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Thanatosian posted:I think a vendor is asking me to send PII over FTP. And sent me the password over unencrypted email. I can beat this, I worked at a place where we had a vendor transferring PII over FTP and dumping it in a directory with all of their other clients' data, every client shared the same username & password for uploading due to using the same vendor-provided all-in-one application, and all uploaded data was read/writable by the FTP user. The cherry on top was when we called them about getting the entire situation resolved, we had to pay them to update their software to be marginally less terrible. Also yes they still use them and no I don't know if they ever fixed it, I doubt it. Sheep fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Mar 24, 2019 |
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Coredump posted:For what's pissing me off. We're a small team that works remote. We have a weekly call on Fridays that goes for an hour for everyone to update everyone else on what happening in their corner of the company. I've been tasked with updating the weekly agenda sheet to try and summarize what everyone says. The big boss says they want it more accurate. I say on the phone call, "ok everyone to make this happen please email me a summary of the section you go over on the call so I can add it to the agenda". Boss didn't like that idea because they don't want the excuse of waiting on someone to email their section to me to hold up updating the agenda. If people won't email you a summary, and you're not allowed to record what they're saying, just take lovely notes.
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I have 2 bosses - One is head of IT, naturally... The other is the Head of Facilities for the specific site I'm based on. The HoF understands by and large I just report to HoIT and lets me get on with things - however she just got promoted to oversee all our sites for the next 9 months and herr deputy is covering her role for the duration. Her dep is a prize cock. There is an issue which caused a security concern, I provided a work around to remove the security concern so whilst the issue is still outstanding it's entirely non-urgent. Yet I get daily emails asking when I am going to bring an engineer on site to resolve as the issue is now highly urgent according to dep HoF. Old HoF was on site today so I said I will have a word with him about why he feels the need to get so involved in my work but if this is how he plans to manage me for the next 9 months then it will likely result in the 3rd grievance Old HoF will have to deal with because someone has threatened to knock out Dep HoF She laughed - everyone knows he is a bit of a melon, I just wanted to vent a bit... 
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Mar 25, 2019 11:08
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mewse posted:I was trying to type up a warning but my labtop froze up I'm a few pages back, but this hits close to home. I do not know what is wrong with Canadians, but they appear to be unable to mail a laptop down to our Office without me getting a call from Canadian Customs asking about the type of lab equipment I am shipping across the border.
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Mar 25, 2019 19:40
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Contractor took down a departments server today. By unplugging it at 2PM. Not on purpose. By running all the CAT5e for their equipment inside the cable management arm for said server, pulling the arm backwards and yanking the power cords out of both PSUs. 
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Digital_Jesus posted:Contractor took down a departments server today. They're doing their best.
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Mar 25, 2019 22:18
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Is there ever any use case for Windows logon names starting or ending with white space? We get so many calls from users failing to log on because something/someone typed a space character before their user name. Why can't Windows just loving strip whitespace before and after the user name.
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Mar 26, 2019 08:29
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So many applications fail to do that. iPhones love putting the automatic space after usernames and emails, and so many sites respond "Username not found! Of course you meant to use yourmail@domain.com[space] because that's a valid email!"
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Mar 26, 2019 14:39
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Lots of websites are poo poo at it as well. Got a field that only accepts numbers? Format it correctly so my phone keyboard pops up a number pad.
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Man, I pulled such a rookie move last night. I bought an m.2 and decided to do a fresh install of Windows 10. Got all my media prepped, USB key ready to go, important poo poo backed up to a spinner, no problems. Installed Windows 10 on the m.2, it boots so fast even coming from a SATA SSD. Move files over, tweak settings, turn off junk, logged in to everything, all good and only took like, an hour. Then I boot into PartedMagic and wipe the old SSDs. ...including my bootloader. I had to reinstall Windows TWICE MORE - once to an SSD to move all my files from the m.2 back to the spinner, then again to the m.2 for a proper install. 0130 by the time I was done, two hours past when I should have been in bed, and I didn't even do the tweaks and cruft removal and program installs on the latest install. God this was just such a dumb mistake. I would have done that in High School, I'm a professional dammit I should know better. On the plus side, the m.2 is stupid fast and I think it's really neat to just plug a hard drive directly into your motherboard.
