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tehloki posted:Warning: homestuck shibboleth Wow, talk about accidentally authenticating myself into the worst club ever.
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Agrikk posted:ServerA ---(SQL data)--->ServerB Please do the needful. I'm cleaning up a 2003 SQL cluster that should've been retired two years ago. No one ever removed the storage or tore down all the retired cluster groups and resources when they were done. Nope, that would be too hard. Why should I care though, I'm bailing on this gig in a couple weeks. 
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Agrikk posted:QA should reflect Prod   After two failed attempts to deploy a change to a live system because of differences between environments the change was put on hold while the infrastructure guys got the environments in sync. Took long enough that the replacement to the system is about to be rolled out so there's no point even deploying the change anymore.
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GoatShaver posted:So I work for a pro sports team, and I get a call asking me to check out some ipads that are set up for public use, as a kiosk, to only access a newspaper. Between losing my mind because people keep finding/using pins to jam into the home button, which will also them to close the kiosk software (what?) apparently an iOS update broke restrictions which led to someone adding a personal email account to the device. In public. At a sports venue. Then, queue outrage as very quickly this person realized that, oh hey, it won't let me remove my account!
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So there's this PC that is being put to sleep every night. Recently it started going to sleep around 7 o'clock for no apparent reason. Event Viewer says "Sleep Reason: Application API" which is the same as for any other sleep event. It doesn't happen always, but frequently. Is there any way to find out what is causing it? Because usually the machine backs up till 3, then is started at 6 and left for RDP over the day and not used until 8. Curiously, today it went to sleep immediately after being brought out of it.
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our mssql, mysql and oracle teams are now combined. Historically, i've mostly done oracle and mssql. Whenever i need a private interconnect for oracle (for heartbeat, cluster stuff) I have always connected it via a switch. It's just better and safer and makes sense. Apparently the mssql guys just connect servers directly together, sans switch. Which is fine, really. But today, I just had a call for a 3 node oracle cluster and the mssql guy is telling me "ABSOLUTELY NO SWITCH! WE HAVE TO CONNECT THEM DIRECTLY TOGETHER." I'll just sit back and let the fail become evident, but jesus.
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Today it's the "divine out from the ether what I wanted" day, between the tasks such as: - Enable the google analytics for this webpage from SEO (how the hell can I know their account number, you guys are in charge of this, and it's not the first time you're giving me this) - Change the content on the page to something else (and what that something else can be?) And best of all: - Statistics module needs to be customizable (as in - it needs to do everything) canis minor fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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Nov 21, 2013 15:56
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nitrogen posted:our mssql, mysql and oracle teams are now combined. Nice, I would want to be in the room when they try to wire that up.
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jre posted:Nice, I would want to be in the room when they try to wire that up. They want to wire it in a mesh. They just asked me to order 4 port nics. I've told them to eat poo poo and we're using a switch like we always do, and they are adamant that it wont work. I think it's because they have not historically been smart enough to make sure the vlans are made in such a way that jumbo frames work.
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Extra bit of fun today.. It looks like the Sr/Account lead removed the WSUS role from the deployment server but didn't remove the GPO telling all of the other servers to get their updates only from the WSUS.
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blackswordca posted:Extra bit of fun today.. Is this the same guy who ran away to cuba?
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Khisanth Magus posted:Is this the same guy who ran away to cuba? In fact, it is
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blackswordca posted:In fact, it is I wonder how long before that place bursts into flames once you finally get another job.
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Khisanth Magus posted:I wonder how long before that place bursts into flames once you finally get another job. You say that like it wouldn't be practically immediate.
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Kyrosiris posted:You say that like it wouldn't be practically immediate. I have this Michael Bay-like mental image of blacksword walking cooly out of the front door, putting on a set of shades, and in the background windows are exploding out from the floors above. His former manager runs by, on fire. Blacksword walks on, stoic, unflinching at the chaos unfolding behind him.
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KweezNArt posted:I have this Michael Bay-like mental image of blacksword walking cooly out of the front door, putting on a set of shades, and in the background windows are exploding out from the floors above. His former manager runs by, on fire. Blacksword walks on, stoic, unflinching at the chaos unfolding behind him. Ill be honest, I feel sorry for the guy that will replace me when I leave. I know who it is as he is supposed to be my backup so I can actually take vacation time, but management at the main office wont let him come over here so I can train him.
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nitrogen posted:They want to wire it in a mesh. They just asked me to order 4 port nics. GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAH. Not using a switch IS the hard way 
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Agrikk posted:
Ahaha Some people really don't seem to understand What Things Do
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blackswordca posted:Ill be honest, I feel sorry for the guy that will replace me when I leave. I know who it is as he is supposed to be my backup so I can actually take vacation time, but management at the main office wont let him come over here so I can train him. When you leave, we need to buy him an account. Good lord how on earth does your walking shitstorm of a "Senior" even loving breathe on his own?
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Paladine_PSoT posted:When you leave, we need to buy him an account. I'm not sure if it's a general idiot thing or don't care because they know I'll fix it eventually.
