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topenga posted:Hell, a 3rd party company made a program so that you could use this thing on your desktop to make designs and send the cuts to the cutter (they are still around but surprise Cricut sued them so that software doesn't work as it did with the new machines). I keep a Windows XP VM around just to run an old version of this software for my wife's Cricut.
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My email doesn't work, it's urgent! Idk maybe if you live on email, don't chain 50GB of PSTs on shared drive to Outlook and expect everything to run smooth and fast over a VPN?
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Mar 25, 2021 21:48
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I hate when housekeeping or who knows who lets random people into the IT office and they come ask us stuff in person, instead of putting in a ticket or calling the help desk This should be a secure area they shouldn’t be in here anyway. I mean the server room has another set of doors but still.
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Mar 25, 2021 22:15
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My Exchange connection has been flipping on and off all day.
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Mar 25, 2021 23:37
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Maigius posted:My Exchange connection has been flipping on and off all day. Did you patch it? I would check for some webshells lmao.
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Mar 25, 2021 23:39
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Sorry, have to get this out. Job -1, that I YOTJ'ed out of 8 years ago. It sucked. It was tier 3 tech support for a company that was actively outsourcing and considered its US employees as expensive luxuries. Since they were paying us so much they expected twice the work. It sucked. Some of us, like me, signed up to do tech support, but other folks, like one of my coworkers, was put into tech support after they moved the lab he supported overseas. I can't really say he was a friend or that I knew him really well, but I sat across the aisle from him, and like all crappy jobs, sometimes you just had to stand up and see who else needed a break, and then you would go out in the aisle and talk. You would learn about the other person, their hopes and dreams. Eric was not happy with being moved to tech support, partially because he was lab support, and partially because he was done with IT. What he really wanted to do was be a cop. He had a strong faith and thought he could make the world a better place. He had been trying for a year to take the CO POST training that would make him hire-able, but our management kept messing with his schedule, and our director had told him that they could not guarantee that he would not have to work evenings, so night classes were off the table. With a wife and 6 kids he quit with nothing certain, and through a wing and a prayer, he completed his training and was hired by the Boulder CO police department. I left the company a bit after that and lost contact with folks that knew him more. Eric died Monday, as the first responding officer at the Boulder supermarket shooting. 7 kids. gently caress. On one hand he left his family and friends but on the other he died doing what he loved and by all accounts made a difference. I am saddened by the loss and feel small stressing about my caseload, which seems meaningless by comparison.
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Mar 26, 2021 03:05
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I am sorry to hear about your old coworker, Eric. Please take care of yourself. [edit: I had an old coworker pass away a while back. It hosed me up a little more than I thought it would. Appreciate the people around you for sure, even the ones who just make your day suck a little less.] Internet Explorer fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 03:10
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gently caress you, VP of engineering lady! We had an all-hands yesterday, and the last slide said, “It’s crunch time!” All of us started groaning, and she said “hang on” and moved to the actual end slide, which said, “Just kidding, we know you’ve been working hard, so we hired four more contractors to help finish the job.” She got us good. 
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Mar 26, 2021 15:23
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DoomTrainPhD posted:gently caress you, VP of engineering lady! gently caress this. anyone who does this should be booed out of the room
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Mar 26, 2021 15:30
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Weedle posted:gently caress this. anyone who does this should be booed out of the room You had to be there. It was a huge relief, and we had been asking for more contractors for a few weeks to help finish the job. Rest assured, we are all delighted. I am angrier that I was had!
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Mar 26, 2021 15:33
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Sickening posted:Did you patch it? I would check for some webshells lmao. I have no idea. I think we're hosted on Office 365, so I think we're good...? I don't work with Exchange, but it seems to be fixed now.
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Mar 26, 2021 16:26
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poo poo pissing me off: our recently graduated automatician's apprentice wasn't offered a job because "he applied too late"... He's a decent guy who does OK work for his experience, and we need him, but some C-level at the main office didn't see it that way...
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Mar 26, 2021 17:15
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So what was the real reason
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Mar 26, 2021 19:40
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I'm not sure, it smells to high heaven, though.
