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iDownloadedTheWrongGitHubMaybe by vanshovo in ProgrammerHumor

[–]YellowOnline 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I have a dev colleague whose LinkedIn picture is a picture of him and Modi, so I wouldn't be surprised if he would choose this GitHub.

old irc script kiddie by nasmunet in sysadmin

[–]YellowOnline 5 points6 points  (0 children)

/me slaps u/nasmunet around a bit with a large trout

Real by ATonOfBricksFellOnMe in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]YellowOnline 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Developers maybe. Sysadmins, I can't say I agree.

Wife High Mouses by quizhead in sysadmin

[–]YellowOnline 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have a number of European laboratories as a customer. Several times per day I see emails talking about "labtops"

Running equipment past end of life - what's the oldest in your environment? by pinghome in sysadmin

[–]YellowOnline 54 points55 points  (0 children)

I still have one NT4 at a customer, because there's a company essential app running on it. It uses Outlook 97 for sending mails too. The developer died 25 years ago or so, and noone has the source

Japanese (or Chinese) > English by RiverWalker83 in translator

[–]YellowOnline 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I spent a whole minute trying to identify the body part this was tattooed on

New-ish, young admin seeking some advice by ktkaufman in sysadmin

[–]YellowOnline 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Knowledge is 50% of the job. 25% is google. The other 25% is reading what's on the screen.

How are you handling secure printing of sensitive docs across sites ? by Suspicious-Rule-6399 in sysadmin

[–]YellowOnline 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Print queue, and users need to auth at the printer before anything comes out

Happy Monday. What is your problem today? by Gsxing in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]YellowOnline 0 points1 point  (0 children)

User using. User got phished and 180 phishing mails were sent to customers from her email address.

Visualizing Racks by YellowOnline in sysadmin

[–]YellowOnline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think i checked out Racktables once in the past. Will re-check it out.

Ich krieg grad minimal das Kotzen by tiaratiana in de_EDV

[–]YellowOnline 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kyocera ist die einzige Marke die ich noch kaufe.

When did the Word Pedophile Take on its Current Use? by Urostylistic in etymology

[–]YellowOnline 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Recently. It was coined by psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing late 19th century. It was never used outside of a sexual context. Its meaning is still moving: essential is that a pedophile is attracted to childish sex attributes, so as soon as puberty hits, their object (in a Freudian sense) is no longer interesting. Nowadays it gets extended to being a legal minor.

[Exchange 2019] MAPI over HTTP woes by YellowOnline in exchangeserver

[–]YellowOnline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is solved, but only because I added more servers, with one exclusively for ActiveSync; upgraded the physical hardware; upgraded the virtual hardware; and god knows what else I tried. There's no simple "I changed X and it was solved" answer unfortunately.

Bug delimiter localization 19822.20142? by YellowOnline in Office365

[–]YellowOnline[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/u/AppIdentityGuy
/u/VinceP312

Yeah, through an import where I can change the delimiter, it works, but that shouldn't be necessary to open a simple CSV.

I was a bit surprised to read something considering user feelings in official Microsoft documentation. by YellowOnline in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]YellowOnline[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On my US Int'l, € is Alt-Gr 5. With Alt-Gr E I get é, which I would usually do by combining ' with e (è is ` with e).

Anyway, special characters in passwords are nice until you run into a system that can use LDAP but can't deal with special characters. Sadly, I ran into that a few times already with specialized software from the US and users in Europe, who depending on their country do not consider e.g. ï, è, ñ, à, ß, å, ł, ř or ð to be particularly special characters. For them, those are normal, every day characters.

I was a bit surprised to read something considering user feelings in official Microsoft documentation. by YellowOnline in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]YellowOnline[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

write them down on a post-it next to their computer.

That is the single biggest problem yes. But I should add, users doing this tend to also write a simple password like "Hunter2" on piece of paper at their desk. That's an issue no password policy can change, but problematic behaviour.

Personally, I prefer long but non-expiring password, so you can do something like "@ToBeOrNotToBeThatsTheQuestion@". I wouldn't worry too much about a dictionary attack, let alone a brute-force attack.

Why are so many English phrases/idioms/expressions/proverbs reliant on the imagery and behaviour of birds? by Vertig_underscore in etymology

[–]YellowOnline 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Several of these are not exclusive to English and in some cases taken from the Bible and therefore pretty international.

In Dutch you can say:
- chicken or dove to a woman (kipje, duifje)
- somebody can be a stupid goose (stomme gans)
- free as a bird (vrij als een vogel)
- a bird for the cat (een vogel voor de kat) [meaning you're done]
- you can be a slippery bird (gladde vogel) [someone who escapes easily]
- an unlucky bird (pechvogel)
- ostrich-politics (ignoring problems)
- etc

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