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freeasinbeer posted:Found out my ex boss was lying about how much we spend on compute. We are spending 5x what what he was reporting. All so he could try and play with the big boys. You should move all your stuff to the cloud I hear it's a lot cheaper.
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Just got back from our office in Brisbane. No one from IT has been there in two years. It's an office of entirely engineers. Yeah. Of all of the loving nonsense I saw, my favorite was the fact that someone peeled the labels off of 8 of 10 cables running between the switch stack and the server racks.... I just... gently caress.
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Jun 10, 2018 09:52
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I work in a company with only engineers in it. Somehow it works out?
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Jun 10, 2018 09:59
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I want to check something, but Windows Server 2016 can't be a NTP server without 3rd party software? We ran into a fun surprise this week replacing a DNS server that also did NTP duties and had to roll back. A coworker is more of a windows admin then I am, so I wanted to check if we aren't just huge idiots.
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Jun 11, 2018 05:38
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CitizenKain posted:I want to check something, but Windows Server 2016 can't be a NTP server without 3rd party software? We ran into a fun surprise this week replacing a DNS server that also did NTP duties and had to roll back. A coworker is more of a windows admin then I am, so I wanted to check if we aren't just huge idiots.
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Jun 11, 2018 05:45
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CitizenKain posted:I want to check something, but Windows Server 2016 can't be a NTP server without 3rd party software? We ran into a fun surprise this week replacing a DNS server that also did NTP duties and had to roll back. A coworker is more of a windows admin then I am, so I wanted to check if we aren't just huge idiots. Your PDC should be the NTP server for the domain by default, there are things that can change that (vmware tools, hyper-v integrated time services) but otherwise domain joined machines should always look to the PDC. I am not sure if linux and other stuff can pull NTP from windows devices though, we have our PDC and any linux based device pull time from their router/firewall interface and those pull from external sources.
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Jun 11, 2018 05:57
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Sales department is bitching that O365 is 'not user friendly' and delaying our migration. LET'S JUST STICK WITH OFFICE 2010 FOREVER
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Jun 11, 2018 16:21
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anthonypants posted:Traditionally, Domain Controllers are the NTP servers. Ok. These machines sit out on some DMZs and aren’t involved in the domain. Just surprising they didn’t have a service to do it. Good news is that means we can get some NTP appliances.
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Jun 11, 2018 16:45
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CitizenKain posted:Ok. These machines sit out on some DMZs and aren’t involved in the domain. Just surprising they didn’t have a service to do it. Good news is that means we can get some NTP appliances. I mean, your routers should be able to provide NTP. There really isn't a need for an NTP appliance unless you just want to spend money
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Jun 11, 2018 16:50
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"I know I started three weeks ago, but nobody calls me Elizabeth, in fact I always hated being called Elizabeth. Can you change my email to say 'Liz'?" Sure, it'll take up to a day or so for everything to update, so don't be alarmed if it doesn't change right away. "My email is still esmith@company.com" We didn't change the actual address. We just changed the display name. Same reason some people still have xmaidenename@company.com "Well..." Hey HR, what about asking people what they prefer to be called? Also, instead of the sales manager putting the new employee ticket in, just some other random salesperson did. So the sales manager emails a helpdesk tech directly asking when she will be set up, and sales person #3 is emailing asking "Is she getting a desktop or laptop"
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Jun 11, 2018 16:55
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Why not change the address and include the old address as an alias? Is that not a super common practice when people get married / change their name?
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Jun 11, 2018 16:58
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Why not change the address and include the old address as an alias? Is that not a super common practice when people get married / change their name? That's pretty normal but for some reason I want to say we can't re-name the mailbox so we have to create another one and migrate everything over, and most people are 'too busy' to let you do that. O365 here we come....maybe.
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Jun 11, 2018 17:00
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Bob Morales posted:That's pretty normal but for some reason I want to say we can't re-name the mailbox so we have to create another one and migrate everything over, and most people are 'too busy' to let you do that. If you're in exchange you should be fine. Exchange tracks the object with the hidden object ID, not by mailbox name / address. Unless you have some third party dependency that breaks?
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Jun 11, 2018 17:03
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Judge Schnoopy posted:If you're in exchange you should be fine. Exchange tracks the object with the hidden object ID, not by mailbox name / address. Unless you have some third party dependency that breaks? It's Exchange but through Rackspace. We can add another email address, and even change the reply-to, but you can't change the actual username.
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Jun 11, 2018 17:23
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Bob Morales posted:Sales department is bitching that O365 is 'not user friendly' and delaying our migration. The gently caress? We switched over late last year, there is zero noticable impact to the end user, except maybe for the day or so the actual migration happens.
