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socialsecurity posted:Learn Group Policy if you are going to admin Windows Networks. Yeah, my boss thought I was a wizard when I removed the ability for people to play solitaire all day.
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Rhymenoserous posted:Yeah, my boss thought I was a wizard when I removed the ability for people to play solitaire all day. I'd probably get strung up if I removed that from users computers.
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Feb 18, 2015 23:20
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Fenrisulfr posted:"I was moving my computer and I think I broke a thing 'cause now my computer doesn't work!" m.hache posted:I'm starting to realize that faster work sets a precedence that I can't always adhere to.
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Feb 18, 2015 23:21
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An email came in from a client...clueless doctor posted:Please have Ozz81 allow me to download the entire Internet to my desktop at any time I cannot have any limitations whatsoever I am absolutely crippled with whatever they have me loaded on my computer to stay on 24 seven I want Greenway to stay on 24 seven and I don't want any limitations on email size. I asked to get more clarification on what was put on his laptop that "crippled" it, no answer. Greenway is an app hosted on one of their servers, the only way he'd have access in and out of the office is over VPN, which is already setup on his laptop and he's been shown how to use it at least 4 times. His laptop has admin rights, there's no security software blocking him from doing anything, and the only other issues brought to my attention were blocked websites in web filtering that they wanted enabled for specific computers. This is the same idiot I dealt with a month ago because he decided on a whim to upgrade a company laptop to Windows 8, then bitched because it wasn't the Pro version (his fault) and he had to spend more money, then it broke a bunch of his programs because the dipshit has no clue about application compatibility whatsoever. Just goes to prove my theory that no matter how many letters are behind your name, or how many years you went to school, you can still be a clueless, thoughtless, borderline-retarded human being with zero common sense.
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Feb 18, 2015 23:23
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The entire internet? Cut him a quote for a few hundred exabytes of storage--and let him know he'll need to buy more weekly.
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Feb 18, 2015 23:27
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GWBBQ posted:DisplayPort and HDMI are supposed to break like that to avoid destroying the port they're plugged into. Huh, did not know that. Neat!
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Feb 18, 2015 23:39
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ConfusedUs posted:The entire internet? 
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Feb 18, 2015 23:49
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Woah, this is going to require some major hardware. Let me grab my Zip drive.
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Feb 18, 2015 23:51
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GreenNight posted:I'd probably get strung up if I removed that from users computers. 
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Feb 18, 2015 23:55
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Solitare needs a domain scoreboard system so you can see how many games in a row others have won that way we can watch the place burn to the ground from infighting over who wastes the most time.
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Feb 19, 2015 00:52
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baquerd posted:Am I late for snow chat? A real IT nerd would figure out how to hook up the brain of their roomba to that beast. Just turn it on and go in and get some hot cocoa.
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Feb 19, 2015 00:57
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socialsecurity posted:Solitare needs a domain scoreboard system so you can see how many games in a row others have won that way we can watch the place burn to the ground from infighting over who wastes the most time. A few years back at university the department had common Linux login server everyone used it had some of the standard games like that with global high score charts. A few people discovered the high scores were stored in a flat text file writeable by all users...
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Feb 19, 2015 02:06
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Is there a way to use active desktops or something to just leave that on his computer forever.
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Feb 19, 2015 02:42
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Varkk posted:A few years back at university the department had common Linux login server everyone used it had some of the standard games like that with global high score charts. A few people discovered the high scores were stored in a flat text file writeable by all users... Varkk posted:A few years back at university the department had common Linux login server everyone used it had some of the standard games like that with global high score charts. A few people discovered the high scores were stored in a flat text file writeable by all users... Comedy suggestion: selinux can easily prevent this if you can be bothered to write a 10 line policy
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Feb 19, 2015 03:41
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evol262 posted:Comedy suggestion: selinux can easily prevent this if you can be bothered to write a 10 line policy chmod 000 *  There, now nobody can read my precious files. wait, what happened to my terminal?
