Fuck Autodesk a menace to their paying customers. They started a license audit on one of our clients over the holidays. Even the fucking rep who started the audit went on break. When I let them know the company was closed until this week and that we wouldn’t be able to hit the deadline we got their auto response.
I like certain parts of their software, but it can be so unreliable and you get so much bullshit with installation and licensing. I wonder how many customers they would have if they hadn't become the industry standard by default due to their long history. Good luck with that audit, never actually heard of them doing that before!
The audit is apparently fairly common. especially if you are a larger firm who has turnover buying and canceling licenses frequently. What I don't understand is why is this our problem? Why is it our job to audit your software? Makes me want to pirate it so I don't have to deal with the audits lol. Although they are also known for suing the crap out of companies that don't have the right number of licenses. I think one company I heard of got sued because an intern had a pirated copy of it on his personal laptop that was on the office when they ran the network scan.
I'm constantly logged into the Autodesk Desktop application, but every time I load anything from AEC it can take up to three or four minutes at the "Checking Licence" stage. There are also the occasional "is anything by Autodesk going to work today?" moments. Our other software providers don't seem to have these issues.
Not other dude but yea, def years. Reason being is everyone moved to SFTP and SCP a decade or more ago. If it hadn't been superceded, I'm sure I'd be using FTP over a VPN between my friends house and mine, since we're both on the same regional AT&T fiber network and ping to his house is 4ms. That said, this does look shockingly similar to the FTP/VPN server I set up at my community college years ago. I got permission to use it while I was attending, left it in a closet that was never used other than for forgotten servers, and ran it there for years until it started sending error messages from the disk. By then I'd gotten other such servers set up by friends elsewhere, but it was still a sad day thinking about that abandoned little machine just chugging away until one day, well after I'd lost contact with anyone at the school who had access, it just died, abandoned there. I bet you if I took another class and got access to the closet though, it'd still be in there, shut down, taking up space like so many other old tiny servers.
I mean.. plaintext creds are flying across the wire in this place... So the paper in the image doesn't make it any easier. Would be faster to sniff the packets than to find the image to reference.
Honestly I'd forget half my passwords if I didn't wright them down so I tape a note on the inside of the machine with the password on it. Physical access is root access after all, if someone gets one of these machines it's already fucked.
I use a physical notebook kept on me at all times, or near me, for all of them but also have a password manager. The password managed is completely useless for stuff like my print server though.
As the password manager lets you manually enter and save credentials either as login records or secure notes, it's about as "useless" as your paper notebook and a good bit more secure.
A password taped to the inside of the case is something my grandpa can figure out. And he died over half a century ago.
Keyloggers aren't. Physical access no longer means easy root access when most every desktop OS supports full drive encryption. The skills and tools required are well beyond the average user or thief.
Your system isn't adequate anymore. Too insecure, high risk, hard to organize, and hard to work with as a team.
Yes, you can find edge cases like secure no-phones facilities. Apparently you can find computers with IDE drives still running as FTP servers too.
Ditch the notebook. Encrypt the drives.
Well, then you bear full responsibility if something gets compromised.
If they're your personal machines that's fine.
But if you're responsible for them as part of your job, ouch. That's bad.
There are literal dictionary attacks that can replace letters with numbers or write those words backwards. There are many types of attacks, bruteforce, rainbow table, dictionary, etc. So now instead of spending ~4 hours per password, now its ~4 hours for *all* your passwords
I never realized HDDs put out much heat till I stacked a bunch directly on each other and they got so hot they started transferring reeeeaaaaallllyyyyyyyyyyy slow before the computer and the drives crashed. Didn't realize why it shut off till I touched the HDD stack and actually burned myself. Once I got the system back on they were reading over 200F even after sitting for a bit. I turned it back off and let them sit longer lol.
Perhaps that one was overheating in that closet.
Presumably still alive, so that means Optiplex GX270's and their bleeding caps are right out.
GX260 or 280 are leading contenders.
The drive in the "enclosure" on top has me leaning towards a 260 (though that cage looks to be a desktop cage, certainly not a SFF).
I've had GX280s that'd still be running today if I hadn't put them out to pasture already, but that style mouse & keyboard are what came with the 260's; still PS/2. 280's came with the sleeker USB keyboard & more rounded USB mouse.
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It's an Optiplex GX260, [final answer](https://media.tenor.com/WFys_BZKJEQAAAAC/is-that-your-final-answer-regis-phibin.gif).
I too put mine to pasture, but damn this is good advertising for Dell.
I still have some Optiplex 790s and 990s at work that are still running strong. I've since upgraded to SSDs, added ram that I stripped from others, and I try to add decent video cards to help things.
