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Sungard is the worst. They just shot me a support email using a non-white background with comic sans font. It's like it was sent from a Pentium 3 using lotus notes.
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Sepist posted:Sungard is the worst. Yep.
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May 4, 2018 16:03
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Captain Ironblood posted:App passwords are randomly generated by users and admins can delete them and force them to regenerate if necessary. As it stands they're also a billion times better passwords than what your average user would create, and deleting them logs the user out of whatever device is using the app password. You only really need them for apps that can't handle the 2FA prompts. Right, well, our userbase is way too stupid to handle app passwords and a lot are work from home... it would just be way too much disruption when they get confused. I need to research it more to see if I can use just 2FA and skip app passwords and still get most of the security.
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May 4, 2018 16:35
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Zero VGS posted:Right, well, our userbase is way too stupid to handle app passwords and a lot are work from home... it would just be way too much disruption when they get confused. I need to research it more to see if I can use just 2FA and skip app passwords and still get most of the security. App passwords will be for stuff like Outlook that doesn't know how to deal with MFA. They aren't so bad once you sit down with users for 5mins and provide them a quick little document on the process.
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May 4, 2018 16:38
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ChubbyThePhat posted:App passwords will be for stuff like Outlook that doesn't know how to deal with MFA. They aren't so bad once you sit down with users for 5mins and provide them a quick little document on the process. App passwords are only necessary for applications that don’t support modern authentication, and outlook and every other office application does that now.
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May 4, 2018 16:44
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May 4, 2018 16:46
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May 4, 2018 17:31
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Not Outlook for Mac!
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May 4, 2018 18:05
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How old is your Mac Outlook?
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May 4, 2018 18:49
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96 Port Hub posted:Not Outlook for Mac! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2015/11/19/updated-office-365-modern-authentication-public-preview/
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I feel like I might need some advice very soon.  ?I've just hit the 5yr mark at a relatively cushy pseudo-government position, but I've been a desktop support technician the whole time and I feel like I've plateaued. They've finally started paying for training and certs but it feels like too little too late. I should have my microsoft MTA cert in a month or two. Already have a B.Sc. and been in the industry for 12 years. Current job, pros: salary matches union rates despite being non-union, customary merit increase yearly, generous pension matching (5% for my 4%), many free lunches, overtime relatively rare, basically no on-call Current job, cons: non-technical managers (including CTO). Server/network admins deliberately withhold knowledge and expect us lowly desktop techs to mind our place, opportunities for advancement seem slim, promotions have been hinted but not given. Dept growth is spoken about often, but there's been zero staff growth in the 5 years I've been here. I've taken on many additional responsibilities without reward (VoIP admin, sole admin for an external agency, etc) I think the gist is that I want to advance my career and it's not happening here. I spoke to a friendly contact at a vendor who I trust and he referred me to the owner of a MSP who I've now spoken to on the phone and seems similarly amiable. I have never worked for a MSP. Reading everything about "never work for a MSP" here, I am worried I am being crazy considering jumping ship for a MSP. So I need help understanding what red flags I need to look out for before I do a job interview with this guy. This MSP is small, like 4 or 5 people and doesn't have an office because it's all remote or on-site work for clients. I feel like myself and the MSP owner are both considering working together because our mutual friend has vouched for both of us. If the money+benefits isn't an increase I think that's a deal breaker. Help me goons 
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May 4, 2018 19:01
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Docjowles posted:I can only speak to chef, but it’s... pretty ok on Windows? It’s still fundamentally a Linux-born, file-based tool whereas Windows tends to be managed via APIs and the registry. There are things it’s just not the right tool for and you’ll still want group policy or a mountain of PowerShell scripts to fall back on. But it does the stuff config management tools do well like modifying files and running arbitrary commands just fine on Windows. Vulture Culture posted:In either one you're basically just going to be wrapping PowerShell DSC resources to do anything real. Ansible is better at orchestrating multi-step workflows and changes that involve multiple servers. Chef is good at composing things into higher-level primitives (something DSC can do anyway) and reusing community code (again, see previous note). Do you like Ruby, or do you like YAML with some Python in it? I think I'm going to start experimenting with using Terraform to bootstrap DSC directly for my windows servers and chef for my linux servers. The general idea being Terraform creates the VMs, runs a git pull remotely to get the configuration files, then starts dsc/chef. Is there a better way to do this, or am I on the right track?
