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devmd01 posted:So uh, Microsoft isn’t having a good week, are they? That's our default anyway. 
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Agrikk posted:I was in a city government and I was moving an office. When I was done the office manager told me that we had a $300,000 surplus that I needed to spend due to use-it-or-loose-it budget rules. Holy poo poo. That's....that's not a small problem.
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Feb 5, 2020 17:03
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Dell EMC just dropped off a box of bagels and coffee in an attempt to convince us to buy their SAN. At what dollar amount do you start getting vendor bribes? We spend something like five to ten thousand every month on dell laptops and all we get is an account rep who is rotated every month.
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Feb 5, 2020 17:06
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Eh it's just citizens taxes being flushed down the toilet. What's the big deal?
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Feb 5, 2020 17:07
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Lol a search box that relies on a web service to be working to avoid just being a large translucent square 
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Feb 5, 2020 17:12
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Defenestrategy posted:At what dollar amount to you start getting vendor bribes? We spend something like five to ten thousand every month on dell laptops and all we get is an account rep who is rotated every month. Well we're spending $0 so maybe try that? They're just trying to get their foot in the door. We were shopping around for more storage and just called everyone we could think of with "WE NEED A FUCKTON OF SPACE CALL US BACK WITH YOUR BEST OFFER FOR ALL THE SPACE" after last week's SAN snafu. Interestingly PureStorage... actually made us a rather incredible offer to the tune of about 25% of their normal cost for 2 50TB SANs. I'll be impressed if this actually works and we end up with another SAN. We are getting push-back from the top, but haven't received an explicit "no" yet. All our other vendors are the same way. Never the same rep twice.
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Feb 5, 2020 17:14
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CLAM DOWN posted:What kind of enterprise didn't already disable Cortana, and uses Bing?! Hey now, let's not blame anyone but Microsoft for their stupidity.
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Feb 5, 2020 17:29
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While it's nice that the barriers to entry are being removed by products that Meraki build, it does sometimes result in pretty funny things being built out. I've just seen an ISP deliver two circuits and two CPE routers to handle VRRP and do BGP back into the ISP network, and these two Meraki firewalls have been configured as active/passive with WAN 1 set as one IP from the range, and WAN 2 for some reason also plugged in and using the next IP in the public range. Also the default gateway is set to the interface on one of the routers and not the VRRP IP, so the failover would never have worked.
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Feb 5, 2020 17:41
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Shut up Meg posted:So what useless poo poo are you buying to use up the funding? Sadly, the funding has to be spent on approved initiatives and its not It stuff so I wont be able to touch it but my advice was basically go find some quick and easy cheap wins to use this cash. Interestingly, I arranged a meeting with the manager from my company to discuss this prior to the call I mentioned earlier, so when she came round I explained that he is just wriggling out of this at which point we both called the contractor together. They were both dancing around the fundamental time and money issue of there is not enough time which means no money for you so what are we going to do and the manager from my firm straight up said she was just going to tell the dude who releases the funding that the project was completed to the deadline as he usually doesn't check if you dont make a fuss. Interesting strategy, unfortunatley I cannot help you on this project any longer and I am emailing your boss to air my concerns!
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Feb 5, 2020 17:59
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Thanks Ants posted:Lol a search box that relies on a web service to be working to avoid just being a large translucent square Excuse me - it's a large translucent square you can type in.
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Feb 5, 2020 18:04
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And now Azure portal is making GBS threads itself. God drat it, Microsoft.
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Feb 5, 2020 22:03
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Internet Explorer posted:And now Azure portal is making GBS threads itself. God drat it, Microsoft. Working fine for me. Maybe it's by region?
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Feb 5, 2020 22:29
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CLAM DOWN posted:Working fine for me. Maybe it's by region? I've noticed every two weeks or so Azure will go all wonky and stuff for like ten minutes. Like AAD will fail for various people on various platforms both intra and internet, Admin portal goes all screwy and slow, changes to users won't propagate. Anyone else get this?
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Feb 5, 2020 22:45
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Anyone using Nasdaq's Boardvantage that has opinions about it?
