IT BS thread

I got a similar scareware attack on one of my burner email accounts. (that is left over from usenet days. Who's old enough to even remember that?) They claimed to have a webcam video of me and only want $1,900 in bitcoin to "keep our little secret." Thing is I don't have a web cam. (well I do, but its turned off in the bios.) And, because I am so awesome when I they should pay me $1,900 for the rights to distribute the video.

In other news I'm related to Nigerian royalty and have a rich dead uncle with no next of kin and everybody wants to give me millions of dollars.

 

Safe. I have a Pixel and use Chrome for all my browsing .

 

I got tired of the ads in Chrome, so I use Brave which is based on Chromium.

 

What? Are we brothers?

 

anyone have any issues with the Windows server 2016 patch that was deployed in July? I think we are having a few lingering issues, but not entirely sure.


I did however find this on a reddit thread regarding the July patch for Windows server 2016. This is pretty good.

REAL MEN OF GEEEEEEENIUS!

We salute you, Mr Over-eager Microsoft Patch Deployer. You push every patch, no matter how innocuous, the moment it drops from Microsoft. With no regard for your systems or users, you sit back and watch while WSUS blasts updates all over your network like Bukakke porn. It’s everywhere!! Do you care if it breaks production? Of course you do. Do you care enough to patch dev/test first? Of course not. Aint nobody got time for that. So here’s to you, breaker of everything and reports it on /r/sysadmin so the rest of us don’t have to. Mr Over-eager Microsoft Patch Deployer.

 

LOL, that's awesome. I had to go back an re-read it in that guy's voice.

No help here for you on the July patch, I am in a different area of IT. In relation to your Real Men of Genius: I logged in from home last night and left my notebook on so I might get the Win10 1703 push overnight (I did). Logged in this morning and stuff seemed fine, got to work and my headset microphone wouldn't work with our video conference software. Messed with some stuff that didn't help, so tried a reboot -- which took FOREVER. Something was still going on, but no indication of what. But, my microphone worked after reboot.

Joined a conference call (late) and the software tells me to close some apps -- I might have poor performance due to limited system resources. I only had Outlook running. Check Task Manager and I'm pegged at 100%. Tanium, SMS and other stuff cranking away doing something.

It eventually settled down, but these things shouldn't be this hard -- and they should give you some indication and warning that it still has work to do and will eventually settle down. We have people switching to Macs because their Windows notebook fans are pegged and it sounds like a jet engine. WHY. Fix your $hit (not necessarily MS, but our client and security teams need to get their $hit together).

 

Speaking of patching.

Just broke Oracle ACFS by upgrading the kernel on Oracle Linux 7 to UEK5

Luckily not a production system yet and the actual database isn't stored on ACFS.

 

Sending this to the entire Windows admin team...while BCCing the Linux team.

 

Yeah, upgrading to 1703 it is going to look like a new os as far as patching so the. SCCM probably patched the shit out of it.

Lol, they will love it.

 

Linux team has already made a poster of it and it's hanging next to their Java poster.

Fun FYI, the Java poster reads "I had a problem and I used Java to fix it. Now I have 137 problems."

 

Java was touted as cross platform.
Well it excelled in that.
Its universally hated across all platforms.

 

We got it all. Server 16...and server 2003.

The 2003 boxes are firewalled into their own subnet surrounded by blast walls and armed security for when the inevitable happens.

The system owner for those boxes has until December to update his code, his database, and migrate as he was ordered to years ago, or the CIO has approved revocation of their ATO. The devs were suddenly motivated to update the code.

 

When I started as IT Director at my current place last September everything was still on 2003.
We don't run a lot of Windows servers here but still.

 

Been a lot of talk about Guix on the Telegram groups. Anyone here use it?

 

Fixed my Oracle ACFS / Kernel incompatibility issue hours ago but have since been banging my head expanding the ASM DiskGroup so I can expand the ACFS disk.

Just has the moment

 

we were down to 12 - 2k3 servers. Then we were part of a merger/split. as a part of that we get to inherit 50+ more of them bastages. Apparently trying to firewall them off will take too much work so we get to put them on the internal network.

 

Let me guess ... they are all physical boxes as well?

 

Hell no, thank god.