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Arsten posted:So, someone just tried to scam a help desk. I was passing by and the help desk girl was flustered and I asked what was up. She gave me the strangest story I have heard for awhile, which was that someone called the help desk and demanded a download of the financial detail for the last 15 years. He then verbally went off on the help desk girl and threatened to fire her and 'leave her working the streets.' You know, sounding like a completely professional request you'd expect from a manager somewhere. So, I got his information which was "Jim" at a strange number with area code 907. I had to look that up and it's Juneau Alaska - where our company has no office or presence of any kind. Please write up this person for an attaboy. There's a huge vulnerability where employees are very susceptible to being intimidated by an angry person claiming to be an executive. It isn't helped by real executives behaving the exact same way. It's really hard to say no when you're on the front lines, not making a lot of money and someone is threatening to hurt you and your family. Lobby to get her a small bonus or a gift card to a local restaurant or something.
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kensei posted:Windows 10 is cool and good. My only problem with it is how it will wake your computer up by itself, and can even power it on by itself. Since we're on the topic of the Team Viewer breach, my computer waking up in the middle of the night makes me worry I got some sort of malware that allows remote access. Powering on from completely shut off it just creepy. Maybe I should do an upgrade on my laptop anyway. I kind of want to install CentOS once I no longer need it for late night gaming. Is CentOS a bad choice for the first linux machine I've used aside from lab machines at college?
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22 Eargesplitten posted:My only problem with it is how it will wake your computer up by itself, and can even power it on by itself. Since we're on the topic of the Team Viewer breach, my computer waking up in the middle of the night makes me worry I got some sort of malware that allows remote access. Powering on from completely shut off it just creepy. I think if you aren't looking to learn anything from it and just want to use it instead of Windows, Ubuntu or Fedora are going to be the most recommended. If you want to learn some work related skills whatever you use at work, or whatever you think the place you want to work is going to use.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Please write up this person for an attaboy. I've already sent an email detailing proper procedures for requesting data. (It's not through the help desk  ) I thanked her publicly in the email for being on the ball enough to ask about the situation and repeated my rule of thumb: "if it seems strange, ask. The only time you shouldn't stop and ask is if you need to call 911."I do know that executives get belligerent, but they usually don't get so toward the bottom rung of the organizational ladder. They are usually complete dicks to the people around them as a way to make themselves feel superior. A 19 year old help desk new hire won't give them any credit to the managers they rub elbows with, so they are generally ignored.
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Taeke posted:Which reminds me, and I suppose asking her is as good as anywhere (maybe even better because you guys know what's what.) 10 runs smoother than 7 on low-end systems (will work on a single-core system from 2004) and uses less hard drive space, around 8-10GB for a fresh install with nothing at all added. You should upgrade unless you have a reason not to. Note that after you upgrade it will appear to use more hard drive space because it keeps all your data from 7 to roll back if needed. Once you're confident that you don't need to, you can delete that. Also, upgrading to 10 once will reserve your license forever so even if you don't like it you can roll back to 7 and always have the option. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jun 3, 2016 |
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Arsten posted:"Hey, we have the information. Where do I need to send it?" and I got an address in Arizona. Specifically 501 N 4th Ave, Tuscon. Go ahead and Google Maps that for some added hilarity. We have no presence anywhere near there, either. I said that I wouldn't send financial data to a non-company address and he got huffy. So I followed the SOP: "Please give me your full name, position, and office location and I'll get approval from the executive committee to release these to you." I'd pitch in a buck or two to send a glitter bomb to them.
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Grizlor posted:"stupid user screenshots" folder Every shop has one of those as standard operatying procedure, right?   
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pixaal posted:I think if you aren't looking to learn anything from it and just want to use it instead of Windows, Ubuntu or Fedora are going to be the most recommended. If you want to learn some work related skills whatever you use at work, or whatever you think the place you want to work is going to use. I'm inclined towards CentOS because it's the most similar to RHEL, so I figure it will give me a little bit of experience, although obviously no server-specific experience. I might have asked this before, but I can never remember whether I've posted something or just thought about it. I had a legitimate copy of Windows 7 that I lost the license key for, so for the last couple of reformats I just put up with the popups saying that I might be a victim of software counterfeiting (not sure how I'm the victim there, but whatever). Then I bought a refurbished laptop with a key I could use on my other computer as well. I updated the computer that had previously had no key because I figured I wanted that computer, which I game on, to be the most up to date. I still have Windows 7 on the refurbished laptop, can I just upgrade that one as well without conflict, or will it set off a red flag saying it's on two completely different computers?
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Entropic posted:Every shop has one of those as standard operatying procedure, right? I think your computer has a painful virus, because it's screaming.
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That's what happens when you engrave the word HATE on every nanoangstrom of your circuitry and you still haven't adequately expressed how much hate you're feeling for your user at this micro-instant.
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Gilok posted:I think your computer has a painful virus, because it's screaming. Dr. Arbitrary posted:That's what happens when you engrave the word HATE on every nanoangstrom of your circuitry and you still haven't adequately expressed how much hate you're feeling for your user at this micro-instant.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:
For a daily desktop use I would use Fedora. It gives you a good idea of where RHEL will be headed. If you are familiar with it you will easily navigate existing RHEL or Centos setups. But it will give you more recent applications and libraries etc. It will also be a lot easier to get stuff like Steam running.
