That reminds me of Winamp, going from 3 to 5 and skipping 4. They said something about combining the best features of 2 and 3, which when put together is 5.
And then there was the Unreal III naming which was odd where there were really 4 Unreals, but they totally admitted to how bad Unreal 2003 was, so they just pretended it didn't exist and called the fourth installation of the franchise Unreal III.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
About to force people to restart their computers every day at night. Because they need to login to the time and attendance program in the morning they never want to restart/login to their computers at all. They just lock them all the time. Which can cause all sorts of strange server connection issues when you never restart Windows.
I have been asking for this to be policy for years (well, not reboot, but at least fully logging out; reboot would be better). For years, I have been told no, yet I still request it several times a year, each time with even more validation for the request. The reason for denial: it's inconvenient.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
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And then there was the Unreal III naming which was odd where there were really 4 Unreals, but they totally admitted to how bad Unreal 2003 was, so they just pretended it didn't exist and called the fourth installation of the franchise Unreal III.
There's no Unreal III. You're thinking of Unreal Tournament, which went UT(1), UT2k3, UT2k4, UTIII. The idea between 2k3 and 2k4 was that the series might become an annualized game like sports games do, with minor increments to keep players interested year over year. So really 2k3 and 2k4 were sort of II when taken together.
But 2003 was horrid, which made me not want to try 2004 (though I heard 2004 was much better).
Guess I was wrong about the naming convention then; my bad
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
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Yeah, I'm not saying anything about the quality of them, as my college experience was all UT1, Quake 3, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. 2k3 came out right as we were about to graduate, so we didn't get into it too deep.
On my god, I read that when you posted it, and again just now when Cog posted, and only after reading it a third time did I realize how great that was.
I'm glad madpoet is on the same wavelength as I. Or is this a bad thing?
UT99 and UT2k4 were both great, UT2k3 was good as well but I loved those crazy vehicles in 2k4.
Also the U4E mod for both of them was the bestest...quantum singularity generator is my all time favorite weapon.
In terms of being a sysadmin...well lets just not go there.
There is a position opening up in Security and apparently the manager said somethings about me applying for it. Just feel bad as my current boss has done a fair bit for me.
There is a position opening up in Security and apparently the manager said somethings about me applying for it. Just feel bad as my current boss has done a fair bit for me.
You are being given a golden opportunity. You have to go for it, no matter what your current boss thinks. Hopefully he'll understand (as should any reasonable person). Although I'm assuming the new position is a noticeable step upwards.
There is a position opening up in Security and apparently the manager said somethings about me applying for it. Just feel bad as my current boss has done a fair bit for me.
You are being given a golden opportunity. You have to go for it, no matter what your current boss thinks. Hopefully he'll understand (as should any reasonable person). Although I'm assuming the new position is a noticeable step upwards.
I know I just gotta figure out a way to approach it, we've become pretty good buddies so I think he'll understand but I haven't been at this location to long. It would be nice to not have to do stupid lan tickets, like the coffee machine is broken or my table is wobbly
Dev work is way less ulcer inducing, though, admit it.
I'm a solo dev, so I only touch my own code. Much less stressful than when the AWS server decides it's not going to talk to 1/20th of our dealers, or dealing with IIS permissions.
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Does anyone know a way to get windows to definitively identify a removable drive by type? Like, "drive letter E: is a USB thumbdrive" or similar?
It seems fsutil only knows if a drive is removable or not and I need a way to ignore the built-in card readers that are spec'd on some clients but not others…
Does anyone know a way to get windows to definitively identify a removable drive by type? Like, "drive letter E: is a USB thumbdrive" or similar?
It seems fsutil only knows if a drive is removable or not and I need a way to ignore the built-in card readers that are spec'd on some clients but not others…
Something like Belarc Advisor or SiSoft Sandra? I don't know how you'd do it fast and easy though.
Does anyone know a way to get windows to definitively identify a removable drive by type? Like, "drive letter E: is a USB thumbdrive" or similar?
It seems fsutil only knows if a drive is removable or not and I need a way to ignore the built-in card readers that are spec'd on some clients but not others…
I don't know how to do it, but is there a way to reverse the order that the OS assigns drive letters? Since everything else should already be installed (optical drives, built-in card readers), if you could get the assignments reversed, it would start at Z, thus eliminating the issue at hand.
The only other thing I could think of would be to manually change the drive letters of the built-in card readers. I'm assuming that not everyone has that installed.
Ah, yes. The combination an idiot would have on his luggage.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
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Mr_Rose83 Blue Ridge Protects the HolyRegistered Userregular
The trouble is this needs to go into a login script, preferably a quick one, so firing up Belarc in the middle of it is less than optimal, unfortunately. Locking the card readers to specific letters might work except they're internally USB as well so windows gets to play silly buggers with the name ordering on a whim.
