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m.hache
Dec 1, 2004


Fun Shoe

Antioch posted:

...from me, to myself. I set up a new DFS server last week, and over the weekend I started moving user data to it. Before I started the robocopy, I removed all the test folders. I forgot my actual user folder was in there too. And I don't have backups set up yet because I didn't have anything set up.

All my documentation :cry:
I have older stuff from about 2 weeks back but still. I feel like a fool.

No chance you had VSS set up on that file server?

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Cpt.Wacky
Apr 17, 2005

Jorath posted:

Question for any of you managing Chrome.

How the he'll do you get an 'official' offline installer for an older version? I need to deploy v35 to a set of vms and I cannot find a link that is not a third party url.

I have copies of 35.0.1916.114 and 35.0.1916.153 I can throw up somewhere if you can't find anywhere else to get them.

CitizenKain
May 27, 2001

That was Gary Cooper, asshole.

Nap Ghost
A button to lower the screen in a conference room is broken and that is apparently my problem now. To that I say nope, call the people who put it in.

Antioch
Apr 18, 2003

m.hache posted:

No chance you had VSS set up on that file server?

No, VSS is next on the list of things to pitch to my boss.

Or it would have been, if I hadn't accepted a new position 2 weeks ago. I'm just cleaning up the last of this migration project, then it's the textbook definition of an SEP

pr0digal
Sep 12, 2008

Alan Rickman Overdrive
I love when content filters throw false positives. Yes a farm's website is totally a porn site. I wonder how long it will take the MSP to get back to me about the change.

And the NAV issues get even more fun. The user was finally able to get on and was subsequently kicked off due to the MSP employee "checking his connection":. Yes doing connection tests to a production server while people are using it is a great idea.

EVP of Finance is not a happy camper :allears:

Flipperwaldt
Nov 11, 2011

Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?



pr0digal posted:

Yes a farm's website is totally a porn site.
With all that talk about sexing chicks, what else could it be, right?

afflictionwisp
Aug 26, 2003

pr0digal posted:

I love when content filters throw false positives.

this morning our IPS decided that the SAN replication traffic between two datacenters was botnet command&control

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?

pr0digal posted:

I love when content filters throw false positives. Yes a farm's website is totally a porn site. I wonder how long it will take the MSP to get back to me about the change.

I support vets, so I know exactly how you feel. They were going to try a web filter and every single one we tried blocked the websites of the vets we supported (it was so we could grab their numbers in case our system didn't have it, it has a few gaps).

Of course, google just tells you the phone number anyway, but we didn't tell the manager guys that. Being able to browse the forums while transferring things is nice.

Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist
I had the same thing happen a few times with our fortigate. A weather site is adult content? Hmm... It's trivial to change that on our end though.

pr0digal
Sep 12, 2008

Alan Rickman Overdrive

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

I had the same thing happen a few times with our fortigate. A weather site is adult content? Hmm... It's trivial to change that on our end though.

It's an easy change...they just won't let me do it for whatever reason.

I don't even know what the agreement we have with this MSP is...we just sort of inherited them. The network engineer showed up for one of our early buildout meetings and nobody mentioned he was a consultant. They must drop some serious cash to have a pet MSP who is pretty much on staff there.

stevewm
May 10, 2005

afflictionwisp posted:

this morning our IPS decided that the SAN replication traffic between two datacenters was botnet command&control

I had something similar happen when the "Heartbleed" bug was first publicized. The IDS/IPS at every branch location decided that a few packets of port 9100 network printer traffic where attempts to exploit the bug. The resulting corrupted print jobs caused several printers to spit out thousands of pages of garbage. To make things worse, we did not know this at first because in typical Sonicwall fashion there was a bug with the IPS rule. It was blocking these packets completely in silence despite it being set to do the opposite. It was not triggering any alerts, did not appear in any logs, etc.. It took several days to track down the source of the problem; we only found out the IPS was blocking the packets once Sonicwall support got involved and found it mentioned in some internal debug log.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:
A while back our firewall administrator decided to block Google Drive, not the website, but the downloadable application. That's fine. But something got screwed up in the configuration. I'm not sure exactly how but one person's Google Drive managed to take up our entire network bandwidth and our ISP killed our connection because it looked like we were DDOSing someone.

This was the same admin that accidentally promoted someone's desktop to a domain controller then blamed him when people stopped being able to access the internet.

pr0digal
Sep 12, 2008

Alan Rickman Overdrive
A friend just texted me. All the hardwired connections on his campus just went down at once it seems.

