Hell no. There is only so much you can legally take off. Conversely, you can always put more on during the cold months; it's like being in giant PJs where you feel like you're still in bed.
I find that (at least up here) the people who bitch about the cold the most are the ones trying to look fashionable/cool during it.
Look. I live in the upper midwest. I know from cold. Yeah, you can always put more on, but there comes a point where you have to leave the house and you are wearing enough layers that you look like the fucking Michelin Man, and you know what? It's still ball shatteringly fucking cold. And then you get where you're going and that chill has seeped into you and planted its seed in your very bones. It grows inside you like a cancer but instead of eating your cells, this cancer eats your warmth. You can never cure it, you can never shake it, and you can never wrap it in enough clothes to be warm again. The frigid bite of the tundra outside lasts for minutes and more after you walk in, and the winter-cancer-beast gnaws at you for hours after you've arrived. Your fingers turn blue, and you consider bringing a blanket to work to put over your legs. You violate your company's policy on space heaters under your desk. The cold-cancer is your companion for the next two months. Your hell is ice and darkness.
In summer yeah sure your nutsack sweats but you walk into an air-conditioned building and that wave of cool, non-humid air is immediate relief, and within 5 minutes you're totally fine.
So fuck winter. Fuck it right in it's frozen blue asshole.
So my son was just trying to play Minecraft on the laptop at home - and gets an error message 'Plug-in not supported' and he starts looking at the USB cords that are plugged in and looking for something wrong.
At least he reads error messages - already smarter than most of my users.
So my son was just trying to play Minecraft on the laptop at home - and gets an error message 'Plug-in not supported' and he starts looking at the USB cords that are plugged in and looking for something wrong.
At least he reads error messages - already smarter than most of my users.
He's 8.
Completely fucking logical too, couldn't even fault him for looking there.
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
Backing up your iPod is not my responsibility, so please stop asking me to help you with it on your work computer. *sigh*
Where I work, I would just direct them to the portion of the Computer Facility Usage Policy that they signed when they were hired, where it very clearly points out that you are not allowed to connect non-approved devices to a company PC.
We don't have that policy, because it is "inconvenient" to the end users. I must have forgotten to mention that I basically work at an adult day care.
Yeah, I mean, it's not like we enforce it, but it's nice to have in cases like yours, if only to get people off our backs about something dumb. Our bigger problem is people clicking on bad ads/email attachments and getting hit with an encryption virus that wipes out a third of our files (1.6TB total).
"It said there was a package waiting!"
"They spelled 'package' wrong, they have no way of getting your email address to notify you of that. Were you even expecting a package?"
"No."
This is how I discovered that the two guys that had set up our backup had neglected to include our fileserver in the backups. Through great coincidence I had migrated the files to a larger drive the week before and hadn't reclaimed the virtual disk yet.
Now is a good time to mention the file screening feature of File Server Resource Manager. You can have it shut down file sharing and notify you via email when certain file patterns are copied to the file server. Tomorrow I will try to remember to find the link I used to set it up.
@Apothe0sis
Here we go: http://jpelectron.com/sample/Info and Documents/Stop crypto badware before it ruins your day/
They suggest actually deleting the shares and potentially shutting down the server. I made mine just shut down some services (LanmanServer in particular), because we have a DFS Replication/Namespace and I'm not sure about the ramifications of deleting a share. I did find that a couple of the services restart after a couple minutes (I think because our file servers are also domain servers), but it should inhibit the encryption virus enough for us to track it down. The notification email even tells you who it is and exactly what file they're trying to save.
On Server 2012 R2 (and I think flat 2012), FSRM is just a Role you have to install. On older OSes, it is I think in the Resource Kit or a download? It's the same thing that enables quotas, so you may even have it installed. In my testing, it hasn't caused a noticeable performance impact.
Of course, the flaw in the plan is that a user could stumble across one of those filename patterns and continually shut down the file services for everyone, but again, it sends their username in an email.... so you could perhaps go into that person's user drive and delete all the files there and act like you don't know what happened, but that the files are not at all recoverable. I hate users.
So, today this plan paid huuuuuge dividends. I got the email and within 5 minutes I had the guy on the phone to unplug the network cable. No files encrypted or deleted. I mean, other than the ones on his PC, of course. But, like, whatever; it didn't take the file server with it. This dude is a high ranking accountant who has access to all kinds of files all over the server, so I would have had a bad day tomorrow.
hahah oh my god it's like a movie.
"The cable rip it out or we're all dooooooomed!"
Well, yeah, kinda. Like I mentioned in a previous post, a couple weeks ago we had to restore about a third of our 1.6TB file server because of a CryptoLocker variant. This time I didn't.
that CryptoLocker shit is fucking -nasty- I will say that. It caused me to step back up from "basic computer security" to "Great Wall of China" regarding my home PCs.
I got this FSRM based solution green-lit just now, so we'll be setting this up some time in the near future. We've had a couple users get hit with it and thankfully it hadn't made it to the network drives yet. I pitched it and it was well received.
I am leaving my test automation-infrastructure/device-support team for a real-boy sysadmin team at the end of the month. Hooray!
I'm sure there's plenty of dumb bullshit in the new place, but I'm going to be glad to get rid the old dumb bullshit.
So much of our current processes for flagging bad devices for repair, or the processes for releasing devices back into test are built on these bad assumptions. There's no will to fix the processes though, test is divorced from infra, infra is divorced from dev, and dev is divorced from test. Nobody wants to work on any problems, they all draw their line just outside any real work. Bah!
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
So wait, you want to leave the department where nobody actually works because....?
Well on my end we work, since everything's always on fire since nothing functions in a way that makes sense.
