Last time I reset a password I set it to "Ireallyshouldfigureouthowtoresetmyownpasswordbeforeitexpires123!" or something to that effect. I had to reset this guys password every 42 days for about 2 years before I got fed up. He hasn't asked me to change it in over a year now.
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
We have no complexity requirements, at least on apps where we can choose, like AD. There's a couple that are hard coded in. On our main applications the only requirement is that it be between 8 and 14 characters. Anything that fits between those lengths.
Better than KMAP.
The password for that must be 6 letters followed by 2 numbers.
from the "I'm a doctor so I'm to busy to help you help me" file:
Coworker got a call Friday. There was a doctor having trouble with his computer. He was too busy to give any information, so he handed the phone to the house supervisor and walked away. She didn't have his first name much less his ID number. Didn't know what the problem was with the computer. Didn't have the hardware tracking number. When asked for the location just said "look, this is the house super. Just send someone to the ICU to fix this" and hung up.
So the guy called PC Tech lead and gave him the lowdown and the tech agreed with him that the ticket should just be closed because there was no way he was going to wander around the 7 different ICU's we have asking if anybody knew anybody who had a computer problem of some kind.
"Hey doc, we have a sick guy here! No, I don't have his name or symptoms, just fix him!"
We have no complexity requirements, at least on apps where we can choose, like AD. There's a couple that are hard coded in. On our main applications the only requirement is that it be between 8 and 14 characters. Anything that fits between those lengths.
Better than KMAP.
The password for that must be 6 letters followed by 2 numbers.
from the "I'm a doctor so I'm to busy to help you help me" file:
Coworker got a call Friday. There was a doctor having trouble with his computer. He was too busy to give any information, so he handed the phone to the house supervisor and walked away. She didn't have his first name much less his ID number. Didn't know what the problem was with the computer. Didn't have the hardware tracking number. When asked for the location just said "look, this is the house super. Just send someone to the ICU to fix this" and hung up.
So the guy called PC Tech lead and gave him the lowdown and the tech agreed with him that the ticket should just be closed because there was no way he was going to wander around the 7 different ICU's we have asking if anybody knew anybody who had a computer problem of some kind.
Doctors are dumb as shit about this stuff.
One doc called me and told me the printer in the hospital wasn't working.
I don't work for the hospital. He told me he wanted me to call them to fix it. Hung up immediately.
bowen on
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
from the "I'm a doctor so I'm to busy to help you help me" file:
Coworker got a call Friday. There was a doctor having trouble with his computer. He was too busy to give any information, so he handed the phone to the house supervisor and walked away. She didn't have his first name much less his ID number. Didn't know what the problem was with the computer. Didn't have the hardware tracking number. When asked for the location just said "look, this is the house super. Just send someone to the ICU to fix this" and hung up.
So the guy called PC Tech lead and gave him the lowdown and the tech agreed with him that the ticket should just be closed because there was no way he was going to wander around the 7 different ICU's we have asking if anybody knew anybody who had a computer problem of some kind.
Man the one thing I liked about back when I worked on helpdesk is we were allowed to tell those people to shove off. Unless you've got an asset #, location, full name (that actually shows up in AD), and phone #, no ticket for you!
Nowadays at a different hospital, our helpdesk will make a ticket for anyone who knows how to dial the phone.
Aioua on
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Yeah, we have to at least log a ticket for every call. If the user is super unhelpful we basically just ask whoever would normally get the ticket if they want to care about it.
If the users are rude or abusive, our manager and his boss bring the fire of heaven down on them.
We have no complexity requirements, at least on apps where we can choose, like AD. There's a couple that are hard coded in. On our main applications the only requirement is that it be between 8 and 14 characters. Anything that fits between those lengths.
Better than KMAP.
The password for that must be 6 letters followed by 2 numbers.
from the "I'm a doctor so I'm to busy to help you help me" file:
Coworker got a call Friday. There was a doctor having trouble with his computer. He was too busy to give any information, so he handed the phone to the house supervisor and walked away. She didn't have his first name much less his ID number. Didn't know what the problem was with the computer. Didn't have the hardware tracking number. When asked for the location just said "look, this is the house super. Just send someone to the ICU to fix this" and hung up.
So the guy called PC Tech lead and gave him the lowdown and the tech agreed with him that the ticket should just be closed because there was no way he was going to wander around the 7 different ICU's we have asking if anybody knew anybody who had a computer problem of some kind.
"Hey doc, we have a sick guy here! No, I don't have his name or symptoms, just fix him!"
Though apt, woe be unto he who makes this comparison to a doctor's face.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
it could have been something other than sr0, but that's usually a good guess
Mr_Rose's suggestion might have worked, but looking at our ubuntu servers at work, they have a /media/floppy but no /media/cdrom in fstab, which seems very odd to me, especially because they don't have floppy drives (but both do have cdrom drives)
I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
Is there anything special I need to do to get networking working? I have a cable plugged into eth0 but I don't seem to have internet (I can't ping anything or download anything).
Turns out that I have basically wasted this entire day... Since I have been trying to get glassfish installed on it and apparently there's no way our software will install on the Linux OS. If only because they don't use "file.separator" in their java code and it requires MS Access to work properly.
Turns out that I have basically wasted this entire day... Since I have been trying to get glassfish installed on it and apparently there's no way our software will install on the Linux OS. If only because they don't use "file.separator" in their java code and it requires MS Access to work properly.
Not your problem, you were doing as instructed.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Having just decided to go the Google Apps for Business route, I could possibly take over for a small amount of the "oh God, what is going on" that Honky will leave behind.