What about specifically identifying a particular USB device? Is there something like a MAC address I can look for? I understand that you can lock out all but a specific list of connectable devices by group policy but how windows goes about doing that internally is a mystery.
Mr_Rose83 Blue Ridge Protects the HolyRegistered Userregular
Ugh. I suppose I could go back to my original idea of putting a tiny file on there and checking each removable drive for that file but that's even less secure.
What's really annoying is that this whole thing is about bit locker keys and the bean counters won't spring for server 2012 which has full BL AD integration so it will always unlock as long as it can talk to the server.
Anyone know Cisco? Looking at a new L2L VPN on a 5515 someone setup that's essentially a duplicate of an existing one. The VPN settings, ACLs look "right" to me, the VPN monitor says it's connected with the expected IPSEC tunnel shown. However looking at the routing table, there is no entry for that IPSEC route like there is for all the other VPN's. What would be wrong for it to build the IPSEC tunnel but then not create the route?
The other thing is this Cisco is sending RIP routes as a couple smaller summarized entries (the RIP auto-summarization is OFF), even though the Route Map is a larger subnet. The Route Map is /8 but the RIP routes are a /16, /14, /13, /12, /11, /11 that are a subset of the /8 network. That just seems odd to me.
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Anyone know Cisco? Looking at a new L2L VPN on a 5515 someone setup that's essentially a duplicate of an existing one. The VPN settings, ACLs look "right" to me, the VPN monitor says it's connected with the expected IPSEC tunnel shown. However looking at the routing table, there is no entry for that IPSEC route like there is for all the other VPN's. What would be wrong for it to build the IPSEC tunnel but then not create the route?
The other thing is this Cisco is sending RIP routes as a couple smaller summarized entries (the RIP auto-summarization is OFF), even though the Route Map is a larger subnet. The Route Map is /8 but the RIP routes are a /16, /14, /13, /12, /11, /11 that are a subset of the /8 network. That just seems odd to me.
What do the other VPN routes look like? It's possible they were created statically (i.e. route outside x.x.x.x x.x.x.x next-hop) and you will need another statement for the new subnet.
Just a guess on the routing (if you want to pastebin the config I can try to confirm) but a route-map does not summarize/unsummarize routes -- it only permits or denies them. When you see the /8 (likely in a prefix list?) what it's saying is that any routes matching the first 8 bits of the network in question are permitted (or denied) to be advertised. So as long as the various mask lengths you're seeing all have the same first 8 bits, they're sent out. (edit: just re-read this -- to clarify there is a way (at least on IOS, have not used prefix lists on ASAs personally) to use a prefix list to *only* permit a /8 route -- but you can also use it in the way I've described above -- either way the route-map/prefix list doesn't summarize the route - it only permits it if it already exists)
What about making the built-in card readers unavailable? Rubber cement a piece of plastic over the built-in? Disconnecting the reader from the motherboard?
Speaking of trying to make a peripheral socket unusable, I had a past shitty boss hot glued the USB sockets so no one could stick thumb drives in.
My coworker got pissed because he wanted to charge his iphone and get pictures of stuff he was working on and download client photos and stuff, so he took a can of compressed air, turned it upside down, and sprayed the shit on the glue.
Apparently hot glue becomes super brittle when you do that (I guess the coolant freezes it kind of like wart removal stuff). At that point he just smashed it and it fell to pieces.
I was in awe.
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RandomHajileNot actually a SnatcherThe New KremlinRegistered Userregular
Speaking of trying to make a peripheral socket unusable, I had a past shitty boss hot glued the USB sockets so no one could stick thumb drives in.
My coworker got pissed because he wanted to charge his iphone and get pictures of stuff he was working on and download client photos and stuff, so he took a can of compressed air, turned it upside down, and sprayed the shit on the glue.
Apparently hot glue becomes super brittle when you do that (I guess the coolant freezes it kind of like wart removal stuff). At that point he just smashed it and it fell to pieces.
I was in awe.
I have a similar story about freezing things with an upside-down aerosol can in order to get them out of other things. I worked at KMart as an entry-level worker, so I'll let you figure out the thing we were trying to get out of another thing...
Anyone know Cisco? Looking at a new L2L VPN on a 5515 someone setup that's essentially a duplicate of an existing one. The VPN settings, ACLs look "right" to me, the VPN monitor says it's connected with the expected IPSEC tunnel shown. However looking at the routing table, there is no entry for that IPSEC route like there is for all the other VPN's. What would be wrong for it to build the IPSEC tunnel but then not create the route?
The other thing is this Cisco is sending RIP routes as a couple smaller summarized entries (the RIP auto-summarization is OFF), even though the Route Map is a larger subnet. The Route Map is /8 but the RIP routes are a /16, /14, /13, /12, /11, /11 that are a subset of the /8 network. That just seems odd to me.
