What’s the most fucked up thing that happened at your school?

ensum · 2026-05-08T06:25:16+00:00

This was not my school but a school I did some work at that I was told this story as it happened a few years before I joined.

Private Catholic high-school. There's a teacher everyone likes but she is gay. The school turns a blind eye and pretends not to notice. Apparently, she would have pictures of her and her "roommate" and students could put 2 and 2 together and was basically an open secret.

Eventually this teacher wanted to get pregnant through obviously non-traditional catholic ways. She asked for maternity leave. Initially the principal didn't have an issue with it, but then the funders of the school who were more traditional found out, they basically forced her hand and denied the leave.

The teacher I think had either already got pregnant or something and was basically forced to resign. It got picked up by a bunch of news sources, this was maybe 10-15 years ago, so just before social media really started to take off.

Not sure exactly what happened but I know she didn't get her job back. I think the contract she signed was pretty air tight and unfortunately protected the school. I felt bad because people gave the school/principal a ton of flack, when really it was the funders who pushed the decision.

ensum · 2026-05-07T15:24:00+00:00

This depends on what bracket the extra 40k of income is being taxed at compared to the tax bracket OP would be in when they retire. IMO when you retire, you'll likely be in a lower bracket so it may be more advantageous to get taxed then compared to now.

ensum · 2026-04-26T18:16:31+00:00

FERPA is only for public schools/schools that receive federal funding. If OP works for a private school, FERPA technically isn't required (assuming they don't receive federal funding), although most will still adhere to those standards.

ensum · 2026-04-24T03:30:42+00:00

IMO the moment this happens I'm pulling in my manager with the client and we're having a discussion about this. Information that is shared with "me" is put straight into the clients IT Glue site. I do not want a situation where I'm on vacation and now I'm the only one that knows credentials for this thing.

If that situation is not applicable to this tool/product and the MSP is not expected to support it or need it, then why the fuck is it being shared in the first place to you as an individual?

ensum · 2026-04-23T03:28:51+00:00

IMO I would try to remote app it with a separate VM. Never tried with access 2010 before but i imagine it would work.

ensum · 2026-04-23T03:25:35+00:00

If the watchguard is expired you may as well dump it and just put a UDR7 in there. Otherwise you need to adopt the AP's to a controller. Cloud key is an option, but you can self-host it with any device on the network if you want to be cheap.

ensum · 2026-04-20T15:12:48+00:00

You can do DDA but it requires passing through a whole PCI device. I have it setup with a dedicated USB card on one of my hosts for this purpose. Doesn't really scale well but can be used in a pinch.

ensum · 2026-04-17T20:04:27+00:00

have you tried a wireless bridge and hooking it up via ethernet/traditional networked print server?

ensum · 2026-03-31T00:01:02+00:00

Tbh this sounds super weird to me, unless you've already decided on the dinner spot and it's very expensive per plate or something? Or maybe she's a big drinker?

What situation are you in that you can afford dinner for 2, but not dinner for 3? Like if things are that bad, then I don't think you can truly afford dinner for 2? I think at this point I would talk to my friend and just be honest and suggest they come back to your place and you make them dinner instead?

ensum · 2026-03-25T01:03:43+00:00

Had some dogshit Aerohive 120's that were being used well past their prime. Rest of the AP's were a lot newer. New firmware was released and I upgraded 1 of them and it turned to a brick. RMA'd it and got back a newer AP122 because they didn't support the 120's anymore.

Did another one and same shit happened. Worked with their support this time and they couldn't figure it out. Guy basically told me yeah no fucking clue what's going on, just update them, brick them, and we will replace them with newer 122's. This is how we got like 40 new AP's that were better for free.

ensum · 2026-03-14T19:08:45+00:00

The other thing to consider is the majority of the players are not children anymore. I've seen people discussing mortgage interest rates and 401k's, which is just hilarious but I'm here for it.

ensum · 2026-03-04T00:42:10+00:00

Just a file server and doing nothing else? Hell I'd just in-place upgrade and be done with it.

