What Are You Doing Right Now
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So I went for a walkthrough of my network last night and here are a few things I learned:
- There is zero labeling on any Ethernet ports on the wall or on the switches.
- Most network closets are running at 100 degrees.
- I was told "we have a disaster recovery platform but I don't know what it is."
- Our backup solution breaks all of the time. We checked it in person and the last backup they did was on 6/6.
- The VM Host machine is at LEAST 4.5 years old (and I mean minimum). Accounts receivable doesn't know when we purchased the server and none of the hardware has been replaced as far as anyone knows.
- The file sever and secondary VM are running Windows Server 2003 (easily correctable).
- The guy said he had some kind of problem mounting network shares. Unsure what the issue was as he wasn't very clear. I'm sure I will find a lot more.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I went for a walkthrough of my network last night and here are a few things I learned:
- There is zero labeling on any Ethernet ports on the wall or on the switches.
- Most network closets are running at 100 degrees.
- I was told "we have a disaster recovery platform but I don't know what it is."
- Our backup solution breaks all of the time. We checked it in person and the last backup they did was on 6/6.
- The VM Host machine is at LEAST 4.5 years old (and I mean minimum). Accounts receivable doesn't know when we purchased the server and none of the hardware has been replaced as far as anyone knows.
- The file sever and secondary VM are running Windows Server 2003 (easily correctable).
- The guy said he had some kind of problem mounting network shares. Unsure what the issue was as he wasn't very clear. I'm sure I will find a lot more.
Do you have powers to make sweeping changes or are you only empowered to play whack-a-mole?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Almost there.
And I'm all set. Wow that was painless.
Did you get it running under XS 7 or 6.5?
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I went for a walkthrough of my network last night and here are a few things I learned:
- There is zero labeling on any Ethernet ports on the wall or on the switches.
- Most network closets are running at 100 degrees.
- I was told "we have a disaster recovery platform but I don't know what it is."
- Our backup solution breaks all of the time. We checked it in person and the last backup they did was on 6/6.
- The VM Host machine is at LEAST 4.5 years old (and I mean minimum). Accounts receivable doesn't know when we purchased the server and none of the hardware has been replaced as far as anyone knows.
- The file sever and secondary VM are running Windows Server 2003 (easily correctable).
- The guy said he had some kind of problem mounting network shares. Unsure what the issue was as he wasn't very clear. I'm sure I will find a lot more.
Do you have powers to make sweeping changes or are you only empowered to play whack-a-mole?
I actually have deciding power. I'm so grateful to be out of the non-profit sector.
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@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Almost there.
And I'm all set. Wow that was painless.
Did you get it running under XS 7 or 6.5?
6.5 the boss was concerned about XS7 so yeah.....
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Almost there.
And I'm all set. Wow that was painless.
Did you get it running under XS 7 or 6.5?
6.5 the boss was concerned about XS7 so yeah.....
Ok, now the painless part makes sense. I was starting to doubt my competence...
It looks like HA-Lizard might be abandoning the NOSAN_Installer script because of differences between dom0 versions of CentOS.
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I think @aaronstuder posted a utility program that blocks windows 10 updates. Anyone using that or something similar to stop this madness?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think @aaronstuder posted a utility program that blocks windows 10 updates. Anyone using that or something similar to stop this madness?
Stopping Windows 10 is the same problem we had with people sitting on XP for f[moderated]ing ever. Move on people.
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I know of people who still have XP on their systems... It's scary.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I know of people who still have XP on their systems... It's scary.
A branch office was trying to keep an XP based laptop. I walked in and took it the other day. Nope, sorry fuckers not allowed.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I know of people who still have XP on their systems... It's scary.
Russian roulette, no more, no less. The question is not if they will get a virus/scareware/ransomware/whatever, the question is just "when".
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Here is the system syncing up.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think @aaronstuder posted a utility program that blocks windows 10 updates. Anyone using that or something similar to stop this madness?
Stopping Windows 10 is the same problem we had with people sitting on XP for fucking ever. Move on people.
I want to move on but Microsoft is strangling people with piano wire trying to get them to adopt it. I need to make sure everything my new company uses is compatible and if it isn't then I need to replace stuff.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think @aaronstuder posted a utility program that blocks windows 10 updates. Anyone using that or something similar to stop this madness?
Stopping Windows 10 is the same problem we had with people sitting on XP for fucking ever. Move on people.
I want to move on but Microsoft is strangling people with piano wire trying to get them to adopt it. I need to make sure everything my new company uses is compatible and if it isn't then I need to replace stuff.
You have had 11 months since full release to do this. All on you.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think @aaronstuder posted a utility program that blocks windows 10 updates. Anyone using that or something similar to stop this madness?
Stopping Windows 10 is the same problem we had with people sitting on XP for fucking ever. Move on people.
I want to move on but Microsoft is strangling people with piano wire trying to get them to adopt it. I need to make sure everything my new company uses is compatible and if it isn't then I need to replace stuff.
You have had 11 months since full release to do this. All on you.
I start the 30th so it's really not. I'm talking about my new job.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think @aaronstuder posted a utility program that blocks windows 10 updates. Anyone using that or something similar to stop this madness?
Stopping Windows 10 is the same problem we had with people sitting on XP for fucking ever. Move on people.
I want to move on but Microsoft is strangling people with piano wire trying to get them to adopt it. I need to make sure everything my new company uses is compatible and if it isn't then I need to replace stuff.
You have had 11 months since full release to do this. All on you.
I start the 30th so it's really not. I'm talking about my new job.
If they are on a domain with WSUS, then they would never have seen it anyway.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think @aaronstuder posted a utility program that blocks windows 10 updates. Anyone using that or something similar to stop this madness?
Stopping Windows 10 is the same problem we had with people sitting on XP for fucking ever. Move on people.
I want to move on but Microsoft is strangling people with piano wire trying to get them to adopt it. I need to make sure everything my new company uses is compatible and if it isn't then I need to replace stuff.
You have had 11 months since full release to do this. All on you.
I start the 30th so it's really not. I'm talking about my new job.
If they are on a domain with WSUS, then they would never have seen it anyway.
They have 4 PC's that have been upgraded. I don't think purposely but I can't say for sure. I'll learn a lot more on the 30th when I start. Another part of this is they are using really shitty workstations. They just buy them as needed when they break and have no contract with a vendor for refreshes.
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Playing with Ansible and the Semaphore frontend
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Oh joyous Friday. Current ISP decided to cut our service off today instead of next week. So that's a fun way to start the day. And yes, we do host some customer systems here.... #deadinthewater
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@RojoLoco
Ouch
