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Gounads posted:Oh look... more "security researchers" trying to make a buck... "You have been reported to the authorities for unauthorized pen testing our website".
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Gounads posted:Oh look... more "security researchers" trying to make a buck... Yeah, at my last position I would get these forwarded to my team and the rule of thumb is if they ask for or mention money or "trade in kind" (like hook me up with a license), they're usually bullshit. The legit "I'm a researcher and wanted to reach out" usually have specifics like quote:To whomever,
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Mar 20, 2015 15:38
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go3 posted:yes but people can be notoriously frugal and stupid so you end up having precisely zero spares for vital equipment but LETS GET EVERYONE THE LATEST IPHONES Admit it, you work at the same company as I do  The moment it management gave the OK to order the iphone 6 it started raining requests for them...
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Mar 20, 2015 16:10
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m.hache posted:"You have been reported to the authorities for unauthorized pen testing our website".
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Mar 20, 2015 16:12
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stuxracer posted:This is funny because that would be my reaction. I don't work in security so maybe this is acceptable behavior. A few months ago I was messing around with the local newspapers site and I noticed that their paywall was just simple CSS. Since you can modify CSS ad hoc using Google Chrome all you had to do was comment out 2 <div> tags and you could read the whole article. (It was just an overlay that faded out the back and asked you to purchase). I drafted up a small write up on it and sent it off to their IT department. They got back to me saying they had no idea you could do this and thanked me for my report. 6 months later it's still not fixed. I guess they pay a third party for this paywall fix. You figure a simple redirect would be better than a CSS overlay.
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Mar 20, 2015 16:15
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I do that with a local news site too. Their solution is to just change the content div to have a limited height and set overflow to hidden, then add a "please give us moneh" div below. So you just hide the begging div and strip the height attribute from the content div. edit: Now I got curious and dug a bit deeper in their code and realized all the paywall code is imported from a single dedicated script file, so I just blocked that file instead.
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Mar 20, 2015 16:17
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loving hackers, all of you. My local news site did that too, but they eventually fixed it. I only knew about it for a week or so.
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Mar 20, 2015 16:25
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Cenodoxus posted:And then there's the guy that hits the McDonalds drive-thru on the way in and grabs a bunch of Egg McMuffins that get cold because he gets in an hour before everybody else and the thermal half-life on any McDonalds menu item is generally 2 minutes after it leaves the cooktop. Reminds me of my stepdad who buys $1 sandwiches and just leaves them on the counter all day. "If you're hungry there's some McDonald's on the table"
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Mar 20, 2015 16:29
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Damnit. Now I want to go get some lovely breakfast sandwiches (for myself) from some fast food place.
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Mar 20, 2015 16:34
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"share-point"Orcs and Ostriches posted:Damnit. Now I want to go get some lovely breakfast sandwiches (for myself) from some fast food place. same. Also do not read burger thread at work. Polio Vax Scene fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Mar 20, 2015 17:20
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Crowley posted:Technical department just had a brain fart and decided they need dual 32" 2.5K monitors. If this pisses you off then you have no soul. 
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Mar 20, 2015 18:04
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flosofl posted:Yeah, at my last position I would get these forwarded to my team and the rule of thumb is if they ask for or mention money or "trade in kind" (like hook me up with a license), they're usually bullshit. The legit "I'm a researcher and wanted to reach out" usually have specifics like I ignored that part in my reply and got this back... quote:Hi Marc,
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Mar 20, 2015 18:32
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go3 posted:yes but people can be notoriously frugal and stupid so you end up having precisely zero spares for vital equipment but LETS GET EVERYONE THE LATEST IPHONES WOOOOOO IPHONE 6 WILL SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS! what do you mean you need shelving units, everything is fine in boxes Also it sucks being the bad guy; Our customer service girl notorious for throwing everyone under the bus kicked up a fuss because an advice agent hadn't responded to a customer E-mail, because agent said she never received one. Cue investigation into agents inbox where I had to recover deleted items and check exchange logs which proved the message was in fact successfully delivered, but no idea why it would have been hard deleted (Agent isn't retarded and would be extremely counter-intuitive to ignore messages). Sometimes it ain't good being right 
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Mar 20, 2015 20:00
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Today I had to pick the lock to a server to be able to install a drac. This among a shitload of other things that made yet another simple change take 3h made me dislike indian it guys a little bit more.
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Mar 20, 2015 20:41
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That must be why my local hacker club was really insistent on having
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Mar 20, 2015 20:53
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HardDisk posted:That must be why my local hacker club was really insistent on having If you haven't had to climb through a drop-ceiling to get into a server room that's locked with a key that can't get there before your maintenance window closes, you haven't been in this industry long enough
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Mar 20, 2015 21:54
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Potato Salad posted:Me: "I'm trying to set up and tune a linux host for Oracle 12c. My server is on the hardware compatibility list for RHEL7 and Oracle Linux 7. I'm assuming we should we go with Oracle Linux 7?" I also commented before on this. At least when customer's choose to use the RHEL kernel instead of the Unbreakable Oracle Kernel, it's easier to use. moosepoop posted:Yesterday should have been a veeerrry easy change. It was not. I blame "stupid big computer company" and India. Man, I hope I'm not part of that "dumb computer company"  But seriously, wow.(But I do want to make a correction that most people misunderstand: refurbished does not mean used. It just means it's not in it's original packaging. You can order a bunch of drives, take them out of the packaging so you only have the drive on the shelf and presto: that drive now has to be officially considered "refurbished". And yes it can potentially be used and have tested as OK at some point.) 
