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DigitalRaven posted:The only appropriate response is "No you're loving not, sunshine." Lol nuclearmonkee works with manufacturing folks, he's lucky they asked. Thanatosian posted:I wouldn't have even told them 15 degrees. I would have told them "no, they can't be tipped at all, lest hard drives start failing." lol like they're going to replace with SSDs. argh page snipe. Employer paid for 2-day sonicwall course for basic administration, I'm sure it cost like 5K, it's virtual which isn't horrible since I'm at home in I have never seen a sonicwall nor logged into one, supposedly one of our customers has them and that's why I'm doing this thing, not like it's a big deal anyway since I deal with fortigate stuff all the time and I'm sure it won't be hard to pivot into sonicwall if I ever need to do a thing with them. I also got a call for a "network engineer" position yesterday from a recruiter, might be a decent (15K) pay bump, we'll see if I get a call back, but there are red flags already so I doubt they're going to want to pay me what I want. MF_James fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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MrBling posted:Problem: customer is reporting that his "email computer" is no longer receiving mails. There's really nothing wrong with having 98 exposed to the internet these days - almost no malware runs on it anymore.
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fishmech posted:There's really nothing wrong with having 98 exposed to the internet these days - almost no malware runs on it anymore. It's all about the 0days now
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fishmech posted:There's really nothing wrong with having 98 exposed to the internet these days - almost no malware runs on it anymore.
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Well, today's the day I migrate a full network stack from a wall-mounted 12U rack with antiquated poo poo to a full cabinet on the other side of the wall with brand new gear. Re-terminating 24 cables, 30% of which we don't know are long enough to reach the new patch panel. During business hours at a notoriously cranky and bitchy site if things aren't ~*perfect*~ If you don't hear from me in two days, I've quit IT and gotten a job at McDonalds to reduce my stress.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:If you don't hear from me in two days, I've quit IT and gotten a job at McDonalds to reduce my stress. Literally "sir, this is a McDonalds drive-thru"!
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Well, today's the day I migrate a full network stack from a wall-mounted 12U rack with antiquated poo poo to a full cabinet on the other side of the wall with brand new gear. Re-terminating 24 cables, 30% of which we don't know are long enough to reach the new patch panel. During business hours at a notoriously cranky and bitchy site if things aren't ~*perfect*~ If I never talk to you again, it's been a pleasure. Stay safe, networking ghost!
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Well, today's the day I migrate a full network stack from a wall-mounted 12U rack with antiquated poo poo to a full cabinet on the other side of the wall with brand new gear. Re-terminating 24 cables, 30% of which we don't know are long enough to reach the new patch panel. During business hours at a notoriously cranky and bitchy site if things aren't ~*perfect*~ Lock the door while you're working. Don't come out until it's done.
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Bigass Moth posted:Lock the door while you're working. Don't come out until it's done. The new cabinet is right behind the front desk, mere feet from the most complainy users and customers who act like taking a few extra minutes to process their credit card is a federal crime that should be punished by weaponized whining
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A ticket came in. CEO: I've accidentally permanently deleted my entire inbox. Please restore. I'm sure we have a backup and everything but how does one fumble into that? I'm sure he's got a fair number of e-mails
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So a phone call came in... ... with a job offer working with a large bank. Its not helpdesk so no more fixing printers or crap like that. Plus the 50% pay raise is nice too! Ill be supporting one or two internal apps. By supporting them I mean calling the vendor when it breaks.
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blackswordca posted:So a phone call came in... Welcome to pod life my friendo you deserve it!
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wolrah posted:Kinda makes me wonder why the cryptolocker types haven't seized on this, because it's probably a safe assumption that any ancient machines still in use today contain years and years worth of data and/or software that isn't properly backed up. Because then they'd have to write their own crypto library instead of using the one built in to modern Windows (I assume).
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blackswordca posted:So a phone call came in...
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blackswordca posted:So a phone call came in... Edit: I support one app, and the vendor recently closed a root cause analysis ticket saying "Sometimes stuff that works for years just breaks. It's working now, right? So I'm unable to produce a specific root cause."
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blackswordca posted:So a phone call came in... Edmongoons are starting to claw our way out of hell.
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fishmech posted:There's really nothing wrong with having 98 exposed to the internet these days - almost no malware runs on it anymore. That’s actually what I was thinking. Probably safer than XP. As a bonus a lot of them aren’t vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Welcome to pod life my friendo Either way it's a nice step up from printers, so congrats!
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DigitalRaven posted:The only appropriate response is "No you're loving not, sunshine." guppy posted:So you already have evidence that they don't know what they're doing. Do not allow them to do a thing that a. will probably gently caress up your equipment and b. will push the equipment failure down the road so they can't be provably at fault. Plant managers in this company have a fair bit of leeway to make those kind of calls if they want to for things at their own plant. However after getting safety involved they put a hard stop to the whole thing so crisis averted. Most of my onsite dotted line guys are electricians. They aren't that bad usually if you can keep them away from fiber... which is hard. There are some rogue fusion splicers around and I have at least gotten it so if they emergency repair something, we get someone in after during a shutdown to test out and likely reterminate. On average they are content to not bother with my poo poo as long as it works and they don't have to. They have better things to do and don't want to connect to the UCS or some complex switch configuration unless they absolutely must. Nuclearmonkee fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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blackswordca posted:So a phone call came in... Are the apps owned by Fiserv? If so, by "calling the vendor when it breaks," you mean "filing a ticket with a vendor when it breaks, then harping on them for months to loving fix it."
