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Sep 1, 2015 19:30
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deimos posted:Then outsource it to a cloud provider. You're already doing it for Office 365, look into AWS/Azure/GCP to complement the deficiencies on your infrastructure. I'm already hard at work on a proposal for just this: Step 1: Collect some data on our client FTP to see how much bandwidth we go through in a given month and then calculate how much that would cost to put, store, and pull. Step 2: Play with the sandbox builds to get a feel for the service. Step 3: Work with whatever new webmaster we hire to see about building a client login portal Step 4: Develop a workflow/map of the whole process. Step 5: Have a super secret closed door meeting with the GM outlining my idea. Step 6: Have the proposal shot down Step 7: Purchase thirty three new 1TB buffalo NAS units Step 8: Have twenty seven of those units fail after a week Step 9: Kill myself. But seriously, I want to propose the idea as just a place to stash client uploads for the time being, and then work my way towards stashing all of our archived media there, too.
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Sep 1, 2015 19:36
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Can you put a trigger warning in that? I still have PTSD from the quiet screams of all those Buffalo and LaCie boxes. 
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Sep 1, 2015 20:01
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It would be worth having it all on AWS just so that you can pull the files down onto local storage for playout on your own terms - e.g. overnight, instead of clogging your WAN links up during the daytime.
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Sep 1, 2015 20:08
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deimos posted:SFTP for the anachronistic people. This will lead to them downloading and installing Filezilla, including the helpful Sourceforge-supplied malware that the Filezilla devs get a few pennies from. So you'll get to clean that up too. No, they always go for Filezilla. No, never WinSCP, always the malwared one. No, I don't know why either.
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Sep 1, 2015 20:34
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divabot posted:This will lead to them downloading and installing Filezilla, including the helpful Sourceforge-supplied malware that the Filezilla devs get a few pennies from. So you'll get to clean that up too. But certainly larchesdanrew has AppLocker GPOs going and all of his users are operating off of a standard image and 
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Sep 1, 2015 20:38
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Sep 1, 2015 20:44
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To be fair that is relevant for pretty much everything in the preceding post
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Sep 1, 2015 20:52
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Thanks Ants posted:It would be worth having it all on AWS just so that you can pull the files down onto local storage for playout on your own terms - e.g. overnight, instead of clogging your WAN links up during the daytime. Sadly the enormous amounts of data makes any sort of online-handling virtually impossible. I mean, people are complaining about being limited to editing workstations that runs on 1 GB CAT6 - and rightfully so. I can't even begin to imagine the bandwith required to have just a small regional station pushing their raw footage up through an Internet connection so you can save on NAS boxes. You have to remember that works in progress are often ten times the amount of data the final product end up being, and then we haven't begun discussing storing the clean feed for later use and the dirty feed for your archive.
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Sep 1, 2015 20:58
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Crowley posted:Sadly the enormous amounts of data makes any sort of online-handling virtually impossible. I mean, people are complaining about being limited to editing workstations that runs on 1 GB CAT6 - and rightfully so. I can't even begin to imagine the bandwith required to have just a small regional station pushing their raw footage up through an Internet connection so you can save on NAS boxes. You have to remember that works in progress are often ten times the amount of data the final product end up being, and then we haven't begun discussing storing the clean feed for later use and the dirty feed for your archive. Sorry, I meant specifically for the FTP-replacement.
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Sep 1, 2015 20:59
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Thanks Ants posted:To be fair that is relevant for pretty much everything in the preceding post Yeah, but I find it humorous to take an entire list of "things you should be doing" and then find the most common, basic, day-one IT 101 thing and laugh at how I'm not allowed. Crowley posted:Big rear end files This is absolutely true. We eat through data, and they want to save every asset of a story: raw footage, edited footage, voice overs, segregated audio, and then several different types of each story. A single three or four minute story can end up taking up 100GB+, and then consider we create 10-20 stories a day. It's not something we can work with in the cloud, even on a 250/250 connection. This would solely be for client commercials and archiving old video. We'll probably never be 100% in the cloud, but this will be a huge first step in moving as much as we can to it. Anyways, a panicked call comes in from the sales manager. Corporate bigwigs are here. CEO, President, Vice President, a bunch of suits in the conference room hashing out our collective futures with management. My phone rings. "Did the power go out? We just lost everything in the conference room, no video, no audio, nothing is working!" I rush upstairs, ready to shine and prove my worth, hoping it's nothing too complicated so I don't look like a fool in front of my overlords. All eyes stare boredly at me as I make my way to the conference set up. I reach up and turn on the television. "Oh, there it is," the CEO exclaims, "Please leave now." I am ushered out and resume my important job of sitting in a filthy shop and plotting my departmental coup. A Frosty Witch fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 1, 2015 |
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Sep 1, 2015 21:00
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At least you fixed it.
