Oracle shouldn't be allowed to own anything but their shitty database software.
I'm especially sad as they'll likely move the whole op out of NH
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Oh, your "Delivery Operations team" don't want to extend the warranty 20 days to co-term the outrageously priced licensing on this web filter so I can pay for it in the year it was budgeted? I'll remember that when it is due up for replacement next year.
Construction crew working in the street a block away from my main client cut their fiber line.
On one hand, great because its not my problem.
In the other hand THANKS A LOT ASSHOLES.
I've had that happen more times than I'd like to count, between fibre, copper for internet, and copper for phone. My now former employer had one location where there was road construction near the work site and the same crew cut the same copper line in 2 different places down the road within a week. Thank god it was a city crew and not one of our crews.
in my apartment they were trenching the outside to put in weeping tile
they dug right through like 3 underground cables and 1 municipal pipe (I don't think it was used for anything though) because they didn't call to see if it was safe to dig
one of those 3 underground cables was the internet, the other was the TV, the third was apparently verizon's telephone stuff(??)
The TWC cable guy was pissed when he got there. It was great too because it was pretty clear they dug down to it, saw it, and went "not my job" and kept digging because it was shielded with some sort of tubing (might have just been PVC) and it looked like they spent some time digging through it.
I can't fathom that kind of mindset. The worst part is it was a saturday morning and I didn't have internet for 2 days until TWC could get someone out there.
The TWC guy hung the cabling with 3m Command hook thingies off the walls outside until they could get someone out to rebury the cabling properly and the city got involved because of the piping and I think they got hit with some pretty heavy fines because another group finished it once TWC and the city fixed everything.
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
I don't think a month has gone by without someone digging into a fibre line somewhere. It's ridiculous. To the point where I sometimes question if someone just fucked up internally and this is the standard excuse for fuck-ups. IT folks do that sometimes.
Also, Verizon's telephone stuff could very well have been fibre. They run fibre to a lot of their cell towers. That's how I sometimes get a fibre POP on a tower. Oh, Verizon is here? SWEET.
sometimes though it's the fault of the company that has the cable in the ground. Where I am we have a program called one call, where you call one number and ask them to do a locate on that area, so they'll come out and paint lines for every underground service, water, power, telecom, gas, etc. Everything is in different colours so you know which is which, they leave info on how deep everything is buried, it is a great service, and free to use. The government funds the people who go around and do the locates, and companies provide the info to the service.
The issue here is that one of the two telecom providers does not participate in that program, since it isn't mandatory, and they want people to call them to do their own locates. It is stupid and I really wish it was mandatory for them to participate in one call. You'd think it would save the company money with fewer cuts to infrastructure, but they're annoyingly stubborn about it. To my knowledge they're the only company in the province that doesn't participate.
sometimes though it's the fault of the company that has the cable in the ground. Where I am we have a program called one call, where you call one number and ask them to do a locate on that area, so they'll come out and paint lines for every underground service, water, power, telecom, gas, etc. Everything is in different colours so you know which is which, they leave info on how deep everything is buried, it is a great service, and free to use. The government funds the people who go around and do the locates, and companies provide the info to the service.
The issue here is that one of the two telecom providers does not participate in that program, since it isn't mandatory, and they want people to call them to do their own locates. It is stupid and I really wish it was mandatory for them to participate in one call. You'd think it would save the company money with fewer cuts to infrastructure, but they're annoyingly stubborn about it. To my knowledge they're the only company in the province that doesn't participate.
Oh I absolutely 100% believe this is regularly the case.
sometimes though it's the fault of the company that has the cable in the ground. Where I am we have a program called one call, where you call one number and ask them to do a locate on that area, so they'll come out and paint lines for every underground service, water, power, telecom, gas, etc. Everything is in different colours so you know which is which, they leave info on how deep everything is buried, it is a great service, and free to use. The government funds the people who go around and do the locates, and companies provide the info to the service.
The issue here is that one of the two telecom providers does not participate in that program, since it isn't mandatory, and they want people to call them to do their own locates. It is stupid and I really wish it was mandatory for them to participate in one call. You'd think it would save the company money with fewer cuts to infrastructure, but they're annoyingly stubborn about it. To my knowledge they're the only company in the province that doesn't participate.
