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[sysadmin] I don't even work at your job and I'm already sick of your job.

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  • BlazeFireBlazeFire Registered User regular
    I expected "Generator had not been tested in 6 months". Pay-off was better.

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  • twmjrtwmjr Registered User regular
    obviously the generator was moved during the weekend

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  • lwt1973lwt1973 King of Thieves SyndicationRegistered User regular
    twmjr wrote: »
    obviously the generator was moved during the weekend

    Was the generator moved to create more filing space?

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  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    lwt1973 wrote: »
    twmjr wrote: »
    obviously the generator was moved during the weekend
    Was the generator moved to create more filing space?
    They said we're not complying with data retention policies, so we needed more space. It makes perfect sense. Where else are we supposed to fit 5 terabytes?! Do you even know how much that is, cause I fucking don't!

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    5 terabytes is a lot of information, but that's only a few dozen hard drives with RAID.

    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_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    5 terabytes is a lot of information, but that's only a few dozen hard drives with RAID.
    *whisper*it was meant to be a joke*end whisper*

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    NO JOKES ON THE INTERNET GOAT

    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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  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    What's a *joke*?

    Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    Damnit. This is almost as bad as that time I wanted to find a place that did cheap massages near my work, so I googled "chinatown massage parlor" and received a bunch of responses for things I was definitely not looking for.

    While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
    wunderbar
  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Damnit. This is almost as bad as that time I wanted to find a place that did cheap massages near my work, so I googled "chinatown massage parlor" and received a bunch of responses for things I was definitely not looking for.

    Heyooooooooo

    Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Damnit. This is almost as bad as that time I wanted to find a place that did cheap massages near my work, so I googled "chinatown massage parlor" and received a bunch of responses for things I was definitely not looking for.

    or was it *exactly* what you were looking for :winky:

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  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    wunderbar wrote: »
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Damnit. This is almost as bad as that time I wanted to find a place that did cheap massages near my work, so I googled "chinatown massage parlor" and received a bunch of responses for things I was definitely not looking for.

    or was it *exactly* what you were looking for :winky:

    That story probably had a happy ending.

    Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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  • Le_GoatLe_Goat Frechified Goat Person BostonRegistered User regular
    edited April 2016
    Entaru wrote: »
    wunderbar wrote: »
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Damnit. This is almost as bad as that time I wanted to find a place that did cheap massages near my work, so I googled "chinatown massage parlor" and received a bunch of responses for things I was definitely not looking for.

    or was it *exactly* what you were looking for :winky:

    That story probably had a happy ending.
    That was what every search result showed... and I was at work when it happened. Alt+F4 always works except when you need it to the most.

    I feel like this is where the overly suave IT guy needs to be resurfaced...

    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: »
    Entaru wrote: »
    wunderbar wrote: »
    Le_Goat wrote: »
    Damnit. This is almost as bad as that time I wanted to find a place that did cheap massages near my work, so I googled "chinatown massage parlor" and received a bunch of responses for things I was definitely not looking for.

    or was it *exactly* what you were looking for :winky:

    That story probably had a happy ending.
    That was what every search result showed... and I was at work when it happened. Alt+F4 always works except when you need it to the most.

    I feel like this is where the overly suave IT guy needs to be resurfaced...
    Just do what I did: volunteer to be the web filter administrator.

    Le_Goat
  • TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    So, real specific and sorta sysadmin question -- anybody know if there are issues with BITS transfers and managed service accounts. I've got a windows jenkins slave set up on a managed service account and it's running a powershell script that uses BITS transfers and I get this back when it runs through jenkins: "Start-BitsTransfer : Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

    Running the exact same script from the command line like c:\windows\system32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File C:\Scripts\myscript.ps1
    seems to work just fine when I sign in as myself and run it -- this is the same action jenkins is doing (as best I can tell) but under the managed service account.

    Worst case scenario I just have to re-write it with webrequests or something, I just wanted to see if anybody knew if this was definitely some kind of issue with the account.

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    So, real specific and sorta sysadmin question -- anybody know if there are issues with BITS transfers and managed service accounts. I've got a windows jenkins slave set up on a managed service account and it's running a powershell script that uses BITS transfers and I get this back when it runs through jenkins: "Start-BitsTransfer : Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

    Running the exact same script from the command line like c:\windows\system32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File C:\Scripts\myscript.ps1
    seems to work just fine when I sign in as myself and run it -- this is the same action jenkins is doing (as best I can tell) but under the managed service account.

    Worst case scenario I just have to re-write it with webrequests or something, I just wanted to see if anybody knew if this was definitely some kind of issue with the account.

    Oh, now we're getting somewhere

    are you able to show me the whole script?

