IT BS thread

No, luckily they have agreed with us to restore from backup. We've written a few scripts to make things a bit faster for comparing and restoring only the corrupt parts.

 

Don't forget to renew your domain registration.

Jebbush.com (not meant to be political, just the IT Funny behind it)

 

oops. Ha ha.

 

It's awesome how often that one is overlooked.

 

Because 128 was too little and 512 was too many. Duh.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/diy-dash-cam.408918/

 

Or in your rolodex on your desk under "P"

 

Goddamnit. I hate IT some days. Here I am in my own little happy world building a few new firewalls, when I hear word that one of our bigger customers has LOCKY, a new crypto variant.

 

Crypto is a huge PITA. Go restore from a backup because you are pretty much fucked.

 

Oh we know. We've dealt with it 1000 times too many. We've become too used to dealing with it. Guess we will have to lock things down further to the point of driving the users nuts. Time to make it prompt 50x before they open a document to make ABSOLUTELY sure they know what they're doing.

 

Lock it down. They never know what they're doing.

 

Aaaand another one hit. That's two today. Awesome.

We already have it locked down quite a bit, but I guess we will have to get more intrusive. I wonder if it's frowned upon to have our email servers automatically delete any attachments.... >.>

 

Just tell them it's regulatory and to deal with it.

 

And another new variant today... "Recovery+" Hit one of the same customers as yesterday. So anyone need a butler?

 

Apparently there's a shortage of butlers in the UK. Take that H1B visa lovers!

 

Sometimes I run into things I can't explain.

I have had a new Probook that shuts down randomly for over two months now. HP has taken it back four times. They replaced the board twice, fan twice, RAM, and processor. The third time I got it back I asked them at what point they would just replace it. They said "let's take it back one more time." Came back, I went to image it, it shut down halfway through pulling the image from WDS.

Got it on video this time showing exactly what it was doing (PXE booting, then pulling an image from WDS), that there was nothing near the thing to cause it to overheat, etc. Crazy thing is, it comes back up saying it overheated but the exhaust air feels like it's room temperature to me. Sometimes it will be sitting there in the BIOS (or in Windows at 0% CPU utilization) and all of a sudden the fan goes wild and it shuts down. Sometimes it will behave for the user for a full week, sometimes it shuts down minutes after I turn it on when I get it back from HP.

Sent them the video, time to see what they say. I wonder what they have paid for shipping for it to go back and forth four times?

 

HP sucks. I paid extra for an onsite warranty for my wife's laptop, still had to send it back when the screen broke.

There is a reason I go with Dell. They will all have issues, at least Dell comes to me.

 

Try running it on AC w/o the battery. And try different power brick, I've seen some weird stuff when these go bad.

 

Yup, did both, same result. I actually have about 50 of these so I've been able to swap parts back and forth and the issue always happens on that laptop. Can't explain it at all.