Because maybe support is gonna be who saves me, cause after all I've got cryptowall
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I promised some time ago I would relate one of the more absurd cases I encounter in my job.
I get a notification from local management that a hospital in Germany has gone offline.
Naturally, I call, fire up the VPN and shake my head at the sight before my eyes. The customer has just tried to open a document (word plugin) and is instead staring at a randsom note.
I ask the prudent question of the hour: "Do you have any backups." Of course, I am greeted by silence.
"What now?" The customer demands.
I shrug. "You will have to reinstall. Sorry you lost all clinical data of the last 10 years for all your patients. Sure you don't have any backups?"
"yes I am sure."
I arrange with somebody from installations to come onsite as soon as possible to set up their clinical severs again and have an engineer on the road within an hour.
Meanwhile, customer IT calls. "Do we need to reinstall Windows?"
"Where did that virus come from?"
"What, we thought there were cloud backups."
I explain calmly that in order to clinically verify I will need a clean reimagine to make sure we do not fall pray to the virus again and that also I will need the workstation that spread the virus isolated and the system cleaned up.
"How do we do that."
I can't resist the snark. "Is it my business card or yours which reads network and security specialist?" (Mine actually reads OIS Specialist - Oncology Information Systems)
Then, I try gentler. "This virus encrypts lots of files, say have you seen a workstation request an unusual amount of files? This can't have happened in five minutes. Your profiler..."
I get interrupted. "What's that?"
As so often I cave and do things that are not part of my job. The phone line remains open, while the IT guy does the prepping of the servers. I hear two first years talking about the illegal downloading they do in the office. Instead of looking for the culprit in the clinical workstations, I look in the IT ones.
While I isolate the workstation the senior IT guy returns. apparently he is in on it too. He talks to me about he'd seen it happen in IT days before, but had remedied it by deleting the HTML random note. Apparently though, he didn't think to check the clinical system or if the virus was still there. Issues totally unrelated in his head.
It takes effort not to throw something at my screen.
Meanwhile I clear my colleague for installation. Within an hour we are operational again.
Within an hour we are clinically operational again. I dash on to the next case.
Two weeks later: a physicist calls because the can't send some medical data. I check the logfiles: there are some that are months old. This confuses me.
I call IT. Turns out a complete reinstall is copying the system32 folder from another machine of the same hardware and replacing.
I invalidate the configuration and in an act of desperation made them sign that they are treating patients against my advise. Any and all mistreatment a from here on in will be their sole responsibility.
"I guess we'll take that chance. Reinstalling us too much effort."
Human life = not worth a Windows reinstall. Glad we talked.
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Germany
Human life = not worth a Windows reinstall.
I see that US hospital administrators are not the only ones who undervalue human lives. I'm not sure if I should be relieved or mortified.
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Wow, that person should literally be in jail.
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Sadly. It's a pretty global issue. The customers are similarly irresponsible no matter the country. France, Netherlands, the United States or Estonia: a lot of great clinical staff being let down by stupid middle-aged, dangerously complacent and self-satisfied uninformed IT.
I have people trying to run on access scanners on a real time treatment system.
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I explain calmly that in order to clinically verify I will need a clean reimagine to make sure we do not fall pray to the virus again and that also I will need the workstation that spread the virus isolated and the system cleaned up.
"How do we do that."
■■■■ ■■■■ing the ■■■■ ■■■■ers with ■■■■ing ■■■■■■■■■■ and ■■■■■■ with a cherry on top, the ■■■■ing ■■■■ers!
breathe @accalia
.... I salute you for managing to maintain your composure in the face of that willing and culpable stupidity.
also bravo to you for getting that waiver.
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E_NOT_A_FOX
But I think that's an apt image for @Yamikuronue or @royal_poet
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E_NOT_A_FOX
not all my reaction images are you may have noticed...
i should fix that eventually....
know any artists that will work for mauled chickens?
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not all my raction images
raction
what happens when a leg is shoved up your anus.
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OWCH<descriptive enough
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<describe me!
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know any artists that will work for mauled chickens?
Presumably some of the artists that will are also inclined to draw foxes already, and thus you may even be able to simply pay them in mauled chickens for the right to freely use fox graphics they've already made, vastly improving the latency of these reactions.
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Here's a nickel, kid, get yourself some new macros.
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that does not compute
@Onyx said:WARN_UNDERPANTS_CONFUSED
there is no confusion. only
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I think @Fox has the Bra Fox monopoly covered.
i'd post pictures of foxes without bras but it's not a good idea to open that image folder at work...
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I'm not sure the previous image is particularly work safe.
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@loopback0 said:
I think @Fox has the Bra Fox monopoly covered.
i'd post pictures of foxes without bras but it's not a good idea to open that image folder at work...
Why do you even have that folder accessible at work? Keep that stuff on your home box somewhere...
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I'm not sure the previous image is particularly work safe.
safer than the bra-less fox folder.
Why do you even have that folder accessible at work?
Google Drive. I don't sync the folder, but it's available online if i need it.
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She's definitely a window licker
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This is a fox sans bra. It's totes safer.
geeze man! think of the children! it's not just us consenting adults that frequent these parts of the web!
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To the tune of "Hero"
I need a backup
I need a backup from the last working day
It's gotta be there and it's gotta be full
Cause I can't treat patients without itI need a backup
I need a backup cause our server's been hit
Hit by a virus and locked the server up tight
This had better not take all night
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Well... I don't think this thread has gone off-topic at all - you should all give yourselves a pat on the back
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@PleegWat said:
@accalia said:
E_NOT_A_FOX
E_YES_A_FOX
Wipes drool off pommel
Were you saying something?
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Wipes drool off pommel
Were you saying something?
/me appologizes for droolong on @PleegWat
sorry... didn't notice you there.
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All furry art is either super cartoony, or slutty.
Unless it's a Sonic the Hedgehog character, then it's somehow both simultaneously.
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All furry art is either super cartoony, or slutty.
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What about fox bras?
http://byt.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/menlibayeva_2010web_foxy_charms.jpg
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I still have no clue what that image macro is trying to convey.
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That's not furry art, those are video game characters.
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I still have no clue what that image macro is trying to convey.
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... nor that one, really. Is that from the weird Bakshi version of Lord of the Rings? Looks like his style at least.
EDIT: Oh it's from Rescuers Down Under, one of the movies Disney made in that short period of time they were trying to rip-off Bakshi.
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... nor that one, really. Is that from the weird Bakshi version of Lord of the Rings?
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Yes, they're video game characters. I'm pretty sure they also qualify as furry.
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On a related note, did you know how rare it is to find good pandaren female art? Most people draw them too skinny. Often MUCH too skinny.
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But not furry fandom.
If you found an illustration of those same characters on, say, FurAffinity, they'd be either super cartoony or slutty.
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?<fuck you discourse
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Might want to check your fur searching logic, seems to be a bit buggy.