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KweezNArt posted:I have this Michael Bay-like mental image of blacksword walking cooly out of the front door, putting on a set of shades, and in the background windows are exploding out from the floors above. His former manager runs by, on fire. Blacksword walks on, stoic, unflinching at the chaos unfolding behind him.  Or maybe Martin Lawrence in a fat suit, superimposed in front of an explosion.
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coyo7e posted:I now want to change blackswordca's avatar to The text underneath: They thought they could do it without him. THEY WERE WRONG. Or some equally good or better tag line. I'm not as good at this as I used to be.
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Need somebody who has a good memory of the past iteration of this thread... There was discussion of using this special software to fully moron-proof a computer... It was called "Black Ice" or "Permafrost" something along those lines... Basically a person can boot a computer, do whatever the hell they want, then, after a restart, the machine is zeroe'd back to an unmolested unmodifiable image that I as the IT admin get to create. I need to implement something like this for a workstation which, no matter what my boss or I do, after 2-3 weeks will render itself completely unable to rejoin our domain. I won't go into those details because they make me cry inside. (Even after installing a completely different machine the problems persist. Other machines in the same room which are used for identical tasks do not have this issue.)
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Deep Freeze
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Caged posted:Deep Freeze That's the ticket. Thank you, sir. cripes $660
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Didn't MS have one for XP called Windows Steady State? I think they discontinued it unfortunately when Vista or 7 came out as the management options built in to the OS supposedly made it redundant.
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drukqs posted:I need to implement something like this for a workstation which, no matter what my boss or I do, after 2-3 weeks will render itself completely unable to rejoin our domain. I won't go into those details because they make me cry inside. (Even after installing a completely different machine the problems persist. Other machines in the same room which are used for identical tasks do not have this issue.) When you're emotionally read for this I'd love to hear the details on this problem.
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Today I was the stupid one and about 1200 tickets went out... in 15 minutes. To our clients. Calling their customers dumb. I was testing a CRM with an account of a previously fired employee. Luckily almost all of it was caught by spam filters and most were sent to coworkers so we only got about 2 calls about it. I felt the need to tell people how dumb I am. Today was not my finest day.
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There's steadier state, which is free. I've never used it myself, so I can't say how easy or effective it is.
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drukqs posted:That's the ticket. Thank you, sir. I think the $660 price is for a 10-pack. If you're associated with a library or edu you should be able to get a hefty discount if you contact their sales team. You may also be able to get a single license if you contact them. edit: The Standard version is around $45 for a single copy
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drukqs posted:Need somebody who has a good memory of the past iteration of this thread... You could probably do this now with Powershell 4's Desired State Configuration on Win 8.1.
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Nondescript Van posted:Today I was the stupid one and about 1200 tickets went out... in 15 minutes. To our clients. Calling their customers dumb. I was testing a CRM with an account of a previously fired employee. At least it wasn't as bad as the day some poor bastard at Redmond was having: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778042 Despite our platform using Azure for some things, we managed to not be affected by it. Hooray for apps caching DNS results!
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Varkk posted:Didn't MS have one for XP called Windows Steady State? Guest Mode? But sadly, I think even though it was in there and working, it got pulled. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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Caged posted:See if you can get him to buy the Barco ClickShare. It's an amazing piece of kit, and all resellers will happily ship you a demo unit. To drag this back up, I've had an email from one of our account guys and the price of the original unit has dropped, and there's also a smaller unit that only does one display available now for under $2000. http://www.barco.com/en/Products-So...ting-rooms.aspx
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A bunch of tickets came in. The Sr tech moved the personal folders for all of this clients employees ...in the middle of the work day... without making any adjustments to GPO mapping. Edit: And here is the conversation I just had with him.  Why did you move the user folders in the middle of the day? I saw the hard drive was getting full so I needed to free up space Its a VM, why didn't you just extend the drive the server needs to be shut down for that. There is still 35 GB free on the server, why not schedule an outage on the weekend to extend the drive?Still waiting for a reply to my question Edit 2: Turns out he was moving the data to the NAS I posted about earlier this week that was giving hardware faults in the windows event log... the one I told him was giving hardware faults blackswordca fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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blackswordca posted:A bunch of tickets came in. Seriously, how have these incompetant morons even managed to get jobs, let alone keep them? And Sr level jobs at that?
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It sounds like you work where I used to. My boss decided to implement quotas in the middle of the day and decided to give each quota amount a different file share so if a user needed an upgraded quota all their file paths had to be updated as well. Then he moved everyone's stuff around into these new shares. The best part about this was that he couldn't work out how to target GPOs to do folder redirection so ended up shoving a variable into the folder redirection GPO and then using this in a logon script to set the paths based on what the home folder was set to. Then the GPO refreshed and broke everything. It was a glorious sight to behold. When I left I think the fix was to have group policy not refreshing. He is now the only person running IT.
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Caged posted:To drag this back up, I've had an email from one of our account guys and the price of the original unit has dropped, and there's also a smaller unit that only does one display available now for under $2000. Thank you. I showed the demo to the CEO who immediately wanted it. That makes my job easier.
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Caged posted:When I left I think the fix was to have group policy not refreshing. He is now the only person running IT. Ahaha what?! My god. This profession, I swear.
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