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Jun 11, 2018 17:35
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Bob Morales posted:Sales department is bitching that O365 is 'not user friendly' and delaying our migration. We just finished an Exchange 2010 to O365 migration - it was not pretty. Smooth for the end users, but so many problems... like existing calendar events on peoples calendars somehow disassociating from the originators calendar event, so the originator can't update it. Also lots of random folders/emails lost until accounts were re-migrated a half dozen times. Shares mailboxes are set so that sending as the shared mailbox puts the sent folder in YOUR sent items instead of the shared mailboxes sent items, unless you manually add the account via Outlook, even though you already have the mailbox in Outlook because of delegation...
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Jun 11, 2018 17:47
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I've just about had it with the web and every single loving site wanting me to subscribe. Ublock doesn't have enough known rules to cut that poo poo out.
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Jun 11, 2018 18:29
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CitizenKain posted:Ok. These machines sit out on some DMZs and aren’t involved in the domain. Just surprising they didn’t have a service to do it. Good news is that means we can get some NTP appliances. We have a gsm network appliance that pulls in ntp time validated from the cell network. All internal infrastructure gets ntp off the internal dns address, including the pdc role holder.
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Jun 11, 2018 18:39
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Combat Pretzel posted:I've just about had it with the web and every single loving site wanting me to subscribe. Ublock doesn't have enough known rules to cut that poo poo out. That and asking for my location. gently caress you Washington journal you don't need to know where I'm reading from.
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Jun 11, 2018 18:52
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Try uMatrix. Forbid all javascript and cookies and a lot of stuff breaks but the text part is there 99% of the time. If you whitelist sites like imgur, youtube, and twitter you end up getting most of the content because pretty much no one hosts their own media anymore, they just link to social media. That said, the delayed popup email boxes are the loving worst.
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Jun 11, 2018 19:05
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Whoever invented the feature where the content dims and a box appears asking you to subscribe just because you moved the mouse out of the window can loving die. Also whoever sprays offers to subscribe to notifications into the browser.
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Jun 11, 2018 19:07
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We see you're using an adblocker! Here's how to whitelist us!
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Jun 11, 2018 19:12
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This is why I browse with javascript disabled and only enable it for sites where the tradeoff is worth it. Gets rid of all those newsletter popups.
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Jun 11, 2018 19:15
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tactlessbastard posted:We see you're using an adblocker! Here's how to whitelist us! The best part is these ad blocker detectors all rely on javascript. Certainly no one will ever figure out how to circumvent that, nosiree.
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Jun 11, 2018 19:32
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I wonder, what got into the news websites to automatically play a video on their article page? Did they make studies that showed that people want video instead of text? In what universe would that be even true? I go to a website I want to read the article. The last thing in my mind is the desire to watch a lovely video. But, since everyone is doing it, it must work somehow. Do they show adds in those videos? Anyone of you work for these monsters that can shed a light on the logic behind this idiotic idea?
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Jun 11, 2018 19:47
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Dear Colleague, We would like to hear how you feel about working at COMPANY NAME, and so we are conducting a workplace survey. You will receive an email with a link to an online survey within the next week. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and provide us with your feedback. The survey is being conducted by Energage, an independent research company. To protect your confidentiality, Energage will not disclose your individual responses to COMPANY NAME. Furthermore, your department or group scores will only be disclosed if there are at least 5 survey takers in your group. However, please note that managers at COMPANY NAME may see the optional written comments on the final page of the survey. If you wish to make a comment please do not write anything that will identify you as an individual.