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Feb 19, 2015 03:57
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socialsecurity posted:Learn Group Policy if you are going to admin Windows Networks. So our company is moving from Workgroups to a Domain since we're replacing 100+ XP machines with Windows 7 anyway, and my boss was busy working on other projects so I got handed the task of setting up the machines to have the stuff they would need. I had never dealt with AD or Group Policy before. "I can set up shortcuts... hmm but only some of the PCs will need them. Wait... I can assign item-level preferences so those shortcuts only appear based on who logged in or what machine it is? And I can use policy to restrict access to the control panel and only permit certain users to access certain machines? Wait... I can deploy registry changes and make applications run with command-line options at startup? My god.... it's full of stars...."  Now when I'm setting up these machines about half of the work in customizing the user experience is completed per machine by adding them to an OU and running gpupdate. It's pretty drat fantastic coming from someone at the entry-level of IT experience, I'm pretty happy I got the chance to set it up from practically scratch by myself with outside support if I needed it and the time to test it out in a lab environment instead of on live machines. e: Also a ticket came in: "My PC posts entries in our accounting software slower than my coworkers." Both users remotely connect to the same machine that handles all the posting, so their local machines amount to glorified monitors. I don't even know. 
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Feb 19, 2015 04:02
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CuddleChunks posted:chmod 000 * Yeah, but selinux contexts can make sure that the games can still write it but users can't We actually used this at an old job to keep people from savescumming in nethack...
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Feb 19, 2015 04:35
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socialsecurity posted:Learn Group Policy if you are going to admin Windows Networks. I've been trying. I had a nice snazzy GP for pushing out a new shared drive ready to go. I actually works on domain admin accounts (mine). I get error 1058 because for whatever reason computers still authenticate off the legacy 2003 DC instead of the 2008 R2 DC we've had in place for years  . I can't do anything about it because I honestly don't know poo poo about Windows Server yet and we're pulling out in a couple months. I'm kind of tempted to read my book and see how I can make 2003 DC get the gently caress out of the way unless as a failover anyway. I pretty much have free reign at this offsite location because nobody cares what I do up here as long at the client doesn't bitch. It's strange though. I put the policy in place on 2008 DC, it lives in its SYSVOL, but for whatever every user in the domain but me is butt buddies with the 2003 DC. This site is the best lab ever.
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Feb 19, 2015 04:41
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skooma512 posted:I've been trying. I had a nice snazzy GP for pushing out a new shared drive ready to go. I actually works on domain admin accounts (mine). Has anyone done anything special in the AD sites?
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Feb 19, 2015 04:46
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skooma512 posted:I've been trying. I had a nice snazzy GP for pushing out a new shared drive ready to go. Have you upgraded their forest to 2008? Might be a part of why it's not happening that way.
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Feb 19, 2015 05:01
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socialsecurity posted:Solitare needs a domain scoreboard system so you can see how many games in a row others have won that way we can watch the place burn to the ground from infighting over who wastes the most time. Once upon a time for an April Fools joke, I created Bill.Gates@mycompanyname.com and sent out a mocked up cease and desist letter to everyone in the company. The contents of the letter stated that you, the recipient of this letter, have played solitaire 234 times and due to their new licensing scheme, you now owed a retroactive $5 per game played. Buried in the middle of a seven paragraph boilerplate letter was an April Fools message. I had several users forward it to me in a panic asking for legal advice. Dunno which was funnier, their panicked emails or the fact that they were asking the IT guy for legal advice.
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Feb 19, 2015 05:12
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Agrikk posted:Once upon a time for an April Fools joke, I created Bill.Gates@mycompanyname.com and sent out a mocked up cease and desist letter to everyone in the company. The contents of the letter stated that you, the recipient of this letter, have played solitaire 234 times and due to their new licensing scheme, you now owed a retroactive $5 per game played. Buried in the middle of a seven paragraph boilerplate letter was an April Fools message. How many people responded with a "haha, nice one"?
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Feb 19, 2015 06:40
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KennyTheFish posted:Has anyone done anything special in the AD sites? I'll poke around in there. notwithoutmyanus posted:Have you upgraded their forest to 2008? Might be a part of why it's not happening that way. No idea. I was put in charge of this site in the summer when my lead benched the other guy because he didn't like the quality of work he was putting out at the main site (among other things) and he eventually took off. Our network guys seem competent enough not to miss that, though I don't know why the client would want this legacy poo poo in place at this point. Maybe we can kill two birds during the transition for them and decom all the Server 2003 stuff. They also have this phantom mail server on 2003 with a weird relationship to the mail flow. I don't even know if it's a VM or an actual rack.
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Feb 19, 2015 07:05
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Super Slash posted:My old manager used to do this, and not even for anything difficult beyond bog standard typing and tables. It basically displayed that she's incapable of using MS Word, she doesn't work here anymore. My first job was basically taking forms that had been typewritten once and Xeroxed 10,000,000 times and recreating them in Word 95 so that they were legible and pretty. Everyone loved them except for the curmudgeon who complained "They look like something out of a computer! Everything's too even and regular!" Apparently he liked that their typewriter didn't put letters on the same level.
