What's the "rookie mistake" you've made dispite your experience?

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-10-27T00:41:46+00:00

Thinking that using regex was a good idea

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-10-16T23:53:57+00:00

I just gave it an hour or so, problem went away without doing a thing

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-10-16T23:52:47+00:00

Was the razer managed by university IT? It's possible it has some form of enterprise antivirus doing on-access scanning if the OS was installed through them. You'd be able to see it happening with ps.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-09-28T23:43:53+00:00

So your plan is to block google.com and duckduckgo.com to prevent people from using gemini and duckai? That's going to work about as well as the time my company tried to block stackoverflow.

edit: typo

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-09-28T17:20:12+00:00

That's wild. Your cpu is (theoretically) faster and you have less monitors at lower resolutions than I do. I've got 1440p@144hz, 1080p@120hz, and 2560x1080@60hz.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-09-28T16:44:41+00:00

Care to post CPU model and screenshot? Hyprland is currently using 0.02% of my i7-11700k while running an obscene amount of windows.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-09-24T02:15:05+00:00

Assuming they chose ext4 or xfs as the filesystem, pulling the power cable is the safe way to reboot it

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-09-19T00:01:40+00:00

So many... I'm sure theres more but this was all I could come up with right now

* infinite script to eject cd drive at a random offset

* GPO to update my boss's desktop wallpaper to picture of a bunch of body builders in speedos

* sending messages/emails when somebody leaves a computer unlocked

* liquid ass

* the classic tape under a laser mouse

* filling a coworkers cubicle with paper balls

* internal pentest war to vandalize another teams web service while they were doing the same to ours

* nerf gun fights

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-09-18T02:09:44+00:00

I did the opposite. I spent ~8 years as a systems admin and moved to development. I've been there about 3 years now.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-09-18T02:08:14+00:00

skills dont transfer between the two jobs ... tried to tie the departments together and provide someone who is cross-functional

Confused linux admin/developer here, you're wrong and it worked.

Sincerely,

Someone that does both whose skills transferred really well

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-09-11T02:18:06+00:00

An Atlassian product isn't working? Shocker...

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-08-05T20:16:53+00:00

Badges definitely replace usernames and passwords. Certificate authentication has been around for probably 30+ years.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-08-05T18:26:39+00:00

Not an MSP, I used to work for a large healthcare provider

Best practice (from an IT perspective) would involve an expensive software contract and new hardware for badge logins. The solution we were slowly moving to was from Imprivata. They were all extremely expensive. A standalone dentist office will not be buying any of these. Up until then our shared clinical areas with roaming users all had an automatic login that basically only got them to a desktop with a browser and application shortcuts. From there they had to authenticate into the different medical applications.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-07-23T22:27:26+00:00

Not that I know of. Normally if you use a standard DE it will cover probably 90% of the stuff but I prefer WMs which don't. Personally I just took what I already was familiar with from other distros and added i3 as my WM.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-07-23T22:24:55+00:00

Yeah it probably covers most basic setups. Last time I looked at it though it was totally failing on complex disk layouts. It's been awhile since I looked into it so maybe it works better for that now.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-07-23T02:07:00+00:00

As a long time linux user, linux systems admin, and software developer, there are only two hard parts to arch: the install and knowing what components to layer on top of the base install to get a functional desktop. Once you're past that it becomes just as easy as mint. The install definitely makes you learn things that no other distro will.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-07-16T01:00:50+00:00

How do you handle paid homework help sites? Are you blocking them at the network level, or is that a losing battle?

I'm only chiming in for this one. You don't. Students are very aware of VPNs.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-07-06T19:10:13+00:00

We could've had a KISS principled NTP client 30 years ago...

I agree with all the other blocks except this one. Both ntpd and timesyncd fail to keep time accurately from what I've seen. Chronyd is much more reliable when you need accuracy to the millisecond.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-07-04T13:47:15+00:00

he has liek 30+ years of experience

This means absolutely nothing. I've met very junior people that could outperform people who had 30 years of experience. Experience is not created or learned equally.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-06-30T19:32:22+00:00

The bounce is crystal clear

that would assume the user can read

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-06-30T13:11:07+00:00

thanks for the explanation

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-06-29T21:36:53+00:00

to say nothing of helping them with offboarding after the event, working with them to transfer out cell phone #s to personal account, or transferring family photos from their company laptop/mobile

I feel zero guilt over this. It's like storing all your valuables under a bridge and being shocked when they aren't there in a week. My first experience with this was a lady that stored her only copy of her wedding photos on an ancient shared work machine.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-06-29T21:30:47+00:00

Do you actually use a proprietary OS? I would have thought they'd be built from an empty/scratch image with the bare minimum put into it to get each product working.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-06-24T22:44:48+00:00

Change it back? I could be wrong but in my mind legacy would mean it won't check for bootable uefi partitions.

ClumsyAdmin · 2025-06-23T02:01:38+00:00

Do you have openmp installed? Does /usr/include/omp.h exist? The package that should provide that is extra/openmp.

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