'literally a macbook air' imacs or mac pros
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api call girl posted:what i'm saying is yeah, you're right, i had thought that it never worked right if you didn't have an apple directory or openldap/other ldapv3 server
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:22 |
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active directory is ldap
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:28 |
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api call girl posted:what i'm saying is yeah, it does that here, but we can't control the expiry date (or there's some CLI wizardry on some deep buried com.apple.plist somewhere)
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:30 |
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lol. nice Linux u got there.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:31 |
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Shaggar posted:active directory is ldap i figured you'd be a novell fan, what with their love of java and everything
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:32 |
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just because I like java doesn't mean I like bad software written in java.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:33 |
graph posted:yeah, it does that here, but we can't control the expiry date (or there's some CLI wizardry on some deep buried com.apple.plist somewhere) ah I get you the cache expiry is something we haven't really ended up caring about
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:38 |
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api call girl posted:the cache expiry is something we haven't really ended up caring about yeah hardwire macs are fine and work fuckin awesome but god drat i wish this could get loving sorted
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:48 |
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write a script that runs at boot that reads the gpos applied to the machine and then sets the equivalent Linux settings.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:49 |
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SO DEMANDING posted:people are flocking to iPhones...which they use to check their email from an exchange server. iPads are also popular...and are being used to check email on an exchange server and as dumb terminals using poo poo like citrix. and anyone who does anything even remotely important is still using office yeah
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 15:59 |
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cached credentials never expire apparently, goes for windows ad and ldap so... idk
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 16:08 |
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i can't even imagine working at a place that doesn't provide me with a Mac. like how would that even work? you'd show up on the first day and they take you to your office and you'd say "looks like the previous tenant forgot to take his piece of poo poo dell with him" and your new boss would smile nervously and say "we asked our computer janitors for the Mac we promised you and they said no". so now what? do you stick around for lunch or just quit right there?
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 16:49 |
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The Management posted:i can't even imagine working at a place that doesn't provide me with a Mac. like how would that even work? you'd show up on the first day and they take you to your office and you'd say "looks like the previous tenant forgot to take his piece of poo poo dell with him" and your new boss would smile nervously and say "we asked our computer janitors for the Mac we promised you and they said no". so now what? do you stick around for lunch or just quit right there?
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 16:51 |
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it's not about affording, it's about being told by CJs that you can only use what makes their job the easiest instead of what makes your job the easiest. first sign of a broken company.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 16:56 |
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The Management posted:it's not about affording, it's about being told by CJs that you can only use what makes their job the easiest instead of what makes your job the easiest. first sign of a broken company. lol
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 16:57 |
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people like macs because they think it makes them look better, not because they actually do work on them
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 16:58 |
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Shaggar posted:people like macs because they think it makes them look better, not because they actually do work on them took a pause from working on my mac to quote this wrongpost
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 16:58 |
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The Management posted:it's not about affording, it's about being told by CJs that you can only use what makes their job the easiest instead of what makes your job the easiest. first sign of a broken company. "what do you mean i need a password to log into my computer now?!" - a government accountant i had to support once
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 16:59 |
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homo punching bag posted:lmao shcools are terrible with money. blow the budget getting macs for highschool kids then buy no software the computers were a grant but they couldn't afford software.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:11 |
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someone with the wherewithal to request a mac is someone who probably isn't going to poo poo up my bin with cat pictures and plants_vs_zombies.exe.pif and repeated demands for help with a "broken internet thing"
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:11 |
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i'm surprised there isn't a gpo or whatever to require every exe or dll on a windows install to have a valid code signature in order to load or the fact that ms doesn't even sign their own binaries (maybe they do in windows 8? lol windows 8 though like i'd actually use that shitpile) sure that wouldn't help you with buffer overflows or vbscript poo poo but jfc it'd be a start
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:23 |
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The Management posted:it's not about affording, it's about being told by CJs that you can only use what makes their job the easiest instead of what makes your job the easiest. first sign of a broken company. the sooner you accept your job is just as much bullshit as the next guy's, the easier it will all be
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:23 |
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honestly at a base level i just do not respect most "work" or the output thereof. my own included
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:25 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:honestly at a base level i just do not respect most "work" or the output thereof. my own included
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:32 |
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Mr Dog posted:i'm surprised there isn't a gpo or whatever to require every exe or dll on a windows install to have a valid code signature in order to load applocker does this I think. but yeah theres load of old, unsigned Microsoft stuff so it would be interesting to see what breaks.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:33 |
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Fabricated posted:Generally with my users the people you see using Macs are usually really stupid, and don't do any real work. Or literally the only thing they do is read and send emails. MY USERS
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:38 |
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why can't you sign things yourself in the image?
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:38 |
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you can, but it would be nicer if everything Microsoft related came signed on its own.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:40 |
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Mr Dog posted:i'm surprised there isn't a gpo or whatever to require every exe or dll on a windows install to have a valid code signature in order to load its called Software Restriction Policies, and Windows has supported it for at least a decade
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 17:45 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:the computers were a grant but they couldn't afford software. lmbo they were socialist imacs. the grant probably didnt stipulate the money had to be spent in the most ineffective way possible but somebody saw a opportunity to get their school computer lab in the local paper so macs it is bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Jul 7, 2014 |
# ? Jul 7, 2014 18:17 |
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i dont know poo poo about gpo anymore so i guess i can ask here my dad called and asked if theres a way for him to increase the res on his remote desktop connection. his work issued him some lenovo posbook with a 13" 1920x1080 screen, so i had him increase the dpi settings on windows 8. problem is that he has to rdp into a server (running server 2008) to do some work poo poo, but he cant see anything because it wont let him increase the dpi/decrease the resolution full screen over rdp or something. halp
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 18:21 |
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its a bug: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2726399
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 18:22 |
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gj ms thanks shaggar i'll email him that
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 18:26 |
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gotta love those, 'dad, you're hosed' situations
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 19:03 |
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Phoenixan posted:gotta love those, 'dad, you're hosed' situations hes getting old too so his eyes arent so great anymore as a workaround i just set the dpi to normal and bumped the res down to like 1366x768 but obviously everything is all blurry because of the scaling. i emailed him about the hotfix so i guess i'm gonna get a bunch of confused calls from him again
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 19:10 |
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Steve Ballmer posted:just fyi this will never happen
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 20:14 |
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I just watched this documentary about the Large Hadron Collider and the discovery of the Higgs boson amongst the many revelations in that film is that virtually every one of those folks uses a Mac from the most pie-in-the-sky theorists to the magnet janitors to the administrators and everything in between, and plenty of iPads and iPhones besides in other words, people with advanced degrees in hard sciences from the best schools at the top of their respective fields, whose careers depend on computation and can choose any platform they want to, overwhelmingly choose Macs to work on but can we hear more from some more bottom rung computer janitors about how Macs just can't be used for real work
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 20:32 |
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if you install windows on a mac its almost usable. but academics are all about wasting grant money and macs are the best way to do that.
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# ? Jul 7, 2014 20:36 |
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all the academics are using linpack based software that hasn't changed significantly since the mid 80s so a unix system is perfect
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