Someone in the NOC is about to have a very fun evening.

m.hache
Dec 1, 2004


Fun Shoe

pr0digal posted:

A friend just texted me. All the hardwired connections on his campus just went down at once it seems.

Someone in the NOC is about to have a very fun evening.

Or they are already having a very fun afternoon.

Can I just say Godaddy sucks so hard? In order to transfer emails from one account to another I have to delete the email accounts, pay for email hosting again, transfer the domain over to the new account, then attempt to recreate the emails.

They promised me that the mailboxes should stay with all the content intact but I really don't believe them. The new email system is on Office 365 while the current email is their old platform.

Time to cut this over on the weekend and pray it doesn't gently caress up.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Behold, gentlemen! The most damaged iPhone I've ever seen.

User claimed it had been dropped from his hand to a concrete floor. When it was delivered to me and I had a chance to see it first-hand I felt obliged to challenge his story. He then amended his tale so that the phone dropped to a concrete floor... and then tumbled down a flight of concrete stairs.

I still don't believe him but there's nowhere left for me to go with this. Hope he enjoys that old iPhone 4 I gave him.


Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

Dick Trauma posted:

Behold, gentlemen! The most damaged iPhone I've ever seen.

User claimed it had been dropped from his hand to a concrete floor. When it was delivered to me and I had a chance to see it first-hand I felt obliged to challenge his story. He then amended his tale so that the phone dropped to a concrete floor... and then tumbled down a flight of concrete stairs.

I still don't believe him but there's nowhere left for me to go with this. Hope he enjoys that old iPhone 4 I gave him.




I imagine we are going to get a lot more of these now that the new iphones are announced. Lots of "accidents" are around the corner.

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

Damage shows something rolling across the middle of that screen. Looks more like somebody rode a bike across it, especially with how it's bending.

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Yeah looks like it got ran over.

ConfusedUs
Feb 24, 2004

Bees?
You want fucking bees?
Here you go!
ROLL INITIATIVE!!





Dick Trauma posted:

Behold, gentlemen! The most damaged iPhone I've ever seen.

User claimed it had been dropped from his hand to a concrete floor. When it was delivered to me and I had a chance to see it first-hand I felt obliged to challenge his story. He then amended his tale so that the phone dropped to a concrete floor... and then tumbled down a flight of concrete stairs.

I still don't believe him but there's nowhere left for me to go with this. Hope he enjoys that old iPhone 4 I gave him.




This is covered by Apple Care, right?

(lol)

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Another vote for run over.

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



Or possibly smashed against the edge of a table?

Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist
It's stuff like that, that's made me glad we've switched to a BYOD model. We have allowances that are more than reasonable for the plans, but if people pull poo poo like that it's out of their pocket.

chin up everything sucks
Jan 29, 2012

SamDabbers posted:

Or possibly smashed against the edge of a table?

The damage shows the pressure on the device having moved from one point to another, rather than a sudden impact. I mean, the dude COULD have held it against something. If he's really heavy and it was in his back pocket when he leaned against the edge of a table, that MIGHT do it, but... most likely it was run over.

arnbiguous
Feb 2, 2014
Gary’s Answer

Dick Trauma posted:

Behold, gentlemen! The most damaged iPhone I've ever seen.

A user in my office had a phone that was this bent but still functioned normally otherwise. He wanted me to replace the screen.

plainswalker75
Feb 22, 2003

Pigs are smarter than Bears, but they can't ride motorcycles
Hair Elf
An email came in!

quote:

HelloAlll,

I_tried_to_sumit_a_heat_ticket_Last_ight.Ithik_it_isHeat#[redacted]


My_keyoard_failed_ithe_middle_my_project.Please_help.

Thak_you.

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



plainswalker75 posted:

An email came in!

quote:

HelloAlll,

I_tried_to_sumit_a_heat_ticket_Last_ight.Ithik_it_isHeat#[redacted]


My_keyoard_failed_ithe_middle_my_project.Please_help.

Thak_you.
Life finds a way

canis minor
May 4, 2011

KoRMaK posted:

Life finds a way

Only if the person in question produces a nice ascii representation of what is the problem. I can't see any problems here.

nzspambot
Mar 26, 2010

Kurieg posted:


This was the same admin that accidentally promoted someone's desktop to a domain controller then blamed him when people stopped being able to access the internet.

wait :wtc: ?

Vicas
Dec 9, 2009

Sweet tricks, mom.

Dick Trauma posted:

Behold, gentlemen! The most damaged iPhone I've ever seen.

