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Rhymenoserous
May 23, 2008

NullPtr4Lunch posted:

I can neither confirm nor deny that there is a breaker panel that will start tripping all over the place if there's not a fan pointed at it in the summer...

At least my kit is now on all new code-compliant wiring with a separate feed out to the generator now. Used to be a bunch of office outlets were patched in to the computer room circuits. I once had the UPSes go on battery power because one phase (???) of a 208V circuit blew out in the executive office.


Yeah my brain does the same thing sometimes, unlike most of the folks working here, I can just go in the server room to cool down. Funny I've got to wear a shirt, slacks, and tie but all the ladies get away with pretty much anything that isn't jeans and a t-shirt.

I've been trying for years to understand why half of the shirts women wear to work here are not considered T-shirts. Is it because they cover less skin and are more expensive?

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Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.

NZAmoeba posted:

A vaguely recall one of the Scandinavian goons claiming they kayak'd to work across a river every day
Some of my wife's relatives live on an island in Maine, and once in awhile they do drag their car across Casco Bay on a huge raft (though they prefer the ferry when they can catch it).

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

spog posted:

Take a very long look at your colleagues before suggesting that.

No, you should take a very long look at your colleagues WHILE you are doing that. Never break eye contact either.

Lum
Aug 13, 2003

Rhymenoserous posted:

I've been trying for years to understand why half of the shirts women wear to work here are not considered T-shirts. Is it because they cover less skin and are more expensive?

depends on what it is you're referring to? cami tops? on their own or layered with something else?

I think it's really that t-shirts are generally considered to look scruffy, regardless of condition.

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?

Ynglaur posted:

Tell them that you can escalate their ticket, but only if they indicate that it's affecting production. :colbert:

I don't think we can fix this. Shout out to the green plastic bins that could withstand the inferno that a van could not.

Inspector_666
Oct 7, 2003

benny with the good hair

dogstile posted:

I don't think we can fix this. Shout out to the green plastic bins that could withstand the inferno that a van could not.



So, this is the site where the broadband wasn't working? How did they know that the internet was down, but not the building?

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


They probably only checked to see if they could connect to whatever was on the end of the link, and when they couldn't just assumed that it must be the connection that was at fault.

Handiklap
Aug 14, 2004

Mmmm no.

Inspector_666 posted:

So, this is the site where the broadband wasn't working? How did they know that the internet was down, but not the building?

I suppose because they couldn't get anyone to answer the phone. :smith:

dogstile
May 1, 2012

fucking clocks
how do they work?

Caged posted:

They probably only checked to see if they could connect to whatever was on the end of the link, and when they couldn't just assumed that it must be the connection that was at fault.

Yup, that seems to be the case. They must have tried to use their VPN to get in. I'm just glad they didn't have any animals stored there overnight, that would have been awful :smith:

Esser-Z
Jun 3, 2012

Seriously people, stop putting perfectly fine guns on the service center rack. It is clearly marked. :argh:

Helushune
Oct 5, 2011

Things pissing me off today: Barracuda web filters! Two of them, to be exact. Unit A has decided to stop doing any kind of filtering, stop responding to pings, and whatever web server they run is refusing to start up. I hooked up a monitor and keyboard to it and it thinks that everything is peachy. What do you mean something's wrong? Surely you must be mistaken. It's going straight in the river.

Unit B thinks that it's working but it's not doing any kind of filtering what so ever and, as far as I can tell, doesn't think there's any traffic going through it. None of the logs show anything working or not working, the cache isn't being hit at all, and I can get to websites that I've specifically blacklisted for both authenticated and unauthenticated users. It will catch a random request here and there but that seems to happen within the first five minutes of turning it on and then it stops and acts like a passthrough. It also keeps incorrectly categorizing what it does catch. For example, it thinks that outlook.office365.com is a Shopping website. Since I work for a school, we need to be CIPA compliant and our web filter allowing everything isn't good.

nitrogen
May 21, 2004

Oh, what's a 217°C difference between friends?
Not my whiteboard, but i'm totally stealing it and adopting it as my own:



I smile because I'm a member of your team.
I laugh because you can't do anything about it.

Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006


Just wear the fucking mask, Bob

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Second line needs to be written in feces or blood, or at least ketchup

Esser-Z
Jun 3, 2012

Somebody loving checked out a handheld printer that had been tagged with a ticket number and put on the DO NOT USE THESE ARE BROKEN shelf for stuff being sent to corporate for repairs. :psyduck:

And then, of course, came to me and wondered why it didn't work. :negative:

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Esser-Z posted:

...stuff being sent to corporate for repairs...

