|
sixth and maimed posted:I can fix most things from my computer and that they needed to give me some idea on how critical/urgent it was. If they won't do over the phone troubleshooting to maybe get it fixed right now, then it isn't important enough for a deskside visit either.
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 18:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 00:17 |
|
|
TheParadigm posted:
lol gonna post that to my old CTO's feed. This happened to us a lot. Some dipshit in Texas digs up fiber and that kills the EMR for 5 hospitals in California at once.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 18:21
|
|
|
SubjectVerbObject posted:For the most part I am just venting. And I am lucky that we are healthy and have jobs. For me it is a bit of too much of a good thing. I support technology that lets people work from home for a company whose infrastructure lets millions of people work from home, so if anything I am busier than before. I’m with you. My problems are not problems. My family is healthy, we are employed, we all get along, we know how to use technology to do jobs and school, we know how to entertain ourselves without screens. But privacy is gone, I can’t play my bass at eleven like I can when I’m home alone, we are all sick of home cooking, I’m sick of hone improvement projects every weekend, and I’m resorting to zooming in on various beaches on google maps and daydreaming. Like I said: my problems are not problems.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 18:31
|
|
|
Fart Amplifier posted:No. The patch is enough. There's a python script available which will test your DCs for the vulnerability. Ahh, that's some relief, but we're still hosed in February if we don't start patching desktops, yes?
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 18:53
|
|
|
BaseballPCHiker posted:Even more concerning the provider was about 15000 feet off where they thought the splice was located! Was not a fun night for them or me. It'll happen again next year, and their documentation will not have been updated in the meantime 
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:03
|
|
|
We resumed our password expiration policy. It is going as swimmingly as you might imagine.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:11
|
|
|
Internet Explorer posted:We resumed our password expiration policy. It is going as swimmingly as you might imagine. I distinctly recall the NIST recommending against arbitrary password expirations...
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:27
|
|
|
Internet Explorer posted:We resumed our password expiration policy. It is going as swimmingly as you might imagine. Did you expire everyone's password at the same time?
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:29
|
|
|
dragonshardz posted:I distinctly recall the NIST recommending against arbitrary password expirations... That was only 2 or 3 years ago though, it takes at least 10 years for updated best practices to percolate into the brain of management.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:31
|
|
|
dragonshardz posted:I distinctly recall the NIST recommending against arbitrary password expirations... If I recall correctly that was only in a draft, and they chickened out in the final version.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:40
|
|
|
Thanatosian posted:Did you expire everyone's password at the same time? lol no And the NIST guidelines were for no password expirations, pretty sure that wasn't a draft? But I'm not management here and my objections only go so far up the ladder. https://blog.stealthbits.com/nist-password-guidelines/
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:43
|
|
|
Internet Explorer posted:We resumed our password expiration policy. It is going as swimmingly as you might imagine. Expire them all on the same day. Do it.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:43
|
|
|
Expire them all at 8pm on Thanksgiving.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:46
|
|
|
Jaded Burnout posted:Expire them all at 8pm on Thanksgiving after putting in for a vacation from Thanksgiving through Christmas.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:55
|
|
|
the ideal moment is at the beginning of the quarter, so people have the opportunity to update their password suffix to Q42020
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 20:55
|
|
|
our payroll website requires password changes every six months but it doesn't check to see whether you're reusing an old password. mine has not changed for five years
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 21:05
|
|
|
Weedle posted:our payroll website requires password changes every six months but it doesn't check to see whether you're reusing an old password. mine has not changed for five years Our training system is similar.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 21:06
|
|
|
Internet Explorer posted:lol no It's not a draft, it's official. https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#sec5 posted:Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 21:16
|
|
|
Weedle posted:our payroll website requires password changes every six months but it doesn't check to see whether you're reusing an old password. mine has not changed for five years https://www.storagetreasures.com a website allowing you to bid, and buy, storage units at auction online has a password policy of not allowing you to use any of the last 5 passwords you've used, and none that you've used in the last 6 months. a storage unit auction site has a stronger password policy than most banks.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 21:31
|
|
|
IT Director emailed me a PDF file of some schedule. "Can you put this into Citrix for me?" 
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 21:34
|
|
|
SubjectVerbObject posted:Stuff pissing me off: I'm so glad we have multiple internets at home so whenever i get a text "The internet isn't working!" I can go "just switch to the backup cable / backup mifi" Pissing me off: My (fairly old) firewire audio interface isn't supported for Catalina by the manufacturer (MOTU). Whenever the computer goes to sleep, the firewire driver kernel panics my macbook.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2020 23:52
|
|
|
Got official word that my title change and raise will not happen until the new year Waiting with bated breath to hear from the place in interviewed at on Monday
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 00:38
|
|
|
Bob Morales posted:IT Director emailed me a PDF file of some schedule. Sharefile?
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 00:43
|
|
|
luminalflux posted:MOTU That happened to my bombproof M-Audio Delta-1010. Obsolescence sucks
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 01:06
|
|
|
The Fool posted:That range map is inaccurate. At what, secret squirrel signals intelligence bunkers?
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 01:18
|
|
|
luminalflux posted:I'm so glad we have multiple internets at home so whenever i get a text "The internet isn't working!" I can go "just switch to the backup cable / backup mifi" Isn't that thing old enough to drink at this point?
