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loving drug tests are really starting to get on my tits.
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tactlessbastard posted:loving drug tests are really starting to get on my tits. If that's what's happening, I think one of us has a very incorrect understanding of how drug tests work.
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Apr 29, 2019 23:13
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One of our IT managers (not my direct supervisor, but parallel to my direct supervisor) just put in his two weeks. He's fantastic. So is my boss. I'm nervous they aren't going to backfill, or (worse) backfill with a yes-man to please the C-levels. Ideally, they'll grab someone internal (we have some senior engineers who would be good) and backfill their positions, then just hire a new desktop person (there are people who are eminently promotable at each level).
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Apr 29, 2019 23:25
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Partycat posted:What are you talking about ? We were talking about voice faults. Specifically one way speech. The example in my post was isdn but it happens for sip more. Partycat posted:I don’t see how they could have one way voice but still have the circuit up and running. Was responding to this. Obviously the circuit needs to be up to have one way speech, on any platform. One way speech is when, for example you make a call, you sit there saying helloooooo and while the other end can hear you, you cant hear them. Partycat posted:Maybe I don't understand what a "NTU" is in this context? The device at site that terminates the service. Its pretty interchangeable. NTU/NTD/CPE, the last usually belongs to the end client though.
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Apr 30, 2019 01:09
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Wizard of the Deep posted:If that's what's happening, I think one of us has a very incorrect understanding of how drug tests work. Maybe TB was at the sperm bank by mistake 
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Apr 30, 2019 03:21
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I got a notice that a few certs are due to expire soon. This isn't surprising, I have a calendar notification about them and I'm due to replace them next week. However, my boss's boss also gets the emails, and even worse, reads them, and wants me to change one of them. He doesn't like that the cert for our Aruba controller is named aruba-master.companyname.com, and wants it changed to be "friendlier." We might have guest wifi soon, and he apparently thinks people A.) read the URL up top B.) care No one cares. In the 2 years since this has been running, not once has someone said anything. The thing is, Aruba controllers rely on there being a server called aruba-master.whatever.com. Its how the APs know where to go to get provisioned and send traffic. I think this is possible with a SAN cert and adding a few extra names, then making some DNS entries, but I'm not sure any of it will matter, since the Aruba Controller and Clearpass have a very weird setup and probably won't like names being changed. Knowing what I do about clearpass, I can be assured it will not be happy. Also, this was just after getting a talk about how we need to focus on important projects and not getting distracted by other things.
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Apr 30, 2019 05:37
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CitizenKain posted:I got a notice that a few certs are due to expire soon. This isn't surprising, I have a calendar notification about them and I'm due to replace them next week. However, my boss's boss also gets the emails, and even worse, reads them, and wants me to change one of them. Can't you just make a "friendlier" URL that redirects to the proper one?
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Apr 30, 2019 06:18
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wolrah posted:IPv6 as most of us know it has been around since the late '90s and I recall people talking about how NAT was a temporary thing and IPv6 would be everywhere in the near future starting in the early '00s when all the major OSes gained support for it. We could get rid of NAT and just give all the systems with mass spectrometers or gas chromatographs plugged into them publicly routable IPv6 addresses. I guessssss. IPv6 is for cattle.
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Apr 30, 2019 06:53
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CitizenKain posted:I got a notice that a few certs are due to expire soon. This isn't surprising, I have a calendar notification about them and I'm due to replace them next week. However, my boss's boss also gets the emails, and even worse, reads them, and wants me to change one of them. Just tell him it’s not possible and hopefully avoid any future discussion on this topic
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Apr 30, 2019 09:22
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I know we run Clearpass and have guest connectivity . I’m pretty sure we don’t have anything named Aruba-master in public DNS - I feel like we use a DHCP option to boot the APs. That being said if your infrastructure is built on certs and DNS, then yeah changing it ~because~ may as well be a partial infrastructure rebuild.
