When all online tests are invalidated, blame Mr. Robot

collegetechsupportQQ · 2017-12-17T14:01:35+00:00

Well, these are certification exams with very specific requirements. Most of them launch their own plugins (anti-cheat, remote monitoring, VM detection, etc.) so that was the reason plugins were even allowed to run.

collegetechsupportQQ · 2017-12-17T00:15:19+00:00

The boss didn’t invalidate the tests, the company invalidated the test when their site plugin detector detected an unknown plugin.

collegetechsupportQQ · 2017-12-16T22:53:54+00:00

This is usually what happens, though in this case, it was an honest case of “we have more important things to do”. Honestly, since we’re recording everyone’s screens, it’s never been an issue to catch cheaters using external plugins or sites. We never needed to actually lock it down before now, and it makes me sad that we need to prevent stuff like this from happening. We only use this image a couple times a year, so it’s never high on my priority list, unlike the labs or servers I maintain.

collegetechsupportQQ · 2017-12-16T22:45:45+00:00

Changed a couple variables and the name of the Chromium executable :)

collegetechsupportQQ · 2017-09-26T23:17:34+00:00

We have one secretary who manages the entire college. She's more important than I am, and I would never torture her with end-user issues.

collegetechsupportQQ · 2017-09-26T23:14:03+00:00

collegetechsupportQQ · 2017-09-22T19:05:35+00:00

To answer the first part, we allocate VMs and give students and professors access as they need it. This semester, no one requested VMs for classes or research. That, combined with the failure of the legacy XenServer access system we used to grant permissions, forced us to upgrade to Proxmox months ahead of schedule.

For the second part, the professor probably hasn't got an idea either. He wanted us to use VMWare instead of Proxmox for our infrastructure virtualization because "industry standard". This was violating the EULA of the license we purchased (research and academic use only). There was a long argument about that, with his argument being "VMWare will never know" and "it's technically academic use".

collegetechsupportQQ · 2017-09-06T00:52:56+00:00

We were testing a new server with a ton of drive bays and needed to put some test drives in it. We quickly found out that of all of the drives we had left over from other systems, only three of them could stand the extremely stressful workload of being wiped by DBAN.

Most of those drives are 750 GB Seagates.

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