This doesn't make sense. Broken things don't get repaired, they get put into storage and then 10 years later you're told you can't throw them away because "hey, those were expensive in 1995!"

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug
Why is it when you get picked up by one company all the places you were applying to when searching deem it "the perfect time" to try and contact you and try to bring you in?

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Why is it when you get picked up by one company all the places you were applying to when searching deem it "the perfect time" to try and contact you and try to bring you in?

Same thing happens with dating too. That's just life messing with you.

Daylen Drazzi
Mar 10, 2007

Why do I root for Notre Dame? Because I like pain, and disappointment, and anguish. Notre Dame Football has destroyed more dreams than the Irish Potato Famine, and that is the kind of suffering I can get behind.

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Why is it when you get picked up by one company all the places you were applying to when searching deem it "the perfect time" to try and contact you and try to bring you in?

I'm just sitting here trying to get motivated to send out some more resumes and applications. It really sucks because I hate having to type the same poo poo over and over and over and over. If only there was some way for a company to have an easy-to-reference document of an applicant's name, address, education, certifications, work experience and responsibilities...

It would be nice if someone developed a universal database that would allow me to click on "Apply for Job" and then input my profile link and have everything at hand, but no - every loving company has to have their own special teacup that requires me to input the same poo poo that's on my resume (which they want as well), but then I have to go back and validate all the information that their lovely parsing application is incapable of actually uploading correctly.

I don't understand the mentality of companies posting job openings, but instead of using the convenient applicant information that the job board has already collected, instead require to go to their website and re-enter that poo poo. Is this some sort of endurance test to see if I stroke out in agitation before I finish? If so, it seems to be working. I actually quit applying for a position that I was actually a pretty good fit for because it would take me 45 minutes just to input all my information, even though the first thing I did was upload my resume.

I hate looking for a job.

Ynglaur
Oct 9, 2013

The Malta Conference, anyone?
LastPass has a form filler which works quite well.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


That poo poo was why I found Indeed so useful when I was hunting a few months back. Shove your details into the Indeed profile, one-click applications. None of that covering letter bullshit that nobody wants to read anyway.

Daylen Drazzi
Mar 10, 2007

Why do I root for Notre Dame? Because I like pain, and disappointment, and anguish. Notre Dame Football has destroyed more dreams than the Irish Potato Famine, and that is the kind of suffering I can get behind.

Caged posted:

That poo poo was why I found Indeed so useful when I was hunting a few months back. Shove your details into the Indeed profile, one-click applications. None of that covering letter bullshit that nobody wants to read anyway.

It was a job posted on Indeed that I was bitching about. I hit apply, and it took me to their website to fill everything out. This was the last thing I felt like doing, especially after paying $3,296.20 a couple hours ago for a remanufactured transmission for my truck (9 years old with only 66,000 miles on it - I'm sending an email to Ford about their lovely transmission history with the 2005 F-150's). I'm feeling very unmotivated today, and I might go to bed early just so this lovely day ends before anything else can go wrong.

stubblyhead
Sep 13, 2007

That is treason, Johnny!

Fun Shoe

Daylen Drazzi posted:

I'm feeling very unmotivated today, and I might go to bed early just so this lovely day ends before anything else can go wrong.

Don't worry, bad things can keep happening while you're asleep.

for real though, hope you get things sorted out soon.

Esser-Z
Jun 3, 2012

Sweevo posted:

This doesn't make sense. Broken things don't get repaired, they get put into storage and then 10 years later you're told you can't throw them away because "hey, those were expensive in 1995!"

To be fair, stuff sits on the Send Away shelf for a long time before going anywhere.

Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

Why is it when you get picked up by one company all the places you were applying to when searching deem it "the perfect time" to try and contact you and try to bring you in?
Did you update your LinkedIn profile?

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

If you have a problem Yo, I'll solve it

Misogynist posted:

Did you update your LinkedIn profile?

IIRC he recently made his first LinkedIn account.

UFOTacoMan
Sep 22, 2005

Thanks easter bunny!
bok bok!
Pissing me off: Trying to find a computer on the network infected with Zeus trojan botnet without access to the ASA firewall logs or admin access to switches. There's contractor who manages these things at this site and he is pretty unresponsive most of the time (another issue).

