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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2022 20:24:34 GMT
Had Star Trek servers in the first place I worked with them. It was pretty cool having them called Romulan, Klingon, Vulcan, Enterprise etc.
I was a lot younger back then.
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Post by elstoof on Jan 26, 2022 20:54:42 GMT
IT types don’t do themselves any favours really
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Post by mrpon on Jan 27, 2022 15:37:55 GMT
Anyone know if easily.co.uk have gone bump? Support line is either ringing out or dead line. I've got a domain with them that expires soon.  |
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Post by zephro on Jan 30, 2022 16:17:40 GMT
I don't think I've ever actually named a server. Always been on the cloud so cattle not pets.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jan 30, 2022 16:35:03 GMT
Me to my accountant earlier this afternoon: "The self-assessment return you've prepared for me doesn't look right?"
My accountant: "Oh yeah, I couldn't access your company statements or the PAYE info you tried sharing with me, so I just guessed a few things."
Not quite the place for it, but sometimes I hate being a contractor FFS.
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Post by zephro on Feb 14, 2022 20:15:38 GMT
Ah fuck I've had to remember how to do 3D geometry at work again today. Fuck's sake.
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Post by suicida on Feb 17, 2022 10:40:06 GMT
I work in IT support for a local authority. Just second line, so resetting passwords, plugging shit in, imaging new hardware, that sort of thing. One of our phone lines is currently down so I raised a call with BT and arranged an OpenReach engineer visit. Two missed appointments later and BT are claiming that the engineer was denied access to site by reception both times.
The trouble for the BT engineer is, this particular line is used by our CCTV office for sending SMS alerts, so they're pretty pissed that it's not working as it's a critical function for them. They have checked back on the CCTV and both times the OpenReach engineer parked up down the road, sat in his van for 5 minutes, then drove off.
You hear about this all the time, "oh we tried visiting but were turned away" so it's nice to have timestamped legally submittable evidence of them lying about it...
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Post by dogbot on Feb 17, 2022 11:24:54 GMT
Openreach seem to be either really good (we were having line problems at home a couple of weeks ago and they came out and sorted it within 24 hours, despite it not being an emergency) or utterly shit, depending on which engineer is assigned which job. Which is irritating, considering that they have an almost complete monopoly on being able to actually do cabling and line provision. suicida are you going to send them the video? |
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Post by suicida on Feb 17, 2022 11:39:31 GMT
suicida are you going to send them the video? I think the video will definitely be going to our BT account manager if they fail to fix the problem tomorrow afternoon at appontment number three |
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Post by dogbot on Feb 17, 2022 11:50:49 GMT
Good plan.
I've worked for BT (although not for Openreach) and whilst it can be good in some respects, it's such an absolute behemoth of an organisation that often, things happen at a glacial pace.
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Post by dogbot on Feb 18, 2022 9:46:11 GMT
This morning's conversation:
"WHY HAVEN'T THESE DEV PCs GOT FULL INTERNET ACCESS???!?!1 RARR!"
"Can you show me where the request to have them added is, please"
*tumbleweed*
Yeah. No asky, no getty. Shrug.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Feb 18, 2022 9:48:19 GMT
Bruh, you do access management, too? You need a new job.
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Post by dogbot on Feb 18, 2022 10:07:20 GMT
Bruh, you do access management, too? You need a new job. Fucking-A. I do everything relating to the firewalls, because otherwise, it'd be in the hands of idiots. |
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Post by dfunked on Feb 18, 2022 10:15:51 GMT
Sometimes you just need to step away and let idiots do idiot things...
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Post by dogbot on Feb 18, 2022 10:39:17 GMT
Sometimes you just need to step away and let idiots do idiot things... I'd love to, but I have to approve all Firewall changes, so it just ends up with me having to explain/argue why it's wrong or not happening. Easier if it comes to me in the first place. Re-jobbing is in progress. I have a FOURTH interview (what else could there possibly be to ask me?) on Monday and loads of interest floating about. |
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Post by neems on Feb 18, 2022 10:41:48 GMT
Sometimes you just need to step away and let idiots do idiot things... If you keep rescuing them the problems will never get sorted... or you'll put yourself in an early grave. Well if you get a new job they'll soon work out that there's an issue  |
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Post by Psiloc on Feb 18, 2022 11:58:28 GMT
This morning's conversation: "WHY HAVEN'T THESE DEV PCs GOT FULL INTERNET ACCESS???!?!1 RARR!" "Can you show me where the request to have them added is, please" *tumbleweed* Yeah. No asky, no getty. Shrug. My main takeaway from this is that its because of people like you that I have to spend 5 hours hunting down the person who has permission to (shock! horror!) share a fucken printer |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Feb 18, 2022 12:04:34 GMT
Why are you letting them through the firewall individually rather than controlling access by group membership?