I think it's actually mandatory that utilities in the US at least send someone to a job site to either mark the lines or place an All-Clear flag if the automated 811 One-Call systems flag them as potentially having something buried in the area. I think the call requirement was a federal law pushed through in the 1980s, but I'm not 100% certain (it may have just been my state that pushed such a law through and then the federal law came at a later date). Wiki says that standardizing the number nationwide happened only 10 years ago, though. Interesting that it's not mandatory for utilities to participate in the program in your province.
It was great too because it was pretty clear they dug down to it, saw it, and went "not my job" and kept digging because it was shielded with some sort of tubing (might have just been PVC) and it looked like they spent some time digging through it.
This mindset fucking blows my mind because that shit could be electrical and you could fricassee yourself.
Ok say I have a GPO that does nothing but copy down a file so every computer in a SG.
I want to verify that the file has successfully been copied down to the computers.
They're remote PCs so they are only transiently on the domain, so I can't just check their admin shares or something.
Is there some kind of logging for GPOs where I can see "COMPUTERNAME connected and applied the FILEPOLICY with no errors at TIME"?
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
doesn't that stuff hit the audit policy in the domain controller?
I know some of these words!
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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RandomHajileNot actually a SnatcherThe New KremlinRegistered Userregular
I mean I could re-do the policy so it's a script and have the script copy files and then log somewhere.
but I had doing scripts via GPO... nothing ever seems to work right
like I don't get why there isn't a "script" object y'know? I can pick "file" and say copy this file from here to there.
But I can't say "run this script" I have set up a whole task scheduler object and just hate myself the whole time because task scheduler is a piece of shit and has all these little quirks and if things aren't configured just so it all fails silently
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 feel like it's going to be infinitely easier to log it with the script itself somehow.
yeah
I just didn't want to redo my GPO
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
You're in a tough spot because every tool you could use to scan the systems aren't going to work if they're offline.
There was the GPMonitor.exe tool (2003 tool kit) that could send GPO info from the client to a centralized log location, but if you're already concerned that your GPO's aren't working, getting that tool out to every machine is going to have the exact same problem.
Putting a startup/logon/logoff/shutdown script in a GPO to do the file copy and report the verified results back is the only other option. But if you don't trust your GPOs to get applied, who's to say your script is going to download and run?
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
Construction crew working in the street a block away from my main client cut their fiber line.
On one hand, great because its not my problem.
In the other hand THANKS A LOT ASSHOLES.
This happens all the time in all of my rural Texas offices. Many of these towns are building like mad because of oil and natural gas and I guess any idiot gets to drive the backhoes.
You're in a tough spot because every tool you could use to scan the systems aren't going to work if they're offline.
There was the GPMonitor.exe tool (2003 tool kit) that could send GPO info from the client to a centralized log location, but if you're already concerned that your GPO's aren't working, getting that tool out to every machine is going to have the exact same problem.
Putting a startup/logon/logoff/shutdown script in a GPO to do the file copy and report the verified results back is the only other option. But if you don't trust your GPOs to get applied, who's to say your script is going to download and run?
This is pretty much my view on the matter. Let the GPO run once, verify the file is on the remote computer, and it should work from that point on. Unless you have a reason to suspect your GPOs aren't applying?
I believe there is some shit in the event log when a GPO fails to apply, so you could do event log forwarding, but that's more of a pain in the ass than either the GPO or scripting it, tbh.
Basically for ~reasons~ I need to confirm that the files have successfully made it onto the target machines and then follow up with users who don't have them and nag them/troubleshoot their VPN.
But yeah I'll just rewrite it as a script that copies the files, verifies the files, then just writes back to a log on the network somewhere.
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
Basically for ~reasons~ I need to confirm that the files have successfully made it onto the target machines and then follow up with users who don't have them and nag them/troubleshoot their VPN.
But yeah I'll just rewrite it as a script that copies the files, verifies the files, then just writes back to a log on the network somewhere.
login scripts are your friend here. Here's a basic verify for a login script:
Putting that as a login script makes it a bonus that if the user deletes the file, it shows back up next time they log in. You could also program a powershell script that goes out, checks all the machines on your network for the file, reports back to you if it exists or not, and optionally recopies it.
Has anyone used the MS ARM OS? Win 10 IOT Core. I'm possibly going to have to regulate one on the network and am curious whether it's just a giant pain in the ass.
