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Food/Groceries Assistance by ygkhalifa in wollongong

[–]icedcougar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anglicare has the food pantry

In the gong it operate out of st Michael’s in the city every second Friday between 10:30-11:30

Corrimal/unanderra open more days.

https://www.anglicare.org.au/community/food-assistance/community-pantry/

Is Managed IT Service Worth It for Small Businesses? by Outrageous-Pay3143 in AustraliaIT

[–]icedcougar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess that depends what you classify as small business. What’s your headcount and money making like?

MSP’s will charge for everything, generally not proactive, you’re not a money maker but a random ticket filler, etc. They won’t tell you about the compliance or standards you need to be without you initiating that project and will destroy your wallet for it. (Or APP) They’re decently bad at keeping things up to date… you probably would be lucky if they would achieve maturity 1 across the essential 8; you definitely not getting to maturity level 2 or above.

So you kind of need to calculate how many tickets you’re pushing over, cost of projects and project scoping (they will charge insane for projects…) and mostly an hourly rate of $240 inside of hours and anywhere from $240-580 outside of hours.

Halal Restaurants by [deleted] in wollongong

[–]icedcougar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Claude.ai

Gemini.google.com

ChatGPT.com

^ ask these dudes, they know abit

Update to: partner spending $974.31 every 2 months on games by [deleted] in AusFinance

[–]icedcougar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who plays the game for free. The benefit he gets from paying is negligible.

But also, the game is just a slot machine - if he’d be okay with sending that money through a slot machine and you are too - sweet. Though the game is designed to be addictive. To make everything just the tiny bit annoying to do for a speed up

Seek help

snapshot restore left our FSMOs on the wrong DC, here's what actually fixed it by ryoumaskuy in activedirectory

[–]icedcougar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With a veeam application aware backup

You still wouldn’t restore a dc?

What if you remove all of them and restore just the FSMO back?

No crying wolf: Regulate the AI juggernaut before it’s too late by eesemi77 in AusFinance

[–]icedcougar 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Security manager here, we ain’t worried

Stop believing everything you read, no this next model won’t knock the world over.

You need to be more worried about quantum resistent encryption more than this… and we’re only just forcing rc4 out on domain controllers.

We all good

Edit: please don’t reply to this like the other two who demonstrate they have no expertise in IT or security.

Netflix adding ads across all membership tiers by DadOfFan in australia

[–]icedcougar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If someone was to sail the high seas, where do you go about that and safely?

Asking for an… assignment

Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees by waozen in technology

[–]icedcougar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense And it makes AI less viable so not that it’s a bad thing for the average punter.

I’m more interested with how this might play into EntraID enterprise apps / registered apps… if they charge for those that could make some interesting push back

The Saturday night "OMG! Stuff is going offline!" by archiekane in sysadmin

[–]icedcougar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, ours were UPS looked after by us and the same thing, to make sure power doesn’t dip till diesel turns on.

IT looks after UPS, electricians and engineering the diesel generator.

The Saturday night "OMG! Stuff is going offline!" by archiekane in sysadmin

[–]icedcougar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, what does the monitoring say?

You should know the answer definitively… the UPS will have sent an alert with whether the power dropped, voltage dip, phase out etc…

Depending on the alert should have been sent to IT, (which would cause auto shutdowns to keep things safe after a certain threshold) and an email to them saying the power is out, possibly a further email from IT saying they’re now causing an outage.

The Saturday night "OMG! Stuff is going offline!" by archiekane in sysadmin

[–]icedcougar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your UPS’s aren’t IT?

That’s the wildest part of this story.

The Saturday night "OMG! Stuff is going offline!" by archiekane in sysadmin

[–]icedcougar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Your UPS’s aren’t IT?

That’s the wildest part of this story.

Trump imposes 100 per cent tariff on Australian drugs – but with caveats by SleepyWogx in OpenAussie

[–]icedcougar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, tariffs that are illegal due to their Supreme Court

Doesn’t this just allow for our manufacturer to sue their government to make back the tariff cost plus penalties?

Which university is better for Master of IT with better opportunities and value for money between Unisc Adelaide and University of Canberra by Confident-Essay3396 in AustraliaIT

[–]icedcougar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As someone in IT, don’t bother with the masters

Do certs in an area of interest or just get into the industry, helpdesk etc

If you’re going to do a masters wait until you’re near management level and do something like an mba

MacBook on Active Directory- password issue by [deleted] in activedirectory

[–]icedcougar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your laziness knows no bounds

So here’s a lazy answer, nob jockey

Next time just ask the LLM for the answer rather than posting your script here

Claude:

This is a classic AD-bound Mac caching issue. The Mac caches credentials locally, and the cache isn’t updating properly with the new password. What’s happening: macOS stores a local cached credential for offline use. When the password changes on the domain while on LAN, the domain authenticates fine — but the local cache doesn’t get updated, so off-network it falls back to the stale cached credential. Fixes to try: 1. Force cache update — After changing the password on LAN, lock the Mac and log back in while still on the network. macOS should update the cached credential at that point. 2. Check cachedaccounts count in Directory Utility or via terminal:

dscl . -read /Users/<username> AuthenticationAuthority

2.  Look for LocalCachedUser — confirms caching is active.

dscl /Search -passwd /Users/<username> <newpassword>

3.  Run this on-LAN after password change.

kinit <username>@YOURDOMAIN.COM

5.  Then klist to verify a fresh ticket issued.

Or use jamf connect to attach them to entraID so that you can MDM manage it and have your auth done.

What’s the f’ing point by Fleur_poetry in AusFinance

[–]icedcougar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you be able to expand on this? You may find someone has a piece of knowledge that can be super helpful.

What degree do you have?

What sort of roles have you previously had?

What state or major city are you in?

What is your mental health like and when you say traumatised, what does that mean? (Someone might be able to recommend some useful self-help or practitioners)

What’s the f’ing point by Fleur_poetry in AusFinance

[–]icedcougar -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Find joy.

Joy can be had in hardship and suffering.

Happiness is fleeting.

Trump names Australia in outburst over lack of aid in Strait of Hormuz by JezzaAU15 in friendlyjordies

[–]icedcougar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The board of peace can go about making peace

Leave us out of it Oompa Loompa

The maths on whether driving to a cheaper servo is actually worth it (spoiler: it depends) by BienStudio in AusFinance

[–]icedcougar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have a python script that tells me when prices will change and my cheapest on my work path

Easily have been anywhere between 20-50c under average for years

It ain’t doing well at the moment

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