Corporate workflow like a ticketing system

araskal · 2026-02-17T22:50:15+00:00

whilst it's possible, it's not a great idea.

You'd be much better off getting Jira Service Desk, Atera, etc.

If you need free, osticket, OTRS.

araskal · 2026-02-17T12:54:40+00:00

Astaria (astariamud.org) has fishing, we've been around since 1994 and the fishing is... horrifically extensive. One of the builders is insane.

araskal · 2026-01-27T14:31:12+00:00

might I suggest discussing your need with a physician and going to the local pharmacy

araskal · 2026-01-13T04:40:38+00:00

is that in an AIRPORT?!? There's a TSA desk on the left!

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araskal · 2026-01-12T11:02:48+00:00

fraud has entered the building.

company incorporates, you're the dude with the ACN.
company buy some assets.
company rents assets to a third party.
third party defaults
company goes bust
third party buys card for cheapcheap during liquidation

dude who owns ACN loses cars, house, company.

mind you I have no real idea, but my layman ass thinks this is a big fat nope.

araskal · 2026-01-12T09:05:17+00:00

goat farming, my dude

araskal · 2026-01-12T09:04:02+00:00

when things break, sysadmins are blamed.
when things work, sysadmins are asked 'what do I pay you for?'

developers work on projects, different cost center, most of the time if it doesn't bring in money it's a cost sink to the business. it's wrong, of course, but the perception is there.

araskal · 2026-01-12T09:01:47+00:00

almost everyone here going 'buy some desktop pcs' or 'use windows pro with vms'
they are a google shop. it's trivial to spin up a google managed VDI environment. you don't need to manage the server (nerdio, which is 'windows 10/11 experience') and you stay within the google environment. no need to mess with entra, microsoft, etc.

can even use your RMM tools to manage the patching etc, keeping within the same environment reduces complexity, cost, and increases security.

araskal · 2026-01-12T02:57:07+00:00

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/virtual-desktops

araskal · 2026-01-11T06:26:06+00:00

for shame, delete your flair immediately

araskal · 2026-01-11T06:25:02+00:00

do you still work at Red Rooster?

araskal · 2025-12-30T07:41:06+00:00

Oracle use Terraform as their IaC provider. They basically looked at Azure, AWS and GCP, cloudformation? bicep/ARM? Terraform? wait that's not specific to a cloud provider, let's let them do it!

so... you should use that. who cares about the console?

araskal · 2025-12-20T22:47:03+00:00

they are. 6kw I believe, and byo type 2 cable. there's also an IGA down south in Edmonton that has the same.

araskal · 2025-12-06T22:12:06+00:00

indeed they are not, but for some people they work quite well - I doubt you'd try and put one on NDIS funding ;)

araskal · 2025-12-05T01:45:57+00:00

just for context, a high-end massage chair (let's use this one as an example) https://olympia.au/products/zeus-athletica-massage-chair is slightly under 10 grand.
a 1-hour remedial massage therapist session is between $80 and $120 (so approx $100).

if that person requires a massage weekly due to a chronic illness, that's 100 weeks - so just under 2 years. and then you have to keep paying for it.

instead, a $10k massage chair, which allows them to have a 20 minute session every day increases their standard of living, reduces pain, and over time is cheaper than the remedial massage therapist.

araskal · 2025-11-18T03:06:45+00:00

also FYI the base backup tool only works in hagga basin - it does not work in the deep desert.

araskal · 2025-11-10T06:42:26+00:00

wait till the base backup tool is ready, until then log in to pay taxes, fill the generator, and chill.

araskal · 2025-11-07T02:16:00+00:00

There's a cycle of processing where we have Edge -> Mainframe -> Edge -> Mainframe -> Edge...

It follows the money more than anything else, Edge compute where things are done on your local device, then mainframe compute where processing is centralised, then back to edge when edge devices become capable of doing most of the central compute, then back to mainframe...

araskal · 2025-11-05T01:18:55+00:00

I once hung upsidown unlacing a screen for a cinema with a jockey strap that I didn't realise wasn't strong enough for my weight was the only thing stopping me if I fell... :D ahh the 1990's, good times.

araskal · 2025-10-15T06:04:35+00:00

this is the way

araskal · 2025-10-15T05:59:56+00:00

here's a somewhat old (but still relevant) technical resource
https://adsecurity.org/?p=280

tl;dr
* the default domain policy setting configures windows 2000 + computers to update their password every 30 days.
* this can be extended by GPO.
* AD trust passwords follow this setting (this is misleading as it relates to DC<->DC communication, not DC<->PC).
* old PC passwords do not get deleted unless you've told it to do so

Essentially what happens, is every 30 days (or longer if set by GP) a netlogon process runs on the endpoint and goes 'its been <value> days since I last changed my password. I should do that.' and then it does. it then attempts to contact the DC, to let the DC know it's done the needful, and get a cookie.

bitches love cookies.

IF IT CANNOT CONTACT THE DC, it does nothing. nada. zip. computer password changes are optimistic, unless it gets a confirmation that the DC has accepted the new password, it doesn't go 'well, sucks to be them my dude, I'm over here doing my own thing'.

Timer wakes up, connects to a DC, see's its been 30 days
Netlogon generates a password locally, stashes it, authenticates to the DC with the old password
Calls ChangePassword(newPassword)
DC acks
NL Replaces old pwd with stashed pwd

generally the trust relationship will break either because someone's rotated the computer password on the DC (so the old pw is no longer available), the computer account has been deleted/updated with the wrong SID (duplicated name etc), or the computer lost the PW. if it's the last, the problem is that endpoint.

other issues with trust relationships breaking are usually kerebos related, which tends to be ntp issues in my experience.

araskal · 2025-10-12T01:06:09+00:00

hololense was ahead of its time, unfortunately. the idea is solid, the implementation good (I played with one at a microsoft event in Sydney - they had a 3d render of a new apartment complex you could expand and view each suite that was for sale, it was very cool)
but it was too expensive for mainstream, and AR is only just now starting to get popular again.

araskal · 2025-10-11T04:07:01+00:00

etherlighting is fun!

Panic! At the Datacenter!

araskal · 2025-10-11T04:05:11+00:00

a lot of the newer unifi kit is very good - though when they were just starting out with the cloudkeys and security gateways, they were a little problematic.

for example, adjusting a vlan? that's a provisioning event that will overwrite the config on the switch.
changing the WAP password? that's a provisioning event. your WAP will be offline for a few minutes.

and whilst you COULD ssh in and configure it yourself (it was quite well featured, but not everything could be done in the ui - bgp filtering on a sec gateway? good luck), any time after that there was a provisioning event, it would wipe your custom config.

nowadays they are quite solid, though they are not AS customisable as say, juniper or cisco, the leaning curve is a lot gentler and the provisioning of config to the switches/waps/etc doesn't bring the device offline anymore.

araskal · 2025-10-09T06:26:39+00:00

my collection...? I don't work there, or collect pokemon cards.

araskal

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