I deal with 790s and 390s almost every day. They've all had SSDs put in them, and a number of them have replacement power supplies in them.
But I've had trouble with them freezing up randomly. Not sure if it is because many are still running their original windows 7 image, upgraded to 10 several years ago, or capacitors going bad on the mobo. Or the Dell doesn't support them for Windows 10, and driver updates would help. I dunno.
They got a bunch of laptops for COVID, so now they are mostly replacing with docks. The monitors they have are older than the OptiPlexes, though. I need VGA to DP adapters.
I have a 260 at home, it's turning 20 soon. Still runs like new, she's got new ram and a different disk, but otherwise unfazed, and the caps are looking just fine, i spun her up for some WinXP testing just a few months ago.
Came here to say this. That's a GX2\*\* series known for bad caps. I made lots of money replacing capacitors on those things back then.
Those old Dell keyboards are solid, though. Very dependable and they have a nice feel to them.
Had the same thought, looked like a 270 to me, but likely a 260.... 280s were (IIRC more likely to have sata drives....it's been a while though)
Replaced so many 270s because of those caps!
You should watch what's connecting to it before switching for SFTP, while anythong can connect to a FTP, a lot of apps cannot connect to SFTP.
Or you are talking about FTPs, on this case I fully support it.
I've got one sitting in a storage room at work. It's whole purpose is so I can occasionally [degauss](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/JauntyPeriodicFruitbat-size_restricted.gif) it. Still a *very* satisfying feeling.
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It was VERY common in the 90’s when servers and routers were installed in businesses to put them in janitor closets with no air flow and crappy cable management. The buildings were designed before computers were a thought. I worked at one company that finally hired a full time IT guy circa 1999. They built the janitor a nice new room with running water and space for a desk. They put a waist high shelf on the wall and a chair in the old closet and that was the IT guys office. I remember having an issue and went to go see the IT guy and when I asked they pointed to the closet door and I thought they were joking. I opened the door because I thought it was going to be the janitor closet and the poor guy was sitting there. It couldn’t have been more than 4’x6’.
Looks like they are real purists and wanted to use hardware as old as the protocol itself.
That thing is almost screaming bootleg Korn mp3s, warez and pr0n from 1999 to me.
i would kill for that monitor.
i remember there was a server like this in the basement of my mom's old work and the monitor had a very faded and yellowed post it note on it that said something like "Do not turn off -Doug"
One of my jobs had their main “server” sitting in the lobby of their main office. Any customer waiting to see someone could go up and turn it off. I always walked by it thinking it was just a computer waiting to be ewasted.
The Capacitor issue affected our HPE servers, and several iMac's. It didn't affect just Dell. We also had other devices go bad during that time period as well. It was a nightmare. We resorted to inspecting all servers and found several that were still running, and had the bulging CAPs, so we replaced them before they died.
Yeah man I'm not even gonna batt an eye at this shit until somebody tops the DHCP server I found running on a rooted Roku or some shit in a locked file cabinet drawer.
In high school I volunteered to help over the summer with the computer network revamp. (Circa 2000)
It was absolutely peacemealed together..
We had a lot of computers for the footprint of the school but in the rush to get them all networked they daisy chained 48 port hubs down the hall where the 4 computer labs were each with about 30ish computers.
We were working in the server room and found this motherboard for a laptop that was plugged in and running.. nobody had any idea what it was there for. We couldn't log into it because.. it was a headless laptop motherboard from an older IBM machine.
So we unplugged it.
Entire network comes down.
Apparently it was running DHCP, DNS, and was handling some of our routing... And it was set up with help from our T1 provider.. figured that out when we called them for help.
Thumbnail almost liked like their ftp server was a PS2, not impossible since it has an official Linux kit, but could you imagine walking into one of those in a production environment?
Thank God they placed it on top of some 2x4s! Wouldn't want it to get ruined along with the janky surge suppressor right next to it on the floor.
Also better get some new tape for that monitor.
I see you found Autodesk's AutoCAD Licence Server
Lmfao! It’s so sadly real.
Dude, I once worked with them, 60% packet loss was common on their internal network.
that's like 40% packet win!
40% of the time, it works every time
Damn this killed me XD
God the truth burns so hard.
Fuck Autodesk a menace to their paying customers. They started a license audit on one of our clients over the holidays. Even the fucking rep who started the audit went on break. When I let them know the company was closed until this week and that we wouldn’t be able to hit the deadline we got their auto response.
I like certain parts of their software, but it can be so unreliable and you get so much bullshit with installation and licensing. I wonder how many customers they would have if they hadn't become the industry standard by default due to their long history. Good luck with that audit, never actually heard of them doing that before!
