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vOv posted:I don't understand how leaving gay porn on your coworkers' computers doesn't get you immediately fired. Small Datacenter with no HR and an 8 person NOC. I'm just glad I made it out alive.
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Renegret posted:Thank you, google, for not shoving screen caps of this on me. I googled this, didn't watch it, read a description. holy poo poo I thought I was desensitized to the internet, I was not ready for this. So glad I didn't look for a video.
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Virigoth posted:We used to meat spin people or salsa snack them, turn off the monitor and turn the sound on just loud enough you'd hear it when you say down and you loving knew what was coming. I had never heard of salsa snack before, and I thought I had seen them all (meat spin, lemon party, spinach souffle... and more). I don't think I'm going to watch the video, my drive to see the most outlandish and disgusting things out there has disappeared.
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Once upon a time my cubical neighbor was really bad about leaving his computer logged in while he was away from his desk for long stretches. He was an HR data entry flunkie/translator and he'd leave sensitive personnel programs open and logged in all the time. I don't have any interest in messing with the hourly payroll but one day I did Hasselhof his desktop and the little bastard reported me to his boss for 'sexual harassment'. I won't touch another person's PC now at gunpoint.
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pixaal posted:If you can't narrow down who it is, enable auditing. The "HELP" or "WHAT IS THIS" or whatever the file with the ransom information is called was made by the person with the infection. Look up the owner and disable the account. Nah, we found the culprit really quickly. User working from home computer opened an attachment in an email in their goddamn spam folder and they were connected to the VPN at the time. What makes me more livid than that is the fact that we have to restore all 400 GB of data on this server's drive from last night's backups, rather than "just" the 9.5 GB that were "deleted" because CRASHPLAN loving SUCKS.
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We only do something if an IT colleague leaves his computer unlocked. Most of the time I just lock it for them. But sometimes I'll open word and type in. We want cake!
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A beautiful email came in, can you guess which country it's from?quote:Request you to please revert on what is streamlined for further accomplishment of this problem
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Sprechensiesexy posted:A beautiful email came in, can you guess which country it's from? please do the needful and report back with same
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Sprechensiesexy posted:A beautiful email came in, can you guess which country it's from?
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We moved to a new building 100m over from the last one this weekend so of course nobody is getting any work done today. At least one person can't find his PC. Personally my chair was missing. Also the sysadmin solved the issue of ransomware emails still coming in. All external email seems to be blocked now. 
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Merijn posted:We moved to a new building 100m over from the last one this weekend so of course nobody is getting any work done today. At least one person can't find his PC. Personally my chair was missing. "Problem resolved: gently caress email" I like the cut of his jib.
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I'm a bit late on the 'prank' chat because, surprisingly, I've been off on PTO. Messing around with people's desks/PCs while they are away might seem like harmless mischief but when you dread anytime you take a holiday about what's been done to your PC it can add up to workplace bullying. I had an rear end in a top hat coworker plug in a wireless mouse once while I was away with a tiny receiver in the back that I didn't notice. Every now and then they would move the mouse around while I was working and it went on for 4 weeks. I drat near deleted on of our production websites because the mouse was clicking and dragging like crazy. </carepost>
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ProperCoochie posted:A DEPRESSION CAME IN Pixaal had the best advice. Put up with it for a while and if you do actually have the title of IT Director then you'll be able to do much better on your next gig if they don't want to play ball with you on a raise. Outside of reminding them that promotions usually come with raises I wouldn't try to fight too hard for it until after you have demonstrated that you did right by the account like you're saying you plan to. They hosed you over by hiring with a salary for a lower tier job then giving you a higher tier job, but it doesn't seem like you're in any position to walk away from it right now if you felt like you had to accept that lower tier job in the first place. So it's going to be lovely for a while, but if you don't gently caress it up too bad you'll be able to roll it into a raise at either your current organization or a different one. IT Director title and stories of "I righted this capsizing ship," complete with documentation are something that will be useful later. ErIog fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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nexus6 posted:it went on for 4 weeks I think everybody in this thread understands that workplace pranks should be near immediately identifiable as pranks and shouldn't last more than 10 minutes at most. A 4 week prank is hosed up and showing that kind of dedication is most definitely leaning towards bullying. A co-worker of mine went on a week vacation, and at the same time a VAR sent us a free web-managed power strip (why and for what, i still don't have a clue). I hooked up his monitors to it and when he got back I reset his right monitor. He heard the loud CLICK of the power strip when the power was cut off but didn't really put it together, and then a minute later I reset his left monitor. At that point he started nervously checking his power cables because he thought something was hosed and quickly realized what I was doing. Harmless, identifiable, and short term so we had a good laugh about it. If somebody can let me know what those web managed power strips are actually useful for other than pranking people let me know because drat if I could ever come up with a use case.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I think everybody in this thread understands that workplace pranks should be near immediately identifiable as pranks and shouldn't last more than 10 minutes at most. A 4 week prank is hosed up and showing that kind of dedication is most definitely leaning towards bullying. Resetting modem / networking gear remotely in IT. For home use, if it has an API works great with a fish tank for setting lighting and power head timers for current. Resetting the modem because your ISP only provides lovely gear is the most common use case, sometimes you have a firewall or switch that you just need to reboot every few months that really should be replaced but you can't get the budget to do so.