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Mar 26, 2019 15:23
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Mar 26, 2019 16:20
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Iron_Chef posted:Opinion of a random internet person: This is assuming given your presence here that you're in a tech role, and not, like, an administrative assistant.
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Mar 26, 2019 16:27
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I wonder which of these will ever happen first; A - The heat death of the known universe B - Presentations and board meetings no longer requiring IT presence to operate a projector Bonus points that it always baffles me that external consultants can hold down a job without their own laptop, one day it would be great to simply say "Uh no sorry, we don't have anything to lend you do your job of showing us something".
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Mar 26, 2019 16:50
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Super Slash posted:I wonder which of these will ever happen first; I prefer it when they show up with their presentation on a thumb drive, and I don't have to support getting their laptop to work with our conference room. 
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Mar 26, 2019 17:08
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Thanatosian posted:I prefer it when they show up with their presentation on a thumb drive, and I don't have to support getting their laptop to work with our conference room. Agreed!! I know my equipment works with the projector. We used it yesterday. And several times last week. No I don't have an adapter for your Macbook.
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Mar 26, 2019 18:24
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Epicly pissing me off: vmware loving up my windows mdm enrollment certificate update. A week of backend bullshit for them to 1) not use my certificate i spent 400 dollars on and 2) doing a SS cert and thinking its fixed.
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Mar 26, 2019 19:18
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I have 802.1x user auth to get on a VLAN. My admins have my desktop and that redirected with folder redirection. I run HyperV locally for docker. Most of the time when I sign in I get an error that it can’t find my desktop, and my taskbar is hosed and I lose everything pinned. They are saying it’s due to 802.1X, I feel like there should be a delay, or they shouldn’t be redirecting my desktop. We’re at an empasse of wasting each other’s time. Anyone else handled this case? Machine auth is not available.
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Mar 27, 2019 00:04
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Even if your folders are redirected, it should be caching them to the point where it's not a problem for you. If you're using a roaming profile then I feel bad for you, that's a pretty old way to roam your settings around now, you might get somewhere by having a GPO that sets "Always wait for network" but it's a pretty clunky fix.
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Pissing me off: a company refusing to negotiate on pay at all Not pissing me off: knowing what kind of company it is and no longer having any compunctions about dropping it in an instant if I get a better offer. Although the description of it as a "family" kind of clued me in to begin with. What's that called? Friendly capitalism? Buddy capitalism?
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Mar 27, 2019 03:43
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pissing me off: a company refusing to negotiate on pay at all Nepotism
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pissing me off: a company refusing to negotiate on pay at all It's called "bullshit"
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pissing me off: a company refusing to negotiate on pay at all I generally found that any time a company/game guild/group claims a "family" atmosphere, it almost invariably actually means "do as Daddy says, or else  ".
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pissing me off: a company refusing to negotiate on pay at all It’s called gtfo and  , unless you’re in said family.
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Not an actual family-run company, two managers said that work is basically your family because you spend more time with them than you do with your real family. Like gee, thanks for reminding me that between work and commute I get more time at work than awake at home. Still waiting to hear from that WFH job.
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Partycat posted:I have 802.1x user auth lol edit; for clarity: wired dot1x should be done with machine auth or eap-tls with user auth as a fallback mechanism (followed by macauth usually), not user auth specifically because of problems like this. abigserve fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Mar 27, 2019 |
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Vendors introducing products in 2018/2019 without SMB 2.0/3.0 support. Was looking at some network document scanners... It is surprising how many of these still don't support SMB 2/3. Even new models!
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That moment in the presentation when you realise the service being developed at great expense is a 'Facebook, but for.....'
