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Dont be like Dave, kids
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
What’s the point of the stupid region code + MAC address name scheme for company computers. It’s terrible and makes it impossible to remember how to connect to internal resources or how to remote in to your own machines.
It’s so obnoxious that it must serve some purpose but I cannot figure out what.
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Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
I like calling IT to set up a new machine for me and when they arrive, the Join Domain dialog is open and prepopulated with all the right info.
And they say
“Wow did you work IT?”
“Yes, for about 4 years to pay for college”
“Cool. Wait before I join this, does this machine conform to our new machine naming policy of 4 letter company region code followed by an 8 hex digits from the MAC?”
“It’s uh, grandfathered in”
“But this is a brand new machine. That’s the motherboard box right there”
“Shhh. Shhhhhh quiet your worried little mouth it’s grandfathered in. join it to the domain and I’ll even run all the setup scripts and configure office. You can just go back to the help desk.”
“Uhhhh... fine.”
You're IT's worst nightmare
guilty. at least I actually ran the setup scripts including bigfix and symantec antivirus even though both of those are the worst.
they use bigfix?
well in that case they deserve whatever happens
Big presentation coming up? BIGFIX HAS AN UPDATE RIGHT THE FUCK NOW THAT YOU WERE NEVER PREVIOISLY TOLD ABOUT NO YOU CANNOT EVEN MINIMIZE THIS WINDOW RESTART NOW
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Nothing like having a computer call "Samantha-RN-front" and samantha the rn hasn't worked in your office in 15 years. And what the hell does front mean?
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
Nothing like having a computer call "Samantha-RN-front" and samantha the rn hasn't worked in your office in 15 years. And what the hell does front mean?
Setting up a VPN connection to our office computers isfine, but I do my development on a separate network. So we have two choices.
1) VPN to office network, remote to office computer, VPN to dev network, remote to dev machine. If we ever leave the computer for more than 15 minutes, the connection shuts down and locks you from reconnecting for X amount of time.
2) VPN directly to dev network, but make sure you provide IT with your home IP address or it won't accept the connection. Oh, your IP has changed since the last time you had to remote in? Too bad, it'll take an unknown amount of time to add your new IP address into the firewall rules.
Home IP Address? Why don't they tie it to a secure token or MAC address
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BethrynUnhappiness is MandatoryRegistered Userregular
Nothing like having a computer call "Samantha-RN-front" and samantha the rn hasn't worked in your office in 15 years. And what the hell does front mean?
What’s the point of the stupid region code + MAC address name scheme for company computers. It’s terrible and makes it impossible to remember how to connect to internal resources or how to remote in to your own machines.
It’s so obnoxious that it must serve some purpose but I cannot figure out what.
Computer naming conventions are a constant internecine holy war among sysadmins, like spaces v tabs or CamelCase v underscores
Ask 10 different IT nerds about naming conventions and you'll get 12 different answers and all of them are wrong except my way
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I'm just saying... It took a while to find a computer that was built into a wall once
If you have port locking on (ie locks port to mac address) it makes it easier to find the computer if it misbehaves. We dont use it on our desktop level but we do use a variation on our switching and such.
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
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My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
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My friend Steve (who always goes for weird or funny character concepts) in our Ravnica game is rolling up a Cowboy Entertainer who was shifted from Earth to Ravnica, and in the process, was merged with his horse (either by the Simic Combine or by the magic that transported him there). So he is effectively a Centaur ("Better'n bein' dead"), with none of the cultural knowledge or connections that usually come with being a Centaur. The character's name is "Wild Bill" and back in the (18)90s, back in the 90s, he was in a very famous TV Wild West show. He actually is named William, and people on Earth assumed that he's THE Wild Bill (who died holding the Dead Man's Hand back in 1876), to which he had a Office Space Michael Bolton reaction ("Dammit, his real name wasn't even Bill. It was James Butler Hickok!").