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Apr 30, 2019 10:08
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Yes, but is the cert available in cornflower blue? This is important
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Apr 30, 2019 14:30
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"I'll look right into that!" Then never do a thing
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Apr 30, 2019 15:18
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Recently found out that my previous position got filled by an admin assistant who has moved between 4 different positions in under a year. She's clueless as hell: "Oh, did I schedule you for a meeting with Big Boss when you weren't available? Oops, guess I forgot to check your calendar first! Teehee! I'll reschedule." [Narrator: She never rescheduled.] I'm also told that my previous boss is basically avoiding any work she doesn't want to do, saying "I'm overcapacity due to Macaroni leaving, can't help you." I'm eager to hear how helpful the new person will be and if the old boss will lose that excuse, or if it will just turn into "I'm training Newbie, don't have capacity to assist you."
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Apr 30, 2019 15:23
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Helped a user get setup for a new vendor's website and quoting software. She was having a hell of a time getting a password set. And I see why: Those are some terrible password rules. I like how it says you must include a special character, but then excludes many of them from being used, and also the bit about dashes... Bonus: The website mentions Oracle EBS. Looks like its built on top of that.
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Apr 30, 2019 15:33
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Any time I see a special character restriction, it's almost a 100% guarantee that site is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.
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Apr 30, 2019 15:35
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ratbert90 posted:Any time I see a special character restriction, it's almost a 100% guarantee that site is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. That was my thoughts as well. They are probably stored in plain text too.
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Apr 30, 2019 15:36
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The dash restriction is a new one to me though.
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Apr 30, 2019 15:37
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ratbert90 posted:Any time I see a special character restriction, it's almost a 100% guarantee that site is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. Yes. They’re not escaping the fields.
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Apr 30, 2019 15:42
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stevewm posted:Helped a user get setup for a new vendor's website and quoting software. She was having a hell of a time getting a password set. And I see why: For the amount of effort required to write those rules and filter/check passwords coming in, you could just escape the input correctly.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:02
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My coworker just quit w/o notice. My last day is Friday. Our largest (by far) client lost most of their internal IT and will use us as help desk until they can get someone hired, and is also requesting a tech be on-site 3 days a week (4 hour drive, so they'll have to stay in a hotel). We had four techs yesterday. Next week will be two.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:14
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Actuarial Fables posted:My coworker just quit w/o notice. My last day is Friday. Our largest (by far) client lost most of their internal IT and will use us as help desk until they can get someone hired, and is also requesting a tech be on-site 3 days a week (4 hour drive, so they'll have to stay in a hotel). Sounds like you’ll have some entertaining updates next week.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:17
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duffmensch posted:Sounds like you’ll have some entertaining updates next week. Actuarial Fables posted:My coworker just quit w/o notice. My last day is Friday. An update if you stay in contact might be fun, depending on how disastrous it gets.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:24
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pixaal posted:An update if you stay in contact might be fun, depending on how disastrous it gets. We'll see how quickly they deactivate my accounts - last time someone left they weren't removed from MS Teams until they started chatting in it a few weeks later.
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Apr 30, 2019 18:35
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pixaal posted:You missed an important bit from his post I was assuming that he had someone to keep him updated after he’s gone.
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Apr 30, 2019 20:15
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Partycat posted:I know we run Clearpass and have guest connectivity . I’m pretty sure we don’t have anything named Aruba-master in public DNS - I feel like we use a DHCP option to boot the APs. Its the hostname on the controller, probably if our system hadn't been setup by a previous boss who was a lunatic then I'm sure it would be different. There are a lot of things he did that defy reason. The AP's get their initial information from dhcp, then they look for the aruba-master name in dhcp to find the controller. That should all be in the backend. I think it has already been forgotten, as no one mentioned it further today, and I had more stuff dropped on me. So, I might just get the regular cert, stick some extra names in the SAN and move on.
