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[–] 105 points 4 months ago (8 children)

That cable management looks pretty clean tho

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  • [–] [S] 76 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    They have cable management rules to prevent chaos from happening, which will if given the opportunity

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    I work with an organization that has a "cableman" who goes around and yanks unapproved or unlabeled Ethernet cables from very important server racks. He has complete immunity from any consequences of pulling said cable. If the cable was important, it should have been labelled.

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  • [–] 88 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    The laptop is updating on company's time . Drink some tea, blame Microsoft and call it a day.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Yea but standing around in a server room sucks

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  • [–] 81 points 4 months ago (19 children)

    Oh, we are sharing workplace cable management, ok, here's a place I used to work at:

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  • [–] 56 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Here was my nightmare on the day some equipment died and we had to patch around it manually

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I’m not IT in any capacity than my own shit at home. Tackling this looks impossible.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    The solution to tackling it was to just not tackle it. See the various dangling cables where something was no longer needed and rather than removing the cable, screw it, it is lost to the entropy.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Fairly normal for any system in my area that isn't serviced regularly every 2 to 3 years.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Smoker? I've seen some truly disgusting computers that came from houses where people smoked. Even when they still worked usually the best thing was to just strip them for parts because you'll never get rid of the smell.

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    [–] 40 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Too late OP, now I know where you live

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    [–] 22 points 4 months ago*

    As everyone else has said, that’s clean as fuck.

    I see ya’ll put the room numbers on the front of the patch panel instead of the cable labels. What kind of facility is this in if you don’t mind me asking? Is this a hospital?

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Nice cable management there. You're better than Windows.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    That's some decent cabling

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Why are you using windows for what looks like important infrastructure work? 😬

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  • [–] 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    May not be his/her choice.

    How do you know when someone hates Windows? They'll tell you, myself included.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Next job do it at a more appropriate time and you might keep the job

    /s

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If I were in the middle of something and that laptop did that to me, it would now be a two piece laptop.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (18 children)

    I don't like Windows, but at the point where the laptop updates automatically hasn't it been bugging you about the update for hours or even days? I generally file complaints about bad update timings in the "fucked around and found out" folder

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  • [–] [S] 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Honestly I don’t even remember, this was a long time ago, but if I recall the shitass Dell computer I was given had an SSD that repeatedly disconnected and required a forced reboot. Updates were managed automatically by the org so I don’t think I was ever prompted to update during my short time there. When I powered the shitter on Windows decided it was apparently a good time to update.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

    I mean, shouldn't you be able to refuse updates anyway ? Like if there is something you don't like or that will break your workflow in the update, shouldn't you be able to accept the risks and keep the old version indefinitely ?

    Edit : a word was missing.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    No, not on a business owned device. The updates should give warnings, of course. Some companies don’t seem to know how to supply those warnings before mandating the install, for some reason.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    My company uses a third-party deployment platform that gives you dialog with a 60 minute countdown and a button to start immediately. And I think the deployment dialog can't pop up if you're not on the computer. Because nobody likes nonsense like five minute countdowns that can start while the screen is locked.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Companies lock out the computer because it is lacking updates rather than have it working. Apple broke ssh on all their macs with an update for three months or so. Managed to postpone it for a while until the called and said I have to update or be locked out. Luckily I had postponed it for so long that the next update arrived just like a week later.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    When you say "companies", do you mean Apple/Microsoft or the company you're working for/with ?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I meant the one you are working for

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Okay, i see, i'm not that familiar with tech companies. I wouldn't have guessed they'd be that aware of what version of OS people are using.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    A personal laptop of an employee is a very good entrypoint for an attacker. First thing you do is log in to your job. It may be a vpn, a site login, some token gets stored on your computer for the day. If someone gets access to this, it can be devastating. So, if a vulnerability gets discovered and patched by the OS, it can be very important to update as soon as possible. So companies scan their empoyees laptops, is one thing, and if the try to connect they also try to check that the computer appears up to date, is known, and so on.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    No, because devices need to be compliant, there needs to be an unskipable deadline. Otherwise everyone would just defer.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    Do they really imperatively need to be compliant ? (i genuinely don't know, but it seems weird to me, it feels like i can just postpone updates indefinitely on linux)

    Or is this that it's way better to be compliant, so companies need to enforce it on their computers (but individuals may not have this need) ?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    You can postpone them but it’s a risk. Companies try to mitigate risks, because they don’t want to get hacked or fined because they don’t follow regulation. And to be honest it’s in your best interest to be up to date too. It’s not such a pain in the ass to reboot your computer every once in a while :)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Plus, he is on Linux. It would take him all of 5 minutes to update on the slowest of hardware.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    As long as he’s not using Gentoo with ebuilds (which I’m 99% positive he isn’t);)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Both of you are spot on, updates are blazing fast, and i'm clearly not on Gentoo x) thx for the explanation, its clearer for me now

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Vapes me installing some vapes

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    One time the computer restarted while I was trying to scan in emergency meds. I narrowly avoided flipping the workstation over in a blinding adrenaline fueled rage by having to go verify it manually with a coworker instead and just charted it later.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    good thing it dint glitch out and tried out to double order the meds.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

    That would be an unusual glitch, and one that wouldn't be able to reach the patient, especially not in my specialty where we don't have pumps at all let alone ones the computer can control. More likely is the resident gives a verbal instead and doesn't get the benefit of allergy / dosing warnings. Tbh it's actually not uncommon for the doctor to accidentally order a new scheduled dose and forget to discontinue the old dose just through pure human error but that's pretty easy to catch because it looks hella weird in the MAR and most of the time it pops an error or at the very least pharmacy just refuses to approve it before it even gets to me. I've been licensed for five years now and I can only think of maybe like four times that particular error has ever even made it as far as me and it was human error every time.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Never seen patch panels like that before, neat

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