Everybody is an Admin



  • Hi I just saw this on a client computer in our domain. This was made by a previous admin.

    MEmbers of the Admin group

    So everybody was an admin on this system. This is quite handy as everybody is allowed to log onto this workstation... And if you forgot your password, just remeber John.Doe@Domain.local's password is"jd"



  •  Oh, I see the WTF: all the text is nonsense.



  • @bstorer said:

     Oh, I see the WTF: all the text is nonsense except "OK".

     


  • @Zecc said:

    @bstorer said:

     Oh, I see the WTF: all the text is nonsense except "OK".

     
    I call bullshit.  What exactly is an "ok"?


  • @bstorer said:

    I call bullshit.  What exactly is an "ok"?
    A stick man after being run over by a cylinder.



  • @Zecc said:

    @bstorer said:

     Oh, I see the WTF: all the text is nonsense except "OK".

     

    They also spelled "computer", "admin" and "administrator" correctly, but that's all.

     

    Seriously, though, this looks like some pretty bad malware is screwing up the system; probably because every user runs as an Administrator.  The obvious solution would be a liberal application of napalm to Dresden, and a mix of conventional and nuclear weaponry applied in a line from Berlin to Stuttgart.


  • Considered Harmful

    @morbiuswilters said:

    a liberal application of napalm to Dresden

    And make sure not to miss the slaughterhouse basements this time.



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    The obvious solution would be a liberal application of napalm to Dresden, and a mix of conventional and nuclear weaponry applied in a line from Berlin to Stuttgart.

    Also, is it just me, or do the people have little Hilter moustaches?


  • @morbiuswilters said:

    The obvious solution would be a liberal application of napalm to Dresden, and a mix of conventional and nuclear weaponry applied in a line from Berlin to Stuttgart.

    What about the Bavarians? You're gonna kill half the country, but leave the Bavarians alive? Well fuck you then! Make the line go from Berlin to Munich, and we have a deal.



  • @derula said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    The obvious solution would be a liberal application of napalm to Dresden, and a mix of conventional and nuclear weaponry applied in a line from Berlin to Stuttgart.

    What about the Bavarians? You're gonna kill half the country, but leave the Bavarians alive? Well fuck you then! Make the line go from Berlin to Munich, and we have a deal.

    Reasons to keep Bavaria:

    1. Bavarian cream donuts
    2. Oktoberfest
    3. (NEW!) To anger derula



  • @bstorer said:

    Bavarian cream donuts

    Hello Wikipedia:
    Bavarian cream or Crème bavaroise or simply Bavarois[1]is a classic dessert, a Swiss invention according to the French,[2] but one that was included in the repertory of Marie-Antoine Carême, who is sometimes credited with it.[3] It was named in the early nineteenth century for Bavaria or, perhaps more likely in the history of haute cuisine, for a particularly distinguished visiting Bavarian, such as a Wittelsbach. Escoffier declared that Bavarois would be more properly Moscovite, owing to its preparation, in the days before mechanical refrigeration, by being made in a "hermetically-sealed" mold that was plunged into salted crushed ice to set— hence "Muscovite".
    What the fuck.



  • @derula said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    The obvious solution would be a liberal application of napalm to Dresden, and a mix of conventional and nuclear weaponry applied in a line from Berlin to Stuttgart.

    What about the Bavarians? You're gonna kill half the country, but leave the Bavarians alive? Well fuck you then! Make the line go from Berlin to Munich, and we have a deal.

    I have nothing against West Czechoslovakia; they're harmless.



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    @derula said:
    @morbiuswilters said:
    The obvious solution would be a liberal application of napalm to Dresden, and a mix of conventional and nuclear weaponry applied in a line from Berlin to Stuttgart.

    What about the Bavarians? You're gonna kill half the country, but leave the Bavarians alive? Well fuck you then! Make the line go from Berlin to Munich, and we have a deal.

    I have nothing against West Czechoslovakia; they're harmless.

    They talk strangely (really, REALLY strangely), and ruin the reputation of the whole country with their Lederhosen and Schuhplattler.



