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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I have a cheap Samson large diaphragm mic and put it on a boom stand, "for conference calls." Thank christ for someone actually caring instead of the IVR menu sounding like it's the equivalent of an emailed, scanned, faxed, pasted-to-word-document, printed, then faxed again amalgam nightmare document.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:A Focusrite Scarlett and QSC SPA2-60 will do 90% of the job of my TEAC setup plus give you mic inputs. This so much. I record music in my home office and I have a similar setup with M-Audio and a Rhode ribbon mic on a boom. Usually I use my gaming headset for conference calls for ease of use but when I’m feeling especially nerdy I put the call through my DAW with a touch of EQ, an EMI preamp plug-in and a bit of reverb for roominess. “Hello and welcome to Agrikk’s happy home of the smoooooth scruuummm. Brought to you in part by a joint partnership with AWS and [company]. I’m comin’ atcha live via Chime today and we are five by five. Come on callers, let me hear from ya!”
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quote:As an organisation who takes confidential information seriously, we would prefer not to send confidential information via normal email in the risk that it may land in the wrong hands. I have therefore attached password-protected zip file containing the following: always glad to see one of the largest national banks following good practice.
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Nov 24, 2019 21:12
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did they send a second unencrypted email containing the password
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Nov 24, 2019 21:58
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klosterdev posted:did they send a second unencrypted email containing the password Oh Christ, flashback to that happening to me when a client couldn't get secureFTP working between them and our secure facility, so sent the encrypted data to my standard office email. I still remember tactfully and slowly explaining that they should not then send the decryption key via email - even if they thought they were being sensible by sending it to a different address (my secretary's) I think the data had a value of half a mil on the black market had it been intercepted.
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The IT services company I previously worked for use this as standard practice. I could not convince them that if someone has compromised the email system on either end enough to get the zip file in the first place, they were already ready to take delivery of the password you were so kindly following up with. We were a loving Microsoft partner for gently caress's sake. We should have been using Azure Rights Management or something, not in the least because we could have boasted about the fact to our customers and made more business out of it! But noooo, we've never done that before so we're not going to start now.
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Nov 25, 2019 13:33
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All of this is causing me to flash back to my medical software days when people were so cheap, getting them to use 7zip with aes256 was a step up. We never sorted password exchange well. Our SFTP server wasn't better. In most cases these places didn't have their own IT service providers or didn't pay them to assist us. I did what I could. GPG seems like the promised land for this (except being difficult as hell to use)
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Nov 25, 2019 16:29
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At $OLDJOB we used something called Accellion. It worked pretty ok, and there was even a plugin for Outlook. That never got rolled out because it was "too complicated". So our SOP was to have people log in to the "webmail" part of this program and create a link that they would then send via normal email. Somehow this was easier.
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Nov 25, 2019 17:04
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Agrikk posted:This so much. Same. My work-from-home office is a music recording studio, so sometimes I run my Helicon mic thru an Avalon pre-amp or even a Chandler Germanium (because nothing says, "LISTEN TO ME, ASSHOLES" like $1200 worth of pre-amplification), thru a Tascam 24-track mixer with a MOTU 16a for I/O. Throw some compression on it with DBx 266s and total overkill status achieved. (Ugh, but I just looked at the rack and remembered that the Bellari RP282a still needs new tubes, and now I'm sad...) Of course, all of this is lost over Google's lovely codecs. Might as well be trying to DJ drum n bass over a phone line. Also, the Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 is good enough to use on stage, travels internationally just fine, and can push live music thru big speaker systems without complaining (balanced outs!). That thing is bombproof and is essentially the backbone of my band's live rig. Back to relevant content (lol, anyone here use Bigfix? did that phrase just give you a cold chill?), good god, people really don't understand data security at all. When I was consulting, I had a large number of clients with HIPPA requirements who were flagrantly violating them out of both ignorance and not wanting to spend money (due to ignorance). There's a semi-famous prosthetic limb builder in town who had all her records on a Windows XP computer (Win8.1 had been out for several years by then), in a common file share, so the other computer in the WORKSTATIONS group could access them. The whole thing was powerline Ethernet because she didn't want to spend money on wifi equipment (they were both desktops). She also didn't want to buy any sort of router outside what the ISP gave her (a super basic "business" account with no "business" features) or invest in a firewall. Godspeed, crazy limb lady. I also met my current therapist while installing a software SFTP client for a trauma therapy office (they actually DID care about HIPPA), and when I gave the head therapist paperwork to sign, she looked me in the eye and asked what help I needed. Two weeks later, I had my first meeting with my awesome therapist, who let me slide with $20 sessions until I got my feet under me financially. 
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klosterdev posted:did they send a second unencrypted email containing the password
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Heners_UK posted:All of this is causing me to flash back to my medical software days when people were so cheap, getting them to use 7zip with aes256 was a step up. We never sorted password exchange well. Our SFTP server wasn't better. In most cases these places didn't have their own IT service providers or didn't pay them to assist us. Ah GPG: simple software to perform a simple task that is impossible to explain the concept of, with controls and setup/configuration that noone can use.
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Nov 25, 2019 23:46
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A ticket came in asking us to install Microsoft Edge on a couple of Windows 7 machines. There isn't an installer for Edge other than the ones for the Chromium-based dev builds...and the request came from a user who has a habit of asking for wacky, pointless poo poo like getting the Windows Store versions of Office 365 apps installed on her Surface when she already has the normal desktop versions installed, just so she can take photos directly into a Word document.
