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Woof Blitzer posted:Working from home is amazing. The only moral question is whether you owe your company the full 8 hours of work per day, or just the 4 that you'd actually get done in the office between pointless meetings, dull colleague conversations, filling the photocopier/coffee machine as you're the only one with courtesy and poo poo that gets dumped on your by passing managers?
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Dec 1, 2019 23:55
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That's not a question.
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Dec 2, 2019 00:23
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I barely do any work as it is heh. Cool event: migrating tens of thousands of people to O365 and then emails suddenly start delaying by 8+ hours.
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Dec 2, 2019 00:51
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Office 365: it's bad
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Dec 2, 2019 04:33
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Weedle posted:Office 365: it's bad Then what is good?
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Dec 2, 2019 04:56
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Office Space 365
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Dec 2, 2019 04:59
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to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women
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Dec 2, 2019 04:59
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... so Monday morning scrum call, then?
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Dec 2, 2019 14:50
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"Hey Junglist, can you review this code for me?" "Uh...sure. But first, what are you trying to accomplish?" "To remediate that insecure executable permissions vulnerability from a couple weeks ago." "The one where you blew up 5% of my Windows fleet with a bunch of un-tested and unnecessary icacls work?" "Yes!" "Um...your code hasn't changed. It's just being more specific about where it looks for exes." "Yes." "Why?" "What do you mean?" "Why do you hate me? Why do your managers hate logic? Why is anyone trying to do this when there's no loving reason for it and the actions are just going to gently caress it up further?" "I don't understand." "It's fine. Please don't loving do anything until I talk to your manager..."
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Dec 2, 2019 18:25
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Alas, somebody has been tasked with a problem they do not understand it would seem.
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Dec 2, 2019 19:37
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Alas, somebody has been tasked with a problem they do not understand it would seem. Exactly this. I can't blame the analyst, because he doesn't know what he doesn't know, but if his manager is going to continue to tell him, "Yes, Patching Guy, do this thing and drat the torpedoes," I'm going to remove everyone's Bigfix permissions and not give them back until we've had a Come To Jesus with said manager. I mean, if Patching Guy hadn't reached out to me, this poo poo would have gone back out to prod again in next month's patching cycle 
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Dec 2, 2019 19:56
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Exactly this. I can't blame the analyst, because he doesn't know what he doesn't know, but if his manager is going to continue to tell him, "Yes, Patching Guy, do this thing and drat the torpedoes," I'm going to remove everyone's Bigfix permissions and not give them back until we've had a Come To Jesus with said manager. Wow why are you being such a roadblock don't you know he's still got 95% of the fleet to patch?!
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Dec 2, 2019 22:22
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Ordered 100+ HDMI KVMs to solve a thing. Manager approved it. His manager approved it. Procurement "found a cheaper supplier." We now have 150 VGA KVMs.
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Dec 3, 2019 00:19
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sfwarlock posted:Ordered 100+ HDMI KVMs to solve a thing. Manager approved it. Why do you need 150 KVMs
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Dec 3, 2019 00:20
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Methanar posted:Why do you need 150 KVMs This hoteling concept that this idiot came up with. Each desk gets a desktop and a docking station and a KVM. If you have a laptop, you dock it and KVM into the dock. If you don't have a laptop - or forgot yours - you KVM to the desktop. It falls under "mine is not to reason why." EDIT: By the way, neither these thin desktops or the docks have VGA.
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Dec 3, 2019 00:24
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sfwarlock posted:This hoteling concept that this idiot came up with. Each desk gets a desktop and a docking station and a KVM. The question is, are they going to admit fault and purchase what you wanted or are they going to get adapter cables and make life shittier and dumber for everyone.
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Dec 3, 2019 00:37
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MF_James posted:The question is, are they going to admit fault and purchase what you wanted or are they going to get adapter cables and make life shittier and dumber for everyone. They've already asked about the adapter cables. They're going to compare them to the restocking fee. 
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Dec 3, 2019 00:59
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:"It's fine. Please don't loving do anything until I talk to your manager..."
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Dec 3, 2019 01:32
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:"Hey Junglist, can you review this code for me?" The hole in knowledge there is so specific it's amazing. I'm guessing this is some green-behind-the-ears security person fresh out of school?
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Dec 3, 2019 01:46
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Where do I go on this forum to bitch about the Internet screwing up a lot more since Disney+ launched. I don't just mean mine, I'm getting more "this is plainly packet loss" calls since that sucker launched.