What do the other VPN routes look like? It's possible they were created statically (i.e. route outside x.x.x.x x.x.x.x next-hop) and you will need another statement for the new subnet.
Just a guess on the routing (if you want to pastebin the config I can try to confirm) but a route-map does not summarize/unsummarize routes -- it only permits or denies them. When you see the /8 (likely in a prefix list?) what it's saying is that any routes matching the first 8 bits of the network in question are permitted (or denied) to be advertised. So as long as the various mask lengths you're seeing all have the same first 8 bits, they're sent out. (edit: just re-read this -- to clarify there is a way (at least on IOS, have not used prefix lists on ASAs personally) to use a prefix list to *only* permit a /8 route -- but you can also use it in the way I've described above -- either way the route-map/prefix list doesn't summarize the route - it only permits it if it already exists)
Fuck I hate Cisco's bullshit. After banging my head against this for hours, verifying every single setting was correct while putting up with their comically slow ASDM, I decided to delete the VPN and start over. Used all the exact same settings as before. Now it works, the VPN route is in the routing table and it's distributing properly via RIP. If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing twice and expecting a different result, Cisco is batshit crazy.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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And then there was the Unreal III naming which was odd where there were really 4 Unreals, but they totally admitted to how bad Unreal 2003 was, so they just pretended it didn't exist and called the fourth installation of the franchise Unreal III.
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I'm glad madpoet is on the same wavelength as I. Or is this a bad thing?
Burn the apostate!
Also the U4E mod for both of them was the bestest...quantum singularity generator is my all time favorite weapon.
In terms of being a sysadmin...well lets just not go there.
There is a position opening up in Security and apparently the manager said somethings about me applying for it. Just feel bad as my current boss has done a fair bit for me.
/sigh
I know I just gotta figure out a way to approach it, we've become pretty good buddies so I think he'll understand but I haven't been at this location to long. It would be nice to not have to do stupid lan tickets, like the coffee machine is broken or my table is wobbly
I'm a solo dev, so I only touch my own code. Much less stressful than when the AWS server decides it's not going to talk to 1/20th of our dealers, or dealing with IIS permissions.
It seems fsutil only knows if a drive is removable or not and I need a way to ignore the built-in card readers that are spec'd on some clients but not others…
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Something like Belarc Advisor or SiSoft Sandra? I don't know how you'd do it fast and easy though.
The only other thing I could think of would be to manually change the drive letters of the built-in card readers. I'm assuming that not everyone has that installed.
Ah, yes. The combination an idiot would have on his luggage.
What about specifically identifying a particular USB device? Is there something like a MAC address I can look for? I understand that you can lock out all but a specific list of connectable devices by group policy but how windows goes about doing that internally is a mystery.
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What's really annoying is that this whole thing is about bit locker keys and the bean counters won't spring for server 2012 which has full BL AD integration so it will always unlock as long as it can talk to the server.
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The other thing is this Cisco is sending RIP routes as a couple smaller summarized entries (the RIP auto-summarization is OFF), even though the Route Map is a larger subnet. The Route Map is /8 but the RIP routes are a /16, /14, /13, /12, /11, /11 that are a subset of the /8 network. That just seems odd to me.
What do the other VPN routes look like? It's possible they were created statically (i.e. route outside x.x.x.x x.x.x.x next-hop) and you will need another statement for the new subnet.
Just a guess on the routing (if you want to pastebin the config I can try to confirm) but a route-map does not summarize/unsummarize routes -- it only permits or denies them. When you see the /8 (likely in a prefix list?) what it's saying is that any routes matching the first 8 bits of the network in question are permitted (or denied) to be advertised. So as long as the various mask lengths you're seeing all have the same first 8 bits, they're sent out. (edit: just re-read this -- to clarify there is a way (at least on IOS, have not used prefix lists on ASAs personally) to use a prefix list to *only* permit a /8 route -- but you can also use it in the way I've described above -- either way the route-map/prefix list doesn't summarize the route - it only permits it if it already exists)
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My coworker got pissed because he wanted to charge his iphone and get pictures of stuff he was working on and download client photos and stuff, so he took a can of compressed air, turned it upside down, and sprayed the shit on the glue.
Apparently hot glue becomes super brittle when you do that (I guess the coolant freezes it kind of like wart removal stuff). At that point he just smashed it and it fell to pieces.
I was in awe.
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Fuck I hate Cisco's bullshit. After banging my head against this for hours, verifying every single setting was correct while putting up with their comically slow ASDM, I decided to delete the VPN and start over. Used all the exact same settings as before. Now it works, the VPN route is in the routing table and it's distributing properly via RIP. If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing twice and expecting a different result, Cisco is batshit crazy.