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Mar 26, 2021 19:45
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I am sorry buddy, Eric is a hero, i hope everyone remembers him as one. Check into your grievance policy at your job, maybe you can get a day or two off and just process this. poo poo that is pissing me off: INSIGHT is slow as balls. using citrix with 300ms+ ping sucks I need my new laptop! RoboBoogie fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Mar 28, 2021 |
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Mar 28, 2021 09:58
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DoomTrainPhD posted:You had to be there. It was a huge relief, and we had been asking for more contractors for a few weeks to help finish the job. Rest assured, we are all delighted. I am angrier that I was had! We had a big get-together a couple of years ago, all of IT from all of the company's locations. There was a bit of the usual "the year in review" type stuff, and then one of the managers put up this insane slide deck full of dry-rear end statistics and "page 1 of 85" and everything. There was this collective feeling of "oh goddammit" and then this guy walked in from stage left, went up to him and shot him point blank. Everyone was like WTF, then the manager who was shot got up and told us that we would be getting stunt and acting classes from professional stunt people for the rest of the day, as part team building, part hanging out and having fun with colleagues we rarely meet in person. Ironically the guy who was "shot" was probably the only manager I liked there.
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Mar 28, 2021 10:56
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KozmoNaut posted:We had a big get-together a couple of years ago, all of IT from all of the company's locations. I mean a day of stunt classes sounds awesome but introducing it by making everyone think an armed assailant is in your conference and just murdered a coworker is questionable at best.
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Mar 28, 2021 11:54
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Fil5000 posted:I mean a day of stunt classes sounds awesome but introducing it by making everyone think an armed assailant is in your conference and just murdered a coworker is questionable at best.
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Mar 28, 2021 19:50
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This dude missed 14(!) software installations yesterday because he slept through the window while we had the systems down for some separate OS upgrades, and now apparently I am roped into solving this.
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Mar 28, 2021 21:56
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wolrah posted:While I'm pretty sure KozmoNaut is from somewhere in Northern Europe, beyond the obvious "hey let's start a day of fun with some trauma!!!" I was just thinking about how badly something like that could go down in some parts of America. In some parts of America, the fake shooter would be shot 5 times by three different people before the joke was revealed! 
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Hello all, just had a miserable experience with a prebuilt. I needed a new computer fast (old one having hard drive issues) and my jet setting no free time lifestyle meant I was comfortable asking some computer savvy goons to recommend a prebuilt that matched my needs. Two days of pain and two replacement towers later, I found out the entire model line (MSI codex R) has a rep for nonsensical crashes and BSODs that are apparently tied to some sort of hosed upness with the ssd. The below thread mimics my experience across two days of registry checks, driver reinstalls, Cable checking, BIOS fiddling and interrupted updates and scans. https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/msi-codex-r-codex-r-10sc-004ca-bsod-problems.356024/ Two full days of time I really couldn’t afford to spend, lost to a lemon. And I still need a new computer.
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Discendo Vox posted:Hello all, just had a miserable experience with a prebuilt. I needed a new computer fast (old one having hard drive issues) and my jet setting no free time lifestyle meant I was comfortable asking some computer savvy goons to recommend a prebuilt that matched my needs. Two days of pain and two replacement towers later, I found out the entire model line (MSI codex R) has a rep for nonsensical crashes and BSODs that are apparently tied to some sort of hosed upness with the ssd. The below thread mimics my experience across two days of registry checks, driver reinstalls, Cable checking, BIOS fiddling and interrupted updates and scans. Sorry to hear about your woes. If you really need a new computer immediately, nothing beats a brick and mortar store. I would suggest going that route. And if you really cannot afford downtime, I would suggest having more than one computer. Get yourself either a laptop or a desktop now, then get the other on your own time. Redundancy is good if uptime is what you seek.
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Internet Explorer posted:Sorry to hear about your woes. If you really need a new computer immediately, nothing beats a brick and mortar store. I would suggest going that route. And if you really cannot afford downtime, I would suggest having more than one computer. Get yourself either a laptop or a desktop now, then get the other on your own time. Redundancy is good if uptime is what you seek. Oh, I went brick and mortar; this was a microcenter purchase. I'll have a brief word with their manager tomorrow evening about the risks of carrying this specific model. In the meantime, my files are all backed up, so back to the old (suspiciously chuggy, screen-artifacty, "why is it using 100% of disk") computer.
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Mar 29, 2021 02:56
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Monday....aka 'I thought I had 3 more days to reset my password' day.
