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blackswordca posted:So a salesguy came in: If you don't use any kind of device authentication, watch those network ports like a hawk. These are the kind of dipshits who will take an off-the-shelf wireless AP and put it on your network. They'll leave authentication to Open since they can't be bothered to "remember another stupid password".
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Sirotan posted:But how do you old-person-proof a computer these days? Depending on what they do, a ChromeBox might be perfect. Edit: Beaten by a mile. The little HP ones are good though. Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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Manslaughter posted:You wouldn't happen to know the details? I still get this with Twitch even on Low. I don't know the details, but I personally have not had any major problems with it for quite a while.
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A charity table-flipping for charity at MAGfest came in...
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Gaming convention. Childish crap. Someone wearing BDU pants in public. Yep.
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A highschooler who wanted to shadow our team came in... For much of the day he didn't get to do much other than read -- HR mandated that he not be allowed to touch. a. thing. -- but towards 4pm we had some old 3.5" IDE drives to sanitize. We wipe / random-write / wipe the drives and turn them to sand in a shredder at the end of each quarter, but on this occasion we gave the kid a seven-pound wrecking sledge and let him have at them first. That lasted until the VP on the floor above us dropped by to see what on earth was going on; moments later she had a few shots on the hard drives as well.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:~chromebook~ Nthing the chromebook idea. Lock it down so that they can't install extensions, and get them set up with LastPass or something for passwords.
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Volmarias posted:Nthing the chromebook idea. Lock it down so that they can't install extensions, and get them set up with LastPass or something for passwords. I got this old folder full of mp3s, how do you reckon I play them? ...You upload them to Youtube grandpa
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:
Mac address filtering is man's best friend. You conform or you don't get poo poo.
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evol262 posted:Gaming convention. Childish crap. Someone wearing BDU pants in public. Yep. To be fair, the pants were part of a costume, but if you don't want to break stuff every now and then please let me know how you have transcended our animal instincts and share whatever substance does so tia Roargasm posted:If you want a Surface Pro 3 you can reach out to an Azure/Office365 rep for a demo. I mentioned buying hardware for my C-levels and they had the paperwork through that day They want it back, probably?
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MJP posted:To be fair, the pants were part of a costume, but if you don't want to break stuff every now and then please let me know how you have transcended our animal instincts and share whatever substance does so tia Hey, somebody has to be better than everyone else.
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Filthy Lucre posted:This very much depends on where the 3rd party is in the connection. If the 3rd party is an immediate upstream, then the ISP can do something about it. If 3rd party is a few ASN hops down the road, there's a good chance your ISP can't do anything. I have Charter and lately every single hop they have leaving their network is congested to hell. Latency doubles or triples leaving their network, and while I'm usually ok with blaming Level3 right out, its happening to other peers as well. If I thought it would do any good, I'd collect stats for a few days to send to them, but its not like they can't see it. Back in the day when I was still stuck on Dialup, CenturyLink bought out local phone company and routed all their traffic through one of their data centers in Tennessee or something. I went from being able to play Tribes on a 56k line with sub-100ms ping to a server in state to >300ms constant. A grim day.
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Roargasm posted:I got this old folder full of mp3s, how do you reckon I play them? Or you play them natively on the chromebook. 
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Gothmog1065 posted:
It doesn't really sound like T1 / T2 are either trained or empowered to do anything at an ISP. My condolences.
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MJP posted:To be fair, the pants were part of a costume, but if you don't want to break stuff every now and then please let me know how you have transcended our animal instincts and share whatever substance does so tia I'd rather donate the hardware to people or nonprofits in need of it and donate money to charity without the need to break stuff other people could use, because we make enough money to do both, but hey.  Che Delilas posted:Hey, somebody has to be better than everyone else.
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I have literally zero desire to take out frustrations that way. A few years ago, I would absolutely enjoy spiking a keyboard into the floor at the tech shop at maximum force and watching keys launch in every direction. We had dozens of old kbs, so no harm done. I'm... Better now.
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AlternateAccount posted:I have literally zero desire to take out frustrations that way. as in better single malts?
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In college the IT department had a "Take a sledgehammer to old and busted systems that are beyond repair" fundraiser. My professor had a bunch of old contacts in the IT industry so we had a bunch of big empty server cases or systems with old spec boards that would never power up again and were gathering dust in someone's garage. They didn't let me put "Die mother fucker die mother fucker die" on infinite loop though, freaking catholic universities.
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less than three posted:Facebook, Instagram, Tinder, Twitter and Battle.net all go down around the same time.
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anthonypants posted:Twitter's not down, though. I'm having some issues loading pieces, and downdetector.com is reporting stuff as well.
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map.ipviking.com looks like World War loving Three atm.
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China's angry about something!
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My god. My screen went green and 300'd the gently caress out of the US.
