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At my previous job in a datacenter, one of the old engineers expressly forbid the storing of cardboard boxes, saying they were a fire hazard. If you had something in there temporarily you needed to keep the box for, you had to make arrangements with one of our other facilities. Whether that was actually true or not, or just his way of making sure we didn't have boxes cluttering up our poo poo, I don't know.
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NZAmoeba posted:At my previous job in a datacenter, one of the old engineers expressly forbid the storing of cardboard boxes, saying they were a fire hazard. If you had something in there temporarily you needed to keep the box for, you had to make arrangements with one of our other facilities.
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Apr 18, 2015 08:28
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Ok, now I feel a whole lot better about us still having parts for a black 2 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook in the parts room.
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NZAmoeba posted:At my previous job in a datacenter, one of the old engineers expressly forbid the storing of cardboard boxes, saying they were a fire hazard. If you had something in there temporarily you needed to keep the box for, you had to make arrangements with one of our other facilities. Plastic totes at least look nicer and are cheap enough.
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Apr 18, 2015 14:42
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I swear to god, half these people would still be using Lotus 123 if they could get away with it. It's 2015 and the local school system is run entirely on an AS/400 running Lotus Notes. Used to run on an HP 3000 Micro XE. How do I know? It's my night stand.
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Apr 18, 2015 15:06
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We just got a new $60,000 AS400 system in last week.
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NZAmoeba posted:At my previous job in a datacenter, one of the old engineers expressly forbid the storing of cardboard boxes, saying they were a fire hazard. If you had something in there temporarily you needed to keep the box for, you had to make arrangements with one of our other facilities. Cardboard can certainly be a fire hazard; you don't really want to have a big pile of easily-ignited cardboard in your otherwise fire-resistant data center.
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Apr 18, 2015 16:48
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If I remember correctly, the vast majority of fires in Navy Comma rooms (Basically the Datacenter + radios) come from gigantic piles of documents waiting to be shredded.
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Apr 18, 2015 17:03
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What was the story behind  again?
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KaneTW posted:What was the story behind  Seems like if there's any chance what so ever that water could be in the same room as equipment you should top load the rack and have the least critical poo poo towards the bottom.
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Apr 18, 2015 19:30
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KaneTW posted:What was the story behind One of those hurricanes a few years ago flooded a basement down south IIRC.
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Apr 18, 2015 23:10
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Clearly it's trying to escape.
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Apr 18, 2015 23:39
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I'd say it's bailing out
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Apr 18, 2015 23:47
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I'm not IT but at my work our guy looked really pissed as he was trying to do updates on our computers. Went over and asked what was up, apparently he did a volume purchase of Windows 7 for several of our computers, and now 6 machines got flagged as non-genuine copies of Windows. He tried to call the guy who sold us the keys and the phone is no longer in service. Oops.
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bucksmash posted:I'm not IT but at my work our guy looked really pissed as he was trying to do updates on our computers. Went over and asked what was up, apparently he did a volume purchase of Windows 7 for several of our computers, and now 6 machines got flagged as non-genuine copies of Windows. He tried to call the guy who sold us the keys and the phone is no longer in service. Why is he purchasing license keys from non-reputable vendors?
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Apr 19, 2015 01:08
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FireSight posted:Why is he purchasing license keys from non-reputable vendors? "Look! They're $10 cheaper each than they are from <legit vendor>! We'll save so much money!"
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(nothing was ever here)
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Speaking of antique equipment, I was in a hotel in Tennessee and flipping through the TV. I found two very strange channels! One of them was some kind of cable headend equipment diagnostic screen showing a microwave acquisition failure and rebooting every 120 seconds trying to acquire its channel again. Channel guide said it was a local station. The second channel was ostensibly government access but was really... the boot screen of a Commodore Plus/4. I didn't know anyone bought a Plus/4, let alone was using them in their television studio in TYOOL 2014.
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Apr 19, 2015 05:59
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This feels like the start of a creepypasta
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Apr 19, 2015 16:14
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Commodore cove? I think this one is pretty commonplace for places that deal with inventory systems, but I got a ticket a few days ago. "<SITENAME> POS: PO001 PO002 PO003." That was it, just a list of purchase order numbers and the site they were for. What few words there were, were in all-caps.
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NZAmoeba posted:At my previous job in a datacenter, one of the old engineers expressly forbid the storing of cardboard boxes, saying they were a fire hazard. If you had something in there temporarily you needed to keep the box for, you had to make arrangements with one of our other facilities.
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NZAmoeba posted:At my previous job in a datacenter, one of the old engineers expressly forbid the storing of cardboard boxes, saying they were a fire hazard. If you had something in there temporarily you needed to keep the box for, you had to make arrangements with one of our other facilities.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Speaking of antique equipment, I was in a hotel in Tennessee and flipping through the TV. I found two very strange channels! One of them was some kind of cable headend equipment diagnostic screen showing a microwave acquisition failure and rebooting every 120 seconds trying to acquire its channel again. Channel guide said it was a local station. The second channel was ostensibly government access but was really... the boot screen of a Commodore Plus/4. I didn't know anyone bought a Plus/4, let alone was using them in their television studio in TYOOL 2014. You know those stupid scrolling guide channels that nobody knows why they exist? (The answer is old people, by the way.) When I first started working here, one of those channels went out and was totally black, so I called the head end technician to take a look. "Oh poo poo, one second, let me take a look." The screen flickered for a moment, and the Windows XP boot screen came up on the TV. Then you saw him launch a program off the desktop, type in a username/password, and maximize the program once it launched. Guy calls back "Nah, it looks fine to me, no trouble found." The music on those channels is also from a run of the mill cable box that's plugged into the feed somewhere down the line, and tuned to one of the music channels. It's a hilariously simple set up and I was really expecting so much more from an ISP. That was a very educational day. Sometimes, if the moons align on those channels, you can see a bubble notification from the desktop wrestling for focus to tell us that there are updates pending to be installed. Renegret fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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I never understand why people lie about there being a problem. Leaving aside that you're obviously looking at the channel and you're going to see the machine boot, poo poo happens, you found an issue, you reported it, he fixed it, working as intended. It's not like you're his boss and going to kick his rear end for not catching the problem.
