This isn't Oracle. The on prem stuff has been mostly honor based for a long time.
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I work at a non-profit charity, so I'm not super worried about such things. I do make sure Office installs are licensed.
I would not be surprised if that just means that they come after management on a personal level instead.
Once the MS licensing enforcement machine starts rolling it has an inertia all its own, and it lacks the naturally warm and tender human empathy that interactions with MS are normally known for. (/s)
But yeah, if they shot an own-goal, I have a hard time seeing them hold your feet to the fire on that issue. Well, at least not as close to the fire as they normally would.
But yeah, if they shot an own-goal, I have a hard time seeing them hold your feet to the fire on that issue. Well, at least not as close to the fire as they normally would.
Last time I had a Microsoft "associate" email about licensing, first I contacted Microsoft to confirm if it was real, secondly, I referred them to Techsoup where we get all our licenses. They promptly went away.
we were fortunate enough that they just asked for pictures of windows genuine stickers on desktops... most these days don't even have anything unique on the stickers anyway. I still went around and took a bunch of pictures of computer cases with stickers and that was good enough for them. The side benefit was that was where I learned about wetransfer and that has been a great tool ever since.. So... worth it 
Excellent point. The person who emailed me years ago was an independent consultant.
Had Adobe tell me BSA was going to audit us for no particular reason.
I ignored every email the BSA person sent.
Soon enough, they emailed that their audit was concluded/closed with no notes, and promptly effed off.
(we don't cheat our licenses, we're good paying customers, so I'll be GODDAMNED if I let randos into my network or "require" me to install anything so they can "just check and make sure", all the while me knowing that their business model is specifically predicated on finding fault.)
I ignored every email the BSA person sent.
Soon enough, they emailed that their audit was concluded/closed with no notes, and promptly effed off.
(we don't cheat our licenses, we're good paying customers, so I'll be GODDAMNED if I let randos into my network or "require" me to install anything so they can "just check and make sure", all the while me knowing that their business model is specifically predicated on finding fault.)
Well, I just learned how to add my login into a MS SQL database so I can backup and remove a few databases from our accounting system. Fun stuff!
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/sql/sql-server-2012/dd207004(v=sql.110)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/sql/sql-server-2012/dd207004(v=sql.110)
Oracle Vulture: "We assume you're using JDK without a license, you should really pay us so you can get security updates"
Me: ignores this and his next 5 emails on the topic
Oracle Vulture: "Please have the professional courtesy to reply to my email"
Me: lolz (while not using Oracle JDK)
Me: ignores this and his next 5 emails on the topic
Oracle Vulture: "Please have the professional courtesy to reply to my email"
Me: lolz (while not using Oracle JDK)
Professional courtesy after he accuses you of stealing software.
Apparently there's been a rather embarrassing misspelling in some of our ARIN records for... years and I've only just noticed it while paying our renewal this year.
That will enabling the local firewall on our windows servers I have already found a few any/any rules put in by vendors. sigh.
Quickbooks loves to do that and it's Intuit's first response to any connectivity issues. They also love to give everyone full control to all shares too.
Applying for a Director position in Las Vegas...
Google the org...
The first hit/link is their official website, with this flavor text:
Can't wait to move to Neveda...
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Google the org...
The first hit/link is their official website, with this flavor text:
Can't wait to move to Neveda...
Why when I read Neveda do I hear that being said in Mike Tyson's voice?Applying for a Director position in Las Vegas...
Google the org...
The first hit/link is their official website, with this flavor text:
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Can't wait to move to Neveda...
My annoyance is that no matter how carefully I make sure every public database and registration is correct for our IP addresses, GeoIP databases, etc... MaxMind still changes our company name to imply that we are some kind of subsidiary of a Canadian company. I've submitted corrections to them multiple times and they confirmed they would fix it, and still nothing changes. They've completely hallucinated it all on their own, it's not old or anything, they just made it up as far as I can tell.
Ah yes, Maxmind the company that thought AT&T has a presence in Dallas, Ukraine
That took a while to fix
Reminds me of the time Netapp cancelled our support because some hospital in western Canada cancelled theirs and our names were vaguely similar... And they wouldn't open a ticket until we were back in the system, which took 7-8 hours. With a down array.
