Things that irritate you - Part 2

[Splinter]

What happens if its me:


Me: Executes de fok kyk jy hand sign

What does this sign look like?

 

[Rouxenator]

F.....ng IT support. I don't need your stupid group policies installing the worst antivirus known to man, McAfee, on my workstation. I don't need your broken WUS server to get my updates. Just wasted 10 minutes on delete registry entries and overriding settings in GPedit.

I have an 18 year long career in software and a degree. You have a certificate from whoknowswhere dot com and have been fixing PCs for a couple of years. Go fix a printer or something.

 

[dualmeister]

McAfee

People still use that

 

[The_Librarian]

F.....ng IT support. I don't need your stupid group policies installing the worst antivirus known to man, McAfee, on my workstation. I don't need your broken WUS server to get my updates. Just wasted 10 minutes on delete registry entries and overriding settings in GPedit.

I have an 18 year long career in software and a degree. You have a certificate from whoknowswhere dot com and have been fixing PCs for a couple of years. Go fix a printer or something.

McAfee is *****. WSUS on Server2016 is schitty, it is very finicky, and need a lot of TLC, whereas WSUS on Server2003/2008 is rock solid.

 

[Rouxenator]

It is force installed by GPO.

The way I found around it was to take the directory and file structure, delete it with IObit unlocker leaving the registry entries so that it looks like it is installed to the GPO. Then I took the file structure and recreated it with 0 byte files to prevent it from being overwritten by the actual files.

Thing is my workstation started complaining that I am unprotected cause they disabled Windows Defender and now they want to come and install McAfee. I am snubbing them as far as possible. Managed to get Defender running so I hope I disappear off their radar.

They really are just making kak for me. We moved over to a new domain and they spent an hour on my machine migrating my user. First time I reboot after that everything is gone and I have re-install everything.

Just, please, don't touch my workstation.

 

[Lupus]

People still use that

Corporates looooooove it. I'm running Linux and the IT dept still moans at me. Yet when we were doing a penetration test into the network the only laptop not compromised was? Which one, yeah the one not governed by stupidty.

 

[Sinbad]

It is force installed by GPO.

The way I found around it was to take the directory and file structure, delete it with IObit unlocker leaving the registry entries so that it looks like it is installed to the GPO. Then I took the file structure and recreated it with 0 byte files to prevent it from being overwritten by the actual files.

Thing is my workstation started complaining that I am unprotected cause they disabled Windows Defender and now they want to come and install McAfee. I am snubbing them as far as possible. Managed to get Defender running so I hope I disappear off their radar.

They really are just making kak for me. We moved over to a new domain and they spent an hour on my machine migrating my user. First time I reboot after that everything is gone and I have re-install everything.

Just, please, don't touch my workstation.

Coming soon, revocation of local admin rights...

 

[Rouxenator]

Corporates looooooove it. I'm running Linux and the IT dept still moans at me. Yet when we were doing a penetration test into the network the only laptop not compromised was? Which one, yeah the one not governed by stupidty.

People may differ from me, but on my computers (yes the workstation belongs to the company) but on machines I have to use I prefer to keep things as stock as possible. That is why I use what Oom Billy gave me. Windows Defender is perfectly fine.

I also don't understand why people find the need to use anything but the built in source control functions that VS2019 has. It does everything all those 3rd party GIT tools does - all from within the IDE. But no, folks still mess around with Tortoise, SourceTree and who knows what else....

It's been 2 years since I remoted in from home because I flat out refuse to use Forticlient, or as I call it Faulticlient. There is nothing wrong with the VPN service Microsoft provides.

 

[Rouxenator]

Coming soon, revocation of local admin rights...

Not gonna happen, us devs need admin rights for VS and IIS.

 

[Lupus]

People may differ from me, but on my computers (yes the workstation belongs to the company) but on machines I have to use I prefer to keep things as stock as possible. That is why I use what Oom Billy gave me. Windows Defender is perfectly fine.

I also don't understand why people find the need to use anything but the built in source control functions that VS2019 has. It does everything all those 3rd party GIT tools does - all from within the IDE. But no, folks still mess around with Tortoise, SourceTree and who knows what else....

It's been 2 years since I remoted in from home because I flat out refuse to use Forticlient, or as I call it Faulticlient. There is nothing wrong with the VPN service Microsoft provides.

Same, though I'm not a Windows boy so I'm running Linux as far as possible, my biggest issue is freaking winbind to AD is sloooooow. Though I think it's the AD server as in general it feels clunky using anything using AD. Cause you know it's in the cloud.

 

[The_Librarian]

Thecus NAS N16850 software is utter rubbish...

...replacing it with Server2016, doing a speedtest, then...

...replacing it with Linux Mint, and compare these two for the best speeds.

