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guppy posted:We once took a hacksaw to the metal bracket on an internal wireless card to make it fit the form factor of the case. That was at least three years ago and that machine is still going strong. You couldn't find a USB wireless adapter for it?
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Entropic posted:You couldn't find a USB wireless adapter for it? We could have, but the signal there is poor and we found the USB adapters available at the time unreliable (I had personally used two different ones in my apartment, 30 feet from the router, and they were both poo poo), and the internal ones were less flaky. They've improved since then, and we have another machine on a USB adapter now for similar reasons. I still have an old internal card in my personal machine that I migrated between PCs when I got a new one because of my bad experiences with USB adapters.
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Here's something else you should add to your exclusion list, especially if you're generating thousands of customer visible codes everyday... http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/17/delta-airlines-is-very-sorry-it-generated-a-confirmation-code-that-read-h8gays/
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In any case, sawing a metal bracket down to size is perfectly sane compared to some of the hacks I've seen.
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A call comes in yesterday afternoon, is Oracle Production down? Wellll, not that I'm aware, hey let me just check that. No remote access, no vpn, no citrix, that's odd. I call my AIX admin, and he's driving in to work. He calls me back, "We're melting" - The temp in the server/network room is 140f. It turns out that someone (  ) shut off the breaker to the Liebert 40 ton AC unit that cools the data center. Oops. Got the P750+'s up, and the p570 and most of the 550's. Lost a module on the XIV, but the v7000 is fine. The DS4800 that was our TSM disk pool lost all of it's power supplies. And the blade centers are still wonky with fabric controllers being pissy. But mostly we're up.Good times, good times. The best part - because it was too expensive we have been denied for hte last 3 years a $2000 monitor that would alert us on power and temp anomalies - instead we rely on an alert from the thermostat that goes to Building Maintenance. Building Maintenance acknowledged they got a high temp alert (when the datacenter goes about 76F) but decided to ignore it. At least we get to log this as a DR test 
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Dick Trauma posted:Ladies and Gentlemen: I have arrived Is that for the lounge with free beverages or the hangout that rains down lines of magical white powder? Either way it sounds pretty sweet.
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Dick Trauma posted:Ladies and Gentlemen: I have arrived Might be better than the one I found, I think I heard the rattle of dice through the door. 
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porktree posted:A call comes in yesterday afternoon, is Oracle Production down? Wellll, not that I'm aware, hey let me just check that. No remote access, no vpn, no citrix, that's odd. I call my AIX admin, and he's driving in to work. He calls me back, "We're melting" - The temp in the server/network room is 140f. Had something similar about a month ago. Got a minor temperature alarm on a relatively unimportant switch in a remote site. Call the on-call tech for that area and he heads out there. Once he arrives, he finds that the HVAC was completely dead and the room was at 107F. Luckily it was freezing cold out that day, so he propped the door open and everything was fine. There were dozens of switches and routers in that room that should have alarmed, as well as AC monitoring and building temperature alarms that should have alerted a dozen people. I never did find out what happened after since that's too far above me but it could have been a disaster and I'm willing to bet someone got in some deep poo poo.
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drat you middlemen resellers/MSPs. I know your customer is giving you poo poo for an RMA taking a long time, but emailing me, a support tech in the US, is not going to speed up the customs processing in the Philippines.
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tomapot posted:Might be better than the one I found, I think I heard the rattle of dice through the door. I worked late one night, and on my way out saw a full on gaming group in a conference room after hours. DM screen, viking helmet, cheetos, the works.
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Lum posted:I only have 16 years in IT but I can tell you now that this doesn't work. Even in your case, it worked perfectly. I'm not here to make you read your emails, or the MOTD, or make you be aware of things concerning your applications. I am here to do due diligence to make sure my rear end is covered so that, after you come storming into my office after ignoring all of my emails and warnings, I can say with total confidence, "We did what we could to warn you about this."
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I'm sorry there isn't anything else I can do for you, you were given a year's notice and it was switched off for six months before scrapping, and nobody said anything...
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Agrikk posted:Even in your case, it worked perfectly. Exactly. Ours is not to reason why, it is but ours to do and document the hell out of it so you look like a jackass for not paying attention.
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ISP migration day has been fun. The IP we got was on a bunch of different spam lists so I've been spending the morning getting them removed. There have also been a lot of speed problems with the internet as well, so i contact the ISP and get one of their engineers on the line. He basically told me the person who setup the routes for the connection initially made a ton of mistakes so he has to rebuild them all from scratch.
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Spending my first day off of the holidays at a high school configurating iPads. Merry Christmas kids, enjoy your newly locked down portable devices when you return. Also, screw you 3 kids that enabled activation lock
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couldcareless posted:Spending my first day off of the holidays at a high school configurating iPads. Merry Christmas kids, enjoy your newly locked down portable devices when you return. Also, screw you 3 kids that enabled activation lock Good luck!
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blackswordca posted:ISP migration day has been fun. At least someone acknowledged something was wrong. Be prepared to never talk to the same guy again and have the ISP deny all knowledge that conversation ever existed.
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That whole fiasco was really stupid. It was literally the students uninstalling the mdm profile then loading back to defaults. Our apple rep was actually overseeing it and when we last met him he assured us they have a solution that should be coming out shortly. That and these kids are not as resourceful
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couldcareless posted:That and these kids are not as resourceful You forget this is high school. The process will go something like this: 79% of kids: "drat, I can't get to facebook on this. Let's find the nerd and beat him until he unlocks these so we can get on facebook." 20% of kids: "How much an ounce? Will you take an iPad in trade?" 1% of kids: "Man we're gonna get beaten until we unlock the football team's iPads..."