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Post by dogbot on Feb 18, 2022 12:04:34 GMT
This morning's conversation: "WHY HAVEN'T THESE DEV PCs GOT FULL INTERNET ACCESS???!?!1 RARR!" "Can you show me where the request to have them added is, please" *tumbleweed* Yeah. No asky, no getty. Shrug. My main takeaway from this is that its because of people like you that I have to spend 5 hours hunting down the person who has permission to (shock! horror!) share a fucken printer I have nothing to do with printers. But it sounds like you need a CMDB and asset ownership register.  |
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Post by dogbot on Feb 18, 2022 12:09:33 GMT
Why are you letting them through the firewall individually rather than controlling access by group membership? We're not. As it goes, all workstations have automatically got subnet-based access, controlled by Forcepoint (so they can go out to the Forcepoint proxies, which then decide where else they can go based on ACLs). Except for a group of P2V'd desktops belonging to our devs who work from home (apparently, their laptops are not quick enough to do what they need) so they VPN and RDP/SSH into these VMs, which have a slightly different route out, as a group which is directly allowed to any IPv4 external via http/s, because they're Linux and there's no Forcepoint client. However, these are newly built VMs which haven't been added to said group, because no one's bothered to tell us they had been deployed and needed to be added. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Feb 18, 2022 12:20:35 GMT
I see. Yes, devs are the bane of our lives, too.
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Post by スコットランド on Feb 18, 2022 17:42:29 GMT
I'm a developer but also devops/deploymenty stuff so I basically hate myself any my ilk because developers are the worst*.
* Not really, managers are that.
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Post by zephro on Feb 18, 2022 21:19:55 GMT
I'm a developer but also devops/deploymenty stuff so I basically hate myself any my ilk because developers are the worst*. * Not really, managers are that. Oh fuck no. It's people blocking my dev admin access due to forms needing filled it. Or managing to make it so Devs have to wait 2 weeks after joining to get a laptop. Outsourced IT was the fucking pits. |
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Post by dfunked on Feb 18, 2022 22:02:13 GMT
Devs are still the enemy, though. Always.
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Post by dogbot on Feb 23, 2022 10:04:01 GMT
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Post by dogbot on Mar 3, 2022 11:34:24 GMT
I sometimes wish that non-technical people (ie, managers) would SHUT THE FUCK UP and KEEP OUT OF TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS.
No, that internal segregated subnet is not "essentially a DMZ" at all. Your terminology is wrong and utterly confuses the issue.
Hush now.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 3, 2022 13:42:00 GMT
‘Elapsed time 17.5hrs’ oof
We are on red alert at the moment in case those wacky Russians try anything. We have been putting in new tacticals all week.
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Post by dogbot on Mar 3, 2022 13:56:24 GMT
‘Elapsed time 17.5hrs’ oof We are on red alert at the moment in case those wacky Russians try anything. We have been putting in new tacticals all week. Yeah, d'ya think it might have failed? I fixed it in the end. Turns out our "network engineer" had tried to run a rule update, which was unsuccessful and had hung in a failed state. Of course, Cisco's pre-flight checks don't note this, so when the FMC update ran, it failed thus. Restored the snapshot, cancelled the pending rule update (which was broken and would never have worked anyway), re ran the update, bingo. Then bollocked said "network engineer". Quotes are because, lol, a CCNA does not a network professional make. |
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Post by zephro on Mar 17, 2022 19:11:51 GMT
GoLang has generics now: go.dev/blog/go1.18 Huzzah It can't support generic methods. Booooooo. |
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Post by dmukgr on Mar 22, 2022 17:20:16 GMT
I know a load of people here are IT bods but as I mentioned in the cost of living thread, my company is looking for a load of coders to write graphics drivers. If anyone is interested then let me know.
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