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rolleyes posted: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. ell, you stop them when they are at home on your devices. When they're with friends with less tech-savvy parents however, they'll watch whatever, with the downside that you then won't know what and can't talk to them about it unless they volunteer the information. I have a galaxy tab 3 kids for my daughter, but kids mode is to prevent her from going on google play and buying all the things because she's 19 months and rather indiscriminate in her clicking. When she's older my plan is unrestricted access, but me checking the router logs and talking to her about what she's been accessing. The best laid plans and all that. We shall see.
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Renegret posted: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. I've enabled tons of hardware monitoring via Orion for lots of hardware at remote locations, and things like this people don't really care about. It's gotten to the level of "Hey, we have hardware alerts on an entire VMWare cluster!"  Or: "Hey, the battery for your array accelerator just failed" with a response of "it'll get fixed later" in sites where people are constantly rebooting critical hardware/have stability issues.
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What's everybody's temperature alarm set at? We got handed 18-23 degrees to the racks with 16 under the floor and it's almost impossible across racks with heavy hitting equipment in.
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porktree posted: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. We grab the temp sensor data from IPMI on our HP servers and graph it in Munin for seeing when facilities screws something up. You could also probably set up a raspberry pi with a 1-wire sensor for way under $2000.
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No $colleague, you can't send someone who's never used any form of Unix before to do an installation on a client's AIX environment. This is why I have nightmares. vvv to clarify, I'm the guy who'll be cleaning up if this goes wrong, it's another guy that they were planning to send out. One Swell Foop fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Dec 24, 2013 |
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Dec 24, 2013 19:18
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One Swell Foop posted:No $colleague, you can't send someone who's never used any form of Unix before to do an installation on a client's AIX environment. This is why I have nightmares. Several jobs ago, I admitted that I'd used Linux and was comfortable at the command line. This apparently made me, a guy about 3 years out of college, uniquely suited to port the code base to Unix. After trashing the company AIX machine trying to recover a failed drive, I learned my lesson: never volunteer information.
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kensei posted:Working on Christmas Eve Same here. It's been quiet, ticket wise. I've been using this free time to try to tidy up this messy office. I've got a LONG way to go.
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Dec 24, 2013 20:07
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kensei posted:Working on Christmas Eve 3 more hours...
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Trastion posted:3 more hours... 2 and a half. Then I get to do the same thing tommorow! 
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Nothing like working christmas eve because of a last minute change that was completed yesterday and supposed to ship last friday has less than 24 hours to test before it goes out to be shipped to the customer. I and a few other developers all got to put on our QA hats. We found some pretty terrible bugs, but they've all been signed off on by upper management already. Looks like the change hasn't really broken anything so far, but time will tell. On the plus side we found an item that passed manufacturing's tests but was defective, so that's getting fixed. For all the crap we're running into this version is going to be a major step up from the previous one. Also I've been personally guaranteed a promotion and hefty raise from my manager in the upcoming review period so it isn't all bad.
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Renegret posted:2 and a half. Then I get to do the same thing tommorow! There's no one even here, i don't know why they make anyone work.
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Dec 24, 2013 20:21
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On-call untill monday. No calls yet. 
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Prosthetic_Mind posted:Also I've been personally guaranteed a promotion and hefty raise from my manager in the upcoming review period so it isn't all bad. In writing?
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Dec 24, 2013 20:33
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Renegret posted:At least someone acknowledged something was wrong. The other day I got a CenturyLink engineer to admit that they whacked out an LSP in their metro ethernet. To be fair, this did take like a month and a half and probably a dozen different people.
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Dec 24, 2013 20:35
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This is apparently standard in all new server images at my company:
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Urit posted:This is apparently standard in all new server images at my company: "new"
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Urit posted:This is apparently standard in all new server images at my company: Must be one hell of an emergency.
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"New" as in "we're building these servers today".
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Volmarias posted:In writing? Unfortunately not, but a personal friend higher up has confirmed that he's been repeatedly talking me up in meetings, a couple of which involved the president, and I think he's afraid that I'm going to quit, which almost certainly will happen if the promotion doesn't happen. I pushed him to get it sooner and we'll see what happens.