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Feb 5, 2020 23:27
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angry armadillo posted:Sadly, the funding has to be spent on approved initiatives and its not It stuff so I wont be able to touch it but my advice was basically go find some quick and easy cheap wins to use this cash. I thought this was going to be one of those stories that ended up with the company stockpiling enough paperclips for the next 10,000 years.
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Feb 5, 2020 23:37
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I have a very generalist sysadmin role/skillset, and my employer has been tasking me with more and more security related stuff, (make sure we dont get hacked OK???) and has also said they are willing to pay for some security training of my choosing. I have no formal security training or certs or anything. What should I be looking into here? I'm really not sure where to start.
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Feb 5, 2020 23:39
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Splunk. I kid. But seriously start brushing up on network security. Everything starts with network security.
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Feb 5, 2020 23:52
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I think you could get really, really far just with all the really dumb low-hanging fruit stuff. I'm not convinced fancy books are going to help that much because when you look at how orgs get owned, it's universally for an insanely dumb reason. Using my sysadmin knowledge I could own us all day every day and stay undetected until I blkdiscard all devices on all boxen simultaneously. My first foray into this was sitting at home with a nonfunctional VPN but still wanting to wfh. So I found a way in (misconfigured network ACL exposing ssh on a host that had password based auth active), fixed the VPN and fixed my "backdoor". And I thought "blimey, how many more of this is there?" OH GOD HOW MUCH MORE IS THERE THAT MANGLEMENT WON'T LET ME FIX Realistically, what will get you owned isn't some 1337 h4x0r stack-overflowing some arcane bits in your network stack. It's the county password inspector calling a manager or some webdevs not updating their Apache Struts despite known security vulnerabilities. All really obvious
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Feb 6, 2020 00:04
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Internet Explorer posted:Seriously, if you told me 15 years ago the poo poo I'd still being dealing with and the new stupid poo poo I'd be dealing with, I think I would have been a carpenter or something. I day dream of being a cabinet maker.
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Feb 6, 2020 00:06
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I seriously should have gone Mechanical Engineering in college, instead of noodling around with other engineering branches and eventually dropping out. Hindsight.
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Feb 6, 2020 00:27
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Shut up Meg posted:I thought this was going to be one of those stories that ended up with the company stockpiling enough paperclips for the next 10,000 years. Nah one of the things I like about this company is I'm wholly confident that no one stands for stunts like this and this particular manager is about to get pulled for, what they will call, taking too much risk on this occasion, but if it happens again people will not stand for her playing in those grey areas this much Suppose given that sort of culture I'm a bit surprised we've let a cowboy in I guess
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Feb 6, 2020 02:06
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Proteus Jones posted:I day dream of being a cabinet maker. Lumberjack for me. Just cutting trees.
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Feb 6, 2020 02:27
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jaegerx posted:Lumberjack for me. Just cutting trees. Follow up the environmental destruction of running massive cooling stacks for your DC with environmental destruction of supplying paper to the printers you swore to destroy Just the worst
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Feb 6, 2020 02:31
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Follow up the environmental destruction of running massive cooling stacks for your DC with environmental destruction of supplying paper to the printers you swore to destroy I was gonna sell him the wood to make cabinets. Support small businesses!!!
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Feb 6, 2020 02:35
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jaegerx posted:I was gonna sell him the wood to make cabinets. Support small businesses!!! Y'know, you as a lumberjack sound pretty OK. I'm also presuming you'd sleep all night and work all day.
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Feb 6, 2020 02:54
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Y'know, you as a lumberjack sound pretty OK. I'm also presuming you'd sleep all night and work all day. But are you comfortable dressing in womens clothing and walking around in bars? God that skit didn't age well.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:43
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chin up everything sucks posted:But are you comfortable dressing in womens clothing and walking around in bars? Yeah after I posted I was like "oh...right, it's just awful that they're questioning of his choices and not really so much funny". Song itself is still fun to sing though.
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Feb 6, 2020 03:51
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jaegerx posted:Lumberjack for me. Just cutting trees. I found out way too late that people at my last job referred to me as "lumbersexual" because I liked plaid, and beanie caps, sometimes wore suspenders, and occasionally showed up to work with a truckload of wood, and almost always had camping gear.
