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[sysadmins] - International Brotherhood of Neckbeards and Mouthbreathers Local 258

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  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    I can't for the life of me figure it out unless it was to steal something.
    Hint: it involved the men's bathroom. Looking back on it, it wasn't totally necessary, but yeah.
    Were you guys smuggling heroin condoms or something? I'm so confused right now.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
    Delmain
  • RandomHajileRandomHajile Not actually a Snatcher The New KremlinRegistered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    I can't for the life of me figure it out unless it was to steal something.
    Hint: it involved the men's bathroom. Looking back on it, it wasn't totally necessary, but yeah.
    Were you guys smuggling heroin condoms or something? I'm so confused right now.
    Some KMart customers didn't know when to use the urinal vs. the toilet. The urinal was unpleasant that day.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Oh that makes more sense now.

    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
    Le_Goat
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    I can't for the life of me figure it out unless it was to steal something.
    Hint: it involved the men's bathroom. Looking back on it, it wasn't totally necessary, but yeah.
    Were you guys smuggling heroin condoms or something? I'm so confused right now.
    Some KMart customers didn't know when to use the urinal vs. the toilet. The urinal was unpleasant that day.

    While I was catching up and reading the last page I was thinking to myself "Is it butt stuff? I bet in some way it's butt stuff."

    It was butt stuff.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I can see why you'd want to freeze it. When people do nutso shit like that, their poop tends to not be solid logs.

    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
  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    I can see why you'd want to freeze it. When people do nutso shit like that, their poop tends to not be solid logs.

    ...I don't think that's the deciding criteria. Can you see someone saying "Nah, it's a pretty firm loaf, don't bother freezing it, just gimme some paper towels."

    If someone can freeze the poop, you freeze the poop.

    RandomHajileLe_Goat
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I just flat out told them I wasn't ever going to clean the bathroom.

    So I was just kind of guessing that there wasn't a whole lot of thought and gawking and discussion about the poops.

    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
  • RandomHajileRandomHajile Not actually a Snatcher The New KremlinRegistered User regular
    IT WAS A FUN JOB!

    Anyway. Tonight I get to work overtime to P2V a 497GB VM.

  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2015
    IT WAS A FUN JOB!

    Anyway. Tonight I get to work overtime to P2V a 497GB VM freeze poop.

    Sound fun!

    EDIT: Sorry... I had to do that

    Le_Goat on
    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • RandomHajileRandomHajile Not actually a Snatcher The New KremlinRegistered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    IT WAS A FUN JOB!

    Anyway. Tonight I get to work overtime to P2V a 497GB VM freeze poop.

    Sound fun!

    EDIT: Sorry... I had to do that
    It's basically the same thing, right?

    GethCogLe_Goat
  • RandomHajileRandomHajile Not actually a Snatcher The New KremlinRegistered User regular
    IT WAS A FUN JOB!

    Anyway. Tonight I get to work overtime to P2V a 497GB VM.
    Welp, 7 hours later, it is finally over as a VM... Now waiting for CHKDSK to verify stuff after resizing the partition. Too bad 2003 couldn't extend a primary partition on the fly. I JUST WANT TO GO HOME!

  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Spent 3 hours trying to figure out why Open Exchange apparently connected to our IMAP servers but wouldn't login.

    Eventually discovered it's because the guy who had been testing it had put a hosts file entry for the mail servers, which pointed to the right server, but the wrong port (the actual backend port, not the frontend which did user authentication). So even the logs for the mail server looked like success.

  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    Oh man. Loving new job. 50% travel so far which is higher than expected but some of it is via private jet.

    Only having 'network/voice' as your responsibility vs 'all things' is a weird adjustment.

    My old boss literally would say crazy paranoid things like "well it was nice working with you. this is it. Third party is coming in now" and lose his stuff. Just crazy mad paranoia. Over nothing. So glad to not be there anymore. "Being happy and job well done" @ work vs that mess is a huge adjustment for me..... I feel like a bad actor- I don't know what to do with my hands while I'm not the one speaking. crazy mad busy times!

    Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
    AiouaRandomHajileTL DR
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I guess it's good chrome uses their own internal flash player?

    I don't think I've actually installed flash player on a system in a few years at this point.

    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
  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »

    so adobe will send out YET another update to fix it. Its not like adobe doesnt bark for them every 5 secs.....

    Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
    Le_Goat
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    I guess it's good chrome uses their own internal flash player?

    I don't think I've actually installed flash player on a system in a few years at this point.
    Everyone here has Flash installed. I keep them all updated via Patch Manager, so it's not a big deal anymore. Most users don't have Chrome, but we've considered pushing it out to everyone in lieu of IE.

    The thing that's a bit striking with this exploit is that it's already a part of exploit kits. That means all anyone needs to start actively exploiting this flaw is that kit, which makes it a ton easier to utilize because someone else has already done the hard work and now the kiddies can just use the kit.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    One should avoid porn sites for the next week probably!

    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
  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    One should avoid porn sites for the next week probably!

    You left the door pretty open at the end there.....

    Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    But if I don't update my Flash, I can continue to visit porn sites though, right?

    I mean... for research purposes.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    As long as you're using a virtual machine?