  • @derula said:

    @morbiuswilters said:
    @derula said:
    @morbiuswilters said:
    The obvious solution would be a liberal application of napalm to Dresden, and a mix of conventional and nuclear weaponry applied in a line from Berlin to Stuttgart.

    What about the Bavarians? You're gonna kill half the country, but leave the Bavarians alive? Well fuck you then! Make the line go from Berlin to Munich, and we have a deal.

    I have nothing against West Czechoslovakia; they're harmless.

    They talk strangely (really, REALLY strangely), and ruin the reputation of the whole country with their Lederhosen and Schuhplattler.

    Y'all talk strange to me, Krauty von Deutschbag.



  • @derula said:

    They talk strangely (really, REALLY strangely), and ruin the reputation of the whole country with their Lederhosen and Schuhplattler.
    Yet still, they're the only ones that have contributed to German culture in the entire country.  



  • @bstorer said:

    @Zecc said:

    @bstorer said:

     Oh, I see the WTF: all the text is nonsense except "OK".

     
    I call bullshit.  What exactly is an "ok"?
     

     Some guy in Tulsa would like to have a word with you about your so-called education.



  • Does this person have poor eyesight only for window titles?

     

    Also, when I see 'von', I can only think of honorific names or titles. "Sir! The French have gone over the top, and Baron von Administratoren's troops are surrounded! What are your orders?"



  •  I'm not a proponent of making everyone local admin, but we've sufficient clients who are adamant they _need_ to be local admin (and no explaining from us can convince them otherwise, and we've tried...) to not have done this a number of times myself.

     

    At the end of they day they foot the bill every time we have to reinstall their computer, we install anti virus and anti malware software and the firewall in the DSL router is blocking SMTP outbound. Sure, we could deny their request but then they will just take their business to a competitor.

     

    Luckily this is just a small minority of our clients.



  • @pnieuwkamp said:

    _need_ to be local admin
    Well obviously they need to install itunes, FF, AIM, Azureus, and LimeWire.  Why would you deny them that?



  • @da Doctah said:

    Tulsa
    Stop making up words.



  • @bstorer said:

    @da Doctah said:

    Tulsa
    Stop making up words.

    It is a real word, retard.  It was the brand name for the short-lived Jethro Tull picante salsa.



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    @bstorer said:

    @da Doctah said:

    Tulsa
    Stop making up words.

    It is a real word, retard.  It was the brand name for the short-lived Jethro Tull picante salsa.

    I'm sorry, but I've never heard of such a thing, and I frequently dine at their chain, Thick as a Brick Oven Pizza.


  • @bstorer said:

    @morbiuswilters said:

    @bstorer said:

    @da Doctah said:

    Tulsa
    Stop making up words.

    It is a real word, retard.  It was the brand name for the short-lived Jethro Tull picante salsa.

    I'm sorry, but I've never heard of such a thing, and I frequently dine at their chain, Thick as a Brick Oven Pizza.
     

     "Where everything is piping hot".



  • @da Doctah said:

    @bstorer said:

    @morbiuswilters said:

    @bstorer said:

    @da Doctah said:

    Tulsa
    Stop making up words.

    It is a real word, retard.  It was the brand name for the short-lived Jethro Tull picante salsa.

    I'm sorry, but I've never heard of such a thing, and I frequently dine at their chain, Thick as a Brick Oven Pizza.
     

     "Where everything is piping hot".

     

     

    Never go there on a date unless you take a toothbrush.  Choo-Choo !!! No kisses for you, Locomotive Breath.



  • @Zecc said:

    @bstorer said:

     Oh, I see the WTF: all the text is nonsense except "OK".

     
     

    I understood the ?



  • @pnieuwkamp said:

     I'm not a proponent of making everyone local admin, but we've sufficient clients who are adamant they _need_ to be local admin (and no explaining from us can convince them otherwise, and we've tried...) to not have done this a number of times myself.

     

    At the end of they day they foot the bill every time we have to reinstall their computer, we install anti virus and anti malware software and the firewall in the DSL router is blocking SMTP outbound. Sure, we could deny their request but then they will just take their business to a competitor.

