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flosofl posted:Does the WinPE set it's own MAC or is it using the the NIC's MAC? I only ask, because if you can get it working by changing the port, I wonder if you're experiencing an issue with port security. The other workstations may have started working after a specific aging time was met. Yeah, that makes sense. But MDT/WinPE uses the NICs MAC so I don't know if that's it. I'm considering myself done with the issue; I'm going to deploy it in the office it's supposed to go once it finishes encrypting and will hope it gets an IP there.  If not, it's getting a NIC card.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Bad DVD drive could explain the behavior beforehand. Is it possible to make a bootable drive using OS X Tiger from a Windows machine? Based on some quick googling I came across a program called TransMac: http://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm From the looks of this Super User thread (http://superuser.com/questions/383235/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-from-a-dmg-file-on-windows) you can do it using that program. Assuming the program lets you create a dmg from the install DVD of Tiger that you have or if you can track down a DMG of the latest version of OS X. It looks like it is able to but ymmv Also this: http://pureinfotech.com/2014/12/05/make-bootable-usb-mac-os-x-windows/ Or get a cheap external DVD drive and try with that
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Why hello there. I should invent a machine that flips faxes right-side-up. It sounds like there's a market.
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Zemyla posted:I should invent a machine that flips faxes right-side-up. It sounds like there's a market. Yeah, but when you get it patented make sure you fax it the right way.
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Zemyla posted:I should invent a machine that flips faxes right-side-up. It sounds like there's a market. Doctor's offices would be ALL OVER that poo poo.
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pr0digal posted:Based on some quick googling I came across a program called TransMac: http://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm Thanks big time for the help!
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Sirotan posted:With the amount of almost daily bullshit that I have to put up with with our Ricoh techs, I'd welcome having someone on my staff be responsible for printers. I'd know where they are going to be and when, and if they were dicks to our staff we could fire their rear end instead of doing nothing because Ricoh won't give me contact information for their regional service managers, and we're locked into a contact. E: not sure how many MFD's you have, but we replaced 11.
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Sham I Am posted:we were in a similar situation, with completely lovely service and around 18 months left on our contract with Ricoh. We decided to shop around and found a local company that deals with Sharp; they have a plan, or at least did, where Sharp would buy out your old contract if you signed a new one with them. Ricoh took over one of our print shops that's near the hospital. I'm curious to see how that will play out for them.
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larchesdanrew posted:My wife was recently embroiled in a battle for overtime pay at her job. Man, I work at a Nestle Stouffer's plant in a city of about 60K, in Arkansas. I make close enough to 14/hr, with pretty decent benefits. That is pretty much entry level. Your wife would make more money just driving around picking up cans than she is doing killing her self with overtime.
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A possible  came in... ... to a job that would be a roughly 90-minute one-way commute. They really like me at this one place but I'd still be doing something like 20% helpdesk work, 80% sysadmin. I really, really hate the idea of crawling under desks after train -> train -> subway but I really, really like the idea of helping to architect this company as they separate gracefully from their UK parent company and relevant privacy laws. I also really really like the idea of getting a roughly 20% increase with the move that puts me over six figures, with the ability to wiggle a little more since the health care is pricey and they don't do pre-tax transit a la Transitcheck, so I can be all "well, I have higher costs and no pretax transit, so I need to ask for more money" I'm really 50/50 on it, especially since a non-customer-facing position at an MSP next to Penn Station wants me in for a 2nd round. Here's hoping they don't make the offer today so I can draw things out. I'm honestly not sure. At least the 50/50 job is for a quantitative research firm so the users are tech savvy, and we don't have poo poo so heavily locked down and dollar-producing that a password reset is NEED HELP IMMEDIATELY IMPACTING PRODUCTION WE ARE NOT MAKING MONEY!!!!1!!!!1 and it comes with 15 PTO and 5 sick days. Plus it's Brits so I can talk tea with them.