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May 4, 2018 19:13
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MSP are a great place to ramp up your knowledge on a million different subjects in record time. The down side is you’re on a shoestring budget and it’s probably stressy as hell.
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May 4, 2018 19:18
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Yeah that concerns me. I’ve been having problems with stress and CTO heard my concerns and basically said “we’re all stressed”
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May 4, 2018 19:58
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Just had this exchange more or less verbatim with a coworker today. Again. It is always DNS.
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May 4, 2018 20:03
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Docjowles posted:Just had this exchange more or less verbatim with a coworker today. Again. It is always DNS. Always blaming DNS is a lack of creativity of how things can go wrong.
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May 4, 2018 20:05
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Docjowles posted:Just had this exchange more or less verbatim with a coworker today. Again. It is always DNS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKMw2it8dQY
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May 4, 2018 20:07
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Methanar posted:Always blaming DNS is a lack of creativity of how things can go wrong. Same, but the network. "Oh, two VM's connected to the same switch and on the same VLAN can't connect and you think it's a network routing problem?" It's an application process. It's always an application process.
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May 4, 2018 20:16
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Methanar posted:Always blaming DNS is a lack of creativity of how things can go wrong. other stuff can break it's not always DNS but this time it is At work we're on the cusp of fixing problem with our DNS and I couldn't be happier.
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May 4, 2018 20:17
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Methanar posted:Always blaming DNS is a lack of creativity of how things can go wrong. The sentiment stems from "it's the network until proven otherwise." If it's not DNS, it's the server not being up. These are things that do not require a network engineer to figure out, and wading uphill through a stream of denials is the icing on the cake. Krispy Wafer posted:Same, but the network. 
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May 4, 2018 20:23
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Krispy Wafer posted:"Oh, two VM's connected to the same switch and on the same VLAN can't connect and you think it's a network routing problem?" I've literally had this happen before and have it be a networking problem. Basically: ESXi is bad like all other software and standard vswitches will silently drop any packets that have DSCP flags set. Instead of, you know, ignoring the value and not taking any particular action based on the flags, ESXi will just throw away the whole packet.
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May 4, 2018 20:54
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Methanar posted:I've literally had this happen before and have it be a networking problem. And that's when you get real quiet on the conference call and act like you're as surprised as anyone that the issue just cleared up on its own. Because otherwise they'll use that poo poo against you from that point on and will never even look at their servers until you've completed a full network health check.
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May 4, 2018 20:58
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Krispy Wafer posted:Same, but the network. s/network/database/g
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Methanar posted:Always blaming DNS is a lack of creativity of how things can go wrong. Yeah but those are the exceptions that prove the rule that it's always DNS  Methanar posted:I've literally had this happen before and have it be a networking problem. We recently hit a bug in our Arista switches where their VXLAN implementation didn't honor gratuitous ARPs. That was cool to discover when we tried to fail over a bunch of HA services that use ARP to claim the VIP on the new master. And then those VIPs stopped pinging until we flipped them back or cleared ARP on the switch. But at least that was fun to dig into because it was not, for once, DNS.
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I am at 9 years, 0 certs, no degree. I am(was, I def don't support them anymore) the nephew who is good with computers. I can never believe how it all worked out so good. I have worked myself out of job four times so far. I end up leaving once I see there are no more cool projects for me, I figure I have 5 years at my current job before I run out of fun stuff to learn and do. No certs OR education but I'm rebuilding a network. I am also not specifically a network guy. What's your pucker factor?
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May 4, 2018 22:57
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fishmech posted:The thing I didn't mention is that most of those wirings on the 66 block weren't in use anymore, but a few random ones on there were. And most of the ones still in use were lazily sliced off at random points before they'd actually run out to the rest of the building so there were bursts of sliced cabling on the ceiling and along one of the walls - but I couldn't take good pictures of that because there was labeling there that'd be a bit too sensitive to show. don;t stop im almost there
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3.5 years of education (dropped out my senior year like an idiot), no certs, 15 years experience with most of it at the same place that I just left. I’ve had very few issues with getting interviews. A couple places required degrees, including one that wanted a masters for a data analyst I position, not senior or anything like that. Currently I am a Technical Support Engineer at a company that seems to appreciate their employees and it is great.