     

    Luckily this is just a small minority of our clients.

    I work at an insanely huge company and our standard is that all users are admins of all computers.  We have local desktop techs at, or a short drive from, each of our locations.  We simply arm all of the desktop techs with a spindle of re-image disks.  Re-imaging broken computers is much less work than centrally deploying all software.  At last count we support about a thousand application across the company.

    The process of installing non-standard software is interesting.  You fill out an online form to request the software, and the form goes into a jumble of systems to get paid for and the media acquired.  Eventually, you get an email telling you to install the software your damn self, along with either a link to the media on the network or a tracking number for the media that has been mailed to you.  If you need help, call the help desk.  They'll remote in and install it for you if you prefer.



  • @Jaime said:

    I work at an insanely huge company

    Like... more than five people?



  • @derula said:

    @Jaime said:
    I work at an insanely huge company
    Like... more than five people?

    Yes.  Close to a six digit head count.  We have thousands in IT alone.



  • @derula said:

    @Jaime said:
    I work at an insanely huge company
    Like... more than five people?

    Zuh!  Try more than nine.



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    @derula said:
    @Jaime said:
    I work at an insanely huge company
    Like... more than five people?
    Zuh!  Try more than nine.

    I hope it's not over 9000.



  • @Jaime said:

    @derula said:

    @Jaime said:
    I work at an insanely huge company
    Like... more than five people?

    Yes.  Close to a six digit head count.  We have thousands in IT alone.

    So 100,000 heads, which, at 8% of your body weight, would correspond to 8000 people?
    Why would you hire heads anyway?



  •  Actually it's a smart move. If you hire only heads, you don't need to build shitters, because the asses stay at home. Great savings.



  • Not to mention how much you prevent carpal tunnel syndrome.



  • @Shondoit said:

    @Jaime said:

    @derula said:

    @Jaime said:
    I work at an insanely huge company
    Like... more than five people?

    Yes.  Close to a six digit head count.  We have thousands in IT alone.

    So 100,000 heads, which, at 8% of your body weight, would correspond to 8000 people?
    Why would you hire heads anyway?

     

    To get ahead in the industry?

     /runs



  • @Jaime said:

    We simply arm all of the desktop techs with a spindle of re-image disks.
    I hope that when you say "spindle" you mean "booklet." Spindles, aside from being a pain in the ass to use regularly (imagine if the disc you want is at the bottom), don't protect discs very well if they're transported a lot.



  • @Kiss me I'm Polish said:

     Actually it's a smart move. If you hire only heads, you don't need to build shitters, because the asses stay at home. Great savings.

     

    It's quite economical if you also hire head shrinkers.



  • @belgariontheking said:

    @Jaime said:

    We simply arm all of the desktop techs with a spindle of re-image disks.
    I hope that when you say "spindle" you mean "booklet." Spindles, aside from being a pain in the ass to use regularly (imagine if the disc you want is at the bottom), don't protect discs very well if they're transported a lot.

     

    He probably means spindle.

    I mean, there's no way the IT staff would be that large unless it was completely chock-full of WTF. In another 5-6 years, they might hear about USB memory keys, or those small USB portable hard drives.

    But I agree with you: every time I see somebody using a spindle to *store* disks, it boggles my mind. It's like a disk scratching machine, I can't imagine a worse way to preserve data. (Maybe tying the disks to rabid wolverines?)



  • @belgariontheking said:

    @Jaime said:

    We simply arm all of the desktop techs with a spindle of re-image disks.
    I hope that when you say "spindle" you mean "booklet." Spindles, aside from being a pain in the ass to use regularly (imagine if the disc you want is at the bottom, and you can only get to it by moving disks one at a time between that spindle and two others, with the added complication that disks can only be placed on top of disks originally below them), don't protect discs very well if they're transported a lot.

    ToHTFY


  • @bstorer said:

    Filed under: Tower of Hanoi'd That For You
    Oh wow, I can't wait to inject that into causal conversation.