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MJP posted:A possible I'd keep looking. A lot of that pay raise is going to be eaten up by transportation and time cost commuting to the new place unless you planned on moving nearby soon. Plus a lot of those positions that are part help desk/sysadmin end up being you doing mostly help desk poo poo and then working on the sys admin stuff on the side when time allows. Unless there are several full time help desk people already there and you are only meant to be a back up or escalation point for them.
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c0ldfuse posted:Sorry to jump into this thread with an unrelated subject, but I'm looking for a hard drive out of an IBM PC 5150 / Intel 8085. Long story short, we have an old injection molding machine which had the HDD die yesterday and can't seem to put my hands on one in googling. As an update to this--they got it booting off a floppy. Our best IT guy bought out Best Buy's last sets of 5" floppy discs 5-6 years ago--think he has 50 "just in case"  . Really smart move on his part.
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Old technology to the rescue. But seriously, get that poo poo updated - I shouldn't have to say that you are running on borrowed time now.
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MJP posted:A possible They'd have to throw in WFH time, 4/10 weeks, or completely cover all commute costs (2 of the 3) for me to even consider that one.
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Why yes I am IT, But no longer the desk, Why not send them an email? Yes that would be best. You "pinged" them you say, And had no reply? Who else will fix it? No one else but I. So tell me just now The issue you had? And let me assure you, It can't be that bad. You pressed on this icon? Click Click Click Click But no paper comes out Not even a lick? Like all good IT I start from the start, And check that the printer Is set as default. Next I look to the tray, And click on the spool Alas it is empty I do feel the fool Everything here It looks like its right So I walk to the printer "Could you turn on that light?" I pull up the top No toner depleted, I look in the drawer There is paper to feed it. Issues we've had In the past with this type So lets cut to the chase And avoid all the hype Crack open the panel The ram is well seated Not sure what to do I may be defeated! What is this then That catches my eye? Something is amiss And also awry A card with no lights Not a blink to be seen I will check that out next, What else can be gleaned? I follow the cable, Straight to the patch But before I get far I find a small catch For the cable you see, Between printer and jack Has somehow been cut Straight through and in half! "Well now" I say "I have found whats amiss Does anyone know What happened to this?" No answers are had Four people stand silent But they see from my look I am about to get violent "It's not us to blame" one engineer squeaks "It must have been IT When you fixed it last week!"
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Sham I Am posted:Why yes I am IT, Goldmine this post mods. EDIT: 
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I'd keep looking. A lot of that pay raise is going to be eaten up by transportation and time cost commuting to the new place unless you planned on moving nearby soon. Plus a lot of those positions that are part help desk/sysadmin end up being you doing mostly help desk poo poo and then working on the sys admin stuff on the side when time allows. Unless there are several full time help desk people already there and you are only meant to be a back up or escalation point for them. Actually, they had me at a rate that would cover the transit cost. Time-wise, it's definitely longer than my roughly 30-40 minute driving commute, but I'd be on mass transit. I like train commutes - time to read, time to catch up on TV and such. Cost-wise, it does suck - $193 for NJ Transit, $60 for parking, $112 for a monthly Metrocard. That factors into $4380. The offer they made still has me at 25% net gain over my current salary even after the transit costs. The recruiter said he'd be willing to use that as leverage in salary negotiations if they make an offer. I hear you. I'm in the same boat at my current place, only they fired the helpdesk guy and I'm the solo person other than my manager. However, we're 70ish employees in two offices across two time zones, and a 24-7-365 trading floor-style environment. These guys are 14 employees, one NYC office, data center in the UK. The way the network is set up, there is no internet connection to the company network - fully isolated due to those UK privacy laws, until we build out a new domain with a DMZ or some other compliant solution between US and UK. Virtual desktops on thin clients for internal data, laptops for external, not sure how they go about getting data from A to B. Ursine Asylum posted:They'd have to throw in WFH time, 4/10 weeks, or completely cover all commute costs (2 of the 3) for me to even consider that one. As such, remote work is not an option for anyone, but it also means no on-call or after-hours. 9-5:30 are the official hours, and that's it. They'd also love it if I could be on an earlier shift, which works great for the commute - less bullshit and crowded getting out. I am also the 2nd sysadmin guy in the company. I'd be sharing the load with the other guy. The home office has a parent company that handles networking and acts as a reference point for architecture. But it's also train -> train -> subway. Local subway. Bleh. For reference, my last job was basically 1 hour from my door to my desk, via train -> train. I quote the 90-minute commute as 90 minutes from door to desk, for what it's worth.