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Occasionally, we get stuck with troubleshooting our "Safari" video delivery system, and one day after school we were testing a few classroom's ability to get feeds. We set it on that 'preview' channel for good measure. Apparently it was there to show what's on channels, and run a loop of promo videos, the most common one for a show called "Schitt's Creek". I was quite glad no after-school program was active that day, as the volume of the feeds is often very loud and floods the halls with sound.
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guppy posted:I never understand why people lie about there being a problem. Leaving aside that you're obviously looking at the channel and you're going to see the machine boot, poo poo happens, you found an issue, you reported it, he fixed it, working as intended. It's not like you're his boss and going to kick his rear end for not catching the problem. By the book, he was supposed to put up one of those "technical difficulty" slates up before he started working on it, but getting that slate up would've taken more time than just fixing it. As far as lying about the problem, in this particular instance it was a meta joke because everyone knows there's a huge problem with people trying to hide outages around here. It comes down to how budgets are handled and the ungodly amount of paperwork and meetings that accompany every single outage. The solution, being a fortune 500 company, was to make it so that claiming that the issue walked without intervention was to add more meetings and paperwork than you would have had if you just admitted that you fixed the problem.
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Renegret posted:You know those stupid scrolling guide channels that nobody knows why they exist? (The answer is old people, by the way.) I remember being scared as a babby when one of those channels crashed and showed a blinking red Amiga error message with frozen MIDI music instead. Not as creepy as when a hurricane hit and one of the network affiliates was replaced with a snowy red and gray Chyron saying their transmitter was damaged.
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My dad was just in town for a visit, and one of the TV channels in his hotel was on a Fedora 10 console-mode login prompt for the entire week. Probably still is. I assume it was the local "welcome to the hotel" channel that no one really cares about. The weird part was the username field had just a single "l" typed in it. Evidently someone saw it was down so they went to the machine, hit the l key, then was like "Well I've done all I can do." and walked off.
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Knormal posted:The weird part was the username field had just a single "l" typed in it. Evidently someone saw it was down so they went to the machine, hit the l key, then was like "Well I've done all I can do." and walked off. It was probably the cursor indicating where text would appear.
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Kazinsal posted:"Look! They're $10 cheaper each than they are from <legit vendor>! We'll save so much money!" Or some manager at the company says "Hey Kazinsal, buy some stuff from my friend's kid he just started his own company he's real smart!"
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I do tech support for a hotel and you would be amazed at how many people want channel listings. We don't have the scrolling TV guide, just a menu option that shows the channels. A while back it broke and the listings were incorrect anyways. Instead of paying to fix it, we decided to just laminate a small sheet of paper with the channels and put one in every room. It works pretty well!
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I actually do really like having a listing in hotels so that I don't have to scroll through every manually and hope I don't catch an ad break to know what's what.
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Apr 20, 2015 20:54
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Channels not showing their logo during ads is annoying as gently caress.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I do tech support for a hotel and you would be amazed at how many people want channel listings. I would be amazed if it were less than "very nearly everybody."
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Knormal posted:My dad was just in town for a visit, and one of the TV channels in his hotel was on a Fedora 10 console-mode login prompt for the entire week. Probably still is. I assume it was the local "welcome to the hotel" channel that no one really cares about. I was in Orlando for a week in the mid 90s and the channel of video clip commercials for various attractions was a "turn me over" still frame from a Laserdisc.
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Che Delilas posted:I would be amazed if it were less than "very nearly everybody." Yeah, same. Like sure Tvguide.com exists but it's a pain in the rear end to navigate.
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FireSight posted:Why is he purchasing license keys from non-reputable vendors? P. much what Kazinsal said, its cheaper  Although, my roommates bought their computer completely legit from a big box store and just yesterday they got the "not genuine" message on their Win7 machine. Making me wonder if MS hosed something up on the last update?
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A cold call came in: "Hi, this is a sales call. Do you have time to talk or would you rather have me call later?" "I'd rather have you not call at all. Bye."At least he was honest about his intentions.
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A lot of tickets came in. I got to help with my first server migration ever this weekend alongside a team of people with much more experience than me. At least we managed to not gently caress our file system and most of the applications worked without a hitch. We went from a single server rack to a cloud setup. Production is running and we're still doing business so at least we're not in full poo poo-in-the-fan mode. There's just one problem: everything is slow. Remote connections range from instantly to 3 retries, and then RemoteApp sees fit to give us all 3 instances of the software at the same time. Reports take twice as long to complete. I begin to understand why IT people drink, it's going to be a long week if this continues. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Where I work more or less everything is done in coldfusion. Today they told me there is another coldfusion server, which now makes three--there was the original one that was used forever, a "new" one that all the newer stuff went on and now a new new one. The second server was accessed at intranet/. The new one is now at intranet2/. Nothing was working today, and usually when that happens the coldfusion services need restarted. Today it wasn't helping. Turns out it was the SQL server. Seems like they should have been able to track that one down, or maybe even know there was a potential problem before it really took everything down. I don't think there's any monitoring of anything. Except for password changes. God help you if you don't have a ticket when you change someone's password.
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