Any ideas?
I could setup a hub in between the firewall and the switch and sniff packets that way but I'd have to break internet access.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

UFOTofuTacoCat posted:

Pissing me off: Trying to find a computer on the network infected with Zeus trojan botnet without access to the ASA firewall logs or admin access to switches. There's contractor who manages these things at this site and he is pretty unresponsive most of the time (another issue).

Any ideas?
I could setup a hub in between the firewall and the switch and sniff packets that way but I'd have to break internet access.

Are they running port security between the switch and firewall? Why not just place another switch between the two and configure mirroring?

UFOTacoMan
Sep 22, 2005

Thanks easter bunny!
bok bok!
I was able to find the offender by looking in the DNS debugging log for queries like: aelnxgieyqcznvmrwgjbtslvsay.info
I just did a find for "info" and then took a look at the domain names on all the hits.

americanzero4128
Jul 20, 2009
Grimey Drawer
poo poo that's pissing me off - my boss had our electrician run cables to mount access points instead of having them sit in cabinets. No problem, except I found out today...when there was a meeting in the room and nobody could use the conference room phone. After a bit of troubleshooting, I was told by my boss that the electrician mounted the access point and must have swapped the cables. Whoops! Good thing these aren't color coded for the different VLANs or anything, that would make it too easy. Swapped it back properly, phone finally works, and everyone complained that they got disconnected from their internet session.

Oh and he changed the password to the switches on each floor and didn't think to tell me because....

americanzero4128 fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Apr 8, 2014

Moey
Oct 22, 2010

I LIKE TO MOVE IT

americanzero4128 posted:

Oh and he changed the password to the switches on each floor and didn't think to tell me because....

Your first problem is the electrician having access to your switches....

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug

Paladine_PSoT posted:

IIRC he recently made his first LinkedIn account.

I made it but have yet to put anything on it.

My friend hersey wants me to get a twitter says that's super important for the VM market, dunno think it's dumb.

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin

Dilbert As gently caress posted:

My friend hersey wants me to get a twitter says that's super important for the VM market, dunno think it's dumb.

Good news, you're both right. It's super important and it's dumb as hell. Register that account!

Dilbert As FUCK
Sep 8, 2007

by Cowcaster
Pillbug

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Good news, you're both right. It's super important and it's dumb as hell. Register that account!

YAY!

Crowley
Mar 13, 2003

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

Good news, you're both right. It's super important and it's dumb as hell. Register that account!

Someone tell me why a Twitter account could be important for anything.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Crowley posted:

Someone tell me why a Twitter account could be important for anything.

To try and tell any many people as possible how important you think you are!

MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go

Crowley posted:

Someone tell me why a Twitter account could be important for anything.
GPUpdate.net ‏@GPUpdate 40m
Williams: Race win would be magic #F1

Without twitter, would I have known that a racing team wants to win a race? I doubt it.

But yeah no, Twitter is horrible. I don't see it as being important in any way, someone correct me, by all means.

That said it did just inform me that the Ultimate Warrior just died, oh my god.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

GPUpdate.net ‏@GPUpdate 40m
Williams: Race win would be magic #F1

Without twitter, would I have known that a racing team wants to win a race? I doubt it.

But yeah no, Twitter is horrible. I don't see it as being important in any way, someone correct me, by all means.

That said it did just inform me that the Ultimate Warrior just died, oh my god.
Maybe next time you'll think twice before mocking twitter.

Paladine_PSoT
Jan 2, 2010

If you have a problem Yo, I'll solve it

Crowley posted:

Someone tell me why a Twitter account could be important for anything.

I have a twitter that I have used just once to correct an author who posted a picture of Washington instead of Oregon.

I subscribe to various technology companies/people and see what they're tweeting about as a way of staying on top of recent developments.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

GPUpdate.net ‏@GPUpdate 40m
Williams: Race win would be magic #F1

Without twitter, would I have known that a racing team wants to win a race? I doubt it.

But yeah no, Twitter is horrible. I don't see it as being important in any way, someone correct me, by all means.

That said it did just inform me that the Ultimate Warrior just died, oh my god.

The best use I've seen is the OPM announcing the closures of federal offices in DC during snow days.

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Crowley
Mar 13, 2003
It was actually a serious question, but I can summarize the answer from your replies perfectly well. :v:

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