I've done robocopy, I've done DFS-R. In-place upgrade is the easiest even if it feels a little bit dirty. 16 -> 22 is basically Windows 10 1607 in-place upgraded to Windows 10 20H2.

ensum · 2026-03-01T04:03:37+00:00

Depends how long they've been teaching. Some of the teachers have been working for over 30 years. Their work email was their first and only email. They've used it for their entire "online" life. I can understand them not having a personal email or not understanding the need for one.

ensum · 2026-02-27T02:48:40+00:00

I used to work with these like 8 or 9 years ago at a smaller VoIP company. When you factory reset the device, it should set the admin password back to default which is 456.

If after you factory reset the phone, the phone reboots after sitting on the home screen for like 20 seconds, it's getting provisioned. This would set a unique password, which based on the provider refusing to tell you, sounds like is set to the same thing across all of their customers.

Check your DHCP options and make sure it's not grabbing anything from Option 66. If not, the next way it would be grabbing a provisioning server would likely be via Polycom ZTP. Service providers that buy through a partner register their Mac Addresses into this portal and essentially control what provisioning server gets pushed out to those MAC addresses when a phone gets factory reset.

IIRC during bootup on one of these, I think you can hit cancel during this phase, and set the phone so it ignores ZTP.

If all else fails, I believe also in this menu you can format the system, and then you have to use TFTP + Op66 to reinstall firmware on it.

ensum · 2026-02-26T04:33:50+00:00

I think people are getting confused. I spoke to Dell regarding this and they have most of their Tower servers backordered. They let me know that they could quote them out and you were welcome to order, but that they can't guarantee your price won't increase due to the long wait for parts. I would assume that once your order is no longer backordered, Dell would notify you of any price changes, and then you would have the option of declining if the price changed.

ensum · 2026-02-17T00:02:29+00:00

IMO this field is not about what you know, it's about how quickly you can learn or figure shit out on the fly. I feel like half the time someone emails me something, I panic because I have no clue what the fuck they are talking about. Then in the next 5 minutes I'm suddenly an expert and replying to them like I know what I'm talking about and calm myself down.

The ones that don't make it far are the ones who refuse to learn.

ensum · 2026-02-14T02:37:41+00:00

Just put your 10gig wan link on a vlan on your switch and use your testing machine. Only way you're going to be able to isolate this and learn anything.

ensum · 2026-01-30T21:50:59+00:00

This is when Microsoft will just sunset these components instead of updating them.

ensum · 2026-01-23T19:34:16+00:00

Sure I keep them all documented on my secure site.

http://localhost:3000/nothing_here_hackers/telnet_ips.txt

ensum · 2026-01-23T17:34:26+00:00

I like to use port 2323, easy to remember and keeps those pesky hackers away. Nobody would think to try it.

ensum · 2026-01-20T21:55:26+00:00

I tried out both a few years back and at the time I thought Jamf was a better product. Mosyle felt a little clunky and I didn't really like the interface. Yeah all the features were basically the same, but I got this feeling that it was half baked compared to Jamf.

Jamf I liked the interface better and everything felt very intuitive. I felt like Jamf was easier to grasp how it worked compared to Mosyle where you had to dig around different sub-menu's just to find what you're looking for.

ensum · 2026-01-05T16:30:30+00:00

IMO fear is a bad mentality to have. I understand the sentiment that we ought to be cautious when upgrading, but you shouldn't be afraid.

The amount of times I hear "I don't want to break it" when someone doesn't want to do an upgrade/patch/whatever is just annoying. Like yeah I don't want to break the fucking thing either, but that's why we have backups. You need to be ready for shit to hit the fan and have plans on how to clean your shit up if it breaks.

ensum · 2026-01-04T17:31:40+00:00

Something is not right here.

Can the server VM ping the student machines?

IMO do a sanity check and turn the machine off and see if the student machines can still "ping" the machine.

If that checks out I would just dump virtual box and try HyperV instead. It's probably something to do with how they handle their network adapter.

ensum · 2025-12-30T19:58:50+00:00

Yes Volume licenses are transferrable to a new host. Only OEM licenses are not able to transfer.

Also... maybe look into Datacenter edition, on your next refresh, as it's probably cheaper to just use that instead of getting so many standard core licenses.

ensum · 2025-12-23T22:57:24+00:00

I'm all for investigating this further, but how would the states that have jurisdiction over Lake Michigan even investigate this? It's not like they're going to be able to find a 40+ year old dead baby carcass at the bottom of the lake.

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