IS department

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 11/11/2019 at 15:30 • Filed to: None

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The new fresh hell from the IS team - Premiere Pro project files are no verboten as they “contain sensitive information” (which they don’t, they are specifically referring to patient information or company information). Want to know what 99% of my job is? working with Premiere pro files. My solution is to change .prproj extensions to .jpg, then move them as needed, then change them back. Its like being back in college when I had to change files to .notexe to be able to download at the computer lab.

On the plus side. The internet speeds are rightous.

Tekamul > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 16:21

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mashroom ? Sounds dirty.

facw > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 16:27

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Yep, fun! I have an application that sends email reports where the emails are sometimes getting blocked because they say the attached spreadsheet contains sensitive taxpayer ID info (it does not). It’s not really used anymore, so I’m just going to shut it down rather than deal with the bureaucracy to get their scanner fixed or at least get my app white- listed .

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 16:29

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IS?

*calls homeland security*

anyhoo.... how come your upload is higher than your download?... my interwebs dont play like that

For Sweden > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 16:32

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I’m not saying you should switch, but Doug has built an empire using an old copy of iMovie.

Textured Soy Protein > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 16:36

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Open a trouble ticket.

Attach the email or whatever other medium this ban on Premier Pro files was delivered in to the trouble ticket.

In the description of the problem, write, “99% of my job involves working with Premier Pro files. How am I supposed to work with these files if they are forbidden?”

Submit trouble ticket.

Wait for deskside support agent to appear like this:

HammerheadFistpunch > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 11/11/2019 at 16:40

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It’ s very unusual...but you don’t hear my complaining!*

*about the internet

TheRealBicycleBuck > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 16:42

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We went through a variety of options when zip files were identified as potential payload carriers. I played the rename game for a while before IT finally allowed any zip file through as long as it had the company initials at the beginning of the file name. Any other zip file is immediately rejected.

HammerheadFistpunch > Textured Soy Protein 11/11/2019 at 16:45

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Where they come and silence me?  yeah, that sounds about right.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 17:21

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IT: Why are your photo files so big?

HHFP: I have a 4 tr illion megapixel camera!

HammerheadFistpunch > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/11/2019 at 17:27

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You have no idea how real this is.

They made us buy macs because quicktime was no longer supported by apple therefor not supported by them and all our camera’s shot in quicktime.  We shoot about 4 tb every 6 months and we have to justify buying hard drives EVERY FREAKING TIME. We also have to justify having USB ports that can write to them every year.  They still call us up every now and again and tell us we are on their shit list and to fix stuff we’ve gotten dozen of exemptions for in the past.  

MarquetteLa > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 17:38

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Yeah, my workplace blacklisted video file extensions from our network drive as they “take up too much space.” So now there are a bunch of “ .txt” files taking up too much space.

HammerheadFistpunch > MarquetteLa 11/11/2019 at 17:41

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I love that.  would even better if the extensions were .notvideo

subexpression > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 18:17

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I work at a company that handles financial data and (a little) health care data. They don’t have problems like that because they don’t even have a security department.

Or a security person.

Or standard security practices people follow to keep things safe .

Or employees who can manage not to accidentally email internal admin passwords to random customers .

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 18:19

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Pretty sure all IS/Info Sec do all day is sit on IS/Info Sec forums and go “OH, WE SHOULD DO THAT HERE”.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 11/11/2019 at 20:17

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In the archives, our 1.5 million (or so) photo collection is slowly, but steadily being digitized into high- resolution scans that end up as .tif files around 50-60 mb per image, sometimes larger . I think we’re around 600,000 images digitized so far. Fortunately we still get to maintain a standalone IT department within the library separate from the rest of the universities IT operation.      

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > HammerheadFistpunch 11/11/2019 at 21:21

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IS: don’t download any programs

Also IS: we’re going to work nocturnally so fuck off, if you have any issues that need resolving this week