You could all bitch with me about how Google decided to sell a business product like Google Apps for Business but then made it neigh-upon impossible to have something as simple as a master-list of contacts.
/me is having some second thoughts about Google Apps, and the way Google decided to do this shit.
Having just decided to go the Google Apps for Business route, I could possibly take over for a small amount of the "oh God, what is going on" that Honky will leave behind.
You could all bitch with me about how Google decided to sell a business product like Google Apps for Business but then made it neigh-upon impossible to have something as simple as a master-list of contacts.
/me is having some second thoughts about Google Apps, and the way Google decided to do this shit.
Currently still free, they're planning to add some kind of paid tier in the future, but at least you could give it a shot now and see if it meets your needs. Lets you create a company directory, push/sync contacts to mobile phones without making the user add the contacts to their My Contacts themselves, enforces a standardized email signature across org units and users, has some handy user onboarding/deprovisioning workflow stuff.
Very handy.
I've considered having people use Outlook in the past, but
a) barrier to entry is high for these morons, while at least some of them have a personal gmail account, so they kind-of know how to use it
Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
This is wrinkling my brain.
A user is receiving EVERY message sent to anyone within the organisation. Internal emails, external emails. Everything. No transport rules do this. Exchange has gone loopy!
Should be as simple as changing the metric of the 2nd NIC to a higher number. Maybe the first NIC should be 10, second one could be 100 or so. Anything higher than the first NIC.
bowen on
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
edited January 2013
That is simple but effective.
OVERTHINKING IT.
Can I also disable the non-activesync services on the second nic?
EDIT: Nope. For some reason activating the second NIC stops the clients from being able to connect.
Sigh. So in order to keep my CEO happy and working I had him install Thunderbird and then create a local folder in Thunderbird and then drag his sent items to that folder to store it on his HDD.
Except now he wants to be able to open that local folder in Outlook. Is this even possible?
No, because even if it is you're going to spend approximately 7 hours doing something he can do in 1 if he stopped jacking off to his old emails and took responsibility for his shit.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Wow there is actually a lot of stuff on the net about doing this. Odd. I thought this would be a weird situation that would be a pain to actually do.
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
"IT issue outside of the scope of your job that is a pain in the CEO's ass" would be an ideal time to stress the need for a sysadmin, if you still cared to do so.
"IT issue outside of the scope of your job that is a pain in the CEO's ass" would be an ideal time to stress the need for a sysadmin, if you still cared to do so.
I'm hoping to put in my two weeks sometime this week. I'm sure that'll get the ball rolling on them hiring a dedicated system admin.
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"Hey doc, we have a sick guy here! No, I don't have his name or symptoms, just fix him!"
Exactly 12 letters.
Must contain 2 different numbers
Must contain 2 different symbols
Must contain 1 Upper Case letter
Cannot have repeating letters
So of COURSE I had to write it down/reset it weekly.
Doctors are dumb as shit about this stuff.
One doc called me and told me the printer in the hospital wasn't working.
I don't work for the hospital. He told me he wanted me to call them to fix it. Hung up immediately.
Man the one thing I liked about back when I worked on helpdesk is we were allowed to tell those people to shove off. Unless you've got an asset #, location, full name (that actually shows up in AD), and phone #, no ticket for you!
Nowadays at a different hospital, our helpdesk will make a ticket for anyone who knows how to dial the phone.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
If the users are rude or abusive, our manager and his boss bring the fire of heaven down on them.
Though apt, woe be unto he who makes this comparison to a doctor's face.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
How the hell do I do this using the command line?
mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
Then look at what is in /mnt
depends how your /etc/fstab is set up
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DropBox invite link - get 500MB extra free.
Mr_Rose's suggestion might have worked, but looking at our ubuntu servers at work, they have a /media/floppy but no /media/cdrom in fstab, which seems very odd to me, especially because they don't have floppy drives (but both do have cdrom drives)
Thankfully you can only check the bank statement with that login, actually transfering money requires proper authentication.
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.### netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4Same, It was weird making a password for it and I was using one that was TOO LONG. When the hell does that ever happen?
Not your problem, you were doing as instructed.
I know this is late but try http://www.flashpanel.com/
It's free right now, and has made managing a high school on Google Apps actually doable.
Look into FlashPanel
Currently still free, they're planning to add some kind of paid tier in the future, but at least you could give it a shot now and see if it meets your needs. Lets you create a company directory, push/sync contacts to mobile phones without making the user add the contacts to their My Contacts themselves, enforces a standardized email signature across org units and users, has some handy user onboarding/deprovisioning workflow stuff.
Very handy.
I've considered having people use Outlook in the past, but
a) barrier to entry is high for these morons, while at least some of them have a personal gmail account, so they kind-of know how to use it
b) fuck outlook
edit:
And so incredibly late to the party
A user is receiving EVERY message sent to anyone within the organisation. Internal emails, external emails. Everything. No transport rules do this. Exchange has gone loopy!
How do I tell it to suck less and only do activesync through the second NIC?
OVERTHINKING IT.
Can I also disable the non-activesync services on the second nic?
EDIT: Nope. For some reason activating the second NIC stops the clients from being able to connect.
*flips table*
Except now he wants to be able to open that local folder in Outlook. Is this even possible?
Hm.
I always thought redundant NICs were pointless anyways.
It's more that we want to give ActiveSync (but nothing else) access to a second subnet rather than redundancy.
Looks like you have to be a student?
I'm hoping to put in my two weeks sometime this week. I'm sure that'll get the ball rolling on them hiring a dedicated system admin.
"We like what you are doing but would appreciate it if you did more. Here is your no raise and a pallet of box fans to uncrate."