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psydude posted:Doesn't BlackBoard offer a service similar to O365? Move to that. Not my call to make, this organisation moves at a glacial pace and if they decide on doing something they have to do it differently from other universities otherwise they're not doing it at all.
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Gyshall posted:also one of my new clients I was working at yesterday has a 2003 domain controller with 256 gigs of ram and a pentium 3 oh god. And also a windows 2000 workstation running their most important LOB program too If this is a typo or not, either way it's amazing.
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Doctor Bombadil posted:The biggest problem with this particular client is that there is a guy who thinks he is "good with computers" who will go about shouting "What's wrong with this ancient machine it has whole 192MB of RAM!" I've found a good strategy for these people: Point out how that machine compares to your cell phone. A Galaxy S4 has a 1.9GHz quad core and 2GB of RAM. Even most technically ignorant C-level types understand it's an old phone, but it beats the on-paper specs of these old machines we all want to get rid of. Obviously we know GHz isn't everything so on and so forth, but the kind of person we're talking about here can usually be beaten with sufficiently big numbers. Obviously this works best if you carry an Android, Apple's specs are generally a lot worse on paper (again mostly irrelevant in the real world, but less useful for this strategy).
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Literally just spent two hours on the phone with someone trying to setup an iPhone but couldn't because he could not access his Apple ID/iCloud. And he couldn't access that account because he couldn't type the password correctly. We ended up reseting the account twice, the second time with me remoted into his computer and going through the id.apple.com website so I could see exactly what he was doing. I have never worked with someone so inept at using a keyboard. And of course he wouldn't admit to typing anything wrong, it *must* have been something on Apple's end.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:If this is a typo or not, either way it's amazing. Well, to be fair the Enterprise and DataCenter editions of 2003 R2 could address up to 1TB for the x64 version. Still about $20K for the memory alone if they got it right when the Pentium Dual Core was released (I'm assuming they wouldn't have the "M" processor in a server).
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jmu posted:Literally just spent two hours on the phone with someone trying to setup an iPhone but couldn't because he could not access his Apple ID/iCloud. And he couldn't access that account because he couldn't type the password correctly. We ended up reseting the account twice, the second time with me remoted into his computer and going through the id.apple.com website so I could see exactly what he was doing. I have never worked with someone so inept at using a keyboard. And of course he wouldn't admit to typing anything wrong, it *must* have been something on Apple's end. He probably gets paid more than you as well
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ratbert90 posted:
I know this was a couple pages back, but congrats! I just moved to Holland around first of the year. Beer is good.
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But the company looks amazing and the phone interview became awesome after about 30 minutes. The interview was supposed to be for a half hour and I ended up shooting the poo poo with the CEO for over two hours. 
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Found this thread Monday blasted though it all week trying to cheer myself up...didnt help much. Network team fell apart 3 people left in the span of 2 days and the network is a disaster area so now all their poo poo is dumped on me and I don't want to touch it as it will probably go tits up. Unix guy left his tickets land on me with no signs of rec's opening up any time soon. Sr. Directors keep bugging me about Lab Op's. Project manager is a useless twit and couldn't manage itself out of a hole. I'm doing 9 peoples jobs and my management chain is asking why I am falling behind...I think I need to start working on my resume.
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Bogon posted:Found this thread Monday blasted though it all week trying to cheer myself up...didnt help much. Network team fell apart 3 people left in the span of 2 days and the network is a disaster area so now all their poo poo is dumped on me and I don't want to touch it as it will probably go tits up. Unix guy left his tickets land on me with no signs of rec's opening up any time soon. Sr. Directors keep bugging me about Lab Op's. Project manager is a useless twit and couldn't manage itself out of a hole. I'm doing 9 peoples jobs and my management chain is asking why I am falling behind...I think I need to start working on my resume. Sounds like that place is going downhill fast, definitely update the resume and start firing it out, you'll get paid more and (hopefully) end up in a better situation, at least if it's not a lot better you'll get paid more for being in a poo poo situation
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An Angry Bug posted:I'M NOT EVEN WORTH A loving CUBICLE TO THESE loving ASSHOLES. Then brush off your resume and get the hell out of there.
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Jan 22, 2015 19:45
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An Angry Bug posted:I'M NOT EVEN WORTH A loving CUBICLE TO THESE loving ASSHOLES. Yeah, it's about time to set the building on fire.
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Jan 22, 2015 19:49
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Wizard of the Deep posted:If this is a typo or not, either way it's amazing. typo! I did have a junior admin bring down a terminal server VM today after he set it to use 1TB of RAM on the VM, which was hilarious.
