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PirateDentist posted:
There are four hospital in the GTA area that I am currently very wary a about getting correspondence to/from via fax. There is one specific 28 page fax that was sent a few months ago that as specialist didn't get. I wasn't the one that sent it originally, or the second time and they were both faxed as the full 28 pages. We have our confirms. I sent it twice more split in half via two different ways and they didn't get it. The last time I sent it they finally got it. I'm 99% sure its not an issue of someone losing the document/loving off.
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BackupExec was rock-loving-solid until Symantec bought it.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 04:50 |
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sfwarlock posted:BackupExec was rock-loving-solid until Symantec bought it. Guess when I started using it?
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 04:57 |
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Oh cool, Cerner is down enterprise wide. Happy friday everyone!
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 13:02 |
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I used to use backup exec for Novell servers. That was fun. Then we migrated to veeam. What a difference.
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Digital_Jesus posted:If your router is smokeping I would suggest putting it out! Renegret posted:it was one of ours. It was previously down due to a power outage. It's an absolute mystery to me how traceroute got associated with measuring latency - is it just that to the uninitiated it looks like it's doing something marginally more complex than sending a single ping every second? Thanks Ants posted:Unless you aren't verifying the backups
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D. Ebdrup posted:Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Pretty much. A lot of our "latency problems diagnosed through traceroute" problems come from customers who think they know more than they really do. Since the call center is more interested in getting the customers off the phone as fast as possible, they just accept what the customer says and send the ticket over. We also have another problem with the call center where we charge our customers like $40 or something like that for a tech to come over. This is lovely, the call center employees knows it's lovely, the customers know it's lovely, so the call center does it's best to find an excuse to avoid a tech roll out so they don't get yelled at by customers.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 15:24 |
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Unless it's something you can only configure via some kind of front panel that's 100% isolated from any network interface or admin page, it would still be worthless, since by the time they're actively loving with the backup server and services, they likely have a domain admin account to play with. I will gun for SSO on literally anything else, but the very meaning of the word "backup," to me, is that it's a sovereign system and your domain administration can go gently caress itself. Yeah, the syatem should in some way know what all the directory credentials are, but those are just the "please" and "thank you" when somebody politely asks it to store data or give it back; that's just to keep the users out of each other's business. The real words of power are a random 20-character string that you keep in a fireproof safe, and they're only heard when you speak them as close to the metal as your administrative profile makes feasible. (Not to contradict anything you said; your virtual write-once tape library would certainly conform to the principle.)
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 16:00 |
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minusX posted:An email request from a director with a second director (and a lot of external contractors) copied in. minusX please join this conference to setup VPN for these external contractors. minusX posted:Also having a connection to my home PC worked for a website outage for external users and I've had people ask me to stay in this area of IT instead of the new job. It's good to be wanted
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 18:44 |
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An email came in from the principal at 8:30 this morning.quote:[New teacher] is starting today and her office is [technology storage room]. She tried moving in but it is filled with old computers. Why are there old computers in this teacher's office? Please note this is the first time I have even heard that this woman exists, much less that it was decided without my input that her office would be my tech dumping ground. Also please note that we have an all day mandatory staff meeting for beginning of the year. Another email came in from the principal at 11:30, while we were both sitting at the same table for three hours, but this time the director was CC'd on it. quote:Larchesdanrew, I requested that the office for [new teacher] be cleaned out and this is not done yet. Please explain why this has not been completed and inform me as soon as it is done. I responded with a screenshot of her first email with the time and date circled, followed by a copy of her signed Technology Agreement with the portion about giving the IT Department at least 24 hours notice for any non-emergency service highlighted. I also requested, since this was my first time hearing about that hire, that she provide me with her information so I can create accounts and activate her keycard to avoid her being further delayed. The director responded by asking the principal why I was just now being notified of this new hire and the office change after they had discussed it two months prior and he had specifically told her to discuss with me the possibility of the new teacher using the storage room for an office. I've been internally about it all afternoon.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 19:55 |
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Eikre posted:I will gun for SSO on literally anything else, but the very meaning of the word "backup," to me, is that it's a sovereign system and your domain administration can go gently caress itself. Yeah, the syatem should in some way know what all the directory credentials are, but those are just the "please" and "thank you" when somebody politely asks it to store data or give it back; that's just to keep the users out of each other's business. The real words of power are a random 20-character string that you keep in a fireproof safe, and they're only heard when you speak them as close to the metal as your administrative profile makes feasible. Yeah, it would, except the backing storage for it runs on the same production SAN with the same administrative creds that were already stolen, because why would you stand up isolated storage for your backups?
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 20:09 |
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larchesdanrew posted:An email came in from the principal at 8:30 this morning. Did you at any point use the word 'Boom!'?
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larchesdanrew posted:I've been internally about it all afternoon.
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Shut up Meg posted:Did you at any point use the word 'Boom!'? nexxai posted:It's a Friday. You're definitely being fired today. That would be typical, wouldn't it? Seems the director has his back on this one, though.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 20:37 |
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Wibla posted:
Trump always expresses his support for someone who's about to be shown the door.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 21:17 |
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Where are they expecting you to put everything in storage
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 21:17 |
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klosterdev posted:Where are they expecting you to put everything in storage "Do you really need all that space in your office?"