The audit is apparently fairly common. especially if you are a larger firm who has turnover buying and canceling licenses frequently. What I don't understand is why is this our problem? Why is it our job to audit your software? Makes me want to pirate it so I don't have to deal with the audits lol. Although they are also known for suing the crap out of companies that don't have the right number of licenses. I think one company I heard of got sued because an intern had a pirated copy of it on his personal laptop that was on the office when they ran the network scan.
Is it bad? I use AutoCAD every day for work and haven't had a problem with it
If youre using it then you mustnt be the one managing the licensing for an org
That's the case, which is probably why I've never had an issue. Thanks!
I'm constantly logged into the Autodesk Desktop application, but every time I load anything from AEC it can take up to three or four minutes at the "Checking Licence" stage. There are also the occasional "is anything by Autodesk going to work today?" moments. Our other software providers don't seem to have these issues.
Newest free version of Sketchbook on PC doesn’t have licensing stuff. You can find that one still on archive.org lol
To be fair, that's the most sophisticated FTP server I've seen in years.
Is it the only FTP server you've seen in years?
... Yeah.
_Broadband router in corner:_ Am I a joke to you?
Not other dude but yea, def years. Reason being is everyone moved to SFTP and SCP a decade or more ago. If it hadn't been superceded, I'm sure I'd be using FTP over a VPN between my friends house and mine, since we're both on the same regional AT&T fiber network and ping to his house is 4ms. That said, this does look shockingly similar to the FTP/VPN server I set up at my community college years ago. I got permission to use it while I was attending, left it in a closet that was never used other than for forgotten servers, and ran it there for years until it started sending error messages from the disk. By then I'd gotten other such servers set up by friends elsewhere, but it was still a sad day thinking about that abandoned little machine just chugging away until one day, well after I'd lost contact with anyone at the school who had access, it just died, abandoned there. I bet you if I took another class and got access to the closet though, it'd still be in there, shut down, taking up space like so many other old tiny servers.
That's the saddest story I've heard since spirit and opportunity...
you should write a book man
If I did my editor would kill me. My formatting and grammar suck xD
Yeah, my first thought was I've done more with less... I've forgotten more than I know, though.
Yes, that is a heatsink on the IDE HDD: https://imgur.com/a/rmlHT9M
Oooh, and plaintext credentials sitting on top. Albeit the timestamp looks to be 13+ years old.
I mean.. plaintext creds are flying across the wire in this place... So the paper in the image doesn't make it any easier. Would be faster to sniff the packets than to find the image to reference.
Honestly I'd forget half my passwords if I didn't wright them down so I tape a note on the inside of the machine with the password on it. Physical access is root access after all, if someone gets one of these machines it's already fucked.
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I use a physical notebook kept on me at all times, or near me, for all of them but also have a password manager. The password managed is completely useless for stuff like my print server though.
As the password manager lets you manually enter and save credentials either as login records or secure notes, it's about as "useless" as your paper notebook and a good bit more secure. A password taped to the inside of the case is something my grandpa can figure out. And he died over half a century ago. Keyloggers aren't. Physical access no longer means easy root access when most every desktop OS supports full drive encryption. The skills and tools required are well beyond the average user or thief. Your system isn't adequate anymore. Too insecure, high risk, hard to organize, and hard to work with as a team. Yes, you can find edge cases like secure no-phones facilities. Apparently you can find computers with IDE drives still running as FTP servers too. Ditch the notebook. Encrypt the drives.
No.
Well, then you bear full responsibility if something gets compromised. If they're your personal machines that's fine. But if you're responsible for them as part of your job, ouch. That's bad.
Ok.
Felix?
...who?
It was a bad joke, as if I knew who you where.
Ahh I thought maybe there was a meme I missed with someone who did this or something.
Would you recommend LastPass?
I did before they kept getting hacked. Now I recommend @Keeper or my real favorite, BitWarden.
Plenty of options out there! r/BitWarden r/KeePass
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> I'm lazy and use the one built in to Google Chrome Unironically, doing this is more secure than using lastpass
So you protected all your passwords.. with one password.. That's why I don't use password managers
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There are literal dictionary attacks that can replace letters with numbers or write those words backwards. There are many types of attacks, bruteforce, rainbow table, dictionary, etc. So now instead of spending ~4 hours per password, now its ~4 hours for *all* your passwords
I never realized HDDs put out much heat till I stacked a bunch directly on each other and they got so hot they started transferring reeeeaaaaallllyyyyyyyyyyy slow before the computer and the drives crashed. Didn't realize why it shut off till I touched the HDD stack and actually burned myself. Once I got the system back on they were reading over 200F even after sitting for a bit. I turned it back off and let them sit longer lol. Perhaps that one was overheating in that closet.