    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
  • MadpoetMadpoet Registered User regular
    Anyone ever set up a Magento environment? Our current website is run on a single m3.xlarge EC2 instance with a medium RDS instance. The new Magento setup they're speccing has seven servers, specced like:
    DELL Power Edge Intel Dual Socket - Hex Core, 32 GB of ECC RAM, PERC H710 1GB RAID Controller, 4 x 300 GB 15k RPM 6Gbps SAS Drives - Hardware RAID 10 (600GB Logical)
    That feels like a lot of firepower for an ecommerce site with like 3-500 skus. Does Magento really take that much to run?

  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    Network circuit scheduled to go down next week(and then rescheduled for a month later) just happens to flake out this week. Providers love to keep you hopping....

    and a fun lil management quirk....
    we have to support YahooIM on our network vs cisco phone system jabber because you have better emojis in Yahoo. :hydra:

    mojojoeo on
    Chief Wiggum: "Ladies, please. All our founding fathers, astronauts, and World Series heroes have been either drunk or on cocaine."
    TL DR
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    I've already had 2 calls this morning from obviously outsourced call centers asking for my email address to send me important information for bla bla bla bla bla *click*

    I hate random vendors calling me

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    Hey guys, I'm looking for a recommendation for email encryption. 3-4 users at a client's office need to each send 2-3 emails per month to a couple of vendors, and these emails will contain SSNs, etc.

    I'm leaning toward Outlook's native encryption; anyone used it before and want to share their experience? Do I need a separate cert other than their normal SSL?

  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2015
    TL DR wrote: »
    Hey guys, I'm looking for a recommendation for email encryption. 3-4 users at a client's office need to each send 2-3 emails per month to a couple of vendors, and these emails will contain SSNs, etc.

    I'm leaning toward Outlook's native encryption; anyone used it before and want to share their experience? Do I need a separate cert other than their normal SSL?
    Voltage

    Le_Goat on
    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
    schuss
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    I've already mentally checked out today, just waiting for them to send us home because of the snow storm. I've started editing images from press conferences to pass the time.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    TL DR wrote: »
    Hey guys, I'm looking for a recommendation for email encryption. 3-4 users at a client's office need to each send 2-3 emails per month to a couple of vendors, and these emails will contain SSNs, etc.

    I'm leaning toward Outlook's native encryption; anyone used it before and want to share their experience? Do I need a separate cert other than their normal SSL?

    :bigfrown:

    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
    MvrckDonovan Puppyfucker
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2015
    bowen wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Hey guys, I'm looking for a recommendation for email encryption. 3-4 users at a client's office need to each send 2-3 emails per month to a couple of vendors, and these emails will contain SSNs, etc.

    I'm leaning toward Outlook's native encryption; anyone used it before and want to share their experience? Do I need a separate cert other than their normal SSL?

    :bigfrown:
    Sometimes it's required to include sensitive information, but emails really suck to use it as a method which is why you need a good method for doing so. Again, Voltage is a such a program which integrates well with Outlook. Several users here have licenses for Voltage and use it frequently.

    Le_Goat on
    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    TL DR wrote: »
    Hey guys, I'm looking for a recommendation for email encryption. 3-4 users at a client's office need to each send 2-3 emails per month to a couple of vendors, and these emails will contain SSNs, etc.

    I'm leaning toward Outlook's native encryption; anyone used it before and want to share their experience? Do I need a separate cert other than their normal SSL?

    :bigfrown:

    Rental company forwarding applications for apartments, I think.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Still, why is SSN one of the fields that needs to be transferred?

    Is passworded zip files out of the question?

    Ugh companies and personal identifiable information is the worst. No one gives a shit. I'm even in the medical industry and the way people treat PHI is sickening.

    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
    Mvrck
  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    Rental applications require SSN for background and credit checks

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Every place I've rented from does it in office, same day?

    Just seems odd you'd even need to send that information via email.

    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
  • NijaNija Registered User regular
    I believe you can send a TrueCrypt volume by e-mail.

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  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited January 2015
    We have banks that have finally started to realize that faxing is no more secure than encrypted email. In some ways, it's less secure. Regardless of the transmission method used, that information still needs to be transferred from one party to the next.

    I'm going to assume that this is pretty much the same thing going on in TL DR's case.

    Le_Goat on
    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • TL DRTL DR Not at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered User regular
    Hm, if they just need to encrypt attachments then 7zip might be the ticket. I'll see if I can't get more info.

    Thanks for the replies! How are you guys doing today?

  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    We're dealing with some crap now regarding SSNs. The state sends us some info that used to use SSNs but now they've rightfully changed to a made-up ID number for identification purposes. Problem is it was a hard switch over with no cross references. So now we're trying to find ways to match thousands of these ID numbers to their corresponding accounts and names and addresses don't necessarily match either. It's a real mess.

    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
  • NijaNija Registered User regular
    Wouldn't the State be able to provide you a cross-reference? Or did they just want you to figure it out?

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  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    If we want to manually look them up one at a time, yes.

    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    It's the quarterly "bug the fuck out of bowen because 3 people complained faxes aren't getting through and it is perpetually busy" time!

    I litereally showed the office manager last time how it works.

    I think I need to make a powerpoint and some diagrams and make a meeting and then be all professional and come in and a suit and tie.

    The last slide will say,

    "Please stop fucking calling me because someone from another office is complaining the line is busy."

    The line is busy.

    WHAT IN THE LIVING FUCK DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT IT

    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
    BigityLe_Goat
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