Now he makes his living doing Rope Tricks and other Cowboy stunts for the amusement of Ravnicans. In a world stuck with Bards playing Lutes, the weirdo with the rope is actual novel entertainment.
Should be an interesting and funny character. We are simulating his gunslinging skills with the Artificer-Gunsmith class from Eberron.
What’s the point of the stupid region code + MAC address name scheme for company computers. It’s terrible and makes it impossible to remember how to connect to internal resources or how to remote in to your own machines.
It’s so obnoxious that it must serve some purpose but I cannot figure out what.
Computer naming conventions are a constant internecine holy war among sysadmins, like spaces v tabs or CamelCase v underscores
Ask 10 different IT nerds about naming conventions and you'll get 12 different answers and all of them are wrong except my way
All of the devices on our network are named mycomputer, Mycomputer, myComputer, my computer, etc
Security through obscurity
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21stCenturyCall me Pixel, or Pix for short![They/Them]Registered Userregular
My friend Steve (who always goes for weird or funny character concepts) in our Ravnica game is rolling up a Cowboy Entertainer who was shifted from Earth to Ravnica, and in the process, was merged with his horse (either by the Simic Combine or by the magic that transported him there). So he is effectively a Centaur ("Better'n bein' dead"), with none of the cultural knowledge or connections that usually come with being a Centaur. The character's name is "Wild Bill" and back in the (18)90s, back in the 90s, he was in a very famous TV Wild West show. He actually is named William, and people on Earth assumed that he's THE Wild Bill (who died holding the Dead Man's Hand back in 1876), to which he had a Office Space Michael Bolton reaction ("Dammit, his real name wasn't even Bill. It was James Butler Hickok!").
Now he makes his living doing Rope Tricks and other Cowboy stunts for the amusement of Ravnicans. In a world stuck with Bards playing Lutes, the weirdo with the rope is actual novel entertainment.
Should be an interesting and funny character. We are simulating his gunslinging skills with the Artificer-Gunsmith class from Eberron.
Wait he kept his gun, too? Where does he get ammo? Love the concept.
My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
What’s the point of the stupid region code + MAC address name scheme for company computers. It’s terrible and makes it impossible to remember how to connect to internal resources or how to remote in to your own machines.
It’s so obnoxious that it must serve some purpose but I cannot figure out what.
Computer naming conventions are a constant internecine holy war among sysadmins, like spaces v tabs or CamelCase v underscores
Ask 10 different IT nerds about naming conventions and you'll get 12 different answers and all of them are wrong except my way
Assigning anything other than a technical aspect and overall location is making 3 weeks of horrible work for you in 2 years.
Location number and MAC is a v good method for organizing.
My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
You're a horrible person.
Hey, IT picked Moonshine, Moonknight, and Julius, presumably out of some sort of list. Then the IT director was let go... ok yes this is starting to come together.
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Basically, everyone complaining about what appears to be esoteric naming schemes in computers just needs to remember one thing: If you don't manage every PC in the company, your opinion matters about nothing. Nobody in IT wants to make their lives a living hell figuring where computer X or Y is because someone wanted to be cute with their naming scheme.
My friend Steve (who always goes for weird or funny character concepts) in our Ravnica game is rolling up a Cowboy Entertainer who was shifted from Earth to Ravnica, and in the process, was merged with his horse (either by the Simic Combine or by the magic that transported him there). So he is effectively a Centaur ("Better'n bein' dead"), with none of the cultural knowledge or connections that usually come with being a Centaur. The character's name is "Wild Bill" and back in the (18)90s, back in the 90s, he was in a very famous TV Wild West show. He actually is named William, and people on Earth assumed that he's THE Wild Bill (who died holding the Dead Man's Hand back in 1876), to which he had a Office Space Michael Bolton reaction ("Dammit, his real name wasn't even Bill. It was James Butler Hickok!").
