what did you learn today? (part 2)

1. The buttons on the editor in this forum have suddenly started being greyed out, so it's difficult to put in links and whatnot unless you've memorized BB code.

2. It looks like samba has to join the active directory domain, so if there's something in the linux VMs that are causing them to join the domain more than once, that would definitely cause these OU problems.
In the right hand icon toolbar, if all but the first are greyed out, click on the first icon, which looks like this: "[ ]". That will switch you out of BBCode mode and back into visual editor mode. The other icons should instantly light back up.

edit, later: toolbar, not menu.
 
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1. The buttons on the editor in this forum have suddenly started being greyed out, so it's difficult to put in links and whatnot unless you've memorized BB code.

Does the bracket icon in the editor toggle the other buttons for you?
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In the right hand icon menu, if all but the first are greyed out, click on the first icon, which looks like this: "[ ]". That will switch you out of BBCode mode and back into visual editor mode. The other icons should instantly light back up.
Oh my effing god. That was it. What's even stupider is I clicked that to see if it would fix it, but somehow didn't notice that it does fix it. Or maybe I thought about clicking it and didn't follow through. I need a break.
 

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For that matter, do linux machines even care about active directory? It's been forever since I've had a linux machine running in a domain and I don't think I did much other than have a samba server linked up with user authentication.

(It also had some sort of web page caching daemon (probably Squid) that was helpful back before we had a gigabit to work with)

Mine do, namely for access permissions across the services they run. They don't necessarily care about the OU, but I don't need the top level admins getting antsy with stuff in the default OU.

I'm looking forward to the battle when CPX finds out it's another admin that's pissed that people keep putting the Linux VMs somewhere other than the default computers OU.

Oh if you only knew...
 

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We use Manage Engine's ADAudit Plus, but I'm sure turning on the right level of logging will cause an event log when it happens, no idea which one though.
I’d second this. We have both ADAudit plus and their Exchange Reporter and both have been instrumental in finding out who did what at various times.
 

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You know how they have those fireproof bags for lithium ion batteries that you can use for storage or while charging? You should put your old laptop batteries in them while waiting for the recycling company to come fetch them. Ask me how I know :flail:
There's a reason why we have a steel box outside for those. Although the tweakers do have an annoying habit of stealing it once or twice a year, and the inevitable literal dumpster fire does tend to annoy the fire department somewhat.
 
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I had a small portable power pack that swelled to 3x normal size overnight, splitting its casing apart. Nearest electronics recycling drop-off is a Best Buy store. I brought it to the Geek Squad desk, to ask if they had a handling/disposal procedure for pieces like this. The guy there told me it was going straight into their sand bucket in the back.
 
I had a small portable power pack that swelled to 3x normal size overnight, splitting its casing apart. Nearest electronics recycling drop-off is a Best Buy store. I brought it to the Geek Squad desk, to ask if they had a handling/disposal procedure for pieces like this. The guy there told me it was going straight into their sand bucket in the back.
Anytime some one mentions the sand bucket, I am reminded of this: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-you-time
 

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lol. I was kind of wondering if that was what you meant by imaging. Enjoy installing Office 64 on those machines. Hopefully they don't have other software hooking into office!
Oh they do. So instead we get to add more RemoteApp servers, because the old MRI will still be actively used for the next few years and there's no way to bulk transfer the images out of the old imaging suite into the new one so they'll still need to keep it around for the next century or so too.
 
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Oh they do. So instead we get to add more RemoteApp servers, because the old MRI will still be actively used for the next few years and there's no way to bulk transfer the images out of the old imaging suite into the new one so they'll still need to keep it around for the next century or so too.
In that case, be glad that your users are smart enough to use the local and remoteapps appropriately and won't get confused as to what is where!
 

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They're used to it lol. Medical software with conflicting system requirements and/or ancient software are the reason why we have many of our hosted VDI customers. That and a lot of small/medium EHRs only support multiple office practices on terminal servers. It's not the best thing in the world but it definitely works and it's cheaper than building, licensing and maintaining the capability locally.
 
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and there's no way to bulk transfer the images out of the old imaging suite into the new one so they'll still need to keep it around for the next century or so too.
There, fixed that for you!

If there are any pediatric patient data in there you need to keep it until they turn 21. (At you did when I last worked in heathcare. It might have changed.)
 

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If there are any pediatric patient data in there you need to keep it until they turn 21. (At you did when I last worked in heathcare. It might have changed.)
It's still 21 in the US for most diagnostic imaging.

Dealing with similar now, a system installed in 2004 and abandoned in 2014, with newborns in the system. Everyone that knew anything about the system is either retired or dead, but gotta keep it around till 2039 or find a way to migrate it. Pretty sure windows won't even be able to authenticate to AD by then, so it's my random spare time project for now.

Great software, about 60 srvany services all set to manual, a ~500 line batch file run out of autoexec.nt that calls hundreds of other batch files which ultimately configure and start those manual services. It's got mssql, oracle, and some type of ancient embedded DB (the embedded DB's actually create one database per tape that was used to archive data, so technically a couple hundred of those). Oh yah, and a broken tape drive. It's a gem!
 

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At least it's not 6.0 so you have to find a laptop with a browser that still supports flash.
Of the two, that would have been easier because we have a few old Thinkpads on the shelf w/ flash and old-ass versions of Java to manage some positively ancient VNXe and Equalogics some customers are still running.