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Jun 11, 2018 19:56
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We get employee surveys every couple years and I never fill them out because I do not trust for a second that I am as anonymous as they claim I will be. If I do it at work all they need is my IP and can instantly figure out who said a lovely thing.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:06
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xzzy posted:We get employee surveys every couple years and I never fill them out because I do not trust for a second that I am as anonymous as they claim I will be. If I do it at work all they need is my IP and can instantly figure out who said a lovely thing. I always fill them out and am brutally honest (when anonymity is promised) though I've never worked at a place where I was worried anyone was out to get me. I don't know what I'd do in that situation.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:12
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We had Gallup do a survey at the beginning of the year. I didn't have any issues with the survey itself, but the poor communication around the survey resulted in one of our subsidiaries having a significant phishing incident due to someone clicking on a survey related spam e-mail thinking it was the official survey.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:17
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xzzy posted:We get employee surveys every couple years and I never fill them out because I do not trust for a second that I am as anonymous as they claim I will be. If I do it at work all they need is my IP and can instantly figure out who said a lovely thing.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:33
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Alright, my company for some reason fell in love with the triple cubicle pod. I think they're a waste of space but they look cool or whatever. We've been putting them everywhere. They tried to put them in IT but the closet they stuff us in is too small so I was able to talk them out of it. Anyway, what was I about to start complaining about? Oh yea. So we hired a new sales person to replace my buddy that left. Cool. They hired two. He was such a great sales person they need two souls to replace him. There are no more open seats in sales. I said, "Great, where is this person going to be sitting?" "Oh, we are going to move one of the triple pods over to where the double pod is, since there's a triple pod in customer service that only two people are using."  (we put ONE double cubicle in, the rest are triple, because gently caress planning ahead) I then ask, "So when does this person start?" "July 2nd" My dilemma: do I mention that we need an electrician to come out for this, or should I just wait? Also, are they going to have the electricians come in on a Saturday to do this or just make those 5 people stand around like idiots while they swap everything? That would actually work out because I have two NeatPatches I want to install.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:40
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Angry Boss was really on a roll last week. He immediately had conflict with the new compliance person and when they escalated it to a C level meeting he allegedly told them she could make changes in his department over his dead body. Then, he had one of his meltdowns and screamed at Laid Back boss out on the floor in front of the owner and some visiting investors lol. Anyway, he was walked out of the building this afternoon and the mood is demonstrably lighter, the birds are singing, etc etc. Let's review his greatest hits: quote:After 6 weeks in the pod at my new job I came in this morning in the middle of my boss telling 4 of our subordinates that 'hurricanes may start natural but they are being intensified and aimed with secret technology controlled by a worldwide cabal bent on subjugating the last free people on the planet' quote:I arrived two minutes before the scheduled start of our department head meeting this morning at my new job to find they had started without me and were finishing up. After they broke up, my boss asks if 'we need to have this at a more loving convenient time for you, just let me know' quote:Just got a text from him, 'Don't ever do X. We need to be doing Y. I told you we need to do Y, and never said we could do X.' quote:This morning, rear end in a top hat boss caught laid back boss out on a simple and fairly inconsequential arithmetic error, called him a loving retard, slammed his laptop shut hard enough to make it jump, and then stormed out of the room, trying to slam a door that has a hydraulic arm quote:He kept a crew over late one day last week after I had left for the day to make x amount of substrate, and inexplicably, undocumented. quote:
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Jun 11, 2018 20:44
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So long rear end in a top hat. Hopefully he will not be returning to pick things up as they are the fuel for the fire at this evening's celebration.
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tactlessbastard posted:Angry Boss was really on a roll last week. He immediately had conflict with the new compliance person and when they escalated it to a C level meeting he allegedly told them she could make changes in his department over his dead body. Then, he had one of his meltdowns and screamed at Laid Back boss out on the floor in front of the owner and some visiting investors lol. On a Monday no less! That's a nice beginning to the work week. Content: I have been doing Infrastructure (servers, DC stuff, VMWare, Storage, MS core services (AD, Exchange, DNS, O365 (its split right now... ) etc) for a small State University for the past two years as the only team member. In October we FINALLY got someone who is our ERP SME, and today I finally got an Engineer hired to work with me on all the MS core services stuff. Currently, everything is coming up Milhouse. Pissing me off though: digging out of this damned hole and transitioning to proactive from fire brigade. It's always an effort and everyone starts out pissed because nothing got done in a "timely" fashion over the past two years.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:53
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tactlessbastard posted:Angry Boss was really on a roll last week. He immediately had conflict with the new compliance person and when they escalated it to a C level meeting he allegedly told them she could make changes in his department over his dead body. Then, he had one of his meltdowns and screamed at Laid Back boss out on the floor in front of the owner and some visiting investors lol. Good riddance, he sounded unflushable!
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Jun 11, 2018 21:07
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How the gently caress does somebody like that end up staying employed for longer than a week
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Jun 11, 2018 21:27
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Thanks Ants posted:How the gently caress does somebody like that end up staying employed for longer than a week He was old buddies with the freshly retired CEO. He also had a very strong monopoly on some vital operations information and thought he was irreplaceable. Owner disagreed once he took over day to day control when CEO retired.
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Jun 11, 2018 21:57
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Bob Morales posted:My dilemma: do I mention that we need an electrician to come out for this, or should I just wait? How much do you want to make life easier for the people that are responsible for this shi... innovative office design? If EASY: Explicitly call this requirement out in its own email. If this is ignored, you're covered. If NOT EASY: Mention this requirement at the end of a long, semi-related email. When this is ignored, you're covered.
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Jun 11, 2018 23:07
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Thanks Ants posted:How the gently caress does somebody like that end up staying employed for longer than a week Never mind employed, how does that guy stay alive?
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Bob Morales posted:Alright, my company for some reason fell in love with the triple cubicle pod. I think they're a waste of space but they look cool or whatever. I had a triple cube for years and I hated every second. I bashed my knees constantly. I'm not even tall. It's that weird 45 angle cabinet on the side.
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