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Fortunately my gf had a cold beer waiting for me when I got home.
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flosofl posted:We keep a pool of GBICs after we got burned BAD with some HP GBICs. They'd work fine and then suddenly fry themselves. Never did find a root cause other than HP engineering state the module looked like it suffered static discharge. But they did trace them back the manufacturer that made that particular lot of GBICs (almost everyone specs that poo poo out to the lowest bidder for manufacture, so month A comes this factory, month B from another). HP had to swoop in and replace almost every single one they supplied us with during rollout. It was several thousand of them. Thank god we had enough redundancy built in with GigE trunks so it was a transparent failure from the network's perspective. We once were shipped a box of GBICs for our switches that had a mix of singlemode and multimode GBICs in there. There are no identifying marks on them unless you know the model number. We thankfully didn't have that many sites where they needed fiber so this only bit us in the rear end a few times until we found out what was going on.
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CitizenKain posted:We once were shipped a box of GBICs for our switches that had a mix of singlemode and multimode GBICs in there. There are no identifying marks on them unless you know the model number. We thankfully didn't have that many sites where they needed fiber so this only bit us in the rear end a few times until we found out what was going on. I'm sorry, and I'm only doing this because it didn't happen to me but, HAHAHAHAHA. For some reason I'm picturing some techs mounting confusion, "well, now this one worked..." and then a scream from the staging area "gently caress YOU! WHY WON'T YOU WORK!" Wizard of the Deep posted:If you haven't had to climb through a drop-ceiling to get into a server room that's locked with a key that can't get there before your maintenance window closes, you haven't been in this industry long enough Mission Impossible bros!  (of course I was much younger and svelter when I did that)
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Mar 21, 2015 01:46
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I just discovered the online checkout page of a medium sized online store doesn't disable autocomplete on neither the credit card number nor security code fields. How do you miss doing that?
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Mar 22, 2015 23:54
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Ika posted:I just discovered the online checkout page of a medium sized online store doesn't disable autocomplete on neither the credit card number nor security code fields. How do you miss doing that? Simple you don't allow it at first then have customer complaints about having to type a few numbers. Then management tells you to enable it for those fields.
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slartibartfast posted:Oh god, gently caress MUMPS. gently caress it harder than printers. I loving hate MUMPS. gently caress it right into 3rd normal form. t No way around it. MUMPS is pretty frustrating to deal with. slartibartfast posted:
How challenging it is to maintain work/life balance is pretty dependent on what role you're in. The people with lots of travel have a pretty rough time of maintaining balance. I wouldn't say there is a lot of corporate culture trying to enforce long hours. They have chosen over time things like not having the cafeterias server dinner (though left overs are available in a cooler if you're working late), they've chosen not to invest in building a gym or anything like that. We have showers on campus, but that's more for people biking in. We have dry cleaning pick up, onsite oil changes and you can have packages delivered to the office no problems but this is less "work 16 hours a day!" and more "don't need to drive off campus to take care of small routine things" slartibartfast posted:Something higher than entry level with the data integration people. Probably couldn't move until fall, so I'll likely hold off applying just yet, but it's the most intriguing thing I've seen recently that's 1) in the right location for me 2) with good pay and 3) has big challenges. Apply now. It depends on the role and team but it's pretty common for people to accept their offer and then start months down the road. slartibartfast posted:That's an upside! Bring on the clear night skies. That was my reaction. I moved to a town with 7000 people in it (and I still occasionally check to see if any country homes are up for rent). One definite downside to the area is property prices.
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Varkk posted:Simple you don't allow it at first then have customer complaints about having to type a few numbers. Then management tells you to enable it for those fields. They even have a "Remember my payment info" option for those customers.
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flosofl posted:I'm sorry, and I'm only doing this because it didn't happen to me but, HAHAHAHAHA. For some reason I'm picturing some techs mounting confusion, "well, now this one worked..." and then a scream from the staging area "gently caress YOU! WHY WON'T YOU WORK!" Staging area? Oh no, we discovered this where it matters, on the road. I was thankfully only had to drive 4 hours, but had to stay the night since we can't swap equipment out during business hours. It wasn't all bad, got a free meal out of it, and a nice relaxing drive while listening to podcasts. It still makes you question your abilities as a IT person when something as simple as plugging in fiber goes wrong.
