AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Once I hit the reply button to ask, it updated! There are three pages! I wonder why mine wasnt updating when I was spending all that time looking at it...

Dravs posted:

That is why AWS and Microsoft will be so badly impacted because their butt processing is massive.

minusX posted:

Yep that's what I was gonna say.

Next people well learn and use win + x

Avenging_Mikon posted:

A ticket came in!


Now, they're at a satellite location, so I can't just send off a ticket willy-nilly. The main network for staff is named "admin."

The Macaroni posted:

The Macaroni posted:

I could see my way to a kind of forgiveness if the password were 256 characters long, including dozens of special/numeric characters. But it's always something like Sentinel7.

Oyster posted:

He came back with $2k higher than what the other company was offering (and what he offered this morning) and specific instructions on how to get certs counted as tuition reimbursement. You raise a valid point about future raises and that crossed my mind as well, along with the fact that the other company has set advancements that my current one does not. I have 24 hours yet, and it may come down to if I can get milestones for advancement with my current company that ends with me in an analyst position.

larchesdanrew posted:

Reagan is back, albeit in a far more cartoonish fashion from a guest artist.

guppy posted:

We have dealt with complaints like this before. Even if it were feasible, interfering with a wi-fi network not your own is an FCC violation. Telling them that it's illegal is generally enough to get them off your back.

wolrah posted:

It is an unreasonable request though. It's someone outside of the company's control doing something that's completely legal and within their power. There's nothing for anyone at the company to do about it except trying to find the person and politely ask them to change it. If it was a banner hanging in their window no one would consider it reasonable to ask maintenance to prevent it from being seen, how is asking IT to stop an external WiFi signal from appearing any different?

That said I'd half expect the kind of person who'd set their SSID to "sendnudes" to be the kind of person to change it to something like "$company toilet camera" if that happened.

RedMagus posted:

Today in "Why you should check your software patches on a test domain before rollout":

our software deployment team rolled out a Malware Bytes update (ie: just let it pull from the update server from the actual company) and it completely hosed DNS on all the machines on our network. So we helpdesk grunts are seeing call hold times of 10+ minutes while we manually remote into each device and remove the software, and hope SCCM doesn't reinstall it tonight.

at least we're getting catered lunch? I hope it's not pizza

fishmech posted:

The girl they tried to kill survived. Still hosed up, but at least nobody actually died.

Garrand posted:

Wait, really? That's a thing now? Because when I hear "cyber" the first thing I think of is 2000 era chat rooms and hot singles in my area.

Kurieg posted:

I picked up the first season of CSI:Cyber super cheap and was watching it just to laugh at everything that was so hilariously wrong. My favorite was their visual depiction of tracking traffic through the deep web as if the deep web were a physical place below the internet, indicated by big scary red glowing letters that said DEEP WEB.

Kurieg posted:

Hey if you guys need to convince your bosses to not use Apples in a work environment, Any program can take a screenshot of your entire desktop at any time and run it through an OCR

ElehemEare posted:

L O L if you work in IT and you haven’t met the cleaning staff coming through after 7pm, I envy you.

Varkk posted:

Pull it off the network and log in with a cached domain account. Then you can repair the trust relationship. Assuming the cached account has admin privileges.

Kurieg posted:

https://thehustle.co/european-clocks-serbian-power-grid/

Basically, there's a lot of ethnic Serbians who live in Northern Kosovo that refuse to pay their electricity bills and Kosovo stopped providing power to them for free in December, this slight dip in the amount of power provided to the entirety of europe caused clocks to lose 6 minutes in the last 3 months.

Weedle posted:

It has been decreed that instead of earmarking a portion of the operations budget for network infrastructure, all funding for that will now come from the school’s yearly fundraising auction. Makes sense.

MF_James posted:

That reminds me of a job interview I was on a few weeks ago, I talk to the IT director about their environment and their practices "Oh yeah we have pre-prod environment, dev environment, QA environment" etc etc. Then he brought in a DBA to ask me some questions and walked out of the room, at some point I asked him about how they do testing etc before rolling out software updates "Oh yeah that's kind of a shitshow, we test a lot in production, we don't really have a QA environment and none of the guys actually writing code know how to manipulate a DB properly so I'm constantly putting out fires when they push new code" ... one of these things is not like the other

Hungry Computer posted:

It would help if vendors stopped listing ridiculous minimum or recommended requirements. Just look at these for SCCM:

Apex Rogers posted:

Instead of disabling avatars, I use Decreased Productivity. It ghosts all images/videos so you can mouseover to see them, but leaves them as greyed-out versions by default. You can still see the outline of an avatar, but it's pretty much invisible to someone behind you or walking by.

Thanks Ants posted:

Yeah it's called Casper Jamf Pro and it's practically free for education.

Zero VGS posted:

OK, CEO of the company is pissed because our cloud-based embedded Win10 Pro digital signage occasionally pops up Windows Update things in the middle of the screen.

There's no sensitive stuff on these things whatsoever, but they need the internet for digital signage updates. What's the latest guide for 100% preventing all Windows Updates? All the stuff I'm finding online is out of date (i.e. setting a WSUS server to a fake IP doesn't work, it'll still seek out the Microsoft servers). Can I set a HOSTS files to loopback all of microsoft.com? Or does it try to use static IPs? Anything to get rid of these loving update popups.

nexxai posted:

Ok I've had it up to my loving eyeballs with the complete shitshow that is MaaS360 MDM and need a replacement. I don't need anything fancy - the ability to lock down the iPad so users can't install apps, the ability to push apps to a group of iPads, the ability to "design" a home screen (our users are roughnecks in the field and the simpler we can make things for them, the better) and the ability to use non-DEP-purchased iPads if necessary using Apple Configurator. One nice to have would be an interface that was designed after the year 2000.

What do you guys use and why should I use it too?

Renegret posted:

It gets me stuck in a loop where I just smash yes on everything, then I don't notice when it says something different.

Then I call IT and claim I didn't touch anything it just magically stopped working and WHAT DO WE PAY YOU FOR

Antioch posted:

One of the best parts of my new job is being able to fix things like this. SQL server running low on space? Prop it up with an extra 100gb, that's what the SAN is for.

Previous job that was a Change Request, which went to committee once a week, then went to a decision board, then a plan would be submitted, budget drawn and approved, cost centre negotiated, outage window planned (yes even for non outage changes *just in case*), then finally a change could be implemented. Followed by a post mortem, change control completion form, and a follow-up email from the change board manager.

When I left my old job, I had an open change for a certificate renewal. I had opened the change 3 months before expiry. When I left it was a week past expiry and hadn't hit budget yet.

Renegret posted:

e: and as an aside, I don't care if the god drat CEO has a service outage, he should have to call customer service just like everyone else.

If he doesn't like the service that he gets going through the same channels as our customers, then maybe he should do something about that and stop cutting and outsourcing staff.

kensei posted:

This is my wall paper for my desktop at work. I am in charge of our DNS and SSL.