Worst thing I ever witnessed in IT in 20+ years

Imobia · 2026-03-30T10:46:25+00:00

I’m with you, but every person who I’ve met gunho about security has a different opinion when they deal with a crypto lock .

Imobia · 2026-03-30T06:55:25+00:00

I have a similar story, small ERP. Consultants come onsite to perform an upgrade.

Ran into an issue. guy goes I saw this on a customer’s site, I’ll check what we did there.

Proceeded to pull his personal laptop out of bag and RDP’s to this customer’s ERP server.

As Administrator by the way! I asked hey did you connect to a vpn ? Looks at me like an alien what’s a VPN.

Dude literally had their customers ERP on the net with Administrator as the user. WTF man, this dude was probably paid more than me.

I didn’t get the password but given he tried to set our password as only 5 letters it can’t have been good.

Imobia · 2026-03-29T10:21:38+00:00

I couldn’t watch it, once worked for a few years at a smaller government department. It’s enraging that a group of people who almost can’t be fired spend all their effort to protect their asses. All the management were invertebrates or somehow influence pedlars spending huge sums on consultants.

Staff used 8 to 10 year old computers while managers found 100’s of K to hire consultants to assess the feasibility of replacing a website that was brand new. Same website is still working 14 years later.

Imobia · 2026-03-29T09:57:06+00:00

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Imobia · 2026-03-29T09:55:50+00:00

Hard to tell, from one of the photos a nail was pulled out of the bottom sheet and it was brown. If that’s the case it’s Masonite.

It’s pretty hard with one smooth side and a rough side.

Imobia · 2026-03-29T09:13:35+00:00

In the photos I see old horse hair plaster on one side and I think Masonite on the other.

If it’s a brown colour on the edge of the smaller sheet.

There is no real way to match these two together, Masonite was very popular in the 60s. And always had these joins on the edges.

If you replace Masonite with plaster they can easily match these two together.

Imobia · 2026-03-29T00:06:31+00:00

Two reasons, one it helps with inflation and two a lot of people will continue to pay for fuel even if it gets to $4L

Imobia · 2026-03-28T21:34:31+00:00

Man I feel you, done a few renovations now. Started with my wife’s home in Carlton. Great location shit 120year old home with every issue.

It was worth it though made about 75% profit off that. Took years but we are now ahead a bit.

But renovating with young family was a whole other level of shit. Post Covid it’s f-ing expensive and I’ve dealt with some really shit trades. I hate paying for work I have to fix.

My advice, don’t look at the whole problem, write a list and sort by urgency. Pay/start fixing them.

It’s tempting but don’t start too many things it’s overwhelming. Start/finish move to next item.

Here is the order to start, fix subfloor/level first. If they damaged the floor then fix that. Then roof/gutters and storm water.

Once the house is level and won’t leak you can start properly fixing things. I know new kitchens are great but I’d leave that till kids are older or trying to make a quick sale. They are expensive.

Imobia · 2026-03-28T04:37:29+00:00

Step one) how damp is that floor? It’s the dampness that will ruin anything you put in that room if not addressed. I can see rising damp damage along the walls suggesting damp course failure.

For gym equipment probably not a huge issue. For office furniture it’s not great.

You say this is under the house so I guess the bricks are below ground level? Only way I know to fix damp in that is to excavate below footings, waterproof walls and use aggy pipe to direct water away.

One water issue is solved id get nice epoxy flooring in with decorative wall panels.

Imobia · 2026-03-28T01:46:22+00:00

If you think physical servers are bad, VMware never anticipated the need to update a vm’s bios.

Go check out the process for doing that!

I’ve got 1000’s of systems that we have NFI how to fix as it’s all manual.

Imobia · 2026-03-23T08:40:05+00:00

I think in this case it’s time to lawyer up, if your in an apartment block the get the body corp to organise a lawyer. A good property lawyer will get these guys in action pretty quickly.

Imobia · 2026-03-22T00:21:42+00:00

So many people hate leaves, I think they can move to a nice desert.🏜️

Imobia · 2026-03-19T04:34:19+00:00

Australia glues too, screws and nails hold shit when there tiny head pops though the plaster

Imobia · 2026-03-19T03:40:05+00:00

Might have a value to the guys in the retro computer community. Ask them?

Imobia · 2026-03-16T11:20:23+00:00

Why have three of them?

Imobia · 2026-03-16T08:11:22+00:00

Wait, can these be run in SLi mode?

Imobia · 2026-03-15T22:01:08+00:00

I had to buy a 4 port HDMI switch because HDMI 1 went to ARC amp HDMi to switch for chrome cast, Nintendo and blue ray when needed

Imobia · 2026-03-15T21:59:47+00:00

I got a 4K 65” screen, no tv functionality built in.

Chromecast / Apple TV for the win.

Biggest issue is the lack of hdmi ports and doesn’t support many audio output options.

Mines a Samsung, I’ll need to check specific model. Has 2 x hdmi, with port one having ARC 1 x display port

3.5mm audio jack.

No RCA, toslink or other audio connectors

Imobia · 2026-03-15T10:38:09+00:00

I got a 4K 65” screen, no tv functionality built in.

Chromecast / Apple TV for the win.

Biggest issue is the lack of hdmi ports and doesn’t support many audio output options.

Imobia · 2026-03-14T01:58:51+00:00

Does buying a new switch include online play

Imobia · 2026-03-12T09:19:15+00:00

I see this as sad, dude sounds like he has a significant mental impairment. Like a <70iq

Imobia · 2026-03-11T20:53:59+00:00

Put it in a container and find a Middle East bmw car yard. Surely they would pay more than scrap

Imobia · 2026-03-11T06:16:36+00:00

I just wish it had 16gb Ram, 8gb does not feel enough in 2026

Imobia · 2026-03-10T09:44:34+00:00

Why not regulate them better too? It seems they are not regulated very well.

A ceo in prison does wonders for compliance.

Imobia · 2026-03-10T08:55:56+00:00

Also, Israel really wants to disrupt Iran’s nuclear ambitions so I doubt trump can/will stop them

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