IT BS thread

i wish we did that. They are terrible, but we are forced by mgmt to use them. But they do handle some very basic and menial tasks.

 

nothign like WFH and VLAAN issues on a Friday afternoon at 3pm

FFS

 

Sheeeeeeeeeit. We already need to double the number of VPN concentrators and double our Citrix farm, and we haven’t even put half of the workforce than can telework on that status yet.

 

I got over 1200 users who need to work from home and have never done it before. So I sent them instructions with pictures.

Many will probably think I am from another world and they will have no clue what the detailed instructions say, even with pics.

 

How did you make out? I've had to do that a few times for people with Windows. Any software I've used, wether for Windows or Linux, leaves the recovered files in an unsorted mess.

 

Our entire environment is on Citrix to start with. it was fairly easy to send them home. only difference is that they go through the netscalars for everything now.

 

And here I am rolling a 19 inch rack out of the office....

 

I didn’t yet. I haven’t found anything that works. Most of the time you get to the end of the software download and it asks for payment. I’ve done it before on my Mac with a hard drive. Recovered everything for free. I just can’t recall what it was called that I used. Still looking for help.

 

I used this one back in 2008 for a school project (the professor gave us a single external hard drive to save all of our research-critical data too. Surprise, it got corrupted). I think it got back the filenames because without them, we would have been toast. I think it really depends on the failure mode of the drive though, if the FAT is corrupted, then its having to reassemble files from what it finds on the drive, which doesn't include filenames, if I remember right. Instead its just ingesting data and saying "OOh, this one looks like a JPEG, I'll save it as that..." and so on.

https://www.stellarinfo.com/ntfs-data-recovery.php

 

I paid for a recovery tool years ago when the FAT32 filesystem on Win98 got corrupted. I think it was able to retain most of the file and folder names, but didn't recover text files (txt, html, xml, etc) very well.

A few years ago, I used a Linux tool to recover a NTFS filesystem for a friend. I believe all of the (desired) files were recovered, however the file and folder names seemed to be randomly generated.

 

Storing linux commands in a word document is one of my favorite things.

 

Even though you paste a plain text string into word I love how it adds formatting and brings it along when you later try to cut and paste. I use the history command a lot. Seems I mostly use the same commands over and over.

 

Yeah. Everything I do is in plain text. But, I'm working with some developers who are documenting all their stuff in word and/or confluence. You know how word replaces the dash with a longer dash sometimes? Pretty sure that's what happened here.


Also, fun fact: MS Teams does the same stuff. I pasted a docker command into teams and my coworker pasted it into putty. It gave a syntax error. He retyped the whole thing, and it worked.


Oh well.

 

Wordpad and Notepad. I have stuff that, when copying text from one platform to another, I drop the pasted text into Notepad first. Otherwise, something akin to a mixture of Ancient Greek and Klingon shows up.

 

I may have them give that a shot next time. Thanks!

 

No sweat. Once we had 2MB of metadata show up. We’re like “where the heck did THAT come from?”

 

HTML, HTML everywhere.

 

We’re in the middle of “Operations ADIOS JAVA” since Oracle changed their pricing model.

As a security guy, this makes my heart happy. Even more of our internal apps are being rewritten. The fewer servers we have running Java, the cleaner our Nessus scan reports are.

We have a saying. ‘I had a problem and used Java to fix it. Now I have 137 problems.”

 

Couple of months ago moved out of my office to permanently WFH. Amazing how much crap you can accumulate over 20 years with a sit down gig. None of the books made it out alive don't think I'll be cracking the NT 4 Server or Citrix Winview or Winframe books anytime soon. Now going through the boxes that did make it out and tossing floppies and CD's. Don't think I'll need the BartPE boot up floppies anymore or even have anything to feed them.

I've had issues with wordpad and HP-UX before so only use notepad or my favorite notepad++ AIX doesn't seem to mind wordpad though. RHE doesn't seem to much care what you use. There is always vi. But anymore only if I have to.

I remember well in the 90's watching the Computer Chronicles on a Sunday morning and they said Sun Microsystems had developed a platform named Java that could run the same program code on any OS. It shocked me and my first thought was impossible. I still say that I was correct LOL.

We have removed Java from pretty much all servers due to security and once the rest of the applications are ported or moved to SaaS it will be gone on the servers. Was in a meeting a month or so ago and someone from endpoint brought up the point that it is still installed on more than 100k workstations and that is where the risk now is. They are next.

 

We actually did them FIRST. Removed all traces, and set it up that if a client machine needed Java is was installed by exemption and added to a specialty container where it received additional policies. Otherwise, every night, Operation ADIOS JAVA removes Java from every system that isn't pre-authorized (in writing) to have it.

It seems that when your organization has something upwards of 750K systems, Oracle's pricing model becomes full bullshit. Way to drive yourself out of business.

Assholes ruined Sun.