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my personal rule of thumb is, if workstation (desktop/laptop): fedora if server: centos
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Fedora has more fun stuff too, like Hotdogs during the install
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smax posted:I'd pitch in a buck or two to send a glitter bomb to them. The address is a Dairy Queen. I wouldn't want to make some poor managers' life hell because his 16 year old employee is up to shenanigans on the interwebs.
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Do you really want to miss out on the next p-p-p-powerbook?
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I think it's too late for that, the guy already knows that they know it's a scam.
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kujeger posted:my personal rule of thumb is,
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Do you really want to miss out on the next p-p-p-powerbook? Be a condescending, dodgy dick in England and I'll be happy to glitter bomb you with a p-p-p-powerbook.
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Entropic posted:Every shop has one of those as standard operatying procedure, right? Isn't that the basejumping game?
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The Macaroni posted:Email #1 Hahaha... I started actually disabling the work account on my phone when on vacation because of people like Dork
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The frustrating thing about Win10 is that it's been pushed for a year, but I work with scientific instrumentation/software and as far as I know not even the major manufacturers have had a chance to get their software up to 10.
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And when they do it will be considered a major update meaning having to pay for a new license at well over 10k per seat.
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Gilok posted:I think your computer has a painful virus, because it's screaming. 
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:That's what happens when you engrave the word HATE on every nanoangstrom of your circuitry and you still haven't adequately expressed how much hate you're feeling for your user at this micro-instant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8F5kvhx6I&t=130s
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kujeger posted:my personal rule of thumb is, Centos on the desktopnis annoying because if it just came out it's okay but after a while a lot of software needs newer libraries than is available on centos.
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Enjoying this personal computing here
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Varkk posted:And when they do it will be considered a major update meaning having to pay for a new license at well over 10k per seat. Yep, it's fantastic. And then if you're lucky maybe it will even work!
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So I got loving tired of losing sleep (for real) thanks to the various ransomware out there and decided to try and do something about it. If you aren't using the File Server Resource Manager role on your Windows Servers (2008+), you should get on it immediately. It is 100% free and can monitor for filenames and cut off access to users accessing network shares if it detects too many files matching a given set of filters. Which is great because a lot of ransomware uses a specific filename pattern or file extension. I built a site that tries to log as many of these different file types as we know about and are always ready to take submissions for ones we don't using the form at the bottom of the page. I only spent 1 day on the site so it may not be perfect but I think it gets the job done. If you have any suggestions, I would be more than happy to take them - I want to make this a global resource and the more accurate information we have, the better. Link: https://fsrm.experiant.ca/ Let me know what you think.
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Kinetica posted:The frustrating thing about Win10 is that it's been pushed for a year, but I work with scientific instrumentation/software and as far as I know not even the major manufacturers have had a chance to get their software up to 10. That's one way to put it, I guess...
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nexxai posted:So I got loving tired of losing sleep (for real) thanks to the various ransomware out there and decided to try and do something about it. This is awesome nexxai, I'm going to get this set up on our file server when I'm back in the office next week.
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That's really fuckin' fantastic, man. Thanks for putting in the work.
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MrMojok posted:Hahaha... I started actually disabling the work account on my phone when on vacation because of people like Dork I disabled my email on phone last vacation I went on in Early May and haven't turned it back on yet. If something is on fire you should be sending a pagerduty alert or calling me anyway not sending an email with vague rear end wording. E-mail 8-5 feels good man.
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Kinetica posted:The frustrating thing about Win10 is that it's been pushed for a year, but I work with scientific instrumentation/software and as far as I know not even the major manufacturers have had a chance to get their software up to 10.
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It doesn't help that software which worked on the initial release may not work in some of the subsequent major updates. If you have ever dealt with scientific or engineering software you will know that software in that field is usually fragile at the best of times.
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Sirotan posted:This is awesome nexxai, I'm going to get this set up on our file server when I'm back in the office next week.
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Varkk posted:It doesn't help that software which worked on the initial release may not work in some of the subsequent major updates. If you have ever dealt with scientific or engineering software you will know that software in that field is usually fragile at the best of times. It was coded by a grad student who had no god damned idea what he was doing, and because it does real sciencey poo poo, nobody else understands how his code works either. Declare a function to do a thing? Better name it doThing. Have another really critical part of the code that does some horrible differential analysis, better name it doThing1.
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nexxai posted:Let me know what you think. Holy poo poo, man. I enabled this on our file server so hard. gently caress change control (when defending against cryptolocker). That went in pronto. Thank you!!!
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Varkk posted:It doesn't help that software which worked on the initial release may not work in some of the subsequent major updates. If you have ever dealt with scientific or engineering software you will know that software in that field is usually fragile at the best of times. I once setup some kind of air particulate monitor. It had a habit of instantly bluescreening any windows 7 laptops that were connected to it if they had been given any windows updates since 2009.
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