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Data Graham posted:"There's too much gauss in my monitor" *BWWOOONNNNGGGG* An old co-worker of mine always used the phrase "Step on degauss to make Van Gogh" whenever the screen went all distorted
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The Claptain posted:A ticket came in. Stupid, lazy companies that don't properly configure a no reply address. Especially when there is a legit email address they could be replying to instead!
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Do you use LinkedIn and think to yourself "man why don't I get more spammy notifications". Well now you can! With LinkedIn notifications inside the Windows action center! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-linkedin-beginning-our-journey-together-satya-nadella
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pr0digal posted:Do you use LinkedIn and think to yourself "man why don't I get more spammy notifications". Well now you can! With LinkedIn notifications inside the Windows action center! You've got to be loving kidding me.
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Dec 8, 2016 18:04
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Powered Descent posted:I sometimes kind of miss the degauss button. Long ago I found a monitor in a server closet that had been sealed off for at least ten years just glowing away. Not counting the command prompt burn in, the thwack sound that screen made when I pressed the button was righteous.
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Dec 8, 2016 18:43
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Long ago I found a monitor in a server closet that had been sealed off for at least ten years just glowing away. Not counting the command prompt burn in, the thwack sound that screen made when I pressed the button was righteous. The Server of Amontillado?
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:The Server of Amontillado? Yeah. it was an OS/2 backup email server that had been been walled off when the cube farm was reconfigured and the hallway was changed apparently. We found it while assigning static IPs after we expanded the offices and started conflicting with it. Nobody currently at the company had been there from the time when the server was concealed.
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Dec 8, 2016 18:59
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:The Server of Amontillado? For the love of asset tagging, Montresor, for the LOVE OF ASSET TAGGING!
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This happened to me until I figured out it was my TV that I had put on the network. Spent a good twenty minutes physically checking devices
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Argh tickets are in, roughly 30 tickets assigned to my team, our lead is typically in meetings and dumb poo poo, so it's really me and another guy. The other guy has updated 1 ticket so far this week, and that took maybe an hour of his time. I don't normally care and track what other people are doing, because i do my poo poo and it's not my business what other people do*. *Except when I'm having to pick up the slack and as a team we get bitched at for poo poo not getting done. I need to GTFO
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Long ago I found a monitor in a server closet that had been sealed off for at least ten years just glowing away. Not counting the command prompt burn in, the thwack sound that screen made when I pressed the button was righteous. I'd like to think there was a moment of the lights dimming and nearby electronics being wiped clean by it  .
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5-block radius EMP.
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:5-block radius EMP. An etherblast you say
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Check for magnets? My first TV had my alarm clock sitting on top of it for so long that if it was removed the entire image turned green and distorted.
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larchesdanrew posted:An etherblast you say Whatever you do, do NOT plug your monitor into the ethernet!
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:Whatever you do, do NOT plug your monitor into the ethernet! But how else am I supposed to power my monitor?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Yeah. it was an OS/2 backup email server that had been been walled off when the cube farm was reconfigured and the hallway was changed apparently. We found it while assigning static IPs after we expanded the offices and started conflicting with it. Nobody currently at the company had been there from the time when the server was concealed. Wasn't it in one of these threads where someone either had directly experienced or was told about a time where this happened because some old grinch lady wanted her computer completely silent and it had been put in the janitor's closet next door, which had then been walled up?
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Wasn't it in one of these threads where someone either had directly experienced or was told about a time where this happened because some old grinch lady wanted her computer completely silent and it had been put in the janitor's closet next door, which had then been walled up? It is the spinning of its hideous fans! EDIT: God, that was over 6 years ago. sfwarlock fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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n0tqu1tesane posted:But how else am I supposed to power my monitor? What in the actual gently caress? What happens if you plug it into something that's at/af at a voltage it's not expecting?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:What in the actual gently caress? There's still a power brick that your ethernet goes in to, then networking and power come out of to feed the computer. That thing actually looks rad as hell, figuring most thin client boxes are strapped to the back of screens anyway.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:There's still a power brick that your ethernet goes in to, then networking and power come out of to feed the computer. Yeah, our touch screen kiosks are all poe. It's pretty neat.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:There's still a power brick that your ethernet goes in to, then networking and power come out of to feed the computer. The brick is probably optional if you have Cisco switches with UPoE. I'm pretty sure that's a Cisco only PoE implementation and doesn't have an 802.3 working group designation as of yet.
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sfwarlock posted:It is the spinning of its hideous fans! That page is a magical time machine. CEO using an iPad issues. People installing Vista. Fake AV viruses being the big thing. One day we will look back at all this crypto locker stuff and go hey that's easy to deal with, what about Domain Hijack. Which I guess is future malware that joins you to a bogus cloud Domain to steal all your stuff.
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pixaal posted:future malware that joins you to a bogus cloud Domain to steal all your stuff. I posted it in one of the earlier threads (couldn't find it in that one), but years ago I had a dream where somebody got malware disguised as a bogus cloud backup service, it would add a drive letter to Windows and encourage you to save files into it. In my dream the user was dragging files full of salary info, banking info, etc. into it.