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My current place basically requires a master's or PhD for management positions but that just goes to show you that you don't want a management position to begin with. I actually got this job specifically to get out of management and back into a technical role Also academic inflatio is hella dumb.
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Biopharma is good because the scientists can act like spoiled babies then I just tell em to shut up and follow the process properly. "But we just paid this technician to fly out from Japan to install a $300,000 instrument with a PC and he's only here for 4 hours waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" And I see they made the purchase in the PO system 2 weeks ago. So now I'm working with Finance to implement additional metadata on PO requests to drive a workflow that will copy me when the PO is submitted. Anyhow, tldr biopharma is good *sips a very strong margarita whilst browsing the internet at work* Bald Stalin fucked around with this message at 00:55 on May 5, 2018 |
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May 5, 2018 00:53
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Got denied today for the third year in a row to replace our now 8-year-old virtual hosts 
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May 5, 2018 01:29
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Sheep posted:My current place basically requires a master's or PhD for management positions but that just goes to show you that you don't want a management position to begin with. Managers make more than employees, and advanced degrees make more than lesser degrees. I appreciate that IT is the land of the exception, but it's not terribly surprising the two would go hand in hand at some companies.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'm sorry but what does this even mean? To be clear, you can't get a management role here without at least a master's, doesn't matter in what, which in my opinion is fairly dumb and is basically the definition of "arbitrary checkbox for HR". Having a PhD in the mating rituals of south American spotted nematoads doesn't magically make you management material. Sheep fucked around with this message at 02:04 on May 5, 2018 |
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May 5, 2018 01:49
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I’ve got a ged. For you Canucks, that’s means I didn’t even finish high school. I dropped out.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Managers make more than employees, and advanced degrees make more than lesser degrees. I appreciate that IT is the land of the exception, but it's not terribly surprising the two would go hand in hand at some companies. Why pass up on a qualified candidate with that kind of policy? I understand for an outside hire, as you haven't had an opportunity to personally assess them, but for an internal promotion it is very short sighted.
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I've finally made my way away from basic low level IT jobs. It's weird because I don't know what to do with the downtime. I'm so used to someone being at my back to be busy or just look busy. Now the unsaid rule is that as long as I deal with my responsibilities no one cares what else I'm doing. I could be posting here all day as long as the job gets done. I think I have PTSD from past jobs or something it's going take me a while to get used to this...
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I'm on my first IT job and got handed a program written in basic, which has a time stamp of May 1987 in the program, and was asked to work on it a bit to make sure its compatible with all of their machines and to add some stuff to it. I politely asked if I could just rewrite it in Java or C++, the program itself is a very simple take in a txt file and dump out reports from said text files, then it would work on all the machines in the office. Now I'm sitting here parsing 900 lines of code with no comment lines, while learning an archaic coding language, and the guy who developed it is either dead or retired in florida. Is this a common thing? edit: and as far as I can tell there are entire chunks of code that do absolutely nothing .
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Defenestrategy posted:I'm on my first IT job and got handed a program written in basic, which has a time stamp of May 1987 in the program, and was asked to work on it a bit to make sure its compatible with all of their machines and to add some stuff to it. When I politely asked if I could just rewrite it in Java or C++, the program itself is a very simple take in a txt file and dump out reports from said text files, then it would work on all the machines in the office. Haha, what the gently caress? No. No it is not.
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Defenestrategy posted:I'm on my first IT job and got handed a program written in basic, which has a time stamp of May 1987 in the program, and was asked to work on it a bit to make sure its compatible with all of their machines and to add some stuff to it. I politely asked if I could just rewrite it in Java or C++, the program itself is a very simple take in a txt file and dump out reports from said text files, then it would work on all the machines in the office. That’s awesome. gently caress anyone that says running basic in 2018 is wrong. Goto 10.
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jaegerx posted:That’s awesome. gently caress anyone that says running basic in 2018 is wrong. Goto 10. 10 Open VisualStudio.exe 20 goodbye 
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Defenestrategy posted:I'm on my first IT job and got handed a program written in basic, which has a time stamp of May 1987 in the program, and was asked to work on it a bit to make sure its compatible with all of their machines and to add some stuff to it. I politely asked if I could just rewrite it in Java or C++, the program itself is a very simple take in a txt file and dump out reports from said text files, then it would work on all the machines in the office. The only time BASIC should be used in a modern IT office is as part of a joke. It's funnier if you say QBASIC though.
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