User claimed it had been dropped from his hand to a concrete floor. When it was delivered to me and I had a chance to see it first-hand I felt obliged to challenge his story. He then amended his tale so that the phone dropped to a concrete floor... and then tumbled down a flight of concrete stairs.

I still don't believe him but there's nowhere left for me to go with this. Hope he enjoys that old iPhone 4 I gave him.




I first parsed those pictures as "he got it stuck in a wall??"

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952





I know ? When you're all of a sudden responsible for a domain controller any competent worker in any field would automatically make sure their DHCP settings were correct.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

Kurieg posted:

A while back our firewall administrator decided to block Google Drive, not the website, but the downloadable application. That's fine. But something got screwed up in the configuration. I'm not sure exactly how but one person's Google Drive managed to take up our entire network bandwidth and our ISP killed our connection because it looked like we were DDOSing someone.

This was the same admin that accidentally promoted someone's desktop to a domain controller then blamed him when people stopped being able to access the internet.

Well you see there is a lot wrong with that last part. Why are you installing windows server on desktops? How would promoting a server to a dc gently caress up peoples internet without added configuration? I am actually finding that whole scenario really hard to believe to be real.

Sickening fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Sep 17, 2014

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:

Sickening posted:

Well you see there is a lot wrong with that last part. Why are you installing windows server on desktops? How would promoting a server to a dc gently caress up peoples internet without added configuration? I am actually finding that whole scenario really hard to believe to be real.


We've got client server software where the server side actually requires windows server to be installed in some situations, and back before we had an actual virtualization server set up (E.G. a year and a half ago) we used to have to set up Server VMs on our local machines for configuration testing. And people didn't delete their perfectly functional VMs after the server got set up because our IT department hands out VM leases like they're golden tickets to the chocolate factory.

I'm guessing somehow replication got turned on and people were still getting redirected after the VM got turned off.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

Kurieg posted:

We've got client server software where the server side actually requires windows server to be installed in some situations, and back before we had an actual virtualization server set up (E.G. a year and a half ago) we used to have to set up Server VMs on our local machines for configuration testing. And people didn't delete their perfectly functional VMs after the server got set up because our IT department hands out VM leases like they're golden tickets to the chocolate factory.

I'm guessing somehow replication got turned on and people were still getting redirected after the VM got turned off.

Sounds like a nightmare to administer. Also sounds like too much money is tied into server licenses instead of poo poo that makes sense.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:
For the longest time our sole domain controller was a windows XP machine. I'm not sure how he pulled that off, but it was cheaper than buying an actual server license.

SamDabbers
May 26, 2003



Kurieg posted:

For the longest time our sole domain controller was a windows XP machine. I'm not sure how he pulled that off, but it was cheaper than buying an actual server license.

Samba on Cygwin maybe?

Jorath
Jul 9, 2001
We discovered the hard way that is possible to change a global default for ClearCase by running a command on a client. A dev happened to run that command one day, resulting in every new view (local working copy) pointing at his box if the user did not specify where to store the tracking files. Needless to say, that one was tough to track down.

I don't know if it was good or bad that he almost never rebooted, and left his machine on over the weekend. We certainly would have found the problem sooner, as I think it was that way for nearly a year. But having it up so consistently resulted in there seldom being user issues. I can only imagine how much more work that box did than every other workstation in his neighborhood before we found the problem.

Great Orb!
Feb 4, 2009
I just had to troubleshoot an issue for someone using AOL Desktop 9.

I mean, I fixed it, but... :cripes:

Volmarias
Dec 31, 2002

EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Kurieg posted:

And people didn't delete their perfectly functional VMs after the server got set up because our IT department hands out VM leases like they're golden tickets to the chocolate factory.

So... they handed out eight leases, of which they each slowly failed through user error until they all failed?

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

Kurieg posted:

For the longest time our sole domain controller was a windows XP machine. I'm not sure how he pulled that off, but it was cheaper than buying an actual server license.

Huh? Maybe we aren't on the same page of what a "domain controller" is because I am pretty sure that's not possible. Just because a windows machine is running software to host DHCP or DNS doesn't make it a domain controller.

Either way, it sounds like your shop has hit the wombo combo of having people make dumb infrastructure decisions as well as letting devs run wild.

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Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Collateral Damage posted:

Nagios reports that the chiller inlet temperature is 512C. Either the environmental monitor is on the fritz, or the datacenter is on fire. :v:
So apparently whoever installed the sensor did so by cutting about 5cm (2") of insulation off the inlet pipe (which carries water at about 6C/42F) and duct taping the sensor to the bare metal, without replacing the insulation. Cue one thermistor shorted out by condensation.

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