    There's some variable it can't load methinks

    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
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    unrelated:

    time to study up for, well, anything
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    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
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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    That needs to be a real book so I can list it on my s/o jobs page.

    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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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    @TehSloth the first thing I'd do with that is create a debug version of that script, and add a line in before the Start-BitsTransfer where it echoes any variables in the Start-BitsTransfer arguments out to a log file.
    One of them has to be null or some wrong value. Either that or your service account doesn't have access to the things you're trying to touch.

    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
  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    I read that as Shits-BitsTransfer

    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
    Aioua
  • Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited April 2016
    I'm most excited about Bash on Windows because I can just grep things instead of having to fumble through remembering what order to put findstr flags in.

    Also, my coworker was 12th in line waiting for dell support over the last 45 minutes.

    Him: "Just take over, I have to go"

    Me: "It's awfully trusting of you to leave your laptop here and expect to not have your background changed"

    Him: "I'm taking my laptop with me, i'll send you the service info"

    I'm 20th in line after 20 minutes :rotate:

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    I felt good about today. I dug into a vendor's product that is running Tomcat, and a pretty vanilla instance, and got it so that I could do some port redirection, locking down the management console, changing the favicon, and overall setting up the environment to be more secure and robust than the vendor is used to... all without violating support contracts and such.

    Now I just need to actually write down my ideal management stack. Our configuration management database isn't really being.. cared about by anyone, meaning we aren't properly automatically collecting our CI's. I just learned that our DNS guy tracks DNS changes by hand (he showed interest in git) as he doesn't trust our ticketing system. And in general.. I feel like we can't get an honest grasp of what our systems look like.

    Unfortunately Splunk is likely out of our league. I want to play around with ELK...

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2016
    a gem from our outsourced helpdesk:
    User has lot of duplicate rules which was occupying lot of space & giving error.

    tried changing the rules

    but it was lot of rules.

    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
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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    a gem from our outsourced helpdesk:
    User has lot of duplicate rules which was occupying lot of space & giving error.

    tried changing the rules

    but it was lot of rules.

    Honest ticket.

    "I really just don't feel like dealing with this."

    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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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    I'd actually honestly rather see that than see someone lie about how they couldn't fix it or were still looking into it or that it couldn't actually be fixed.

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  • KakodaimonosKakodaimonos Code fondler Helping the 1% get richerRegistered User regular
    That'd be nice.

    "Eh, it's 4:30 and I don't want to hang around so I just bounced it back with needs more info and I'll deal with it tomorrow."

    Bigity
  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    That'd be nice.

    "Eh, it's 4:30 and I don't want to hang around so I just bounced it back with needs more info and I'll deal with it tomorrow."

    Before we changed our ticketing system here, we did have a "Won't Fix" status.

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Ffffffffffffffff

    Remote user, having him do a BIOS update. Bitlocker pops. Go into AD to get the key. None are stored.


    Shit.

    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
  • LD50LD50 Registered User regular
    Shouldn't there be a USB recovery key if it's running in TPM mode?

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    We don't save them anywhere else, because they're supposed to be saved to AD.

    gd remote users never connecting VPN

    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
    Bigity
  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    =/

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    My only hope is (once I get the laptop) downgrading the BIOS version back to what it was and maybe it'll shut up

    but I think that once TPM trips, it's tripped. :bigfrown:

    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
  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    yea, I think you're screwed.

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  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    edited April 2016
    This is where a "Won't Fix" tag would come in handy.

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  • iTunesIsEviliTunesIsEvil Cornfield? Cornfield.Registered User regular
    I have to ask though. What in the world was the problem, where the solution was trying to walk a user through updating the BIOS? Especially on a machine with TPM/bitlocker...

    You're crazy, vowels! Crazy, I say!

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    I have to ask though. What in the world was the problem, where the solution was trying to walk a user through updating the BIOS? Especially on a machine with TPM/bitlocker...

    You're crazy, vowels! Crazy, I say!

    their USB was being flaky

    it doesn't usually fix anything but it's flashy and usually shuts them up for a while

    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
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  • LD50LD50 Registered User regular
    Well they certainly won't be complaining about their USB problems for awhile...

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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    can someone just give me ssh access into their quantum computer for a few hours

    I'm sure I can brute-force it

    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
  • SeidkonaSeidkona Had an upgrade Registered User regular
    LD50 wrote: »
    Well they certainly won't be complaining about their USB problems for awhile...

    Ticket resolved. USB problem fixed.

    You'll need to file a new ticket for any other issues. Sorry.

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  • DjeetDjeet Registered User regular
    Chances are it's borked. W/r/to BitLocker or FDE or any drive/partition encryption, you'll want to suspend or deactivate it before BIOS updates. Hindsight, 20/20, etc.

    Would be interested in knowing if a BIOS rollback works though.

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