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Sep 1, 2015 21:04
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:The Donald "We have stupid people" Trump plugin is almost as good as Cloud2Butt. Japanese Dating Sim posted:The Donald "I don't want to use the word 'screwed', but I screwed him" Trump plugin is almost as good as Cloud2Butt. This is working very well
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Sep 1, 2015 21:13
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KoRMaK posted:This is working very well Oh poo poo it gets recurisve Japanese Dating Sim posted: The "We have stupid people" Donald "Somebody's doing the raping" Trump plugin is almost as good as Cloud2Butt. Japanese Dating Sim posted: The "I don't want to use the word 'screwed', but I screwed him" Donald "She talks like a truck driver" Trump plugin is almost as good as Cloud2Butt. This is working very well
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Sep 1, 2015 21:13
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KoRMaK posted:Oh poo poo it gets recurisve Yeah it gets kinda wonky. I was having that problem when quoting Dick Trauma's post, I just disabled it temporarily.
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Sep 1, 2015 21:14
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GWBBQ posted:Trying to move a professor's files (entire life's work) from a pair of external hard drives to OneDrive because it would be kind of nice for it to be backed up somewhere other than the other hard drive in his laptop bag that frequently travels with him internationally, on boats, etc. OneDrive sync failed because most of his 560,000 files are over the 254 character limit due to his Byzantine directory structure and naming convention, and most of it is duplicate files because every year he makes a copy the previous year's folder with everything in it duplicated even though the vast majority remains untouched I knew OneDrive wasn't great when I tried it years ago, I had no idea it was so incompetent.
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Sep 1, 2015 21:33
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divabot posted:This will lead to them downloading and installing Filezilla, including the helpful Sourceforge-supplied malware that the Filezilla devs get a few pennies from. So you'll get to clean that up too. Reading that article, is there even any reason to use FileZilla anymore? Sounds like the developer is a massive tool who doesn't care because "my program is popular and people use it, it's them who's wrong and not me"
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Sep 1, 2015 21:35
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I own an MSP and I just received this email from a client.quote:Hi nexxai, CEO is having problems with his computer. Can you check this out. For God's sake, literally *any* details about his problem would be appreciated.
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Sep 1, 2015 21:47
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nexxai posted:I own an MSP and I just received this email from a client. "Yes, but first I need you to provide me with information on the issues he is having."
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Sep 1, 2015 21:54
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go3 posted:"Yes, but first I need you to provide me with information on the issues he is having." "I don't know it just quit working! It worked fine before you last touched it, you must have done something to it!"
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Sep 1, 2015 21:56
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BaseballPCHiker posted:"I don't know it just quit working! It worked fine before you last touched it, you must have done something to it!" I put this right up there with someone who pushed a button they didn't understand, it broke poo poo, and they refuse to tell me what button they pushed because they will "Feel stupid". Look, the more I spend digging at this the lower my opinion gets of you. Telling me at the start of the call so I can just fix poo poo and be done will make me think highly of you.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:01
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BaseballPCHiker posted:"I don't know it just quit working! It worked fine before you last touched it, you must have done something to it!" Yeah this response gets it put to the end of the line.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:03
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Rhymenoserous posted:I put this right up there with someone who pushed a button they didn't understand, it broke poo poo, and they refuse to tell me what button they pushed because they will "Feel stupid". Christ, this is my biggest pet peeve. poo poo happens to everyone. I'm not going to ridicule you for changing a setting or not knowing how to do something. But the willful refusal to admit what you did is childish and detrimental to me fixing the problem. Yes, you're experiencing pop-ups, but don't tell me you only do work related stuff and you "must've just accidentally clicked something" to make this happen. There's not a single built-in option in any web browser that allows you click something and experience pop-up ads where there were none previously.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:05
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Yeah it gets kinda wonky. I was having that problem when quoting Dick Trauma's post, I just disabled it temporarily. That is the opposite of what a problem is.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:13
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You guys forgot the "political correctness to treating people with respect" extension.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:21
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taiyoko posted:You guys forgot the "political correctness to treating people with respect" extension. There's a difference between "treating people with respect" and "incessant word policing."