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spankmeister posted:Meanwhile, at larchesdanrew's: At the airport there was a computer so full of dust in one of the maintenance shops that when I turned it on, a puff of dust came shooting out the back like an old lovely car. Another time I was blowing out my case on the balcony of my old high rise and I heard someone's voice from another unit say they thought someone's apartment was on fire. Vacuum your loving work space, guys.
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The Muffinlord posted:At the airport there was a computer so full of dust in one of the maintenance shops that when I turned it on, a puff of dust came shooting out the back like an old lovely car. also the dust in that gif is coal dust so it's also an explosion hazard. 
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larchesdanrew posted:*The Clydesdale to my Shetland* Dude, you need to find a way out of your mortgage, even if it means paying a hefty penalty fee, and move the screaming gently caress right out of wherever it is you live and get both you and your wife far, far away from your jobs. Like, god drat. I went without a job for a year about 3 years ago. The first job I landed after that was at a bowling alley. It wasn't fun, it was poo poo work, and I've got a million stories about it, but it was money, I worked alone, and only had to deal with special snowflake league bowlers like twice a week. I'm not saying do what I did, I'm just saying please do the needful for your wife and your sake and get the gently caress out now before you both have aneurisms and die on the toilet one day. Sham I Am posted:IT poetry porn 
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Hi thread I might be the only poster in this thread who doesn't get tickets coming in. My place don't even KNOW what a ticket is. I'm the first, I'm Adam, with no Eve slut tempting me, sadly. With a lovely server room with The Blob in ethernet form awaiting me to thrust an arm up it. But yeah I want to put a helpdesk or ticket system in, cause I have a budget! Recommendations? It really is a blank slate, go nuts, what's your DREAM ticket system?! Oh btw under $400 for 100~ users. Yeah I'm not talking full blown Remedy here (and yeah this amount of users is sweet) Some requirements. - Logs via email (bogstandard surely) - Multiple user accounts - I'd like it to asset manage ideally via AD - Not monstrously deep as basically I'm the entire IT department with no manager and there isn't exactly a need for loads of modules, disciplines, unused features. I have Spiceworks and it's neat but c'mon, a budget. As it stands, I don't have tickets coming in, I have awkward bumbling verbal requests coming at (me). I enjoy chaos but not when they expect me to fix the fusebox when the lights go out; take down desk dividers; check the coffee machine; other stuff, I want to lay the groundwork for a . .. gasp, support scope! ZoDiAC_ fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Jul 1, 2015 |
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ZoDiAC_ posted:Hi thread I am sad to inform you that you are WRONG, sir, WRONG. For I am the only tech/support/install guy at my place of work and as such we don't have a ticketing system either. It's a lonely world out there with no Eve to tempt me. I've never really tried anything other than spiceworks, which failed to get off the ground here. It's not bad, as you've seen, it's just that we have literally a dozen other systems we have logins for and adding another wasn't helping anything. My advice is to continue to use Spiceworks, and come up with some way to trick the bean counters into letting you spend the budget on
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Sham I Am posted:Why yes I am IT, 
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RadicalR posted:Old technology to the rescue. But seriously, get that poo poo updated - I shouldn't have to say that you are running on borrowed time now. Yeah I actually found them a HD but then was informed we don't even own the system. The system and rotary injection molding machine is a customers we've had on site for the last 15-20 years building their components and they don't want to put the $20k into refurbishing it.