Aside from that, all the knowledge and skills I have here are useless outside of the company. Moving to a proper sysadmin team means I can get the fuck out of this company in a year or so.
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
I'm sure there's plenty of dumb bullshit in the new place, but I'm going to be glad to get rid the old dumb bullshit.
This is what I am most looking forward to when I finally leave. I have no illusion that wherever I go will not have any bullshit, but the new bullshit will seem fresh compared to the 10+ years of the same bullshit.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
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Man, as part of getting our backup exec house in order so everything is consistent and reliable (I wish I had other options) I have had to update the certs on our vcenter.
Updating certs on a vcenter appliance is an arcane process I tell you hwat. Not least of which because it requires the use of the password "testpassword" which you cannot change for the private keys.
vmware you crazy diamonds
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
also microsoft CAs leave things to be desired
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WHAT THE WHAT
WHY VMWARE WHY
EDIT: Because your instructions are senseless and wrong, of course. SUCCESS
I so desperately want to ditch Backup Exec, But cannot rush the process with all the changes to our backup strategy. So instead I upgraded from 2012 to 2014. For once, Symantec want an absolute pain.
I'm going that we find a new product within a year
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
We apparently have 4 months to start submitting in 837 format or they're going to make the interface to bill at least 3x more cumbersome.
Good times. This is the first time I don't think I can cobble together a OSS solution but we're also not a thing they are going to support with extra funding so we need to find a way to do it as cheaply as possible.
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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So the desktop guy is out today and we have a laptop that's shit its pants and can't find a valid partition table. Anyone seen that happen before? I've been through all the possible bios changes to the boot settings, and I got nothin.
it's probably something to do with the drive, not the laptop. corrupt filesystem would be my guess, but just a hosed drive is also possible. outside chance it's the OS but if it can't find the partition table to even try booting the OS not likely.
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Here in Wisconsin, we often hit all 3 of those points within an 8 hour period and usually not in an ascending or descending order.
I'll get to work when it's 80 degrees out, take lunch when it's snowing, and leave when all the snow has melted and the birds are out chirping.
Wisconsin!
Very familiar with that in CNY!
Wisconsin, where no matter what you are prepared for the weather says fuck you.
Look. I live in the upper midwest. I know from cold. Yeah, you can always put more on, but there comes a point where you have to leave the house and you are wearing enough layers that you look like the fucking Michelin Man, and you know what? It's still ball shatteringly fucking cold. And then you get where you're going and that chill has seeped into you and planted its seed in your very bones. It grows inside you like a cancer but instead of eating your cells, this cancer eats your warmth. You can never cure it, you can never shake it, and you can never wrap it in enough clothes to be warm again. The frigid bite of the tundra outside lasts for minutes and more after you walk in, and the winter-cancer-beast gnaws at you for hours after you've arrived. Your fingers turn blue, and you consider bringing a blanket to work to put over your legs. You violate your company's policy on space heaters under your desk. The cold-cancer is your companion for the next two months. Your hell is ice and darkness.
In summer yeah sure your nutsack sweats but you walk into an air-conditioned building and that wave of cool, non-humid air is immediate relief, and within 5 minutes you're totally fine.
So fuck winter. Fuck it right in it's frozen blue asshole.
'Do 3D printers print out PCL errors in 3D blocks? Like you get a cube of PCL XML ERROR when something blows up?'
Awesomer: We use that vendor for a critical app.
No excuse, but not 5 years old.
At least he reads error messages - already smarter than most of my users.
He's 8.
Completely fucking logical too, couldn't even fault him for looking there.
I got this FSRM based solution green-lit just now, so we'll be setting this up some time in the near future. We've had a couple users get hit with it and thankfully it hadn't made it to the network drives yet. I pitched it and it was well received.
No need to go nuts, just don't have bad browser habits, and have a good backup scheme.
Oh you overwrote my files? Well tough shit, I got revisions offsite I can restore from. Sucks to be you bruh.
Yep, he's already in the top 90% of users, and at least the top 60% of helpdesk.
I'm sure there's plenty of dumb bullshit in the new place, but I'm going to be glad to get rid the old dumb bullshit.
So much of our current processes for flagging bad devices for repair, or the processes for releasing devices back into test are built on these bad assumptions. There's no will to fix the processes though, test is divorced from infra, infra is divorced from dev, and dev is divorced from test. Nobody wants to work on any problems, they all draw their line just outside any real work. Bah!
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
They're bored?
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Well on my end we work, since everything's always on fire since nothing functions in a way that makes sense.
Aside from that, all the knowledge and skills I have here are useless outside of the company. Moving to a proper sysadmin team means I can get the fuck out of this company in a year or so.
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
Updating certs on a vcenter appliance is an arcane process I tell you hwat. Not least of which because it requires the use of the password "testpassword" which you cannot change for the private keys.
vmware you crazy diamonds
WHAT THE WHAT
WHY VMWARE WHY
EDIT: Because your instructions are senseless and wrong, of course. SUCCESS
I'm going that we find a new product within a year
We apparently have 4 months to start submitting in 837 format or they're going to make the interface to bill at least 3x more cumbersome.
Good times. This is the first time I don't think I can cobble together a OSS solution but we're also not a thing they are going to support with extra funding so we need to find a way to do it as cheaply as possible.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
Yeah I guess I can stop with the panic. This is nowhere near what I was imagining when it was dropped on my desk an hour ago.
Edit: Actually, I think I just thought of a way to turn this into a gift horse so I'll stop looking it in the mouth.
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Might just need to fix the partitions?
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Try that and see if it fixes the partitions.