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May 1, 2019 05:52
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We have a Palestinian user here, nice guy. I've helped him a bunch so he skips the service desk and just calls me now directly. I go there this morning, he had locked himself out of his account. Tried to change the input language to Arabic to write something and managed to change the whole system language, so when he tried to sign in it was entering Arabic characters. What a mess trying to get that straightened out. Well, unlocking his account was easy enough but when he was signed in, everything was Arabic even though what I could make sense of seemed to indicate it should be in English. Strangest of all, he somehow managed to flip the desktop in a way I've never seen or known was possible. Start button was on the right, and the tray on the left...but the time was displayed as AM45:9 for example. Backwards. The screen wasn't flipped, mouse worked as it should. But I dunno how the gently caress he did that. Seemed to revert once we got the language changed.
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May 1, 2019 14:01
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codo27 posted:We have a Palestinian user here, nice guy. I've helped him a bunch so he skips the service desk and just calls me now directly. I go there this morning, he had locked himself out of his account. Tried to change the input language to Arabic to write something and managed to change the whole system language, so when he tried to sign in it was entering Arabic characters. What a mess trying to get that straightened out. Well, unlocking his account was easy enough but when he was signed in, everything was Arabic even though what I could make sense of seemed to indicate it should be in English. The whole interface flips around when you set the system language to one that reads right-to-left. Set it to Hebrew, for example, and the same thing happens.
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May 1, 2019 14:18
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Weedle posted:The whole interface flips around when you set the system language to one that reads right-to-left. Set it to Hebrew, for example, and the same thing happens. Yeah, it was this. Still crazy as hell the first time you see it though.
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May 1, 2019 14:51
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codo27 posted:I've helped him a bunch so he skips the service desk and just calls me now directly. This is/can be a very bad thing, be careful.
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May 2, 2019 02:28
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Absolutely zero users get to contact me directly instead of going through helpdesk. No matter how small or big the issue is, I will redirect them to helpdesk twice, and the third time I block them in Skype and Outlook. I have had multiple coworkers in all my jobs go on sick leave because users demand poo poo from them directly instead of going through the proper channels, and management either doesn't know about it or isn't willing to push back.
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May 2, 2019 08:24
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Skype doesn't autoload on my laptop, so whenever I reboot everything feels so much less stressful until I remember, 'oh yeah, no one's blowing up my Skype.' And then I have to log into Skype.
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May 2, 2019 12:38
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stevewm posted:That was my thoughts as well. I wonder if you could put the entire EICAR test virus in as your password and try to get their management-mandated av to pick up the plaintext password list as a virus and delete it.
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May 2, 2019 13:32
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sfwarlock posted:I wonder if you could put the entire EICAR test virus in as your password and try to get their management-mandated av to pick up the plaintext password list as a virus and delete it. That is one thing I have never even thought about someone attempting to inject. You know their solution would be to white list that file in AV and restore from backup.
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May 2, 2019 16:24
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A poo poo that does not piss me off: I got accolades and a bonus for a huge project we completed. As much as I hate the dysfunction at this company, they've been really good at rewarding hard work.
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May 2, 2019 17:34
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ordered 2 new monitors for my cubical and they were delivered to the new building that was under construction, i ended up getting classified as a virtual employee because i started coming into the once a month. I had put in a request to take the monitors home since I no longer have a cubical, just found out today after coming into the new building for the first time that they have lost my monitors. They did offer me 2 24 inch 1080p monitors, i said no as the ones i have ordered were 600 each (27 inch 1440p monitors) and the asset tags are linked to me. im going to be mega pissed if they are unable to recover them.
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May 2, 2019 18:00
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poo poo pissing me off... being on a conference call where someone was poorly explaining what a GPO setting does to someone that wasn't understanding and they wouldn't stop talking over me when I tried to clarify things. I was on mute 
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May 2, 2019 20:01
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RoboBoogie posted:ordered 2 new monitors for my cubical and they were delivered to the new building that was under construction, i ended up getting classified as a virtual employee because i started coming into the once a month. I had put in a request to take the monitors home since I no longer have a cubical, just found out today after coming into the new building for the first time that they have lost my monitors. "Nope", your boss says, barely visible behind the two giant monitors on his desk, "no idea what happened to them."
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May 2, 2019 20:05
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Say it with me everyone, I Love The Cloud
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Slack just took a poo poo for about 10 minutes about an hour ago. Bad day for cloud people!
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