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Off to a bad start today. I slept ~3 hours because my runny nose turned into a slight fever. Woke shivering around 3am and grabbed a woolen blanket to throw on top of the duvet. Got up at 6 and didn't feel like going to work at all. A cup of joe made the world a little bit better, and after a trip to the gent's room the day is saved. We upgraded to 3 ply.
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frogbert posted:Here's a question re. cable talk. The spec does call for a minimum of one metre. For patch cables between a patch panel and a switch you can go shorter as these are effectively an extension to a longer cable run, but you would technically be out of spec if you did that between switches. That said I've done it (at home) and never had a problem. gently caress coiling up a metre of cable when your network rack is basically a shoe stand with router, NAS and UPS on the 3 shelves that shoes are supposed to go on.
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Sep 2, 2013 11:50
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You have a rack at home? I've been out-nerded. (not that it took a whole lot to do that)
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Sep 2, 2013 12:19
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Any real world implications? Because when you're too cheap for 10gig-e and are using link aggregation between adjacent switches, 1m cables would be an honest to god clusterfuck
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Sep 2, 2013 14:07
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Crowley posted:You have a rack at home? I've been out-nerded. (not that it took a whole lot to do that) It's really not a rack. it's literally a little wooden stand designed to sit in a corner and take 3 pairs of shoes. Since I own rather more than 3 pairs of shoes, it got repurposed for all my consumer grade comms gear. Now the enormous stack of Cisco's my GF has in the spare room is a different story.
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Sep 2, 2013 14:17
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Lum posted:Now the enormous stack of Cisco's my GF has in the spare room is a different story. I cheat and virtualize all my servers.  ..and keep my shoes/boots/wellingtons in a closet (along with Mrs. Crowley's and the kids')
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Sep 2, 2013 14:22
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I manage a half dozen racks worth of servers and a few hundred workstations and I fully intend on not ever making a cable myself.
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Sep 2, 2013 14:27
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Crowley posted:I cheat and virtualize all my servers. HOLY MOTHER OF GOD YOU KEEP YOUR WIFE AND KIDS IN THE. Oh never mind. Sorry read that wrong. Haven't had coffee yet. Carry on.
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Sep 2, 2013 14:31
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SubjectVerbObject posted:HOLY MOTHER OF GOD YOU KEEP YOUR WIFE AND KIDS IN THE. Oh never mind. Sorry read that wrong. Haven't had coffee yet. Carry on. No no, I was right there with you for a moment...
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Sep 2, 2013 14:34
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A ticket came in. No internet for the entire company. How did she report it? Email. Edit: I should clarify that we're a 3rd party IT provider, not on their LAN.
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Sep 2, 2013 15:17
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SubjectVerbObject posted:HOLY MOTHER OF GOD YOU KEEP YOUR WIFE AND KIDS IN THE. Oh never mind. Sorry read that wrong. Haven't had coffee yet. Carry on. The real question is whether you're upset that he kept them in a closet, or that they're able to access the server room.
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Sep 2, 2013 15:56
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:A ticket came in. No internet for the entire company. How did she report it? Email. What if she put the ticket in from her cell phone
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SlayVus posted:What if she put the ticket in from her cell phone Which would go through the exchange server in the office with no internet connection.
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Sep 2, 2013 16:53
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I love getting an email: EMAIL IS NOT WORKING!!!!!! HEEELLLP!!!! Oh really? Well yes it is working because I got this. The best is when email actually isn't working so you get 300 emails all saying email is down when you finally get it running again.
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SubjectVerbObject posted:HOLY MOTHER OF GOD YOU KEEP YOUR WIFE AND KIDS IN THE. Oh never mind. Sorry read that wrong. Haven't had coffee yet. Carry on. Girlfriend, please. The only one in the closet is me.  pixaal posted:I love getting an email: EMAIL IS NOT WORKING!!!!!! HEEELLLP!!!! Oh really? Well yes it is working because I got this. The best is when email actually isn't working so you get 300 emails all saying email is down when you finally get it running again. Crowley fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Sep 2, 2013 17:36
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Get asked to set something up that is, for various reasons, just not really feasible, and respond to that effect They return to particular director, who says it's "basic IT" and to ask me again Gee, I'm glad someone who doesn't work in IT, and doesn't know how this system works or the implications of his request, thinks it's "basic". Maybe he'd like to give it a go if he thinks he's clever enough.