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Sep 1, 2015 22:23
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divabot posted:This will lead to them downloading and installing Filezilla, including the helpful Sourceforge-supplied malware that the Filezilla devs get a few pennies from. So you'll get to clean that up too. Last time I used it -- which was, to be fair, years ago -- FZ kicked the poo poo out of winSCP UI-wise. It's also available on every major OS, which is a major advantage over WinSCP if you run a mixed-OS environment and want consistency in software where possible, or to share config files across OSes. Between that and the malware being a relatively recent development, I'm not surprised that FZ is still what most people reach for first. It's certainly what I would be downloading if I didn't know about the malware and needed a windows SFTP client.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:23
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I always avoided the malware and sourceforge debacles by just pointing people to a Ninite installer, but Filezilla recently stopped working with it.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:32
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Trick: Mandatory installs of ublock origin on all browsers on all work machines. Ublock Origin throws up a scary page when you attempt to access Sourceforge (or any other lovely third-party malware download site)
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Sep 1, 2015 22:33
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nexxai posted:I own an MSP and I just received this email from a client. Of course the problem was the CEO lost power to his entire loving office.  I wish I was kidding.
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Sep 1, 2015 23:09
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A broken tablet came in (someone's personal device, not work related). I was told that this was their relatives tablet and the video stopped displaying. They claim that it hadn't been dropped and they don't know why it's not working. They apparently take good care of their stuff!   Yep, that looks like it's been well taken care of. I can't possibly imagine why the video stopped working. 
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Sep 1, 2015 23:16
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Segmentation Fault posted:There's a difference between "treating people with respect" and "incessant word policing."
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Sep 2, 2015 00:56
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Hey, ever since you did that thing to my tablet two months ago it has been running slow, please advise.
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Sep 2, 2015 00:59
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nexxai posted:I own an MSP and I just received this email from a client. I'm curious on how you survive in the MSP world without persistent remote access.
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Sep 2, 2015 01:19
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TWBalls posted:A broken tablet came in (someone's personal device, not work related). Please tell me you didn't touch that thing and just walked away, hands up, screaming "NOPE NOT MY PROBLEM"
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Sep 2, 2015 01:47
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I'm wishing I had, but she handed it to me in a bag (the paper bag you see in the pictures) when I was holding the lunch I picked up from the cafeteria. Just gonna hand it back to her and tell her "not my problem".
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Sep 2, 2015 02:08
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anthonypants posted:Jeeze, if you don't like "word policing" then don't install any of the word substitution plugins. 
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Sep 2, 2015 02:13
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Intern with the name JOHN_SMITH starts. gets fired. 2 months later, sales rep with the name JOHN_SMITH starts. someone re-enabled the old JOHN_SMITH account thinking it was the same person (actual name is incredibly unique) OUs and permissions and all that other stuff was all hosed up. half fixed by changing the email alias' on the old account, renaming the old account and login details. address book is still routing mail to the old address. bitch Sales manager calls up to complain about this. "I cant send email to JOHN_SMITH" ok, you cant because the address book hasnt updated ye-- "NO I AM USING THE ADDRESS BOOK" ...If you let me finish, the address book does not update in realtime and will take up to 36hrs to update with the new mailbox with the correct user This bitch is notorious for this kind of attitude too, and its always the same thing - cuts you off to try and prove a point, but without fail, always wrong about it.
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Sep 2, 2015 02:27
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you could have just said "a sales manager called"
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Sep 2, 2015 02:54
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go3 posted:you could have just said "a sales manager called" Im painting a picture how dare you censor my art.
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Sep 2, 2015 02:56
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