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pixaal posted:That page is a magical time machine. CEO using an iPad issues. People installing Vista. Fake AV viruses being the big thing. One day we will look back at all this crypto locker stuff and go hey that's easy to deal with, what about Domain Hijack. Which I guess is future malware that joins you to a bogus cloud Domain to steal all your stuff. Also: the term "netbook"
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A phone call came in, from previous employer. They're having a bad problem with a [Special File] header and they don't know why. I do, but unfortunately they were not willing to pay the outrageous number of dollars I said it would cost for me to share that information, or how to fix it. They currently have a guy manually opening files in Notepad++, removing stuff, and resaving them. Seven days a week. Since I left, they've also implemented an hilariously non-PCI-compliant payment system to complement the actual PCI-compliant payment systems that people slaved over integrating for 18 months. Basically the people in the new outsourced call centre in a country renowned for its corruption take the card details and enter them at supersecurepay.companyname.com. This doesn't go to any of the secure payment providers they already work with though, oh no, it goes to a webserver in the datacentre, that is not updated or segregated from the other machines in any way. The app on this box then updates a Google Docs spreadsheet with the customer's PII and card details. This is then accessed by another group, using shared credentials, and entered into an actual billing system. Their next audit should be interesting.
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carry on then posted:Also: the term "netbook" Somewhat hilariously, I still use the netbook in question on a fairly regular basis. It's got an N280 (dual core 32-bit 1.66 ghz Atom), 2 gigs of ram, a "120 gig" ssd [read: about 114gb actual], and runs Mint 18 XFCE beautifully.
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I have a MSI U-100 with about the same specs, that I still use all the time. Works perfectly and the battery lasts forever for just writing.
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Jaco posted:A phone call came in, from previous employer. They're having a bad problem with a [Special File] header and they don't know why. I do, but unfortunately they were not willing to pay the outrageous number of dollars I said it would cost for me to share that information, or how to fix it. Even if they did pay you, there's not an amount of money in the world that would get me involved in that shitshow. When they get blasted into compliance audit hell you're going to want your name as far away from them as possible.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Even if they did pay you, there's not an amount of money in the world that would get me involved in that shitshow. When they get blasted into compliance audit hell you're going to want your name as far away from them as possible. I don't get why people fear this. The company assumes all the risk. Your name coming up has zero relevance. What personal risk do you take at all?
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Sickening posted:I don't get why people fear this. The company assumes all the risk. Your name coming up has zero relevance. What personal risk do you take at all? Reputation is a thing, and having your name there runs the risk of future employers assuming you had something to do with it, and not digging deeper(or digging deeper not having any actual records that you tried to stop it).
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RFC2324 posted:Reputation is a thing, and having your name there runs the risk of future employers assuming you had something to do with it, and not digging deeper(or digging deeper not having any actual records that you tried to stop it). Well in that case you already had your name there and it's too late. The reality is that likelihood your name is mud rarely is going to happen unless were a high level officer in the company. A systems admin isn't going to be a bleep on the radar unless you make national news like a few have.
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Sickening posted:Well in that case you already had your name there and it's too late. The reality is that likelihood your name is mud rarely is going to happen unless were a high level officer in the company. A systems admin isn't going to be a bleep on the radar unless you make national news like a few have. I don't know about that. Having just moved across the country, it seems that my reputation didn't follow me, since I went from getting new jobs in a hurry to taking months. Tho it is possible the recruiters are lying to me about the availability of linux admin jobs. It seems to be about 50/50 at this point.
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Sickening posted:Well in that case you already had your name there and it's too late. The reality is that likelihood your name is mud rarely is going to happen unless were a high level officer in the company. A systems admin isn't going to be a bleep on the radar unless you make national news like a few have. It might be possible get blacklisted in a city if you really do something stupid to the wrong person. In my city at least there might be <1000 systems administrators of any capacity. That's definitely within reach of "I know a guy, who knows a guy".
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Sickening posted:Well in that case you already had your name there and it's too late. The reality is that likelihood your name is mud rarely is going to happen unless were a high level officer in the company. A systems admin isn't going to be a bleep on the radar unless you make national news like a few have. Also depends on the industry. If you work in TV/media (production, not broadcast) and you piss off the wrong people there is a drat good chance your name will get around. I swear everybody knows everybody else in the TV/media field, at least the execs.
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I'm not worried about further tarnishing my good name. This stuff was done after I left, at the direction of the boss, and implemented by another team. Blaming it on a contractor who spent an hour working on a completely different system, who officially doesn't know about the new stuff at all, seems like a bit of a stretch. It is a goddamn shitshow, though. And only gonna get much worse.
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I hate people who respond to my all-staff informational emails with irrelevant stuff. Today I sent one because there was going to be server downtime, then an hour later I sent another stating things were back up and normal. FOUR HOURS later, someone responds to the first one saying "thanks". Then one minute later, she responds to the second one with "again, thank you".  why are you wasting my time?
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wa27 posted:I hate people who respond to my all-staff informational emails with irrelevant stuff. She's just being nice.
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