The 'I work in I.T' thread

[Donny_Dog]

Anyone else at Cisco Live?

 

[boultonn]

I sell a product that can help with that 😂

DSOaaS?

 

[ChrisR]

DSOaaS?

Hah not quite, tooling that’s used by DevOps/DevSecOps teams to support their workflows, CI/CD etc

 

[Maccy]

Hah not quite, tooling that’s used by DevOps/DevSecOps teams to support their workflows, CI/CD etc

And people like me

 

[boultonn]

Hah not quite, tooling that’s used by DevOps/DevSecOps teams to support their workflows, CI/CD etc

Any interesting tooling?
Or just ‘mindset’ haha

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Right. Quick one for you IT guys as I didn't know where else to put this...

Getting fibre put into the house tomorrow. Currently we have a sky router and a phone line to it from the phone in socket. As the router is in the middle of the house, we're using an extension cable under the carpet to get the connection.

New router has arrived (EE/BT) and this is the back of it.

In the box is a 1m WAN lead. Is this the same as a stand ethernet cable and is that what connects the router to the new fibre box the will be installing? I have a long ethernet cable which I can use if so, or do I need to go and get a longer WAN cable before the engineer arrives tomorrow?

Cheers.

 

[Krarl]

Yeah it's the same. Just make sure you're using a cat 5e or cat 6 cable if you're getting fibre installed

 

[Advikaz]

Yeah it's the same. Just make sure you're using a cat 5e or cat 6 cable if you're getting fibre installed

Put in for hourly rate on that mate.

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Yeah it's the same. Just make sure you're using a cat 5e or cat 6 cable if you're getting fibre installed

How the f**k do I tell that if I've already got a long one 🤣

It's only going to the PS5. At the moment everything else will be WiFi until I get a mesh system which will then hopefully go through WiFi and cables if the boxes have ports.

 

[Krarl]

How the f**k do I tell that if I've already got a long one 🤣

It's only going to the PS5. At the moment everything else will be WiFi until I get a mesh system which will then hopefully go through WiFi and cables if the boxes have ports.

It should say on the jacket like this mate

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

It should say on the jacket like this mate

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Cheers. Mines blank, the full 5m of it 🤣

It's a flat cable too. Might just invest in a new one anyway.

 

[Donny_Dog]

I've not seen a 'non' cat5e cable since ww2.

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

f**k knows why I said it's going to the PS5. That's only using a 1m one as the router is close to it.
It's going from the "in" socket to the router.

 

[.Joe]

The older cables are a tad bulkier


I have a new lesson this week, after a bit of testing, both Crowdstrike falcon and Bitdefender are completely worthless against data exfiltration

 

[boultonn]

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The older cables are a tad bulkier


I have a new lesson this week, after a bit of testing, both Crowdstrike falcon and Bitdefender are completely worthless against data exfiltration

Crowdstrike.... security theatre??? I won't have it...

 

[Krarl]

Cheers. Mines blank, the full 5m of it 🤣

It's a flat cable too. Might just invest in a new one anyway.

Falt stuff is s**t anyway and usually flat stuff is cat 6 or 7

I've not seen a 'non' cat5e cable since ww2.

One of our platforms at work was installed when I was still in primary school... The red cat5 that it was installed with is now a light pink c***s can't even figure out how to migrate it without totally f**king everything too

 

[Advikaz]

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The older cables are a tad bulkier


I have a new lesson this week, after a bit of testing, both Crowdstrike falcon and Bitdefender are completely worthless against data exfiltration

You talking about logging / blocking downloads etc?

 

[boultonn]

exfiltration

downloads

Uploads probably

 

[.Joe]

Crowdstrike.... security theatre??? I won't have it...

You talking about logging / blocking downloads etc?

It's terrible software, been tasked by a new customer i'm onboarding to do a dabble of security testing.
5 minutes on the phone now have a users logins, as soon as out off hours hits into the system, pop off a few sketchy powershell scripts querying data and uploading to eastern european based server.
it's going to be a long week.🤦‍♂️

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

@sUpErShOoTeRs 46 turns out the flat cable I have, although no marks on it, is s**t. Who'd have guessed....