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 23:01 |
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*~*~The Cloud~*~*
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 23:03 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:*~*~The Butt~*~*
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 02:38 |
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We had an absurd directive pushed down to us by our newly minted C-level security officer about a year ago, and somehow this mangy band of unicorns managed to pull it off. We told them it couldn't be done and then did it anyway, basically. Today, they had a short meeting so management could tell us all how proud they are. And that's great. Appreciation is nice. Then, my boss's boss, who's sub-director level, starts into his PowerPoint, and towards the end he says, "Also, because we recognize that this has been a lot of thankless work across multiple teams, we're going to make sure each hub office has an off-site, catered celebration, our treat." In the background, the Director of Infrastructure hastily unmutes himself and says, "Wait, but the budget--" "I know we're in the middle of a budget crisis," boss's boss says, barreling entirely over his own boss's spluttering. "But we're going to make sure this happens for you." A few hours later, my boss comes back after meeting with his boss with a huge poo poo-eating grin on his face. "So it turns out there ISN'T any budget for celebrations, and $MyBoss knew it. He also knew if he promised something to that many people all at once, management would have to go along with it. He literally planned that to force them to reward y'all, because he knew NOT doing so would be total bullshit." My boss's boss rocks. I'm still ultra pissed that my team got schism'd apart and I've been effectively demoted, but the people I report to are the best.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:*~*~~*~*
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 08:26 |
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larchesdanrew posted:
Air cover best cover
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 18:37 |
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:We had an absurd directive pushed down to us by our newly minted C-level security officer about a year ago, and somehow this mangy band of unicorns managed to pull it off. We told them it couldn't be done and then did it anyway, basically. Halfway through reading this I thought you were working for Michael Scott.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 07:48 |
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Blue_monday posted:There are four hospital in the GTA area that I am currently very wary a about getting correspondence to/from via fax. There is one specific 28 page fax that was sent a few months ago that as specialist didn't get. I wasn't the one that sent it originally, or the second time and they were both faxed as the full 28 pages. We have our confirms. I sent it twice more split in half via two different ways and they didn't get it. The last time I sent it they finally got it. I'm 99% sure its not an issue of someone losing the document/loving off.
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evobatman posted:Halfway through reading this I thought you were working for Michael Scott.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 19:47 |
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wolrah posted:It's almost like fax is a terrible thing no one should be using anymore... Faxing and the medical field are one of those messy divorces that will only end when one of the two irretrievably dies.
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klosterdev posted:Faxing and the medical field are one of those messy divorces that will only end when one of the two irretrievably dies.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 05:52 |
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Between this and the thread's attitude to printers, I'm concluding that we have a secret general hatred of paper.
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 13:35 |
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Heners_UK posted:Between this and the thread's attitude to printers, I'm concluding that we have a secret general hatred of paper. What's so secret about it?
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 13:42 |
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Here now,some of my favorite books are printed on paper!
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 14:26 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:Here now,some of my favorite books are printed on paper! Better to get it in digital format so you can stop killing trees
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Johnny Aztec posted:Here now,some of my favorite books are printed on paper! Not printed at your office though. Someone else's problem!
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 16:00 |
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klosterdev posted:Faxing and the medical field are one of those messy divorces that will only end when one of the two irretrievably dies. Thanatosian posted:Really, we just need to stop exempting faxes from HIPAA. I read recently that a major country, I forget which but I think maybe Canada, was proposing plans to mandate that medical records no longer be sent via fax within the next few years. That's the only way I expect it to change, by force of law. Heners_UK posted:Between this and the thread's attitude to printers, I'm concluding that we have a secret general hatred of paper. edit: To be clear I have nothing against paper itself, as long as it's used properly (long lasting content like books or magazines, not printing an email to read later), just where it's directly interacting with technology. wolrah fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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We're an allegedly paperless company, but tell that to the people constantly calling me to open up a new firewall exception for some boutique printer they expensed without asking IT if it was supported
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:firewall exception Dirt Road Junglist posted:printer
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 18:07 |
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I'm racist against paper and proud of it. Kill all printers and throw em in a ditch somewhere
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 18:11 |
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Oh yeah. I didn't even go into the level of entitlement that the requester brought to the table. We required a security review since, y'know, PUNCHING A HOLE IN THE FIREWALL AND ALL, and they shot back that we should just do as we're told and not ask them any questions or, gasp, make them follow proper processes. That got sent to management. We didn't get any guff afterward, but PROTIP, if we ask for something and you drag your feet, it's your own loving fault you can't print (and why isn't this an app in our mobile platform, you utter fools, eat the loving dogfood already).
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I just had to sit down with the director and all of administration and defend my ACTIVE DIRECTORY POLICY of not deleting user accounts, but marking them deprovisioned, disabling the account, and moving them to a separate OU (I have scripts that run based on users in that OU that disable their ability to login, access email, or sign in to wifi). Imagine, sitting in a room with 8 people over the age of 60 who are all aggressively ignorant and trying to describe concepts such as "best practice" and "redundancy." The director attempted to inform me that old employee accounts are taking up too much storage space. Apparently all this came up because the principal sent an email to an Office365 group she created instead of the official faculty mail group and this is somehow my fault? Also, the director said the following to me: quote:Would this be easy for someone else to understand? If you quit tomorrow, would your replacement be able to look at this and make sense of it? Are you keeping up with your documentation? You know, in case something happens to you and we need to find a replacement? Great
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# ? Aug 6, 2019 20:17 |
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Say yes, this is super easy and this is all best practice. gently caress em.
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larchesdanrew posted:I just had to sit down with the director and all of administration and defend my ACTIVE DIRECTORY POLICY of not deleting user accounts, but marking them deprovisioned, disabling the account, and moving them to a separate OU (I have scripts that run based on users in that OU that disable their ability to login, access email, or sign in to wifi). Oh my gently caress, you mean doing the best practices/SOX compliance that every other company with half a brain does? I'm sorry your management is clueless. That's brutal.
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