Now he makes his living doing Rope Tricks and other Cowboy stunts for the amusement of Ravnicans. In a world stuck with Bards playing Lutes, the weirdo with the rope is actual novel entertainment.
Should be an interesting and funny character. We are simulating his gunslinging skills with the Artificer-Gunsmith class from Eberron.
Wait he kept his gun, too? Where does he get ammo? Love the concept.
As a Gunsmith, you get a magical ammo bag to feed your Thunder Cannon, and you get Smith's Tools proficiency, which we are assuming are gun smith forging stuff, so he makes his own weapons and bullets.
It's kind of a "I know how to make Gunpowder because of Chemistry Book in my trunk" dodge (from "Army of Darkness"), but we think it's character-appropriate and setting-appropriate for our campaign (which will lean more toward silly than arch).
My treasure hunter rogue in dnd was handed a rope of climbing and I like the idea of him using it in combat by using fast hands, his class feature as a thief archtype, and utilizing its command word to fasten or move. If I wrap it around some dude's arm and command it to hoist up ten feet that guy is dangling helplessly.
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It’s so obnoxious that it must serve some purpose but I cannot figure out what.
Go listen to boygenius right now
Big presentation coming up? BIGFIX HAS AN UPDATE RIGHT THE FUCK NOW THAT YOU WERE NEVER PREVIOISLY TOLD ABOUT NO YOU CANNOT EVEN MINIMIZE THIS WINDOW RESTART NOW
Is this because you read Feral's post or are you just giving us an update
Turns out it breaks.
Nice, thanks!
Might be just a way to make sure you don't run into collisions with the first piece which is probably an audit/inventory thing.
yes
What happens if you were to add a 4th?
Couldn’t we instead check for collisions at domain join time? Which coincidentally is always done anyway.
The computer misses her?
Grab Tales of Vesperia and play through for like the 4th time but this time on the switch!
Or grab Mario Bros U Deluxe and perhaps have major fights with LadyJubs?
Tough decision.
Home IP Address? Why don't they tie it to a secure token or MAC address
Computer naming conventions are a constant internecine holy war among sysadmins, like spaces v tabs or CamelCase v underscores
Ask 10 different IT nerds about naming conventions and you'll get 12 different answers and all of them are wrong except my way
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I love all the women on the album as solonartists and their interviews are amazing listening. Just fabulous and this work elevates them all.
Lissie is also great and one of my favorite artists. Catching a Tiger, her first album, is almost all solid songs.
You said Metric so its hard to tell how niche of things to suggest.
Did you play the original Mario Bros. U?
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If you have port locking on (ie locks port to mac address) it makes it easier to find the computer if it misbehaves. We dont use it on our desktop level but we do use a variation on our switching and such.
Now he makes his living doing Rope Tricks and other Cowboy stunts for the amusement of Ravnicans. In a world stuck with Bards playing Lutes, the weirdo with the rope is actual novel entertainment.
Should be an interesting and funny character. We are simulating his gunslinging skills with the Artificer-Gunsmith class from Eberron.
I did but she didnt.
All of the devices on our network are named mycomputer, Mycomputer, myComputer, my computer, etc
Security through obscurity
Wait he kept his gun, too? Where does he get ammo? Love the concept.
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You're a horrible person.
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hollered about kids on my lawn
Assigning anything other than a technical aspect and overall location is making 3 weeks of horrible work for you in 2 years.
Location number and MAC is a v good method for organizing.
I live in a condo don't have a lawn, but I have complained about the neighbors smoking too much pot.
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Man gearbox more like toolbox M I RIGHT?
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Hey, IT picked Moonshine, Moonknight, and Julius, presumably out of some sort of list. Then the IT director was let go... ok yes this is starting to come together.
It's kind of a "I know how to make Gunpowder because of Chemistry Book in my trunk" dodge (from "Army of Darkness"), but we think it's character-appropriate and setting-appropriate for our campaign (which will lean more toward silly than arch).
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