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blackswordca posted:So a phone call came in...
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MF_James posted:
I’m in the midst of an employer-paid virtual course on Avaya IP Office, and their setup is pretty bad. Lots of minor annoyances like lab exercise instructions written for an earlier version of the software. The whole thing is awful mostly because it’s booooring if you are already familiar with the material but I can imagine it being baffling and unhelpful if you weren’t. It’s 5 days of listening to an instructor read PowerPoint slides nearly verbatim and doing labs in a remote desktop. I figured out the first day I could work ahead in the labs so I’ve basically got them all done now. Highlight so far was when a guy from Alaska got super pissed at not being able to connect to the remote desktop and started yelling borderline racist stuff at the Mexican instructor about how the “lovely Mexican hardware didn’t fuckin work” and then backing down when the instructor pointed out everything was actually being hosted in the US and basically proved the problem was on his end.
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Entropic posted:I’m in the midst of an employer-paid virtual course on Avaya IP Office, and their setup is pretty bad. Lots of minor annoyances like lab exercise instructions written for an earlier version of the software. oh lord lol, no one on our's is talking just typing.
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wolrah posted:Kinda makes me wonder why the cryptolocker types haven't seized on this, because it's probably a safe assumption that any ancient machines still in use today contain years and years worth of data and/or software that isn't properly backed up. This is one big part: duz posted:Because then they'd have to write their own crypto library instead of using the one built in to modern Windows (I assume). But also all these malware authors are just too used to using an NT kernel based system with the other associated changes. This will simply not function on 9x. You'd have to rewrite major sections of your code just to try to get at a tiny amount of Win9x systems sitting around that also have real valuable data on it instead of Grandpa Joe's Farm Records which he prints out and puts in his trusty old file cabinet anyway.
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blackswordca posted:So a phone call came in... Congrats buddy.
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Thanatosian posted:Are the apps owned by Fiserv? If so, by "calling the vendor when it breaks," you mean "filing a ticket with a vendor when it breaks, then harping on them for months to loving fix it." Too loving real, this was a major part of my job at a bank. Now that I'm on the vendor side integrating with the Fiserv, FIS, JHA trio, I no longer believe Fiserv is the least competent. though! Banking is actually a pretty decent place to be in technology in my experience.
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MF_James posted:oh lord lol, no one on our's is talking just typing. Most of us are just typing but every morning there’s someone who forgets to mute their mic and is moving furniture around or arguing with their spouse or something.
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nullfunction posted:Too loving real, this was a major part of my job at a bank. Now that I'm on the vendor side integrating with the Fiserv, FIS, JHA trio, I no longer believe Fiserv is the least competent. Though fiserv changes monthly as they buy competitor products, absorb 10% support staff and gut the rest. Then that support staff trains fiserv people. So every new thing they role out has three months - one year where it's total and absolute poo poo, followed by it being ok again.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I've often wondered how long it would take Secret Service to track down someone aiming microwave dishes directly at the oval office (including time to realize that it's not just an AC malfunction), and why nobody has attempted it before. Welcome to "The List."
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Zil posted:Welcome to "The List." I have wondered before: do they actually monitor poo poo like this (forum post where someone says something )? They probably do collect the data, but to analyze it ... it's just too much junk to go through.
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SamDabbers posted:
Think of it less as an "unplanned failure" and more an opportunity to test disaster recovery processes... ... with a live disaster.
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nullfunction posted:Too loving real, this was a major part of my job at a bank. Now that I'm on the vendor side integrating with the Fiserv, FIS, JHA trio, I no longer believe Fiserv is the least competent.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:That’s actually what I was thinking. Probably safer than XP. As a bonus a lot of them aren’t vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre.
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Arquinsiel posted:XP partially arrested the spread of Wannacry because instead of passing it on the machines just bsod'd. Being so poo poo as to just die is now a viable defence mechanism for your network. Buffalo theory. Petition for having a NAS catastrophically fail on you to be "getting your Buffalo wings".
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Volguus posted:I have wondered before: do they actually monitor poo poo like this (forum post where someone says something )? They probably do collect the data, but to analyze it ... it's just too much junk to go through. SA is actively monitored after multiple incidents of GIP guys leaking national secrets here to get internet cred and lf plotting to kill the president. other forums are generally monitored passively watching for keywords.
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RFC2324 posted:SA is actively monitored after multiple incidents of GIP guys leaking national secrets here to get internet cred and lf plotting to kill the president. other forums are generally monitored passively watching for keywords.
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We are a special lot.
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I once went back for seconds at Souplantation.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:We also did Benghazi RIP Vile Rat.
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