Has anyone used the MS ARM OS? Win 10 IOT Core. I'm possibly going to have to regulate one on the network and am curious whether it's just a giant pain in the ass.
I mean I have a surface RT I got for free. :rotate:
Basically for ~reasons~ I need to confirm that the files have successfully made it onto the target machines and then follow up with users who don't have them and nag them/troubleshoot their VPN.
But yeah I'll just rewrite it as a script that copies the files, verifies the files, then just writes back to a log on the network somewhere.
login scripts are your friend here. Here's a basic verify for a login script:
Putting that as a login script makes it a bonus that if the user deletes the file, it shows back up next time they log in. You could also program a powershell script that goes out, checks all the machines on your network for the file, reports back to you if it exists or not, and optionally recopies it.
Ah, but they are remote users who can only be expected to connect to VPN and get policy updates when their Office licenses expire.
What I'll be doing is rewriting it to schedule an immediate task to run a script that:
copies the files if they're not there
verifies the files
read a logfile on the network somehere and looks for the computer's hostname
adds the hostname if it's not there
good thing I figured out last time how to use wscript to make shit actually run silently in the background
(I think the windowstyle hidden thing finally works right on powershell 4 but they're all win7 machines so no dice)
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
troubleshooting GPO is like using regex 99% of the time
garbage
I loved GPO because I loved fucking around with regex.
Not even kidding a little bit.
Loading user's NTUSER.DAT files as regex hives, fucking with them, putting them back? Ah, the life.
you're thinking of regedit
not regex :P
rege(x|dit)
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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3 weeks after switching from Kaseya to LabTech
LabTech is by far the superior product.
It still doesn't work and I hate it, just 25% of the time instead of 65% of the time.
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Regedit is the manhole access to the twisted underworks of the sewer system supplying windows. Regex is the language that Cthulhu flunked out of in high school because it was too non-euclidean.
troubleshooting GPO is like using regex 99% of the time
garbage
I loved GPO because I loved fucking around with regex.
Not even kidding a little bit.
Loading user's NTUSER.DAT files as regex hives, fucking with them, putting them back? Ah, the life.
you're thinking of regedit
not regex :P
rege(x|dit)
I am indeed!
Well shit!
I don't even know what the fuck that regex thing is I guess!
But I know that I just got my FreeRadius server working with my Unifi Controller to do MAC, WPA2, and MSCHAPv2 authentication, and I know I'm real goddamn happy about it.
Because working on Radius shit suuuuuuuuuuuucks. We just got rid of our 3rd party DSL and I was so happy because it meant we'd be getting rid of our FreeRadius server, but no, no I had to go find another fucking reason to use it!
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I just get the willies thinking about Oracle owning Dyn. Time to start migrating all of my domains I guess.
I'm especially sad as they'll likely move the whole op out of NH
This is a clickable link to my Steam Profile.
wooo.
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On one hand, great because its not my problem.
In the other hand THANKS A LOT ASSHOLES.
I've had that happen more times than I'd like to count, between fibre, copper for internet, and copper for phone. My now former employer had one location where there was road construction near the work site and the same crew cut the same copper line in 2 different places down the road within a week. Thank god it was a city crew and not one of our crews.
they dug right through like 3 underground cables and 1 municipal pipe (I don't think it was used for anything though) because they didn't call to see if it was safe to dig
one of those 3 underground cables was the internet, the other was the TV, the third was apparently verizon's telephone stuff(??)
The TWC cable guy was pissed when he got there. It was great too because it was pretty clear they dug down to it, saw it, and went "not my job" and kept digging because it was shielded with some sort of tubing (might have just been PVC) and it looked like they spent some time digging through it.
I can't fathom that kind of mindset. The worst part is it was a saturday morning and I didn't have internet for 2 days until TWC could get someone out there.
The TWC guy hung the cabling with 3m Command hook thingies off the walls outside until they could get someone out to rebury the cabling properly and the city got involved because of the piping and I think they got hit with some pretty heavy fines because another group finished it once TWC and the city fixed everything.
Also, Verizon's telephone stuff could very well have been fibre. They run fibre to a lot of their cell towers. That's how I sometimes get a fibre POP on a tower. Oh, Verizon is here? SWEET.
The issue here is that one of the two telecom providers does not participate in that program, since it isn't mandatory, and they want people to call them to do their own locates. It is stupid and I really wish it was mandatory for them to participate in one call. You'd think it would save the company money with fewer cuts to infrastructure, but they're annoyingly stubborn about it. To my knowledge they're the only company in the province that doesn't participate.