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Discendo Vox posted:Oh, I went brick and mortar; this was a microcenter purchase. I'll have a brief word with their manager tomorrow evening about the risks of carrying this specific model. In the meantime, my files are all backed up, so back to the old (suspiciously chuggy, screen-artifacty, "why is it using 100% of disk") computer. If you have the money to burn, take a look at Falcon NW?
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If you file a tier 1 support ticket and you don't reply to the follow up emails or want to get on a call, is it really a tier 1 issue?
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Mar 29, 2021 19:15
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KillHour posted:If you file a tier 1 support ticket and you don't reply to the follow up emails or want to get on a call, is it really a tier 1 issue? Don't close it, this is affecting patient care!
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Mar 29, 2021 20:39
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SubjectVerbObject posted:Sorry, have to get this out.
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Mar 29, 2021 23:29
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Bob Morales posted:Monday....aka 'I thought I had 3 more days to reset my password' day. Sup password buddy. My first notification that my password was expiring was “your password has expired. Please create a new one now.” breaking all of my exiting application connections.
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Mar 30, 2021 00:07
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Pissing me off today: SharePoint Online managed to black hole a ton of docs during a PowerShell move operation. Files aren't in the recycling bin, and they're not in any of the existing libraries. Nothing in the audit log around the files moving either. Just gone. Trying to see if Microsoft can do a restore on them without reverting the whole site back to last week.
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Mar 30, 2021 00:41
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The Dreamer posted:Pissing me off today: SharePoint Online managed to black hole a ton of docs during a PowerShell move operation. Files aren't in the recycling bin, and they're not in any of the existing libraries. Nothing in the audit log around the files moving either. Just gone. Look in your heart. You know the answer.
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Agrikk posted:Sup password buddy. Oh no I meant every user who’s been getting a password expiration notice for the last 14 days but nobody changes them until they of course get locked out On day 7 it should just force you to ducking change it
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I spent the entire day going through and changing emails for services, certificates, domain purchases, alert emails, and administration accounts to point to a shared account. Previously half of these things were going to the old admin's mailbox, and the """solution""" was for us to log into it. I finally had an hour and a half to go through and log in to things and change it. It feels nice. Proper. Right.
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Antioch posted:I spent the entire day going through and changing emails for services, certificates, domain purchases, alert emails, and administration accounts to point to a shared account. Previously half of these things were going to the old admin's mailbox, and the """solution""" was for us to log into it. We had that mess and it took forever to fix it. Our former VP created so many logins with his company email address. It took days to track down all of the places where he used his email for setting up services and we still can't get rid of it so it's now aliased to a generic service email for my team.
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Mar 30, 2021 15:37
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ptier posted:Look in your heart. You know the answer. Yeah. Currently contemplating trying to recover them out of the Preservation Hold Library while waiting for an answer from Microsoft. Sounds like a nightmare, but might be doable.
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deedee megadoodoo posted:We had that mess and it took forever to fix it. Our former VP created so many logins with his company email address. It took days to track down all of the places where he used his email for setting up services and we still can't get rid of it so it's now aliased to a generic service email for my team. This is my pet peeve. I feel like every place I've walked into had everyone creating logins for services using their own email address. The guy who had been there for 20 years, or the 3 different people over 5 years, I'm not sure which is worse, but it loving sucks. IT people can be so dumb sometimes. Internet Explorer fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Mar 30, 2021 |
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Mar 30, 2021 15:47
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Another day in the mines as a  devops engineer. On my to do list for today is creating a GPO to push out anti-virus (because asking users didn't work) and issuing a handful of certs for on-prem apps that have been HTTP since forever.Counting down the days before I quit. Edit: if I feel like working extra hard, I might join our 15 or so undersized, out of warranty ESX hosts to the domain instead of authenticating with local users. 
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Why can your users install software
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Everyone has local admin on their workstations. Before I got here, all non-workstations were logged in using (local admin) shared credentials that were stored in plain text in a wiki. As the person who stopped that practice, it's now my responsibility to print a pdf of any credentials I find in a wiki and store it on a file share accessible to everyone as a backup before redacting that one wiki page that I have found. Then, when anyone needs a password I have redacted, I get to go to the plain text pdf and look up the password they need. You see, this makes sense because Happiness Commando fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Mar 30, 2021 |
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