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Nov 25, 2019 23:53
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Shut up Meg posted:Ah GPG: simple software to perform a simple task that is impossible to explain the concept of, with controls and setup/configuration that no one can use. Symantec's PGP offering has integrated fairly well with outlook/exchange in our org, the end user doesn't even have to think about it as long as they're on windows. If they're not on windows it sucks to be them. (By them I mean me)
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Nov 26, 2019 05:08
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Chandler Germanium I am so very very jealous.
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klosterdev posted:did they send a second unencrypted email containing the password But it has the super secure password of {companyname}123! 
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Gospel according to HPE: And lo, on the 32,768th hour did thy SSD give up the ghost https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/25/hpe_ssd_32768/ Well, that's delightful.
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Nov 26, 2019 23:20
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Good thing we’re all fiber channel in our 3par.
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Email: surface charger > do we have any spare?? my charger doesn't seem to be working anymore, do we have anymore please? I respond advising that we do not currently have any but some are on order. I unhook the surface dock I use for imaging and go looking for the user on the open office floor to plug it in (and surreptitiously check that their charger does indeed not work). Could not find her, so I deposit the charger back on my desk and go for a poo poo. On my return my boss informs me that the user is working from home and he knows this because she cced him into an email escalating the issue to the CEO.
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Ghostlight posted:Email: FFS. Sounds like the lady who started screaming at one of my provisioning analysts the other day because she was moving from Portland to San Diego, and she DEMANDED that we ship not only her Macbook Air, but also a bunch of non-IT related poo poo as well. I finally had to coach the analyst to ask if the lady knew where the mail room in the office was. The punchline: she was driving, and technically had plenty of room. She wanted to save space by having the company mail poo poo so she didn't have to Tetris it into her van, because she failed to plan for moving her office supplies until the last second. My email to management started with, "I dunno when they moved mail duties under IT, but seeing as I can't find that on the org chart, you need to put a stop to this now." Fake edit: that reminds me, some of my peer performance reviews called me and the other lady engineer on my team, quote, "HEADSTRONG."  My boss told them they should maybe think about rephrasing that and resubmit it.
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This is definitely the best day to have a hangover. Board member: Hey, can I grab you for a second? I'm just with some clients and the USB in the meeting room isn't working. I get there and the clients are in Windows Explorer idly clicking through folders on the C: drive. I guide the group through clicking on the entry named USB DRIVE (G:)
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Nov 27, 2019 00:41
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Saw this https://mobile.twitter.com/me_irl/status/1199361346250428418
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Nov 27, 2019 00:45
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Thread comment about screen capture software hits home as I eyeball the sharex icon in my system tray. Don’t get the joke with the mayo though.
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The shell thing as the start button replacement that people would just load onto server 2012 boxes without thinking is a great indicator that you’re about to start working on a job that will need about 50 previously unmentioned prerequisites cleared up first.
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what does bionicle have to do with being a windows admin
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Malachite_Dragon posted:what does bionicle have to do with being a windows admin Computer janitors generally have a collection of toys on their desk. Not saying other types of employees never do, but its definitely a trend.
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The Fool posted:Don’t get the joke with the mayo though. https://twitter.com/me_irl/status/1199333811974287360?s=20
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It seems like this "funny picture" post has a lot of backstory? 
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Only thing I can think of it's a play on downloading linux distros?
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Nah, it’s a thing I see pop up on r/sysadmin occasionally. Single admin shops without vlsc access and probably violating license terms. The cafeteria thing is weirdly specific but funny.
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Made me immediately think of this old gem
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Fake edit: that reminds me, some of my peer performance reviews called me and the other lady engineer on my team, quote, "HEADSTRONG." What's wrong with "headstrong"? Does it mean something else in corporate lingo?
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Fragrag posted:What's wrong with "headstrong"? Does it mean something else in corporate lingo? Not knowing your place. Which, when it is aimed at the only two women on the team, has a definite vibe that they should be grateful they are allowed out of the kitchen.
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Sickening posted:Computer janitors generally have a collection of toys on their desk. Not saying other types of employees never do, but its definitely a trend. Funnily enough in the gaming industry the IT department is usually the crew with the least amount of toys on their desks. The Fool posted:Nah, it's a thing I see pop up on r/sysadmin occasionally. I don't judge too harshly since this is usually due to underfunded and understaffed small shops, but I am reminded of $Last_Job where the deployment team (me) was denied access to VLSC because the IT director was annoyed by e-mails he got when I logged on to get an updated ISO.
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Hargrimm posted:Made me immediately think of this old gem 
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Sickening posted:Computer janitors generally have a collection of toys on their desk. Not saying other types of employees never do, but its definitely a trend.  As a developer, 
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Fragrag posted:What's wrong with "headstrong"? Does it mean something else in corporate lingo? Men in IT management have a tendency for (mostly unintentional, but a lot of them are just assholes) misogyny. Things like 'headstrong', 'shrill', 'should smile more' are all part and parcel for the handbook. Happy the manager above caught it. At least someone is thinking there.
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Headstrong, in particular when used as a put-down, is used by people in management who like to bully people and keep people underneath them because they wrongfully think it gives themselves more worth.
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quote:The roof caved it at [Office] and damaged the pc and phone. Please replace the pc and phone that is in [Office].
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The Fool posted:the roof has already been fixed, right? right?!?!? That's a separate ticket
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