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Shut up Meg posted:That moment in the presentation when you realise the service being developed at great expense is a 'Facebook, but for.....' The amount of startups that flow through my organization that are ‘FB but for” companies is legion. The amount of duplicates? [Legion - 15%] Please, for the love of all that is necessary, do a teeeny tiny bit of market research before diving into a market. Please?
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Agrikk posted:The amount of startups that flow through my organization that are ‘FB but for” companies is legion. What's the point of the cloud then huh smart guy? Fail fast fail often
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Uber but for serial adapters and console cables at 3am
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Mar 27, 2019 17:44
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Thanks Ants posted:Uber but for serial adapters and console cables at 3am Facebook but for people who use this Uber service.
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Facebook but for old nerds that can't let go of dead gay things
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The Fool posted:Fail fast fail often I just witnessed a defective HP UPS that briefly and silently (!) cut power to the attached small business Windows/Oracle SQL server every few hours. No beep, no log entry, nothing. This was of course discovered after swapping the power supplies. Lovely failure mode. 
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The Fool posted:Facebook but for old nerds that can't let go of dead gay things Awful Yearbook shut down already.
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The Fool posted:Facebook but for old nerds that can't let go of dead gay things So... MySpace, then?
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eames posted:I just witnessed a defective HP UPS that briefly and silently (!) cut power to the attached small business Windows/Oracle SQL server every few hours. No beep, no log entry, nothing. This was of course discovered after swapping the power supplies. Had a computer that kept randomly powering off. It would go hours or even weeks between power offs. Replaced the power supply and eventually the mobo. Still kept happening. I was crawling under the desk to unplug it and cart it off to be swapped out when by chance I witnessed the light on the surge protector briefly go out and the computer shut off.. It was the drat surge protector the entire time!
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Awful Yearbook shut down already. Thank loving god. (Yes, I had an AYB page.)
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Not pissing me off today... Found out Comcast hosed up when we acquired a new location 1.5 years ago and didn't renew the contract like they said was required. Instead they left the old one in place which just expired today. So I am free to tell them to gently caress off without penalty, which is always good. Now to find another provider. Ironically, it can be difficult to find internet providers for a given area on the internet. I have run into so many cases where some local fiber outfit services an area, but you'll find no mention about it on the internet anywhere.
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There must be so many small providers that miss out on business because they don't invest the small sums required to have their network coverage overlaid on a Google map and instead insist on having people email them to find out if they have a location that can be served. Nobody wants to start any sort of sales engagement if they don't have to, especially when the company in question just uses it as an opportunity to try and sell something completely different to what the whole reason for contacting them was. "No we don't serve your area with our fibre product, but you can buy a DSL product that we wholesale off the large incumbent provider that is marked up and presented through an awful billing platform if you like!". No, thanks.
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Thanks Ants posted:There must be so many small providers that miss out on business because they don't invest the small sums required to have their network coverage overlaid on a Google map and instead insist on having people email them to find out if they have a location that can be served. Nobody wants to start any sort of sales engagement if they don't have to, especially when the company in question just uses it as an opportunity to try and sell something completely different to what the whole reason for contacting them was. "No we don't serve your area with our fibre product, but you can buy a DSL product that we wholesale off the large incumbent provider that is marked up and presented through an awful billing platform if you like!". No, thanks. I have discovered my state (Indiana) has a surprising amount of small independent telecoms. Most of them have roots as tiny companies that started a century ago providing copper phone service to one or two towns. In just the past year I have discovered 3 new ones I didn't even know existed that can service some of our branch locations. I prefer these smaller outfits; their service is always better, both technically and customer service wise. My most recent discovery is one from a tiny town with a population of less than 1,000... but they have massively built out a huge fiber network to cover several counties and can actually service 2 of our locations. But yet you find zero mention of this on their own website, and only a fleeting post or two about it on Facebook. I only found out by chance as one of their employees happened to be in one of our stores and overheard a store manager arguing with the Comcast tech that was on-site at the time.
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