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Sep 2, 2013 17:55
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Crowley posted:We make any cable over 20m ourselves, but that's mostly because we already have the in-house tools and skills to do it, and we're making our own power, Coax and SLR cables too. Anything less than 20m get's a pre-made cable because they are just plain cheaper.
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Sep 2, 2013 18:33
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captkirk posted:For racks, I prefer hand made when possible to keep things clean. When you need a 4 foot run of cable it's nice to be able to have just a 4 foot run of cable. It's a, most likely irrational, response to the truly horrifying cable jobs I've seen using pre-mades (granted, I've seen even worse with hand made cables, but those were cases of someone just grabbing a cable laying around that had already been made). I've found that the peace of mind in not worrying about you crimping something incorrectly (even after thousands of crimped ends I seriously doubt you'd be as consistent cable after cable as a machine in the cable making factory) is totally worth having a couple inches, or even a foot extra in a run. I definitely agree with making runs that are just the right length, and when we're wiring up racks we plan out the runs before anyone touches a screwdriver, but that just means ordering a bunch of different lengths, and unless you're really bad at planning, you won't have too much extra (and it can usually be used around the office somewhere). Also, it's the one time I don't buy Monoprice - we get Allan-Tel cables because the push tab on the plug is so long that it's really easy to access (even on those 1U servers with a seemingly-recessed network port) and the time (and thumb skin) it saves not having to push down a tiny tab to remove a cable from a port is worth the extra cost.
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I was having my usual sort of dreams last night when next thing you know I was replacing the cartridges in an inkjet. It was going well at first, popping out the empties and snapping in the new ones, then I realized that there were still some empties to replace but I'd used up all the new ones in the box. Then I saw there was a second inkjet next to the first and that I'd been replacing some of the empties in that one as well. Whoops! I was trying to figure out how to get this sorted out when I noticed that the inkjet also had two large "waste water" cartridges with snap on lids, so I was attempting to remove them without spilling the water. gently caress printers.
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Dick Trauma posted:I was having my usual sort of dreams last night when next thing you know I was replacing the cartridges in an inkjet. It was going well at first, popping out the empties and snapping in the new ones, then I realized that there were still some empties to replace but I'd used up all the new ones in the box. Then I saw there was a second inkjet next to the first and that I'd been replacing some of the empties in that one as well. Whoops! I was trying to figure out how to get this sorted out when I noticed that the inkjet also had two large "waste water" cartridges with snap on lids, so I was attempting to remove them without spilling the water. That poo poo's the worst. You spend all night dreaming about a bog standard day at work, then you wake up and actually have to go to work for real. It's like a triple shift.
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frogbert posted:That poo poo's the worst. You spend all night dreaming about a bog standard day at work, then you wake up and actually have to go to work for real. It's like a triple shift. I once dreamed that I was a database. It turns out that being a database is really dull and your day is taken up doing joins and stuff.
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I was working on something until around 2AM last night - Then immediately had dreams about pulling an all nighter.
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Sep 3, 2013 00:26
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GargleBlaster posted:Get asked to set something up that is, for various reasons, just not really feasible, and respond to that effect Very familiar with that at my previous job (1 glorious month gone and counting). Perhaps the most blatant example occurred toward the end of my tenure... a user demanded that her aliases be split into three separate mailboxes. And that existing email that had been sent to those different aliases be sorted retroactively into the newly created mailboxes. I was told by the user to skip my lunch break to do this since she needed it done by 1 PM. The joke was on her, I hadn't had a lunch break in months. That coupled with driving more than 1000 miles most weeks due to a boss that could not understand the concept of space/time make me wonder why I didn't seek greener IT pastures sooner. Hooray for the year of the job!
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Since many of y'all don't wander into the amber forum below this one. I went to reimage a laptop handed to me last week. Standard ole dell laptop, 320gb, running windows, just needed a new clean windows image. Started up clonezilla it got to where it calls partition info off the old drive. 
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enotnert posted:Since many of y'all don't wander into the amber forum below this one. System reserved, windows install, data partition, dell utility, dell restore. That's the best I can do, where the hellndid the other 5 come from?
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The Fool posted:System reserved, windows install, data partition, dell utility, dell restore. Someone who thinks it's still 1994 and it's a good idea to partition your hard drive as much as possible.
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Install Windows posted:Someone who thinks it's still 1994 and it's a good idea to partition your hard drive as much as possible. Actually overheard at work a few years ago: "But, you see, if you keep the partition sizes below 2GB, then it minimizes your cluster sizes..."