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Does the power strip have a "power cycle" command? Because hooking your modem up to it and hitting "off" then"on " remotely gives me a feeling that something's wrong.
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Volmarias posted:Does the power strip have a "power cycle" command? Because hooking your modem up to it and hitting "off" then"on " remotely gives me a feeling that something's wrong. It really is the "bad solution to an easy problem" of power cycling routers / modems. The API had a built in ping timer that you could set to 3 different addresses and reset various outlets per address. Can't ping google? Reset the router / modem outlet on a delay so they come up in the right order. Can't ping the server? Reset the switch outlet. But really, if you need an automated system to reset these devices because the problems are so consistent, you need to get new equipment. I worked with a number of companies that had 7 year old RV042s as their firewall and needed to be reset once a month, if not more, but gently caress if I would ever suggest an "automatic rebooting device" as a viable solution to their problem.
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A power outage came in. Everything is on generator power. Except the access switches.  Nothing an extension cord doesn't fix, but who designs an office with a power generator and UPS protected outlets everywhere except in the network closets?
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quote:Subject - Thanks for nowt Actual issue is SAP closed his connection because of a network timeout. This is because we're now routing all internet via the MPLS due to the previously mentioned cease of the site's line. Been monitoring traffic and it's been close to 90% all day long. I'm letting my colleague reply to him with this information because I was halfway through a reply that started with, "No fuckface we haven't done anything SAP. Maybe if you weren't spending all day watching cat videos there'd be some bandwidth for your sap process." I then decided better of it.
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Collateral Damage posted:A power outage came in. Everything is on generator power. east coast? I got 2 remotes sites on generator power right now hooray e: But there's no problems with any of them! Hooray!
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nexus6 posted:I'm a bit late on the 'prank' chat because, surprisingly, I've been off on PTO. Messing around with people's desks/PCs while they are away might seem like harmless mischief but when you dread anytime you take a holiday about what's been done to your PC it can add up to workplace bullying.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:If somebody can let me know what those web managed power strips are actually useful for other than pranking people let me know because drat if I could ever come up with a use case. As a network test engineer, I can affirm that when the client says part of the test should be a hard poweroff it's a lot more convenient to do through a web console at your desk than through sitting in the lab and pulling out cables manually, then plugging them back in. If they have a whole test plan made up of hard poweroffs of many different devices in a test network, with multiple iterations and variations on each, then having managed PDUs can make the difference between a month of working from home and a month of sitting in a cold row in a loud DC.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I've fallen for this before too. Just Win+R, devmgmt.msc see what's installed and delete or disable devices you don't want. Yeah, I don't know why it took me so long to work it out but I noticed there were two mice installed. I guess I put a little too much faith in my coworkers and thought it was malware or something.
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Collateral Damage posted:Nah, Sweden. Ah We had some crazy strong winds this morning so there's power outages everywhere. I really wasn't expecting it so I was surprised to find everything burning when I walked into work.
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pixaal posted:Resetting the modem because your ISP only provides lovely gear is the most common use case, sometimes you have a firewall or switch that you just need to reboot every few months that really should be replaced but you can't get the budget to do so. I know that some of the Tier 1 networking groups in my company had these installed because lovely ISP gear.
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quote:Hello, after my computer was re-imagined, I can't ...  Re-imagined computers are the best
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A  came in! A chance to move from large systems field service to a systems engineering role with local government. I interned with them in college and thoroughly liked the environment, and always thought it would be a good place to work. My daily commute would be roughly a mile, it's a mostly VMWare/Windows environment that's aggressively trying to modernize (automation, centralization of services, etc), a 30% raise from what I'm making now, pension, and great benefits. Plus by leaving field service I won't just be responding to customer demands and I'll be able to have influence on the direction of one enterprise. Hopefully it'll be cozy in my new pod.
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Aunt Beth posted:A City government is so chill. Usually the worst aspect of it is outdated equipment and entrenched, outdated ways of doing things, and it sounds like that's not a problem there. Many congrats. 