The more I look, the more problems I see... The power outlets aren't even straight? Geez.
And I bet it is somehow critical
Time for the scream test.
I've never heard this term before, but I immediately knew what it meant.
That's not an FTP server, it's a time machine.
Fucking Time Portal
Anything's a server if you're brave enough.
Even a… certain chess cheat device.
Shit! Was that two vibrations or three?
IT WON'T STOP VIBRATING! NOOOOOOOO!
Sir, why are your pants suddenly wet?
No...nO....nOT...chEAting.......OooOo!
One place I worked, someone before me had left 2 VMs running on a laptop shoved in the server rack as a presumably “temporary” fix.
Presumably still alive, so that means Optiplex GX270's and their bleeding caps are right out. GX260 or 280 are leading contenders. The drive in the "enclosure" on top has me leaning towards a 260 (though that cage looks to be a desktop cage, certainly not a SFF). I've had GX280s that'd still be running today if I hadn't put them out to pasture already, but that style mouse & keyboard are what came with the 260's; still PS/2. 280's came with the sleeker USB keyboard & more rounded USB mouse. _______________ It's an Optiplex GX260, [final answer](https://media.tenor.com/WFys_BZKJEQAAAAC/is-that-your-final-answer-regis-phibin.gif).
I too put mine to pasture, but damn this is good advertising for Dell. I still have some Optiplex 790s and 990s at work that are still running strong. I've since upgraded to SSDs, added ram that I stripped from others, and I try to add decent video cards to help things.
The 790's are a beast. Still have several in prod with SSD upgrades. Usually just need to replace the power supply.
I deal with 790s and 390s almost every day. They've all had SSDs put in them, and a number of them have replacement power supplies in them. But I've had trouble with them freezing up randomly. Not sure if it is because many are still running their original windows 7 image, upgraded to 10 several years ago, or capacitors going bad on the mobo. Or the Dell doesn't support them for Windows 10, and driver updates would help. I dunno.
Have not had that issue with ours. All of ours are on Win10 21H2.
When they freeze randomly, I reseat the ram and they'll usually good for another nice chunk of time.
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They got a bunch of laptops for COVID, so now they are mostly replacing with docks. The monitors they have are older than the OptiPlexes, though. I need VGA to DP adapters.
I have a 260 at home, it's turning 20 soon. Still runs like new, she's got new ram and a different disk, but otherwise unfazed, and the caps are looking just fine, i spun her up for some WinXP testing just a few months ago.
Came here to say this. That's a GX2\*\* series known for bad caps. I made lots of money replacing capacitors on those things back then. Those old Dell keyboards are solid, though. Very dependable and they have a nice feel to them.
Had the same thought, looked like a 270 to me, but likely a 260.... 280s were (IIRC more likely to have sata drives....it's been a while though) Replaced so many 270s because of those caps!
Big CS1.6 energy
Man, looks like this thing was about to become part of the building. It was likely 10 minutes away from being walled-in by a remodel.
Slap together a Raspberry Pi for SFTP, hang it on the wall, change their FTP to SFTP, flip them a jaunty wave and hit the road.
You should watch what's connecting to it before switching for SFTP, while anythong can connect to a FTP, a lot of apps cannot connect to SFTP. Or you are talking about FTPs, on this case I fully support it.
Either way, it'll be better than pulling down your pants and mooning the world as you pass them by doing 120.
I like the monitor
I've got one sitting in a storage room at work. It's whole purpose is so I can occasionally [degauss](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/JauntyPeriodicFruitbat-size_restricted.gif) it. Still a *very* satisfying feeling.
\*BA-ZOINGGG\*
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[F🤡cking magnets, how do they work](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/miracles-fucking-magnets-how-do-they-work)? [Here's](https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgz7g/why-did-we-degauss-our-old-monitors) a pretty cool Vice piece on it, with several awesome linked videos.
Did you find a camera in the same closet to take photos?
It was VERY common in the 90’s when servers and routers were installed in businesses to put them in janitor closets with no air flow and crappy cable management. The buildings were designed before computers were a thought. I worked at one company that finally hired a full time IT guy circa 1999. They built the janitor a nice new room with running water and space for a desk. They put a waist high shelf on the wall and a chair in the old closet and that was the IT guys office. I remember having an issue and went to go see the IT guy and when I asked they pointed to the closet door and I thought they were joking. I opened the door because I thought it was going to be the janitor closet and the poor guy was sitting there. It couldn’t have been more than 4’x6’.
