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RE: Animals at the office. Few years back we got a shipment that had this adorable little stowaway. Some warehouse workers brought it to reception, to call extermination. Instead the receptionist and us from IT decided to nurse it back to health and get it to a proper home. When we got it, the poor thing was extremely still, due to spending time in a cargo plane.  But we got it some humidity and warm lamps, and it didn't take long for it to get real lively.  We made it a makeshift terrarium from random office supplies and stuff from a nearby forested bit, and drove to the nearest petshop to get it some food crickets. Little guy wolfed them down with ease, despite being like the size of it's head, and it mostly spent time basking on the leaves. Eventually we got in contact a local zookeeper lizard specialist, and they took it in quarantine, and eventually had it moved to an area with other similar critters.   
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RE: Office Lizards When I lived in Cali I used to go outside and lasso lizards crocodile hunter style, with some floss tied into a slip knot. Once I caught a buddy I'd bring him back to my desk and tie the other end of the floss to my stapler and let him run around my cube all day. Was a nice distraction from a job I fuckin' hated.
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Ghostnuke posted:RE: Office Lizards This is capitalism in a microcosm
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At the end of the day he'd throw them on his cube grill and have a tasty snack.
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Ghostnuke posted:RE: Office Lizards Everyone thinks you're a weirdo but these are the skills that will keep you alive during the gasoline wars.
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I work where 2 sites were merged into 1 so the 'old server room' is basically just a cabinet with loads of fibres and a couple of switches to connect the two sites They merged the sites before I started here, so the new site got a fully fitted server room and they just left the old server room as basically a normal room (it has carpet!!) Because nothing really changes in 'old server room' it's very rare I need to go in there, I had to a few weeks ago and found 3 dead birds. Maybe I should go in more frequently  The room does have windows but they were secure so I have no idea how that happened. I'm just glad there wasn't any bird crap
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Jeremy in Marketing is going to be pissed when he realises his stash is gone. Better hope he doesn't figure out that it was you.
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angry armadillo posted:Because nothing really changes in 'old server room' it's very rare I need to go in there, I had to a few weeks ago and found 3 dead birds. Maybe I should go in more frequently Hey uh weird question not related to anything but does your health plan currently cover west nile virus treatment?
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In order to cure you must first understand
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Canuck-Errant posted:Hey uh weird question not related to anything but does your health plan currently cover west nile virus treatment? Or for those of you with rodents, hanta virus? That was always my concern when I started finding voles in the office basement. Never IN the server room, but who knows what they got up to when I wasn’t around.
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Shut up Meg posted:'Naked pictures of Anna Kournikova: tootle your bassoon to view!!!' Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGKwx-BFO0E
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drat nothing makes your nuts hit your throat like responding to a 2am on call ticket and you can't connect to the VPN.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:drat nothing makes your nuts hit your throat like responding to a 2am on call ticket and you can't connect to the VPN. And you're responsible for the VPN.
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and office365 is down and I can't email anyone what the gently caress is going on. what in the actual gently caress? Friday the 13th is over. Give me a loving break.
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Well that was loving maddening. We are experiencing intermittent connectivity problems and packet loss across 3 different ISPs plus our Verizon Private Cloud is loving up. Not one of them had a report of anything being down but all of them are showing issues at their noses which makes me wonder if I'm the only person up at 4am on a Saturday in this area...
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Are you sure that it's definitely an issue with 3 different ISPs and not your own kit?
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Thanks Ants posted:Are you sure that it's definitely an issue with 3 different ISPs and not DNS?
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Thanks Ants posted:Are you sure that it's definitely an issue with 3 different ISPs and not your own kit? Yup. Verizon Private Cloud is an entirely separate service and is unreachable by computers in the field as well as the servers here (when we do have internet connectivity). In this building we have 3 ISPs 2 of which are having similar problems but neither share the last mile or anything like that. We have our own direct fiber from this building to our colo and that was the first ISP I called. They confirmed that they have about 35% outage in that area and dispatched a tech to the node. Our third ISP which is only used for public wi-fi access is surprisingly working just fine, but completely useless to me. That was of course the first thing I checked / eliminated.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:That was of course the first thing I checked / eliminated.
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D. Ebdrup posted:Just because you did that, doesn't mean it's not DNS. 
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D. Ebdrup posted:Just because you did that, doesn't mean it's not DNS. But, 14 hours later it looks like everything is resolved. Verizon was pretty quick to respond. I didn't even get a ticket in to them. Cox still hasn't closed the ticket I opened though...