  • @Xyro said:

    Oh wow, I can't wait to inject that into causal conversation, only by moving the surrounding sentences one at a time between that dialog and two others, with the added complication that sentences can only be placed after sentences originally spoken before them.

    ToHTFY.



  • @Xyro said:

    @bstorer said:

    Filed under: Tower of Hanoi'd That For You
    Oh wow, I can't wait to inject that into causal conversation.

    As a Vietnamese-American, I inject my Tower of Hanoi into all sorts of things; like casual conversations, funerals and your wife.



  • Oh, I got this one! @morbiuswilters said:

    As a Vietnamese-American, I inject my Tower of Hanoi into all sorts of things; like casual conversations, funerals and your wife[b] by injecting only one object with my Tower of Hanoi at a time between two other wives, with the added complication that I can only inject my Tower of Hanoi into new objects after injecting them into an object that was injected into the wives previously.[/b]
    Wait... No....  derula, help me out here...

    @morbiuswilters said:

    As a Vietnamese-American, I inject my Tower of Hanoi [b]with[/b] all sorts of things; like casual conversations, funerals and your wife.
    Eh, whatever.



  • @derula said:

    @bstorer said:
    Bavarian cream donuts
    Hello Wikipedia:

    Bavarian cream or Crème bavaroise or simply Bavarois[1]is a classic dessert, a Swiss invention according to the French,[2] but one that was included in the repertory of...

     

    Who gives a shit what the French think?



  • @amischiefr said:

    @derula said:

    @bstorer said:
    Bavarian cream donuts
    Hello Wikipedia:

    Bavarian cream or Crème bavaroise or simply Bavarois[1]is a classic dessert, a Swiss invention according to the French,[2] but one that was included in the repertory of...

     

    Who gives a shit what the French think?

    I think France is just pissed that people found out French Fries aren't actually French, so it's going around talking shit about other countries.  Next the assholes will be claiming Danish pastries don't come from Denmark, German shepherds are actually from Spain and that The Netherlands' single contribution to society, the Dutch Rudder, isn't actually Dutch at all.



  • @amischiefr said:

    @derula said:

    @bstorer said:
    Bavarian cream donuts
    Hello Wikipedia:

    Bavarian cream or Crème bavaroise or simply Bavarois[1]is a classic dessert, a Swiss invention according to the French,[2] but one that was included in the repertory of...

     

    Who gives a shit what the French think?

    The Québécois.      *rim-shot*



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    I think France is just pissed that people found out French Fries aren't actually French, so it's going around talking shit about other countries.  Next the assholes will be claiming Danish pastries don't come from Denmark, German shepherds are actually from Spain and that The Netherlands' single contribution to society, the Dutch Rudder, isn't actually Dutch at all.
     

    Here's a little rule of thumb when it comes to the origins of things:

    • Anything awesome: from America
    • Everything else: who gives a shit?


  • @morbiuswilters said:

    Netherlands' single contribution to society, the Dutch Rudder
    You forgot about Golden Earring.  And the Double Duch Rudder.



  • @bstorer said:

    Here's a little rule of thumb when it comes to the origins of things:

    • Anything awesome: from America
    • Everything else: who gives a shit?

    Hmm .. so given that Obama is American (and if he wasn't the Repubs would have stormed the Supreme Court a looooong time ago) .. then that means .. he must be awesome and health care must be awesome and ... etc



  • @OzPeter said:

    @bstorer said:
    Here's a little rule of thumb when it comes to the origins of things:
    • Anything awesome: from America
    • Everything else: who gives a shit?
    Hmm .. so given that Obama is American (and if he wasn't the Repubs would have stormed the Supreme Court a looooong time ago) .. then that means .. he must be awesome and health care must be awesome and ... etc

    Propositional calculus - you're doing it wrong.



  • @derula said:

    Obama is American (and if he wasn't the Repubs would have stormed the Supreme Court a looooong time ago)
    Course he's American.  We paid* a lot of Kenyan doctors with a lot of money** to prove he is.

    *shot

    **bullets


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