Oh I absolutely 100% believe this is regularly the case.
I think it's actually mandatory that utilities in the US at least send someone to a job site to either mark the lines or place an All-Clear flag if the automated 811 One-Call systems flag them as potentially having something buried in the area. I think the call requirement was a federal law pushed through in the 1980s, but I'm not 100% certain (it may have just been my state that pushed such a law through and then the federal law came at a later date). Wiki says that standardizing the number nationwide happened only 10 years ago, though. Interesting that it's not mandatory for utilities to participate in the program in your province.
This mindset fucking blows my mind because that shit could be electrical and you could fricassee yourself.
I want to verify that the file has successfully been copied down to the computers.
They're remote PCs so they are only transiently on the domain, so I can't just check their admin shares or something.
Is there some kind of logging for GPOs where I can see "COMPUTERNAME connected and applied the FILEPOLICY with no errors at TIME"?
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 know some of these words!
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
This is a clickable link to my Steam Profile.
but I had doing scripts via GPO... nothing ever seems to work right
like I don't get why there isn't a "script" object y'know? I can pick "file" and say copy this file from here to there.
But I can't say "run this script" I have set up a whole task scheduler object and just hate myself the whole time because task scheduler is a piece of shit and has all these little quirks and if things aren't configured just so it all fails silently
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
yeah
I just didn't want to redo my GPO
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
garbage
There was the GPMonitor.exe tool (2003 tool kit) that could send GPO info from the client to a centralized log location, but if you're already concerned that your GPO's aren't working, getting that tool out to every machine is going to have the exact same problem.
Putting a startup/logon/logoff/shutdown script in a GPO to do the file copy and report the verified results back is the only other option. But if you don't trust your GPOs to get applied, who's to say your script is going to download and run?
This happens all the time in all of my rural Texas offices. Many of these towns are building like mad because of oil and natural gas and I guess any idiot gets to drive the backhoes.
Whaaaaat. I love GPOs
This is pretty much my view on the matter. Let the GPO run once, verify the file is on the remote computer, and it should work from that point on. Unless you have a reason to suspect your GPOs aren't applying?
I believe there is some shit in the event log when a GPO fails to apply, so you could do event log forwarding, but that's more of a pain in the ass than either the GPO or scripting it, tbh.
But yeah I'll just rewrite it as a script that copies the files, verifies the files, then just writes back to a log on the network somewhere.
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
let me rephrase that
troubleshooting GPO is like using regex 99% of the time
garbage
login scripts are your friend here. Here's a basic verify for a login script:
if exist "c:\myfile.txt" (
@echo %computername% >> \\networkpath\report.txt
)
else (
copy \\networkpath\thedamnfile.txt c:\myfile.txt
)
Putting that as a login script makes it a bonus that if the user deletes the file, it shows back up next time they log in. You could also program a powershell script that goes out, checks all the machines on your network for the file, reports back to you if it exists or not, and optionally recopies it.
I mean I have a surface RT I got for free. :rotate:
Ah, but they are remote users who can only be expected to connect to VPN and get policy updates when their Office licenses expire.
What I'll be doing is rewriting it to schedule an immediate task to run a script that:
good thing I figured out last time how to use wscript to make shit actually run silently in the background
(I think the windowstyle hidden thing finally works right on powershell 4 but they're all win7 machines so no dice)
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 loved GPO because I loved fucking around with regex.
Not even kidding a little bit.
Loading user's NTUSER.DAT files as regex hives, fucking with them, putting them back? Ah, the life.
you're thinking of regedit
not regex :P
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
LabTech is by far the superior product.
It still doesn't work and I hate it, just 25% of the time instead of 65% of the time.
Fuck off with that. Kaseya is awesome. We use it at our office. What's the problem you're having?
I am indeed!
Well shit!
I don't even know what the fuck that regex thing is I guess!
But I know that I just got my FreeRadius server working with my Unifi Controller to do MAC, WPA2, and MSCHAPv2 authentication, and I know I'm real goddamn happy about it.
Because working on Radius shit suuuuuuuuuuuucks. We just got rid of our 3rd party DSL and I was so happy because it meant we'd be getting rid of our FreeRadius server, but no, no I had to go find another fucking reason to use it!