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Jan 22, 2015 19:53
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Collateral Damage posted:You need to ask your boss what is up with them treating you like that. HalloKitty posted:Yeah, it's about time to set the building on fire. Interview tomorrow. It's scheduled in the middle of the work day, but I'm not even full time so gently caress it, not showing up to work.
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Jan 22, 2015 20:12
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Gyshall posted:typo! I did have a junior admin bring down a terminal server VM today after he set it to use 1TB of RAM on the VM, which was hilarious. look man all those ssh sessions add up
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My coworker is being such a hardon. We're trying to buy a bunch of Gigamon stuff, which would let us halve the number of sensors we need at each site. He's freaking out because of the cost of the Gigamon setup, however when you factor in that we'll need half as many sensors, it adds up to about $40k in savings.
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Jan 22, 2015 21:07
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Collateral Damage posted:You need to ask your boss what is up with them treating you like that. Yeah why the gently caress wouldn't you ask why this is happening? I'd be downright belligerent at this point.
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Jan 22, 2015 21:17
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Wizard of the Deep posted:If this is a typo or not, either way it's amazing. Happens all the time. Guy / gal in IT management gets burned once and heftily overspecs everything afterwards. S/he then proceeds to deny accountability for not understanding the performance bottlenecks of a system by pointing to the hideously unbalanced system's receipt and saying, "Hey, don't look at me, it's the best money can buy."
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Potato Salad posted:Happens all the time. Guy / gal in IT management gets burned once and heftily overspecs everything afterwards. S/he then proceeds to deny accountability for not understanding the performance bottlenecks of a system by pointing to the hideously unbalanced system's receipt and saying, "Hey, don't look at me, it's the best money can buy." The pentium 3 didn't have 256 gigs of ram tho, it was a typo on my part. 256MB of ram.
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Rhymenoserous posted:Yeah why the gently caress wouldn't you ask why this is happening? I'd be downright belligerent at this point. Because I'm a timid doormat with student loans, low self-esteem, and parents I'm terrified of disappointing. Plus my boss is the son of the company's owner, who's a backstabbing snake, and I doubt my job would survive if I complained too directly.
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Gyshall posted:The pentium 3 didn't have 256 gigs of ram tho, it was a typo on my part. 256MB of ram. *makes panicky hooting noises* An Angry Bug posted:Because I'm a timid doormat with student loans, low self-esteem, and parents I'm terrified of disappointing. Plus my boss is the son of the company's owner, who's a backstabbing snake, and I doubt my job would survive if I complained too directly. Grow a spine or you will always be in these situations. IT is always the bottom rung of any organizations unless you set expectations properly. At my current job I still hear horror stories about how the CEO used to scream in the face of the guy I replaced. When I was eventually called to the mat, I made it quite clear how I was willing to be addressed in a professional environment. This then lead into the standard "Garbage in/garbage out" discussion where a CEO woke up from his long slumber and realized that you can't budget for consumer grade and expect enterprise performance and no I couldn't loving magic it so it could. Been smooth(ish) sailing since. Now if I could just get him to understand that outside of a few niche products IT equipment depreciates insanely fast and that some of this equipment we have laying around is worse less than it's scrap value. Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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psydude posted:look man all those ssh sessions add up Sadly, I've seen this turn into a problem when one of our developers at an old job started sharing his screen configuration, which happened to have a 10M line scrollback buffer. Imagine 150 developers buffering millions of lines of output for no reason running a build server into the ground with SSH sessions
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An Angry Bug posted:Interview tomorrow. It's scheduled in the middle of the work day, but I'm not even full time so gently caress it, not showing up to work. Well the first clue of them not valuing you as an employee was when they hired you part time. None of this should be a shock. I understand taking part time Employment if there is nothing else or you need your schedule to be flexible. Baring that you should have been looking for another job since day one.
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An Angry Bug posted:Because I'm a timid doormat with student loans, low self-esteem, and parents I'm terrified of disappointing. Plus my boss is the son of the company's owner, who's a backstabbing snake, and I doubt my job would survive if I complained too directly. Take up boxing/muay thai/BJJ or something and work on your self confidence. And find a new job
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The job grew out of the internship required for my degree. And yeah, currently job hunting.
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An Angry Bug posted:Because I'm a timid doormat with student loans, low self-esteem, and parents I'm terrified of disappointing. Plus my boss is the son of the company's owner, who's a backstabbing snake, and I doubt my job would survive if I complained too directly. Bug, I think your parents would be more disappointed that they raised a doormat than if you got fired for asking for some respect.