Unhappy to learn of more Clownstike fuckery I may need to deal with in the future.
There are people twisting themselves into a pretzel figuring out a way (in Terraform) to specify an older Amazon Linux AMI because Clownstrike can put the created EC2 instance into "reduced functionality mode" if the kernel is newer than it's internal definition. I'll need to research this further if it becomes important, but it sounds like anti-* scanning is disabled, not the ability of the EC2 instance to run/connect on the network.
People are working around this issue by trying to pull an image at least 7 days old so it is included in the definition files.
There are people twisting themselves into a pretzel figuring out a way (in Terraform) to specify an older Amazon Linux AMI because Clownstrike can put the created EC2 instance into "reduced functionality mode" if the kernel is newer than it's internal definition. I'll need to research this further if it becomes important, but it sounds like anti-* scanning is disabled, not the ability of the EC2 instance to run/connect on the network.
People are working around this issue by trying to pull an image at least 7 days old so it is included in the definition files.
took quite a few re-reads to understand what you meant because at first that terraform data lookup I don't think is that hard (plus AWS don't bake new AMIs all that frequently) but a quick google of Reduced Functionality Mode and jeebus CloudStrike sounds terrible. Having them grafted into the OS is one thing but I presume juicy AWS API access...
TIL that Apple's USB C-to-Lightning cables are incapable of restoring iPhone software. I tried on both Windows and Mac to restore an iPhone to hand to a user and it just never completed or crashed the process.
Tried multiple cables, nothing worked. Brought it home and used a good old USB A-to-Lightning via a dongle and the iPhone software reloaded first try.
Tried multiple cables, nothing worked. Brought it home and used a good old USB A-to-Lightning via a dongle and the iPhone software reloaded first try.
In the old days used to use sysinternals psexec to start up sql studio in system context? And get full access that way then muck with permissions.
It might be informative to hook that cable to an A-to-C adapter to see if it's something about the cable itself, or the connector.
It probably needs a special apple infusion that you can only buy from the apple store.
I never used them because of their terrible reputation. Now I see why. Cripes.
It's a pretty common thing with all the Tier 1s IME. Annoying, but a fact of life. So far, other than pushy sales (who's isn't) they've been the second least painful of the mega carriers to deal with after Hurricane Electric IME. Although their pissing contest with HE is pretty fucking stupid.
I've had a couple of those 'turn off autonegotiation' where I was just like, 'Yup, all done.' and it worked fine. It was just boilerplate and the actual turnup tech had it turned on to start with and left it going.
I had a couple who were really serious about it and I accommodated and just lived with it. I had one who insisted on it and then when I complied, the link went down, and stayed down until I convinced them to turn it back on on their equipment because it was necessary for autoMDI to work on the cat5e gigabit handoff they were doing and I was remote so it would have been another 3 hours to get someone to drive in again and swap a cable or reterminate it. They had flubbed the first 2 appointments for the turnup of the service, so they wanted to get it done. Worked fine for years after that.
I had a couple who were really serious about it and I accommodated and just lived with it. I had one who insisted on it and then when I complied, the link went down, and stayed down until I convinced them to turn it back on on their equipment because it was necessary for autoMDI to work on the cat5e gigabit handoff they were doing and I was remote so it would have been another 3 hours to get someone to drive in again and swap a cable or reterminate it. They had flubbed the first 2 appointments for the turnup of the service, so they wanted to get it done. Worked fine for years after that.
We had an ASR1k at a customer site with ATT as the carrier with a different last mile and it took weeks of getting the right combo of people on the phone to get their end set right. There was something weird about that chassis that was a nightmare.
I'm getting to learn how to deal with contracts beyond normal hardware support purchases and dealing with a legal team who comments, solicits feedback, then sends a redlined contract for modification by service providers. My workload suddenly shifted significantly away from a technical support role.
Well I just learned how to forward airprint broadcasts from our internal lan to our internal wifi on a fortinet firewall.
Basically this: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/F...-multicast-forwarding-between-two/ta-p/198625
Basically this: https://community.fortinet.com/t5/F...-multicast-forwarding-between-two/ta-p/198625