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 02:59
|
|
|
Speaking of password resets gone wrong, I lost an application for 6 hours today because the vendor recently got hit by ransomware and recommended on Friday that customers change their service passwords if the vendor had it on file. So we changed the service passwords on Monday. Except that this morning they sent another email to not change it for one product because that’ll take down the product. Whoops.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 03:26
|
|
|
Wibla posted:Isn't that thing old enough to drink at this point? I got my first one in 2010 I think - lightning took it in Mexico, it’s replacement died some weird hardware death in March and I RMAd it so this is a refurbed unit from who knows when MOTU won’t support Catalina for it so I have to figure out some weird setup for it
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 03:47
|
|
|
maybe not totally IT related, but I failed a SQL technical interview last Friday because I was using table aliases to write my ad-hoc code and the interviewer, who got verbally irritated, said "table aliases aren't performant, you should use self-joins and nested subqueries" and I just kind of froze and didn't know what to say because it was by far the dumbest loving thing i've ever heard
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 04:01
|
|
|
Knot My President! posted:maybe not totally IT related, but I failed a SQL technical interview last Friday because I was using table aliases to write my ad-hoc code and the interviewer, who got verbally irritated, said "table aliases aren't performant, you should use self-joins and nested subqueries" and I just kind of froze and didn't know what to say because it was by far the dumbest loving thing i've ever heard lolwut, that's the dumbest thing i've heard which engine was this
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 05:08
|
|
|
luminalflux posted:lolwut, that's the dumbest thing i've heard postgres lol
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 05:14
|
|
|
Knot My President! posted:maybe not totally IT related, but I failed a SQL technical interview last Friday because I was using table aliases to write my ad-hoc code and the interviewer, who got verbally irritated, said "table aliases aren't performant, you should use self-joins and nested subqueries" and I just kind of froze and didn't know what to say because it was by far the dumbest loving thing i've ever heard So long as that doesn't put you out on the street, you dodged a bullet. You wouldn't have been a fit for the team.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 05:27
|
|
|
Knot My President! posted:postgres lol I'm reasonably sure that's not a thing but i'll go ask my postgres friends because holy poo poo is that weapons grade stupid edit: yeah they said that's highly unlikely luminalflux fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Oct 1, 2020 |
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 06:40
|
|
|
mllaneza posted:So long as that doesn't put you out on the street, you dodged a bullet. You wouldn't have been a fit for the team. I'm on unemployment since my last company was in adtech for the travel industry, so I'm sitting aight. The worst is I really wanted the job (was for a game streaming service) but the team lead and the tech interview dude didn't play videogames and only used streaming for sports and only after getting hired and it just really rubbed me the wrong way, like wtf The question one of the interviewers got angry at me for was basically "find the months that streamers had more views than the previous month". So you have month, streamer, views after aggregating. Sometimes streamers don't stream in a month so you have to account for that. The way I'd solve this-- in a coder pad, off the top of my head with two people scrutinizing me-- is to generate a date array, cross join it to all streamers, then left join the month/streamer/views table to this on month and streamer and a CASE to convert nulls (no views that month) to 0. Then I'd use a LAG() function to pull in last month's views. My final query would use WHERE clause where current month views > last month views, which would give you a list of every user's month that had more views than their previous month. They said they wanted me to solve it using a self join, which a week later I still have no idea what the gently caress they were talking about  I loving hate job hunting
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 07:38
|
|
|
I guess they want you to solve everything, absolutely everything via self-joins.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 08:23
|
|
|
A user in a ticket decided that their computer name was "THIS PC". Ok fine, I don't expect users to know how to get the name when the helpdesk didn't explain it to them. The user even said "this doesn't seem right, but it's all I can find" The helpdesk then escalated it to infrastructure because there is no computer named "THIS PC" anywhere in our systems
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 10:36
|
|
|
Our dhcp server is configured to accept the client's requested host name so I named my laptop hello-there. So anyone going over the logs gets a friendly welcome.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 13:16
|
|
|
Lum posted:A user in a ticket decided that their computer name was "THIS PC". Ok fine, I don't expect users to know how to get the name when the helpdesk didn't explain it to them. The user even said "this doesn't seem right, but it's all I can find" The Help Desk person didn't realize "This PC" is what Windows uses for all of the local storage when you open up Windows Explorer?
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 13:22
|
|
|
xzzy posted:Our dhcp server is configured to accept the client's requested host name so I named my laptop hello-there. So anyone going over the logs gets a friendly welcome. try eicar
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 14:18
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 00:17 |
|
|
Knot My President! posted:I'm on unemployment since my last company was in adtech for the travel industry, so I'm sitting aight. The worst is I really wanted the job (was for a game streaming service) but the team lead and the tech interview dude didn't play videogames and only used streaming for sports and only after getting hired and it just really rubbed me the wrong way, like wtf Man, I really LOVE when people who don't have a clue of how to do things right have basically taken over a part of a company. They are basically going to weed out any new candidate that might be competent. Glorious. And you don't have to hide it, twitch.tv employees aren't very good. It is known. Always name and shame a reject, especially one so comical.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2020 14:28
|
|