I think it's that which is limiting my speed anyway. Only getting 98mb download to the router then to other wired devices, unless it takes a while to bring the speeds up to 500?

I've ordered a new Cat 6 cable anyway. I did drive to Currys but they wanted silly prices. I'll probably need to order another tbh to go back from the router to the PS5.

 

[Krarl]

@sUpErShOoTeRs 46 turns out the flat cable I have, although no marks on it, is s**t. Who'd have guessed....

I think it's that which is limiting my speed anyway. Only getting 98mb download to the router then to other wired devices, unless it takes a while to bring the speeds up to 500?

I've ordered a new Cat 6 cable anyway. I did drive to Currys but they wanted silly prices. I'll probably need to order another tbh to go back from the router to the PS5.

Cat 5 is only rated for 100mb

When your new cable comes try it again and see what happens mate. It might just be down to that cable being old and w**k

 

[Rojer]

Had a good one earlier from a BA of all people..

We have 35 numbers and want a fully functioning voip solution without any overheads at all. We don’t want teams voice as it’s too expensive. Can you sort a phone system away from 3cx. We don’t want to host anything. Or have anything hosted either. We also want to drop our SIP.


f**king. Help. Me.

FreePBX is probably the cheapest phone system you can get. We use a mixture of that, Teams and Gamma Horizon.

 

[Advikaz]

FreePBX is probably the cheapest phone system you can get. We use a mixture of that, Teams and Gamma Horizon.

3cx is freeware mate.

If you don’t have loads of SIPs and numbers it’s cheap as chips for licensing

They’re just tight as arseholes

 

[CrippsCorner]

 

[*JimmyJ*]

I've been in IT for about 20 years, done all the roles, but now happily doing 3rd line within the infrastructure department in education. Doing alot of security work at the moment. Anyone worked with Cyberark?

 

[andybond]

I've been in IT for about 20 years, done all the roles, but now happily doing 3rd line within the infrastructure department in education. Doing alot of security work at the moment. Anyone worked with Cyberark?

Yes. I have.

 

[*JimmyJ*]

@andybond in what capacity have you used it?

 

[andybond]

@andybond in what capacity have you used it?

Implementation and end user.

 

[Donny_Dog]

I've been in IT for about 20 years, done all the roles, but now happily doing 3rd line within the infrastructure department in education. Doing alot of security work at the moment. Anyone worked with Cyberark?

Yeah, and beyond trust/bomgar.

I hate them all tbh. Especially as a user too.

 

[Gray]

I've been in IT for about 20 years, done all the roles, but now happily doing 3rd line within the infrastructure department in education. Doing alot of security work at the moment. Anyone worked with Cyberark?

Yes, used for a number of years to manage elevated / service accounts.

 

[andybond]

service accounts.

mSA/gMSA FTW here.

 

[.Joe]

 

[rctempire]

Currently implementing a Citrix via Azure VMs. What a interesting project its turned out to be.
GPOS are a disaster and unreliable at times it seems with domain joined azure vms.
How annoying Microsoft and Citrix.

 

[Advikaz]

Currently implementing a Citrix via Azure VMs. What a interesting project its turned out to be.
GPOS are a disaster and unreliable at times it seems with domain joined azure vms.
How annoying Microsoft and Citrix.

Shitrix*

 

[Cookie]

People are still using Citrix?!

 

[Advikaz]

People are still using Citrix?!

Mad people

 

[boultonn]

Currently implementing a Citrix via Azure VMs. What a interesting project its turned out to be.
GPOS are a disaster and unreliable at times it seems with domain joined azure vms.
How annoying Microsoft and Citrix.

I have spent a significant portion of my life typing gpupdate /force
Good luck!

 

[Advikaz]

I have spent a significant portion of my life typing gpupdate /force
Good luck!

Years ago I was involved in a shitrix deployment on thin clients (s**t loads of them). I tried at the time to get the client to stick with a laptop model or go to AVD but they pushed ahead with citrix.

It was an absolute s**t show

 

[Krarl]

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I've got more grey hairs than my barber

He's in his 50s

 

[rctempire]

People are still using Citrix?!

This company is HUGE too. So yes.
They are moving from colo to Azure. Saving around 150k a year doing it on azure too.

Mental money for a small system for 3rd parties.