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sfwarlock posted:Actually overheard at work a few years ago: "But, you see, if you keep the partition sizes below 2GB, then it minimizes your cluster sizes..." What can you even FIT bellow 2GB? I honestly read that as 2TB at first and was going to say that completely defeats the point of a RAID to partition the gently caress out of it.
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I will confess that last week I was trying to copy a 7 gig Outlook archive to a nice new USB 3.0 16 gig flash drive and kept getting the error that there wasn't enough room. I checked and the drive was empty, and even reformatted it. Then I remembered these things come formatted for FAT32 and the format tool was also defaulting to that.  EDIT: You guys talking about cluster size probably remember wait states and RLL hard drives. Or dealing with IRQs. Sometimes I think people don't realize how hard it used to be just to use the drat PC. I supported an online game that eventually required 618k or so of system RAM and holy poo poo it was a bitch to get that much space without resorting to a boot disk. We were doing things like loading stuff into empty video memory space to try and get those last few k. I hated the developers for those RAM requirements. How about expanded and extended memory? You think it's hard trying to explain hard drive storage vs. RAM, try that one. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Sep 3, 2013 |
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Sep 3, 2013 03:14
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Oh god, ems, xms, and EMM386. that was a pain in the rear end, just to use your 4MB of RAM.
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Cluster size is starting to become A Thing at work for me. Customers buy drives to use for their backups, and a lot of newer drives use 4k clusters. Sadly, almost all of my customers are still using Server 2003/2008. 4k drives are only fully supported by Windows 8 and Server 2012 (for Windows). Something less than 3% of my customers use Win8/2012. The other 97%, if they buy a 4k drive, will often experience random failures and other problems, because their OS isn't compatible with the drive that they bought.
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ConfusedUs posted:Cluster size is starting to become A Thing at work for me. Customers buy drives to use for their backups, and a lot of newer drives use 4k clusters. I thought most of those had some kind of comparability mode built in.
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thebigcow posted:I thought most of those had some kind of comparability mode built in.
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Lord Byron III posted:Very familiar with that at my previous job (1 glorious month gone and counting). Perhaps the most blatant example occurred toward the end of my tenure... a user demanded that her aliases be split into three separate mailboxes. And that existing email that had been sent to those different aliases be sorted retroactively into the newly created mailboxes. I was told by the user to skip my lunch break to do this since she needed it done by 1 PM. The problem I think is when things "sound simple". "Make this cloud based signage thing a screensaver for everyone" seems like a reasonable enough request on the surface. But deploying an Air app to a large number of PCs, having it run in "act a bit like a screensaver" mode at all times, and each one due to technicalities in the software having to download and cache the full presentation (including videos) on an ADSL connection every morning has practicality problems that I'm now having to write a document explaining, with references and calculations, so I can cover my arse. It's not so much having to do that that's a problem, it's that my abilities and professionalism being called into question all the time lately is starting to offend me a bit. I'll probably start hunting from next month though, once my hols are over. Just yesterday I was asked if I can write some procedures for the signage that I created so I can hand over day to day updates to someone else... this and them turning more towards external development for things like the website, and the fact we're physically downsizing shortly, tends to tell me it'd be a good idea to look at other opportunities. It's a tricky balance - ideally I'd like to wait until they just get on and officially inform me that I'm going to be made redundant and take a nice fat payout on the way out, but... if it's going to be several months, it might work out better to jump straight into something else as we're pretty poorly paid here. Leave it too long, and there's the risk of having a period of unemployment (I'd rather fist myself)
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A call came in.. On my on call mobile, at 3:30am and then 4:30am. Some south London wideboy asking "is Bry-ony there innit" I was not happy this morning. I need to remember to put the phone on silent before I go to sleep.
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Dick Trauma posted:EDIT: You guys talking about cluster size probably remember wait states and RLL hard drives. Or dealing with IRQs. Sometimes I think people don't realize how hard it used to be just to use the drat PC. I supported an online game that eventually required 618k or so of system RAM and holy poo poo it was a bitch to get that much space without resorting to a boot disk. We were doing things like loading stuff into empty video memory space to try and get those last few k. I hated the developers for those RAM requirements. I've probably already posted this in the last thread, but this was my ultimate achievement from the final days of my still owning a DOS gaming machine: code:
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Lum posted:Something wonderful... That is a work of art!
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Yeah it's been posted before, but if I saw that in a job application it would go right into the "Definitely interview!" stack.
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I sure do love troubleshooting wireless network bridges with no loving documentation whatsoever
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