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There was a complete change-over in IT staff here right before I started, and we're slowly finding out that previous iterations of the department ignored Windows licensing pretty much entirely and deployed machines (servers and workstations) indiscriminately. Fortunately the new head of IT wants to get everything fixed, and our CTO was understanding when we came to him with how much it's going to cost to true up everything. I just don't understand what the hell people here previously were doing.
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beepsandboops posted:There was a complete change-over in IT staff here right before I started, and we're slowly finding out that previous iterations of the department ignored Windows licensing pretty much entirely and deployed machines (servers and workstations) indiscriminately. "Build a new server" "We need licenses" "No budget, build the server or you are fired."
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Rhymenoserous posted:"Build a new server" "Build a new server" "We need licenses" "Well, we've made commitments to the customer. We're just going to have to find a way. We need to make do with less. We need team players. We don't have the budget for new licenses at this point, but we can't break out commitment to the customer. I trust that you will find a way to meet your obligations."
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beepsandboops posted:There was a complete change-over in IT staff here right before I started, and we're slowly finding out that previous iterations of the department ignored Windows licensing pretty much entirely and deployed machines (servers and workstations) indiscriminately. And then I just remembered I checked over a couple older machines yesterday and today, and found they have some weird combination of Office 2010 trial version with only some of the bits of software licensed... (on stupid touch screen consumer grade AiO machines to boot)
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:They would never be that overt. These situations call for platitudes. It's more... That's when you make sure you have email chain to back up that you warned them and make that sweet, sweet BSA Whilsteblower reward money. (I don't know if that's a thing. Sounds like it would be)
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:They would never be that overt. These situations call for platitudes. It's more... This, but instead of Windows OS look at Database/App Server software licenses. It is hysterical how quickly that poo poo snowballs.
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quote:Bug, I think your parents would be more disappointed that they raised a doormat than if you got fired for asking for some respect. He's actively looking for a new job, which makes him less of a doormat that a number of people who've posted in here, you guys can stop dumping all over him.
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Nephzinho posted:This, but instead of Windows OS look at Database/App Server software licenses. It is hysterical how quickly that poo poo snowballs. I hear Enterprise SQL and Enterprise Exchange can be pretty pricey. I'd be a shame if that got installed on the servers before you left.
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The recruiter for that last position disappeared. Told me I'd hear from him Monday to get a series of interviews with the deciders all scheduled for the same day. Emailed him Tuesday. Nothing. Emailed him yesterday asking if I'm still being considered for the position. Nothing. He doesn't owe me a job, or even an explanation but I think it's a punk move to ignore a simple request like that.
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beepsandboops posted:There was a complete change-over in IT staff here right before I started, and we're slowly finding out that previous iterations of the department ignored Windows licensing pretty much entirely and deployed machines (servers and workstations) indiscriminately. Stealing. The word you're looking for is stealing.
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MF_James posted:Sounds like that place is going downhill fast, definitely update the resume and start firing it out, you'll get paid more and (hopefully) end up in a better situation, at least if it's not a lot better you'll get paid more for being in a poo poo situation Yea its been going down hill since 4 years ago....when I started now I am the "manager" of the department I keep lying to myself it will get better. Stupid poo poo that pissed me off today: Customer sends an email 40gigE network needed end of next week 40gigE switch has been next day'd to you need up asap. Mind you "my" network is 300 racks running %95 rack density core is a Cisco 5k running 4 year old code with "leaf"10gigE switch running as dist switches and my favorite stack able switch line. Yet I'm some how supposed to think up and poo poo out a solution for 40GigE(MTP) connection -> 10gigE(LC) connector by next week....gently caress it taking tomorrow off.
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An Angry Bug posted:I'M NOT EVEN WORTH A loving CUBICLE TO THESE loving ASSHOLES. Yeah, and no notice when you do quit. Things that piss me off: putting new logic boards in two MacBook Pros and both of them booted up fine… with no video. I processed the first one as a DOA board and sent it back. Then I had our senior Mac tech look at the second one because two DOA parts, of different models, in one day is unlikely. Things that make me love my co-workers: he spotted a bent pin on the display cable and got it back in position, system saved ! Things that piss me off: FedEx had already picked up the first one to go back to Apple. Things that make me feel a little smug: I got the replacement board and… video ! Turns out the first board I installed was DOA after all.
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psydude posted:My coworker is being such a hardon. We're trying to buy a bunch of Gigamon stuff, which would let us halve the number of sensors we need at each site. He's freaking out because of the cost of the Gigamon setup, however when you factor in that we'll need half as many sensors, it adds up to about $40k in savings. We recently got a bunch of Gigamon stuff in to replace a bunch of NTAPs, and so far the Gigamon stuff is impressively orange. No idea how well it will work, but goddamn that poo poo is orange.
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