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:entrenched, outdated ways of doing things
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Judge Schnoopy posted:If somebody can let me know what those web managed power strips are actually useful for other than pranking people let me know because drat if I could ever come up with a use case. One of my Geekatoo independent contract side gig clients uses one. This is actually a pretty weird story. About two or so years ago, a gig comes in that I take. Set up two new cable modems. It's a residential address in a suburb. I call the client. They tell me it's an unoccupied office, they'll have the previous tech send me the keys. The keys arrive. I GPS to the address. The suburb itself is semi-affluent to upscale, but this is on the border of its far less affluent neighbor. Dense packed, the address itself is a small apartment building. I call the client - they're in Cali - and they walk me through getting in. Unlock the apartment door, go down into the basement. Unlock the door next to the washer/dryer, which leads into the furnace room, which kinda looks like any basic rape dungeon. In the rape dungeon/storage room/furnace room is another locked door. It leads to an office with a small baseboard heater, window going outside, and its own bathroom complete with a shower. It's a desk with two small form factor PCs, two separate Fios modems, and two separate routers. All of which are connected to two web managed power strips. They asked me to be fully sure that the modems, routers, and PCs all went into managed plugs. I swap things out, bring in my monitor, confirm with the client that everything looks OK, and that's that. The money comes through without issue. I leave, thankful that I'd told my wife where I'd be in case poo poo happened. I do a few more jobs for them over the years. The pay is decent and the work is quick. I asked what kind of business they ran, just to make sure I was staying above board. They said they mostly placed ads on Craigslist - the multiple modems allowed them to get around posting restrictions based on IP. About four or five months ago another job comes in - they have no connectivity. I bring the monitor, get into the dungeon office, and call the client to leave a voice mail that I'm onsite and checked into the connection, fixing up an IP conflict or something weird with a router. I check against the company name on one of 'em, and it's some media office out of southern Cali. I poke through some desktop folders, aaaaaand it's porn recruiting. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that web managed power strips are great for your unmanned remote office in a rape dungeon in suburban New Jersey.
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I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere either here or in a quick Google search, so in case it wasn't some freak thing that only affected our computers, beware Microsoft Update KB3139923. It seems to break the Windows Installer Service somehow and caused a bunch of weird issues with installing/uninstalling stuff. Some programs behaved fine, some threw an error about not being able to contact the service, and most confusingly some installers worked fine until suddenly the Next button stopped working. So if you're having trouble installing or uninstalling stuff, check if you have that update installed and remove it.
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MiniFoo posted:Nah, we found the culprit really quickly. User working from home computer opened an attachment in an email in their goddamn spam folder and they were connected to the VPN at the time. Oh boy oh moley I'm so loving glad I asked this user to scan their computer with Malwarebytes again today, because it turns out yesterday's scans DIDN'T ACTUALLY FIND AND QUARANTINE LOCKY. Neither did McAfee, the useless piece of poo poo. This morning's Malwarebytes definiton update did, though, meaning the Locky variant was so loving new that we couldn't have possibly caught it yesterday anyway.
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MiniFoo posted:Oh boy oh moley I'm so loving glad I asked this user to scan their computer with Malwarebytes again today, because it turns out yesterday's scans DIDN'T ACTUALLY FIND AND QUARANTINE LOCKY. Neither did McAfee, the useless piece of poo poo. This morning's Malwarebytes definiton update did, though, meaning the Locky variant was so loving new that we couldn't have possibly caught it yesterday anyway. We flatten any machine that touches crypto-anything, it's just not worth the risk.
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uPen posted:We flatten any machine that touches crypto-anything, it's just not worth the risk. Yup, even though its a personal machine I'd block the MAC until it has been verified that the machine has been restored to factory image or brought in. My standard with any virus is to just wipe everything. Too many things have droppers now, or have multiple payloads, a second one that lays low for an extended period to deliver another payload when you think you are in the clear.
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pixaal posted:Yup, even though its a personal machine I'd block the MAC until it has been verified that the machine has been restored to factory image or brought in. It caught two payloads, actually, in completely separate locations. Not that there couldn't be more, but it's a good indication that the definition team are doing their jobs. Regardless, we're about to remove everyone's VPN/mapped drive access and force them to go through the RDS without any redirected folders. Personal computers are too much of a security risk.
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If you were wondering if there's any updates on Cryptogate 2016, here's the inside scoop from my mole: Things are going great 
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larchesdanrew posted:If you were wondering if there's any updates on Cryptogate 2016, here's the inside scoop from my mole: I mean everyone has to be applying to other positions by now, right? Rats/Sinking Ship etc?
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