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Feb 19, 2015 07:42
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We're going to need to update this soon, that's not remotely the stupid large amount of data it originally seemed.
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Feb 19, 2015 13:44
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HA! I made a ticket this time... First time for everything I guess.  I need a file published on the company site because. So you need a webpage with a link so ppl can click that link and dl the file No, just publish the file, so ppl can type a certain URL and BAM, download starts. No page, so no hits with google or poo poo like that, ok? I mean yeah, not my responsibility, but zero technical skills on what goes on with "the internet" is beyond me.
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Feb 19, 2015 15:32
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RFC2324 posted:Welcome to the wonderful world of UNIX! What do you me "welcome"? I'm a Linux professional. Just never really had a reason to ever use the Serial over LAN service of the server, so it's a first for me.My main complain here is we need more info, probably hands on. He's remote, and he says none of the people onsite will touch the server (probably because of $$$), wants me to send someone onsite to work with to do that which I had to explain costs $$$ (probably even more than what his data center people want). Other optiosn the RAC on the server has is unavailble including mounting ISOs directly is unavailable due to his company limiting him to Serial over LAN over SSH. 
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Feb 19, 2015 15:45
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Wouldn't this be a server with some sort of hardware based remote management console? Like HP iLO or dell Drac?
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Feb 19, 2015 15:53
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notwithoutmyanus posted:Wouldn't this be a server with some sort of hardware based remote management console? Like HP iLO or dell Drac? DRAC, yeah. Also, forgot to mention the SSH is from the tech's Mac. 
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Feb 19, 2015 16:01
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Had a strange issue the other day. User comes in with ipad and iphone not working on wifi at campus. First instinct is the person's account has been disabled due to password not being changed. Check the user account on AD, everything looks good. Have the user sign into his account on one of our computers, he signs in fine. Then I suspect the device. I forget the network and then log in as myself, Hey a valid ip address! Hey cnn.com comes up! Forget the network again and have him sign in, 169.254 ip address again. What the hell.
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Feb 19, 2015 17:59
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skooma512 posted:I'll poke around in there. Is your legacy server SBS and your other server(s) standard? Because that would explain everything.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:27
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Coredump posted:Had a strange issue the other day. User comes in with ipad and iphone not working on wifi at campus. First instinct is the person's account has been disabled due to password not being changed. Check the user account on AD, everything looks good. Have the user sign into his account on one of our computers, he signs in fine. Then I suspect the device. I forget the network and then log in as myself, Hey a valid ip address! Hey cnn.com comes up! Forget the network again and have him sign in, 169.254 ip address again. What the hell. Do wireless users require membership into a specific AD group for authentication or access to specific VLANs used by the WLAN? I know that for RDP, for instance, we have a specific AD group for server access, and while authentication will pass, access will be denied due to AD policy. It may be that as far as the iPhone is concerned authentication passed, and is busily sending DHCP REQUEST while access is being killed further up the chain. Does the AP show the iDevice as an authenticated client (not the network, the AP)? Are you able to p-cap on the AP? That will tell you exactly where things are breaking down.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:29
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A ticket came in... From sales of course. Can a conference room IP phone be placed in a conference room without a computer present? 
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Feb 19, 2015 19:31
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Alighieri posted:A ticket came in... From sales of course. Follow-up ticket: "Can it show powerpoint?"
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Feb 19, 2015 19:35
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Alighieri posted:Can a conference room IP phone be placed in a conference room without a computer present?
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Feb 19, 2015 20:11
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Today the power blew in two offices! I walk in to check it out and what do I see sitting on the floor? A space heater! Which I specifically told them not to use the last time I was in their office. None of the circuits are tripped but the two rooms aren't getting any power. Now they get to suffer while we get our electricians to come out. Space heaters are the devil.
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Feb 19, 2015 20:21
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We have Polycom conference phones with no computer
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Feb 19, 2015 20:23
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We have a ton of Cisco conference phones with no computers too.
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Feb 19, 2015 20:33
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I think he's saying "Oh god they think IP phones need computers" not "Oh god they want a phone without a computer"
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pr0digal posted:Today the power blew in two offices! I walk in to check it out and what do I see sitting on the floor? A space heater! Which I specifically told them not to use the last time I was in their office. The real question is will the specific person who brought the space heater try to use it again or are they appropriately shamed now? The building I'm in is brand loving new (leed gold, I think), and they keep it nice and toasty in here with little personal cubicle vents so thankfully I don't have to deal with old lovely insulation/sitting right under the ac vent problems.
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