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less than three posted:China's angry about something! Blizzard must have banned their WoW bots again.
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less than three posted:China's angry about something! Read this and shudder: http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china 
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Potato Salad posted:It doesn't really sound like T1 / T2 are either trained or empowered to do anything at an ISP. My condolences. Tier 2 is neither. They have no power and no actual troubleshooting abilities. It is 100% script driven and they will not deviate from those scripts. Tier 1 doesn't give a gently caress if it's not making them money. "Your modem is offline, let me transfer you to tier 2". If they think they'll get some core services out of the deal they'll fight for it tooth and nail and wont' actually drop the customer.
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evol262 posted:It's about being grumpy in a different way than everyone else. I realized from earlier in this thread or somewhere in Working in IT that you work for Red Hat, ergo you're a *nix grump by nature, which puts things in perspective. how do i grep /usr/human/bin/emotion beep boop
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RE: I got through the trial period, a new role came in: Holy poo poo my new team is great. Get to work from home when its difficult to get in (I take trains and they've been awful (cancelled) recently), jokingly asked my new manager if he would mind if I do overtime while sat in the pub, hours aren't as rigid as long as I work hard and keep churning through work as fast as I do, as long as I do 8 hours a day. So if I need to leave early for something, they won't mind so long as I log on later and finish my hours then. Which is great, because when they trialled me for the role I was ill that week and couldn't really give my 100%, so now my 50% is what they expect of me. I don't understand how I even came in to work before, now i've got a chill boss I do way more work, i'm motivated and getting up doesn't suck. Oh, its also confirmed that i'm out of the other team and they'll be giving me a raise, so I can finally use the emote! 
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A recruiter came in... ... with a senior WIndows engineer role at a place closer to me, but with a lovely litany on Glassdoor. Is it ethical/advisable to reach out to the recruiter saying "hey guys, is it possible to get IT and management's feedback on this?" and send a link to the Glassdoor review. It was contract to hire anyway, and I'm full time, but going from a 70-person company where you can walk up and down the aisles cursing up a storm to a "conservative but laid-back" company culture with rampant favoritism/old-boyism accusations and three re-orgs over the last three years gives me great, great pause. Unless they give me some kind of very ironclad assurance I'll probably withdraw myself from consideration.
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MJP posted:A recruiter came in... Doesn't this mean that the company is so incompetent that they haven't figured out how to give themselves fake positive reviews?
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MJP posted:Is it ethical/advisable to reach out to the recruiter saying "hey guys, is it possible to get IT and management's feedback on this?" and send a link to the Glassdoor review. Yes? If you're concerned by the reviews there, then just ask them straight up about them.
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An urgent email from the CEO came in.quote:I am hearing from therapists again about them being kicked off the system. This issue has gotten so out of hand our staff are unable to do their jobs. [wa27] I don't know if this is a server issue or [software] issue but IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED BY THE END OF THE WEEK. I'm really not kidding. FIX IT The issue is that a few staff are using remote desktop from their lovely home connections and getting frequent disconnects. And they're blaming that for not getting their work done. 
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The unthinkable has happened. Now taking suggestions on how to spend my next 2 weeks...
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I had that exact same confrontation with the CEO and I straight up told him that it's their very cheap and terrible internet connection. I went on to say that if he wishes, I can get rolling business class internet at each of their locations for a few hundred dollars a month and that will resolve the issue.
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SubjectVerbObject posted:Doesn't this mean that the company is so incompetent that they haven't figured out how to give themselves fake positive reviews? Doesn't speak well for anyone or anything. My last job's IT group was like a microcosm of the Warsaw Pact in a very bad way. This prospective company boasts similar conservative environments, extreme aversion to risk/trying new things, and such. Nothing beats being able to shout about the loving Keystone Kops shitshow of electricians our building had which killed power to our offices one day last week. Felt good considering the folks on the phones are talking to truckers all day and were surprised that I could actually curse alongside them. What concerns me about this, though - I would hate to be the one that turned a bad situation into a witchhunty one by dropping the Glassdoor bomb on them. I have no connection to this company but I worry that if the Powers that Be over there find out, they'll have yet another "reorganization."
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GreenNight posted:I had that exact same confrontation with the CEO and I straight up told him that it's their very cheap and terrible internet connection. I went on to say that if he wishes, I can get rolling business class internet at each of their locations for a few hundred dollars a month and that will resolve the issue. I've had to deal with exactly this before, when lawyers were trying to connect to the vpn by tethering their phone to their laptop while at the cottage in the middle of nowhere. We got quotes to roll out business-class internet to everyone's summer home/cottage and the problem immediately disappeared.
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Lync 2013 Status: Crashed twice yesterday, once so far today, and my day only started 3 hours ago. Don't use Lync.
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