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Finally ready to cancel Papertrail. Click the "Cancel Account" button, it times out. I sent them an email and will instruct finance to dispute any future charges. This is after our moron account rep emailed my team + some C* saying "Hey you could avoid those big money overages by changing your plan..." even though we've paid $0 in overages ever. I was willing to let it be basically forever, because it mostly worked ok. Just leaving a really negative impression lately. Unrelated, does anyone have an article on the Zoom sex chat thing? We use Zoom here, and I'm wondering if there's anything we should be doing to avoid getting hijacked.
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Guy Axlerod posted:Unrelated, does anyone have an article on the Zoom sex chat thing? We use Zoom here, and I'm wondering if there's anything we should be doing to avoid getting hijacked. I think it’s an issue with conference id reuse and not specifically with accounts getting hijacked, however, you should still make sure all of your zoom accounts have unique strong passwords if you are not using sso. You should be using sso
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The Fool posted:You should be using sso I've tied our limited amount of VPN use into Azure MFA in my ongoing bid to reduce the number of passwords and MFA systems people use to one, it works well enough I just wish Microsoft would update the NPS server so that it has an RSAT module and Azure MFA was baked in so that I don't need a separate RADIUS server for Wi-Fi (currently installing the NPS extension means *every* RADIUS auth request generates an MFA prompt). Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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The Fool posted:I think it’s an issue with conference id reuse and not specifically with accounts getting hijacked, however, you should still make sure all of your zoom accounts have unique strong passwords if you are not using sso. We use SSO, but I mean conference ID hijacking. I see some people using their "personal ID" for every meeting, and then when there are consecutive meetings they leak into each other. On the other hand, recurring meetings have the same ID every day/week. I'm not sure what's worse.
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IIRC Teams meeting IDs time out if you try and connect to them wildly outside of the time the meeting was arranged for. Which seems sensible.
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I wish we had office lizards instead of flocks of mice. I actually brought in a gold loaf from costco one day and laid it on the bench for everyone to pick at, and the mice weren't long moving in. We have a drat near blind guy in our office and he actually stepped on and killed a mouse when walking by. What are the chances of that? Anyway, first ticket today Subject: Network Security Key I have a Huawei turbo stick for my laptop as I have no wifi at home. Normally it connects automatically, but now I am being asked to “enter network security key”. I don’t know what that is.
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A server is running low on space on a data drive, so I fire an email off to the server owner going "hey, this is gonna fill up pretty soon". Get a response back saying "it shouldn't grow any more, don't worry about it." Historical data says otherwise (it's been growing by about 2gb every day at midnight) so I dig a little a deeper and find... nothing good. There's a SQL express DB that lives on that drive, and the admin decided to be proactive and schedule nightly backups of the DB. Except that version of SQL express doesn't have maintenance plans, so he set up a backup object, then a batch file that calls the object through sqlcmd every night, and then another batch file that deletes backup files older than 10 days. Been running like this since the beginning on September. Should be cycling out its backups, yeah? Except when that admin set up the backup object, they set it to write to the same file, every time. Just a single .bak, growing by 2gb every night, always updating its modified by date so it never gets deleted.
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Ah yes, the wonders of admins that copy code off the internet and pay no mind to what it actually does.
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hihifellow posted:A server is running low on space on a data drive, so I fire an email off to the server owner going "hey, this is gonna fill up pretty soon". Get a response back saying "it shouldn't grow any more, don't worry about it." Historical data says otherwise (it's been growing by about 2gb every day at midnight) so I dig a little a deeper and find... nothing good. In the immortal words of an alleged dev at my company, who is no longer a dev or with my company, "BUT I AUTOMATED THE HECK OUT OF IT." It's good that my years doing phone support means I have an extremely fast mute button reflex, because when he said that I barked out a laughing, "ARE YOU loving KIDDING ME?" that would have gone over like a lead balloon what with all the director and VP level folks in said meeting. Dude apparently thought "automating" a task meant he'd never have to review the code, or add error checking, or think about maintaining it in the future if any of the associated technology changed. It's a loving API call between two unrelated systems with an orchestrator behind it. Like...my dude.
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Reminder that you day could be worse: https://twitter.com/svblxyz/status/1206948966442708992?s=21
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What's everyone's favorite sync org contacts from 365 to mobile offering? They're currently setup in a public folder for this client
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Got a ticket this morning requesting a 'data marge' and for record #1 to please marge into record #2, it's taking a lot of willpower to not embed this image in the ticket:
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We're currently having a lot of fun where internally our O365 e-mail accounts can't e-mail our on prem exchange users. Other way around work, external also works. Edit: Our exchange users didn't get their hair did. minusX fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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minusX posted:We're currently having a lot of fun where internally our O365 e-mail accounts can't e-mail our on prem exchange users. Other way around work, external also works. Broken hybrid transport rule?
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Lord Dudeguy posted:Broken hybrid transport rule?
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