Thecus NAS software got a nice front-end, but it means diddly squat if it is not stable, or it does not give you the benefit of speed, it actually throttles things.

 

[The_Librarian]

Cause you know it's in the cloud.

there's your problem right there.

I'm old school and I don't like cloud solutions. Because it's another man's computer, and you can't control the Internet.

 

[Lupus]

there's your problem right there.

Try telling the IT department that, apparently I'm the only one moaning. Though in reality the rest of the users don't really care, whereas my API needs to authenticate and when it takes 60 seconds it times out. Users will go make a cup of coffee while it's logging in.

 

[The_Librarian]

There is nothing wrong with the VPN service Microsoft provides.

PPTP VPN?

I have got a bridge to sell you...

Windows Defender is perfectly fine.

And another bridge to sell you...

 

[Rouxenator]

In my recent skirmish with IT support I think I have the winning hand... ever so slightly.

Some time during the morning yesterday I get a popup that one of the IT support interns wants to RD onto my workstation. I decline. Then I get an email from the guy saying he wants to RD and install McAfee. I ignore it. Then I get an email from another IT support guy asking me when will suit me so that he comes to my desk and install it. I reply saying I'd rather he don't as McAfee slows down my machine and we have rather big solutions that takes time to compile.

He says he'll let his manager know. Almost instantly after that I get an email from her, CCed to my team lead and manager, that I have no say in the matter and that company assets need to be protected. Fair enough, good point, but I ignore it. What counts in my favour, ever so slightly, is that both my manager and team lead are annoyed at the way McAfee wastes resources on some of our servers. When I return from lunch I see that the intern that tried to connect in the morning is now on my workstation. I request that he disconnect - he refuses - I take a picture of it and then pull the power from the machine and restart.

There was a rather urgent bug I had to look at so I did not have time to sit around. Later in the afternoon I share the picture of him refusing me to log onto my machine on our team whatsapp group. I think my team lead saw it and told the IT support manager of it because not long after that I get an email from her saying that it has come to her attention what the intern did and she apologizes for that. It is not how they do things and she will address the matter.

At this stage I think I am winning this one.

 

[Deadmanza]

In my recent skirmish with IT support I think I have the winning hand... ever so slightly.

Some time during the morning yesterday I get a popup that one of the IT support interns wants to RD onto my workstation. I decline. Then I get an email from the guy saying he wants to RD and install McAfee. I ignore it. Then I get an email from another IT support guy asking me when will suit me so that he comes to my desk and install it. I reply saying I'd rather he don't as McAfee slows down my machine and we have rather big solutions that takes time to compile.

He says he'll let his manager know. Almost instantly after that I get an email from her, CCed to my team lead and manager, that I have no say in the matter and that company assets need to be protected. Fair enough, good point, but I ignore it. What counts in my favour, ever so slightly, is that both my manager and team lead are annoyed at the way McAfee wastes resources on some of our servers. When I return from lunch I see that the intern that tried to connect in the morning is now on my workstation. I request that he disconnect - he refuses - I take a picture of it and then pull the power from the machine and restart.

There was a rather urgent bug I had to look at so I did not have time to sit around. Later in the afternoon I share the picture of him refusing me to log onto my machine on our team whatsapp group. I think my team lead saw it and told the IT support manager of it because not long after that I get an email from her saying that it has come to her attention what the intern did and she apologizes for that. It is not how they do things and she will address the matter.

At this stage I think I am winning this one.

You are the worst kind of user, probably the same kind of idiot that will browse the shadiest sites and end up infecting the network.

 

[Rouxenator]

You are the worst kind of user, probably the same kind of idiot that will browse the shadiest sites and end up infecting the network.

I do spend a lot of time on shady sites - but that is on a remote machine I keep outside the company and outside my house.

 

[millennia]

You are the worst kind of user, probably the same kind of idiot that will browse the shadiest sites and end up infecting the network.

Agreed. If it's work equipment you have no right to be a dick about it. You signed the IT policy, correct?

 

[Rouxenator]

Agreed. If it's work equipment you have no right to be a dick about it. You signed the IT policy, correct?

I signed it when they did not use crap like McAfee. The thing is, don't tell someone that develops solutions for a living what they can and cannot do. They will simply develop a solution around it.

 

[Lupus]

So my day started yet again with users moaning that the API was failing, look into it timeouts connecting to AD for authentication, send to our IT department and they are like but you're the only ones moaning sigh.
In frustration I take off my headphones and the part that connects to the earpiece snapped :-(. Luckily they were R140 cheapies from Cash Crusaders but still annoying that I don't have headphones right now.
Than the drinks after work have been cancelled cause some people believe it's not right they have to pay for their own drinks and that the company should pay.