Any other IT guys

[kastein]

You know exactly what I meant :gee:

PC LOAD LETTER

PAPER JAM

*hp has installed an 800MB service pack for the printer driver, and helpfully reenabled the system tray applet you finally exorcised last week*

 

[ChiXJeff]

I don't think this is a real IT thread unless somebody starts complaining about users. :spin1:

vmware, netapp, linux are my main things. Some networking and Windows servers. Very little DB. select * from * is about all I know. :laugh3:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0;

0 rows returned

 

[MikeMc]

Right you are. Here's one from last week and keep in mind my users are all engineers... or they claim to be. Re: password change enforced.

UserX, "It says no dictionary words. What does that mean."

Me to my coworker, "Hey can you deal with UserX. No way I can reply without being sarcastic. I've tried twice already but had to delete my email."

 

[Lowrange2]

Hell with users, my main complaint is with printers.

Irrelevant but we've had the same old slow clunky huge Xerox printers for as long as I can remember at work...

Last month they swapped them out with big new fast fancy Ricoh printers.

When they work they do great. Out of the ~60 days we've had them I bet they've been down 40 of those days.

Re: password change enforced.

I hate when they make me change my password. Who the hell has 10 passwords that they remember?!

At that point you have to write them all down somewhere which leaves the system that much more vulnerable...

 

[kastein]

At that point you have to write them all down somewhere which leaves the system that much more vulnerable...

I do... but I memorize things easily. Accidentally, sometimes.

 

[MikeMc]

I know it's a pain but it's required if a company wants to do business.

 

[XJLI]

I know it's a pain but it's required if a company wants to do business.

my last company required a change every month, no repeat pws from the last 12 months. i just started looking at a random thing on my desk then adding some quasi-relevant number before or after it.

swingline35
12monitor12

lol.

 

[DaveS98]

LOL.
I get calls daily from the people who forget their password, or lock themselves out and call asking why they are locked out.

 

[Lowrange2]

I use the same word as my password all the time. I just add 1 number to the numbers that are on the end.

******21 last month.

******22 this month.

Started at ******01.

and in case I forget the number it's written on a sticky note on the bottom side of my keyboard along with the other 14 log-ins that require different formats.

 

[MikeMc]

That's pretty common but our system won't let you make a "similar" password so that doesn't fly.

 

[ChiXJeff]

Frequency & password history would make that sound like a medium security environment, lack of a mixed case requirement and what could be a short length pulls that down to a low security environment.

 

[MikeMc]

"Special characters"

 

[GSequoia]

"Special characters"

There are a lot of those in .

 

[MikeMc]

There are a lot of those in .

I was thinking, "What? No there isn't." Then it hit me. hahahaha :roflmao:

 

[*89Laredo*]

For stuff that has payment/bank info I use an 8 char mixed case number/later password.
Something like this:
S4nXlezd (obviously not my password)
I should make a stronger one, but this is hard enough to remember as it is...

Forums and other stuff are just a combination of 6 letters and should be stronger but I've never had a problem.


I work on light/medium duty HP/canon printers.

 

[DaveS98]

Just thought I'd share how retarted the company I work for is... so we get in like 200 new HP desktop machines...guess what they come with. PS2 Mouse and keyboard.. so we are replacing USB with PS2..
Also having to install these dumb ergotron wall mounts that house a pc and monitor as well as some swinging arm mounts that hold a medical grade all in one touch screen.

All this is for our new medical record system which is being implemented tomorrow... the 800 users have had little to no training with it..
Gay

 

[MikeMc]

Computer costs X amount. Exact same computer certified for medical use = 2 or 3 times more.

I used to work for Seimens WAY back in the day. They made an imaging device that was a Mac hidden inside a different case. I'm not giving away any secrets here. 4 screws and anybody could see it was a Mac.

 

[DaveS98]

Nice.
Ive been working about 32 straight hours now.

About to pass out.

Our implementation of our new EMR system is going super shitty.

 

[RCman]

Just thought I'd share how retarted the company I work for is... so we get in like 200 new HP desktop machines...guess what they come with. PS2 Mouse and keyboard.. so we are replacing USB with PS2..
Also having to install these dumb ergotron wall mounts that house a pc and monitor as well as some swinging arm mounts that hold a medical grade all in one touch screen.

All this is for our new medical record system which is being implemented tomorrow... the 800 users have had little to no training with it..
Gay

Why not just get all AIOs or tablets? I don't see a desktop requirement, but I also don't know what they'll be primarily be used for either.
Seems like a waste to me.

 

[xjrick94]

I'm in Helpdesk. I've been in the field for roughly 8 years now. Currently working for an Aerospace company in Santa Fe springs