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Prosthetic_Mind posted:Unfortunately not, but a personal friend higher up has confirmed that he's been repeatedly talking me up in meetings, a couple of which involved the president, and I think he's afraid that I'm going to quit, which almost certainly will happen if the promotion doesn't happen. Until your paycheck is bigger nothing is worth poo poo. I got promised a 100% raise for a while then watched as my boss cut my hours until I issued him the ultimatum of either giving me back 40 hours a week or firing me (he chose firing me.) Working at an MSP now, it's pretty hilarious how completely incompetent my old boss was when it came to running the actual business and how completely harebrained and absurd his plan for expansion was. Dude was trying to partner up with people to sell in Asia before we even had a service to sell to people in the same town as us.
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Urit posted:This is apparently standard in all new server images at my company: I know people who do this, but they make a 2GB file. Especially handy for DCs and exchange servers. I just dread the day someone accidentally double clicks the two gig text file. I try to convince them to use a different extension than .txt
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The dumbshit who built our Exchange server threw everything on C. When that filled up and crashed, then the database was moved to D and logs on E. Specifically because of that issue of filling up, now we have a space.001 which is 20 gigs on each drive. It makes total sense especially considering each partition is 100 gigs, and we're using maybe 20% of each partition.
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Jelmylicious posted:I know people who do this, but they make a 2GB file. Especially handy for DCs and exchange servers. I just dread the day someone accidentally double clicks the two gig text file. I try to convince them to use a different extension than .txt "Emergency Space Creator - O.sht"
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How should I spend my day off before Christmas? By chipping away at the $50k stack of Shoretel equipment I purchased for our HQ move. P.S. That is not the whole stack.
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Dick Trauma posted:How should I spend my day off before Christmas? Every single one of those phones comes with a handy little microfiber cloth. Make sure you snag a few.
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Loose Ifer posted:There's no one even here, i don't know why they make anyone work.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Every single one of those phones comes with a handy little microfiber cloth. Make sure you snag a few. I've been ordering the wrong phones (7941s)
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Inspector_666 posted:Until your paycheck is bigger nothing is worth poo poo. I should probably mention that my bonus this year was over 10% of my salary. I'm about average pay for entry level, but I get about a month of vacation and a good insurance plan. I work on some awesome technology. I don't mind working late because I don't have a life and right now I'm trying to make a name for myself. We're also pretty flexible, if I stay 2 hours late one day and there's nothing super urgent I can leave 2 hours early later in the week. I'm not exactly in a pod, but I think I'm pretty well off apart from when the upper eschelons decide to hold up our release to add in extra functionality at the last moment. For two months.
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Advantage of working for the Catholic Church? I get off from the 20th through the 2nd. Any work done between those 2 days is straight comp time.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Every single one of those phones comes with a handy little microfiber cloth. Make sure you snag a few. After today I can assure you that the 200 and 500 series do not.
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In a bizarre twist of holidays and weekends this year, in glorious socialist paradise taking 5 vacation days get you off from 21st up to and including the 6th. I, however, am a terrible person and ordered new domains for myself and transfer of two of my other (to get me off GoDaddy) from the registrar I use at work today, and apparently incurred human intervention from them. I feel a bit bad now 
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luminalflux posted:I, however, am a terrible person and ordered new domains for myself and transfer of two of my other (to get me off GoDaddy) from the registrar I use at work today, and apparently incurred human intervention from them. I feel a bit bad now Could be worse. Network Solutions required no human intervention for altering the contact info on our primary domain. We only heard about it when they requested an authorization code to transfer the domain. We were unable to determine how we missed the first email.
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I'm not quite IT, but I did spend this morning alone in the office turning these into half of a render farm. Do I get an honorary membership? Handiklap fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Dec 25, 2013 |
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Handiklap posted:I'm not quite IT, but I did spend this morning alone in the office turning these into half of a render farm. Do I get an honorary membership? Our union would like to have a word with you, artist.
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Nerdrock posted:Our union would like to have a word with you, artist. The worst kind, too: a TD.
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It always surprises me when I see Xeons in boxes and not trays.
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mllaneza posted:I've been ordering the wrong phones (7941s) Dick Trauma posted:After today I can assure you that the 200 and 500 series do not. I guess it's just the IP655's that come with the cloth. Sorry for getting your hopes up.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I guess it's just the IP655's that come with the cloth. Sorry for getting your hopes up. I have two of those that I haven't unboxed yet. 
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Dick Trauma posted:I have two of those that I haven't unboxed yet. It will be just like Christmas.
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