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Dec 3, 2019 03:49
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Thanatosian posted:It's just amazing to me that someone knows enough to know what an .exe is, that you can use icacls to change the permissions for them, that you need to leave the ones in system32 alone, but still think it's okay to remove permissions from all the others. Not even that. He's a general IT analyst type who happens to know how to Google things. He's not even specifically security, so much as someone from the NOC who demonstrated they could take direction and vaguely write some scripts. His boss, however, is dangerous... Arquinsiel posted:Taking bets on the dude in question not hearing anything after "it's fine"? I trust this dude to listen to me, but only until his boss puts more pressure on him than I can exert. Which is why I have my finger over the, "DISABLE USERS," buttons in Bigfix. Worst case, I can yank their accounts until everyone slows the gently caress down.
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Dec 3, 2019 04:30
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sfwarlock posted:Ordered 100+ HDMI KVMs to solve a thing. Manager approved it. Please tell me that you have a manager with enough balls to drop these useless items in the procurement offices and tell them to deal with it.
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Dec 3, 2019 06:47
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Which is why I have my finger over the, "DISABLE USERS," buttons in Bigfix. Worst case, I can yank their accounts until everyone slows the gently caress down. Just do this until they see reason.
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Dec 3, 2019 07:57
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Wibla posted:Just do this until they see reason. You know I will.
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Dec 3, 2019 08:01
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sfwarlock posted:This hoteling concept that this idiot came up with. Each desk gets a desktop and a docking station and a KVM. It gets better. I asked about are we purchasing a large number of docks. The answer is no. He wants laptop users to carry their docks with them and "just plug them in every morning, IT can show them how."
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Dec 3, 2019 18:51
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Can you glue to dock to the laptop so I don't lose it?
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Dec 3, 2019 18:56
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sfwarlock posted:It gets better. I asked about are we purchasing a large number of docks. The answer is no. He wants laptop users to carry their docks with them and "just plug them in every morning, IT can show them how." 
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Dec 3, 2019 19:57
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I saw this story, and thought of this thread. I wonder how close this hits to home for some of you?
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Dec 9, 2019 03:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zo8CRe6Qs
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Dec 9, 2019 15:39
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Finally resolved the saga of the computer that spontaneously powered off when left idle. Power strip was plugged into an outlet that was hooked up to a motion detector that controlled the lights.
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Dec 10, 2019 06:22
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klosterdev posted:Finally resolved the saga of the computer that spontaneously powered off when left idle. Power strip was plugged into an outlet that was hooked up to a motion detector that controlled the lights. Ticket closed: Working as intended
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Dec 10, 2019 06:30
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klosterdev posted:Finally resolved the saga of the computer that spontaneously powered off when left idle. Power strip was plugged into an outlet that was hooked up to a motion detector that controlled the lights. We moved into a new building a year ago and only after setting up 60 meeting rooms we realised that the upper outlet in every pair was connected to the motion detected lights, so everything would shut off if you weren't moving enough.
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Dec 10, 2019 07:06
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klosterdev posted:Finally resolved the saga of the computer that spontaneously powered off when left idle. Power strip was plugged into an outlet that was hooked up to a motion detector that controlled the lights. wtf. Why? less than three posted:We moved into a new building a year ago and only after setting up 60 meeting rooms we realised that the upper outlet in every pair was connected to the motion detected lights, so everything would shut off if you weren't moving enough. WHY?!
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Dec 10, 2019 13:33
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less than three posted:We moved into a new building a year ago and only after setting up 60 meeting rooms we realised that the upper outlet in every pair was connected to the motion detected lights, so everything would shut off if you weren't moving enough. I visited a client whose windowless meeting room was like that. I joked that they must have to 'YMCA' during dull meetings. Turns out that it was a regular requirement during their financial meetings.
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Dec 10, 2019 14:18
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Shut up Meg posted:I visited a client whose windowless meeting room was like that. 
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Dec 10, 2019 14:25
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Our workplace had an issue with a line of printers that had inbuilt light sensors in them, and a power off function tied to that. They used to be in an always lit area, but we moved to a new office building with those movement detecting lights, and all printers were in placed their own room with no regular traffic. It took me a fairly long time to figure out why some large print jobs would randomly fail for no apparent reason.
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Dec 10, 2019 15:19
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Proteus Jones posted:wtf. Why? LEED Platinum and building codes.  The Dilbert comic applies too. The lights have one motion sensor per 16 cubicles and shut off the lights over each group if there's no motion. Those work okay, I guess.
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Dec 10, 2019 17:34
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Shutting lights off makes sense but not outlets, that's crazy
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Thanks Ants posted:Shutting lights off makes sense but not outlets, that's crazy Turning off outlets is actually a really old way of doing things, I just never heard of it connected to sensors.
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