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Renegret posted:At least someone acknowledged something was wrong. He actually just called me back. Hes going to rebuild the profiles now and reapply them tomorrow morning before anyone comes into the office. He gave me his direct cell to call him up when i test to let him know whats happening. My mind is blown.
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What's even better: Is that there was no way to lock down iPads to prevent system updates aside from doing it network-level. Upgrading from 6.whatever to iOS 7 would destroy your MDM profile and also any restrictions associated with it. It's a mess of loving epic proportions.
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blackswordca posted:He actually just called me back. Hes going to rebuild the profiles now and reapply them tomorrow morning before anyone comes into the office. He gave me his direct cell to call him up when i test to let him know whats happening. Wonder if he's hiring. Can't hurt to ask!
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guppy posted:Wonder if he's hiring. Can't hurt to ask! Its Bell, any work would be out east in Ontario or Quebec unfortunately :/
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Nerdrock posted:What's even better: Is that there was no way to lock down iPads to prevent system updates aside from doing it network-level. Upgrading from 6.whatever to iOS 7 would destroy your MDM profile and also any restrictions associated with it. It's a mess of loving epic proportions. It's almost like those things are consumer toys and shouldn't be used for anything else. Unfortunately I'm all too aware that they will continue to be sledgehammered through that round hole. blackswordca posted:Its Bell, any work would be out east in Ontario or Quebec unfortunately :/ Are those places worse than whatever ring of hell you currently reside?
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guppy posted:Wonder if he's hiring. Can't hurt to ask! blackswordca posted:He gave me his direct cell to call him Maybe steer clear of that minefield...
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evol262 posted:These servers got decommissioned two months ago.  or pay for a new solution. 
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GreenNight posted:Yeah man it was pretty great. Less great was coming home to Wisconsin and the cold and snow. Was a great trip though. Wisconsin Goon! Did you like our ice storm this weekend? fake edit:content A ticket came in, 'please ordr 15 of the android tabs for production' Our MDM is still proof on concept and the department requesting them couldn't even possibly function using tablets in any sort of way. I called to find out what they were for. 'oh did i write adroid tabs, i meant monitors' *sigh*
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I tend to shut down the VM and then if no one bitches in 6 months, move the vdmk files to an external USB drive. I have a bunch of old vm's sitting on a shelf. Ice storm? Yeah I drove home through it from Ohare. Took 4 hours (1am to 5am) with having to stop every 45 mins to scrape ice off my windshield.
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blackswordca posted:Its Bell, any work would be out east in Ontario or Quebec unfortunately :/ And your present location has been so good to you?
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guppy posted:And your present location has been so good to you? so I should move 3000km away for an ISP call center job? Edit: don't get me wrong, if the right opportunity came up out east I would jump on it. A phone drone for Bell isn't that opportunity. blackswordca fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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blackswordca posted:so I should move 3000km away for an ISP call center job? FWIW I work Tier 2 in an ISP, and anybody who actually makes outgoing calls is never part of the call center. That being said, if you're willing putting up with it, I think an ISP is one of the best kind of call centers to be in because of the opportunity for growth. Four of the Five supervisors in my department, as well as my manager, got their start in the call center and worked their way up. The guy who trained me started in the call center too, then was quite literally handed a job in networking where he gets to play with routers that are more valuable than my net worth. Compensation package isn't all that bad either. That being said, 90% of this thread is all gibberish to me because nobody does IT work in the traditional sense, when I hear "node" I think of a big weatherproofed box hanging up outside on the fiber lines. That might have more to do *big company* though, since we have entire teams dedicated to what would normally be a minute task. Also I know Canadian ISPs are their own special breed of evil. (Don't hang me this thread is a really good read even if I don't belong  )
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Started a new job today, I think I'm in over my head. I'm managing about 50 users with 2 workstations each, plus a laptop, their phones and a 140 server render farm/computational cluster. Active directory is on server 2k3 and LDAP is managed on a sun box from 1999. Backups are done on tape and everyone has write access to everything. Plus side is my boss is pretty nice. God help us if anyone opens crypto locker though.
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tomapot posted:Might be better than the one I found, I think I heard the rattle of dice through the door. I giggled much, much too hard at this. I have three more days until I'm out of here and on to Google. The schadenfreude at events happening in this context is giving me something of a Grinch smile.
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Volmarias posted:I giggled much, much too hard at this. Redhat, Google, MS, Amazon, VMware SH/SC :respekt:
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A ticket came in, from my wife. Turns out my 12 year old daughter was browsing some "inappropriate" content on our iPad. I'm probably looking at parental control software at this point since trying to talk a 12 year old into self restraint and good decision making is like talking to a wall.
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tomapot posted:trying to talk a 12 year old into self restraint and good decision making is like talking to a wall. PIN lock the iPad. Edit: Or enable parental controls and block Safari? http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4213 Biggz fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Dec 24, 2013 |
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Jeoh posted:If someone wants to look at porn, they're gonna look at porn. Usually yes, but my cousin has the kids + iPad combination and apparently the parental controls are pretty good. The kids don't have access to a real computer on their own either - the family has one but they don't know the password, are supervised when on it, and Windows 7 also has passable parental controls. This might sound harsh, but when people say "parents should be responsible and stop their kids doing x on the internet", this is how you achieve that.
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