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CitizenKain posted:It still makes you question your abilities as a IT person when something as simple as plugging in fiber goes wrong. Yeah are FSTs were NOT happy. Every time one failed, the techs had to fill out form as part of the RCA. They generated a couple hundred in about a month until HP (who had been in twice weekly meetings with us to figure it out) finally opened a call with, "Uh... we think we know what's happening..." This is apocryphal, but rumor has it after the field techs were informed that it was a manufacturing defect, and while HP was replacing all the GBICs on their dime, the Field Service people still had to visit every location and replace each and every one, one of them was silent for a moment and then said in a very quiet voice, "I want to murder them so bad right now". Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 04:44
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Tomorrow there will be a lunch to celebrate the successful launch of the latest version of our Analytics Process. The monthly process took over 50 days to complete, had over 150 job failures and still has 8 unresolved incidents due to the data being poo poo. "Successful". The worst part isn't the failure. It is that we are all going to pretend it wasn't a failure. We'll make the same mistakes in the next release and be shocked that the system didn't magically fix itself.
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flosofl posted:Yeah are FSTs were NOT happy. Every time one failed, the techs had to fill out form as part of the RCA. They generated a couple hundred in about a month until HP (who had been in twice weekly meetings with us to figure it out) finally opened a call with, "Uh... we think we know what's happening..." I would too. That's one thing I'm not going to miss at all from this job (out of several). Having to spend the night in little towns in the middle of nowhere 1-3 hours away from home. And it's not like you can ever have a relaxed evening in a nice hotel or something, either. The nicest hotel I've stayed in was a Holiday Inn Express, and you can't really be relaxed because you have to work until midnight at least and then get up to start work again before 8 in the morning. At least tonight's after-hours call was close enough to home that I could drive back, rather than spending the night.
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When you hire someone, and you need to get them set up in ShoreTel, copying a user is a good way to retain groups. However, you should take the time to edit their loving alternate telephone numbers, so that when someone tries to use ShoreTel Communicator to look up their personal number for an on-call escalation, that person doesn't waste time and wake the wrong loving person up at midnight. The absolute best part is when the wrong person who gets called doesn't loving work here anymore. There's also a directory on our internal documentation pile, but nobody updates that when people leave or when new people get hired, so what good is it to refer to that document? Yes, there's going to be ~a new one~ and it's going to be ~on the SharePoint~ and that's great if it can integrate with AD, that's absolutely wonderful. Go nuts. But allowing existing documentation to rot because ~the future is just around the corner~ is complete loving horseshit.
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Mar 23, 2015 09:06
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anthonypants posted:The absolute best part is when the wrong person who gets called doesn't loving work here anymore. Is this where the person who got called starts loving with the user, or just gives them an earful because being woken up at midnight is a great way to ruin someone's day? 
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The boss spent some time in Redmond with MS and came back with a Surface loaded with Windows 10. Despite me telling him its in an unfinished, prerelease state I'm still expected to keep everything working 100%, including VPN access. Its pretty painful, especially since this pulls me away from more pressing things, like fixing the radius configuration that someone detonated on the NPS. You know, the one I insisted needed multiple levels of failover but management elected to cheap out on, creating a single point of failure.
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LordVorbis posted:Is this where the person who got called starts loving with the user, or just gives them an earful because being woken up at midnight is a great way to ruin someone's day?
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Mar 23, 2015 14:56
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Bob Morales posted:
Do you work for JDA?
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anthonypants posted:The guy who got called is extremely chill and wouldn't do either of those things, which makes it even worse. D'oh!
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slartibartfast posted:Anybody here ever work for EPIC, the company that makes the health records software? I've heard sysadmins/helpdesk people bitching about their software in these threads, but that can be chalked up to a lot of different things. EPIC's got openings for my specialty, they pay on the high side of average, and I like WI beer, so I'm thinking about it. Re: EMR chat. We were to get to switch to EPOC when we got acquired. People were talking like it was a savior because ours sucks , but everything fell through. I'm convinced that EMR is something everyone is unhappy with in their own unique way.
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HFX posted:Do you work for JDA? no idea what that even is
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flosofl posted:Field Service people still had to visit every location and replace each and every one, one of them was silent for a moment and then said in a very quiet voice, "I want to murder them so bad right now". That's how I felt after I installed 15 of 30 access points in the drop ceiling (alone), then realized that they only gave me 60 antennas, and the network admin told me "Oh just take them off the 5 GHz ports". Not that we used that frequency for our portable IP phones or anything, nope, not a big deal if maintenance can't call in some parts of the building. This is the same guy who didn't believe in hardware lifecycles, and we had an 8 year old switch that was first in the stack for the wing that kept crashing hard taking down half the building. It would require a manual power cycle to come back to life. His solution was to give the teacher in that room a key to the data closet and ask them to unplug/plug it back in whenever he called them. I could write a novel about the loving stupidity at that place...
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Directory cleanup? Version control? What are these things you speak of
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Wizard of the Deep posted:If you haven't had to climb through a drop-ceiling to get into a server room that's locked with a key that can't get there before your maintenance window closes, you haven't been in this industry long enough Considering that I started working 5 years ago I'm actually not in the industry long enough. I'm in software development, though.
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There's a reason I'm not the only one in my team to have lock picks in my toolkit.
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Bob Morales posted:Directory cleanup? Version control? What are these things you speak of Please tell me this is in production and someone can access "http://server/index - backup.php"
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