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[sysadmins] - International Brotherhood of Neckbeards and Mouthbreathers Local 258
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You forgot: Something over 10 lbs? Get bowen
I have no training and I run our Cisco UCM/UCA deployments. We have a vendor for support but I'm not allowed to contact them.
I have been turned down repeatedly for request for training. At this point, I just shrug and claim I don't know how to do something and can't get it to work. Then I break something like the corporate directory for 20 minutes and be all like 'oops, guess some training would have let me know not to change setting X during duty hours.
I am also a facility manager apparently in charge of solutions for anything ....inside that facility.
I tell people I'm the guy who deals with anything that turns on, plugs in, broadcasts out, or smells funny when it breaks.
With electric shit, I change all of the bulbs and check breakers because it's insanely cheaper to have me do it than call for building maintenance, who charge $150 an hour. Sad part is that any other person in the office could do it, but because they had me do it while I was a co-op, the job just stuck with me.
Luckily, I finally made a stance on the paper stacking/loading/sorting thing and my boss backed me up 100%. It's now been passed off to someone else, and I'm done fucking with it. Same goes with heavy shit. I've told people I'm busy to have someone in their department lift the package for them. However, due to my height, I'm still called on to reach high places, but that's something I'm okay with because being short isn't being lazy and you can't help it.
Man, please tell me you know of a better way to update sidecars for Cisco phones besides, export, edit details for the sidecar buttons by porting the exported text file to Excel, replacing the cells in question, converting back to text file, uploading to UCM server, and running an import on the phones listed in the text file?
.... wha..... what?
They charge 175 an hour. So we just monkey around with stuff that cost waaaaaaaaaaaaay more to buy.
I had to figure out how to get a bunch of baby raccoons out of a dumpster once.
IT is a weird field.
You'd think the third time I unplugged and replugged the mouse would have given them the idea that maybe it would be good info to have.
EDIT: This was a right handed person.
No one, most left handed people still use their right hand for PCs.
So ones that swap or use it left handed are non-humans.
So they asked me to look at it.
I opened it up, saw the scorch marks, and laughed because I thought it maybe just threw a breaker or something.
Nope.
We're the phone admins, the SQL admins, the ERP admins, the help desk, the gatekeepers to the toner supply, the Exchange admins, the file server admins, the PC deployment crew, and the software license managers. Plus we do the cabling for the offices we're normally at (maintenance does the cabling for the plants, at our direction for the layout planning). All kitchen appliances fall under the jurisdiction of maintenance or whoever broke the appliance, and all toilets are the jurisdiction of maintenance.
Though my role is more PC Lan tech in style rather than full sysadmin, so I do less of the SQL administration and I do less of the purchasing duties as well.
I find this worrying.
I think this would be a valid competition. <chestpuff> I am very good at googling </chestpuff>
PSN - sumowot
Great, now the mental image of beheading my co-worker in the server room and having all the optical drives on all the machines open in unison while the various patch cables and cords explode away from their connections (with sparks, for some inexplicable reason), will haunt me for at least the next 7 to 8 minutes.
Side note: Iron Mountain customer support suckkkkkkkkkkkkkkks soooooo badddddd (he said, on hold with them).
No you won't, Greg
(Kidding... I'm not going there, we can keep the creep factor out of this thread for now)
PSN - sumowot
I'm responsible for the machines in my labs and that's it.
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
and a vending machine
It's not sexism, it's because people are stupid and think we truly are wizards and can wizard up a fix for that gosh darn Star Trek Food Computer™ that stole their dollar.
It didn't go so well.
He said they kept him going so much he didn't have time to wipe after shitting.
I'll thank you not to discuss our private conversations!
A client had their phone system break while I was onsite so I took a look, saw NORTEL MERIDIAN and laughed so hard the CEO came over. He wasn't laughing when I explained I could count on my hand the number of people in California able to service this thing.
Here, have the two guides I've found most useful to start your own dictatorship:
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/win2k/Application_Whitelisting_Using_SRP.pdf
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/app/Deploying_and_Securing_Google_Chrome_in_a_Windows_Enterprise.pdf
Guys.
Fuck citrix.
Typically when a system is breached, those password hashes remain on the net forever. So, if you reuse a password (this was common back in the day), someone would be able to get into the system because they banked on people recycling their passwords. So they'd wait 90-120 days and try again.
In a perfect world, you'd never reuse the same password.
In the real world, you use 2-factor authentication (token device like RSA keyfobs or google authenticator), and a password. Rotating the password is insignificant at that point, it means nothing.
The next best thing is to remove remote access to the system entirely and keep your system up to date so any exploits are squashed quickly.
15 password changes? That's a lazy system administrator. An ineffective one too. I usually see shit like that, RDP to the main server is wide open, and the administrator password is something like 12345abcD!
Because you gotta have a special character, number, different cases for the password to be effective.
And then it's written down on everyone's monitors anyways.
Eh, we use Citrix VDI and XenApp, and I like it well enough. The latest versions don't even need a connector, just an HTML5 compliant browser. I can have a win7 machine, or RDP to any server in the company or launch pretty much any of the management tools (ADUC, vSphere, Exchange, SSMS, BE, CommVault, etc) from any computer without a vpn or any installs.
It's convenient, and it works well enough if you have a Citrix guy who knows what he's doing.
I'm looking at you, citrix receiver who crashed my server.
This sounds more like drivers or some kind of permissions issue. Is it two different user accounts logged into these computers? If so, swap logins and try again. Compare the driver files they're using, assuming it's a local install.
I mean, I guess in theory yes it's possible it could be a faulty NIC, but I find that to be really really unlikely if everything else is working normally.
How is this plotter networked again? Shared from a server? Or just plugged in and installed on each workstation?
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I've run into situations where for some reason the 32 bit driver was being used on a 64 bit machine.
Or the printer was shared from a 32 bit machine, and the 64 bit machine got mapped through that, and that caused weird funky things to happen.