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Feb 6, 2020 04:44
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chin up everything sucks posted:But are you comfortable dressing in womens clothing and walking around in bars? Can we just go with “sit on my face and tell me that you love me”?
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Feb 6, 2020 04:54
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Agrikk posted:Can we just go with “sit on my face and tell me that you love me”? Not until you've bought us all a lot of drinks.
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Feb 6, 2020 05:05
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Agrikk posted:Can we just go with “sit on my face and tell me that you love me”? As long as we follow it up with a medical love song
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Feb 6, 2020 06:08
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Good news! After working the graveyard shift for three months I'm going to be moving to second shift (2-midnight) in a couple weeks here. That also means I'm more likely to have my contract converted than if I was still working graveyards since we've got guys in India training up to work the graveyard shift.
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Feb 6, 2020 06:58
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Defenestrategy posted:At what dollar amount do you start getting vendor bribes? We spend something like five to ten thousand every month on dell laptops and all we get is an account rep who is rotated every month. I wanna say we've spent six figures with ours, and they recently sent us a box of x7 high-end Alienware headphones for "Evaluation purposes" There are 8 of us, I didn't get one... gently caress.
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Feb 6, 2020 16:42
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Super Slash posted:I wanna say we've spent six figures with ours, and they recently sent us a box of x7 high-end Alienware headphones for "Evaluation purposes" Sounds like you're switching vendors  We spend literal millions with a CDN and this Christmas they sent us a small Harry and David type box of dried fruit and poo poo that probably cost like $30, lol. Storage vendors do seem to be where the ridiculous excess is at for whatever reason. At a previous job companies vying for our SAN business would routinely take us to baseball games or pay for a night's dinner and bar tab etc. Looking back it was unethical as hell but it never seemed to bother my boss! (I had no purchasing authority on any of this, was just an admin in the trenches)
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Feb 6, 2020 16:56
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Super Slash posted:I wanna say we've spent six figures with ours, and they recently sent us a box of x7 high-end Alienware headphones for "Evaluation purposes" Shoot an email to the vendor rep that there's one missing from the "evaluation allotment" for your eight-person team and ask if they can sort out the logistics error. They should get the hint, and any future goodies should arrive in sufficient quantities too.
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Feb 6, 2020 17:14
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Super Slash posted:I wanna say we've spent six figures with ours, and they recently sent us a box of x7 high-end Alienware headphones for "Evaluation purposes" Did you also miss out on a slice of birthday cake at the company party?
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Feb 6, 2020 17:21
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Docjowles posted:Storage vendors do seem to be where the ridiculous excess is at for whatever reason. At a previous job companies vying for our SAN business would routinely take us to baseball games or pay for a night's dinner and bar tab etc. Looking back it was unethical as hell but it never seemed to bother my boss! (I had no purchasing authority on any of this, was just an admin in the trenches) Considering how much people tend to pay for SAN's, that's no wonder. Also betting they're writing all of those expenses off as marketing expenses 
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Docjowles posted:Storage vendors do seem to be where the ridiculous excess is at for whatever reason. At a previous job companies vying for our SAN business would routinely take us to baseball games or pay for a night's dinner and bar tab etc. Looking back it was unethical as hell but it never seemed to bother my boss! (I had no purchasing authority on any of this, was just an admin in the trenches) How is that unethical, exactly? Doesn't this type of stuff happen on the regular for any sort of business that wants to sell you stuff? If it was all done off the books then I could see it being a big no no. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, which lis likely the case.
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Feb 6, 2020 18:07
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Methanar posted:Anyone who says they haven't missed a cert expiry is a liar Only cert I have is ITIL Foundations and it never expires EDIT: Oh wait wrong type of cert.
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cage-free egghead posted:How is that unethical, exactly? Doesn't this type of stuff happen on the regular for any sort of business that wants to sell you stuff? If it was all done off the books then I could see it being a big no no. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, which lis likely the case. I mean it's basically bribery. "Make this choice, whether or not it's actually good for the company, and we'll give you tons of free poo poo". Yes it happens all the drat time in many areas of life, that doesn't mean it's right Companies frequently have policies against accepting gifts from vendors for exactly this reason.
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