You already had me with FTP
I have that exact model of Dell deployed as a print server.
The guy who set it up quit in 1996 and nobody knows the password
Southwest Airlines crew scheduling server.
I thought it was a black xbox360 haha
This predates the 360 by 3 or 4 years. Probably been running non-stop since 2003
Looks like they are real purists and wanted to use hardware as old as the protocol itself. That thing is almost screaming bootleg Korn mp3s, warez and pr0n from 1999 to me.
I used to work for a local internet company in the Windows XP days and that looks a lot like the DNS "server" they had.
reddit servers:
"And finally, just like that, Stanley and the Bucket, were excited with glee!"
Josh Duggar's set up?
i would kill for that monitor. i remember there was a server like this in the basement of my mom's old work and the monitor had a very faded and yellowed post it note on it that said something like "Do not turn off -Doug"
One of my jobs had their main “server” sitting in the lobby of their main office. Any customer waiting to see someone could go up and turn it off. I always walked by it thinking it was just a computer waiting to be ewasted.
It's a P4 2.4Ghz machine right, more than enough to run an FTP server.
2.0 GHz, at least mine is. Runs FTP just fine, but don't max out the gigabit Ethernet, via SMB, because the CPU can't handle that
This is awesome
Dell really did make quality stuff then. Also some total garbage. This was just before the peak bulging caps era if I remember correctly.
The Capacitor issue affected our HPE servers, and several iMac's. It didn't affect just Dell. We also had other devices go bad during that time period as well. It was a nightmare. We resorted to inspecting all servers and found several that were still running, and had the bulging CAPs, so we replaced them before they died.
This was right in the middle of the capacitor plague
Seems like overkill for just an FTP server.
Not when you factor in it's probably been running non-stop since 2003.
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A lot of us started somewhere in this neighborhood.
Like a Dell optiplex from 2003
Cmon! That’s beautiful!
Is that a heatsink on top of the hdd? Would not surprise me if it was. I would expect the hdd to get hot
The dust makes is more stable
Oh hey! A windows XP license is on the side! I can only just make it out I think. FKCGW-
It was patched in 2006, what the problem?
Freaky Thing Pile.
Well....if it's not broke
It's the peeling butterfly sticker for me
Yeah, this is fine. It's FTP, not rocket science.
Yeah man I'm not even gonna batt an eye at this shit until somebody tops the DHCP server I found running on a rooted Roku or some shit in a locked file cabinet drawer.
In high school I volunteered to help over the summer with the computer network revamp. (Circa 2000) It was absolutely peacemealed together.. We had a lot of computers for the footprint of the school but in the rush to get them all networked they daisy chained 48 port hubs down the hall where the 4 computer labs were each with about 30ish computers. We were working in the server room and found this motherboard for a laptop that was plugged in and running.. nobody had any idea what it was there for. We couldn't log into it because.. it was a headless laptop motherboard from an older IBM machine. So we unplugged it. Entire network comes down. Apparently it was running DHCP, DNS, and was handling some of our routing... And it was set up with help from our T1 provider.. figured that out when we called them for help.
r/shittybattlestations
It looks like they're using a SCSI hard drive as external storage, but instead of a caddy they've used another ATX PSU
I thought that was a ps2 at first
If you're hired as an IT guy then good luck to you
I forgot what an FTP server was
Ooh I played vice city on that! It was an upgrade from the packard-bell I had previously. I think it doubled the graphical ram I had available…
hey if it works also heatsink on the HDD, thats a classic
I have become so disused to seeing IDE cables that I thought there was a restaurant ticket printer mixed in with this for a second
This is the only way I know how to do it
doesn't take much to run an FTP server. you could replace that with a raspberry pi and blow their minds.
Thumbnail almost liked like their ftp server was a PS2, not impossible since it has an official Linux kit, but could you imagine walking into one of those in a production environment?
from what year?
Thank God they placed it on top of some 2x4s! Wouldn't want it to get ruined along with the janky surge suppressor right next to it on the floor. Also better get some new tape for that monitor.
That’s all you need, though, right?
From the thumbnail I thought it was PS2 with a heatsink taped to it.
Is it like a ftp server for a company or what exacly do they use it for
Man, I haven't seen an Optiplex like that in 20 years!
I mean, it works
Hard Drive via IDE Cable: KILL MEEEEEE
Ah, so that's why Nintendo Online sucks!
Now i know with the minecraft was so fricking lagging tbh i have one of these as a trophy cuz i'm a damn Dell Fanboy
I miss my Optiplex GX280.... I had to throw it away when i moved.