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A wondrous state-wide road trip came in. Apparently over the last few months, all of our various weather cameras from around the state began failing one by one. I was not made aware of this. My supervisor was and, being him, decided to ignore the issue. Out of 30+ cameras, we now have three sort of functioning. Thus begins the adventure of driving from town to town checking out weather cameras. Every camera is located on top of some random building. One is on top of a retirement home that used to be a giant hotel 70 years ago. One is at a golf course. One is on top of a Hilton. One is literally just on a stick in the middle of loving nowhere. Today we tackled golf course and Hilton. Get to golf course and camera can not be located on the network. Climb on top of, I wish I was joking, the golf cart charging garage and power cycle it. It boots up and looks like it's functioning fine. All the equipment looks to be in good order. Why isn't it on the network? Let's look at the cable... oh... it's been cut and is just sort of hanging out. Apparently the golf course was bought by a new owner and he sent some woefully underqualified lackey to clean up the mess of wires in the building, so he just cut them all. Welp. Gotta go run a new cable tomorrow. Get to the Hilton in the next town and climb up on the godforsaken roof in 100 degree weather. Camera is functioning. Modem is connected. Router is routing. Plug into the router and check out the settings, and all the ports are still set correctly. Try to access the modem but fuuuuuuck Comcast and not letting you access modem settings. Turn on DHCP, go to xmyip, and... that's not our IP. They changed our static IP without notifying us. Thanks Comcast. Two down, like, 28 more to go or something. At least I got some baller mexican for lunch. Where will we go next? Who knows!
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Does nobody do weather-cameras-as-a-service for TV stations that have audiences who can't manage to form a mental picture of "loving warm"?
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Thanks Ants posted:Does nobody do weather-cameras-as-a-service for TV stations that have audiences who can't manage to form a mental picture of "loving warm"? Well, the company that does that and also hosts the weather data services went bankrupt suddenly and shut down without warning. It was also prohibitively expensive maintenance when they were operational. Also, to be fair, it is thunderstorm and tornado season, so you get some interesting cloud formations 
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Sham I Am posted:Why yes I am IT, Adding to the OP, well done.
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MJP posted:A possible   fellow RVL commuter buddy. You're really not asking enough if they want you to commute to NYC in exchange for a 20% pay bump. It's an expensive place, they can afford more.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:So it's working after I plugged it into a third cable/port. I'm completely lost at this point. Something has to be changing in the config between winPE and final boot.
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New job uses BMC Footprints for tickets. It is awful. Although I think it's also just poorly configured, so it probably could be somewhat better? Thankfully I don't have to deal very much with the ticket system.
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We use sharepoint forms for tickets and inventory tracking. It is terrible and completely un-searchable.
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neogeo0823 posted:I've never really tried anything other than spiceworks, which failed to get off the ground here. It's not bad, as you've seen, it's just that we have literally a dozen other systems we have logins for and adding another wasn't helping anything. There are ticketing systems that don't integrate with AD? If that's the case, definitely don't use spiceworks.
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myron cope posted:New job uses BMC Footprints for tickets. It is awful. Although I think it's also just poorly configured, so it probably could be somewhat better? Configuring it is half the battle. I took the 11.6 and 12 admin classes, certified in both. It's all in the implementation. Honestly, ours could be a lot better, but the old VP of OPS had interesting ideas on how to deploy it 
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larchesdanrew posted:A wondrous state-wide road trip came in. More please, I want to hear the many many ways every weather cam is hosed up.  spankmeister posted:Meanwhile, at larchesdanrew's:  it just goes on and on! was this thing in a sawmill for 30 years?
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Merijn posted:More please, I want to hear the many many ways every weather cam is hosed up. gif title says it's from a coal testing lab, whatever that is.
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spankmeister posted:gif title says it's from a coal testing lab, whatever that is. I would imagine that it's either a lab where they test coal, or it's a lab where they do other tests but the lab itself is made from coal.
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