|
Gwaihir posted:This is the new "Printout of a web page scanned in to a PDF and insert in to a word document then attached to an email" and it's beautiful. I can't actually quote the post because it's archived. buuuuut... http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3022717&userid=124874&perpage=40&pagenumber=5#post390142721 GnarlyCharlie4u posted:whelp it's a good thing i'm not allowed to bring my gun to work. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Backpedaling...
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 15:40
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 04:27 |
|
|
OwlFancier posted:At least put a box over it or something, Christ. Look at the bright side. At least it's labeled.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 15:43
|
|
|
nexxai posted:Wait, why the gently caress are VMs being stored on a USB drive? It's cool, he has five of them and put them in raid, he even has a hotspare.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 15:49
|
|
|
GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I can't actually quote the post because it's archived. buuuuut... Didn't that get turned into a crochet of a 3D bar code?
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 15:49
|
|
|
I want to believe they at least software RAID 1 this. I want to believe there is SOME sense of reason here.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 15:51
|
|
|
Renegret posted:Look at the bright side. True, and neatly so at that. I just really hate USB sticks that stick out like that, because they're just asking for that lovely crunchy noise of despair when you realise you put something heavy down next to the laptop.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 15:54
|
|
|
I have USB sticks like that connected to a server in a branch office. I keep software installs (IE AutoCAD install files) on it because they don't want to buy more server storage.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 15:59
|
|
|
GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I can't actually quote the post because it's archived. buuuuut... Is that loving mario paint?
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:00
|
|
|
OwlFancier posted:Is that loving mario paint? pasted into an excel file... I need an adult
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:10
|
|
Lightning Jim posted:I want to believe they at least software RAID 1 this. RAID 0 
|
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:11
|
|
|
A client has four dead drives in one of their Promise arrays which is a Bad Thing. I'm trying to work with my PC to get him replacement drives but the PC wants him to try to force the drives back online first (the array is already rebuilding to the spares). He wants the client to do this because he found a Promise article about how sometimes drives are marked as dead after a power failure or an incorrect boot sequence....neither of which happened. So the client is left with multiple dead drives while I go back and forth with the PC. Non technical people trying to advise on technical matters drives me up a loving wall. This is a constant issue with this particular PC who has a tendency to forget things, tell clients (and other techs) incorrect information and be an obstinate jackass in general. Apparently it's been brought up to upper management before and they've said they're "working on it".
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:23
|
|
|
OwlFancier posted:I just really hate USB sticks that stick out like that, because they're just asking for that lovely crunchy noise of despair when you realise you put something heavy down next to the laptop. Our desktops guys would end up calling in a Dell tech to come and replace a motherboard about once a week because of this. People would put the little logitech wireless keyboard/mouse receiver or a small thumb drive in, forget about it and then toss their laptops in the car seat, backpack,etc and jam the usb drive in breaking the port and on at least one occasion causing the motherboard to short. Which also reminds me of one of my favorite stories from that past job. We had a director who broker her laptop like that. She was headed out of country for some important meeting and she was a director so we got her a new laptop and said we'd handle any offline storage transfer when she got back. Comes back and she spills coffee all over her new laptop. So we send that in to get replaced under the accidental coverage warranty and give her her old one back. She keeps having weird issues with it so we call in another warranty repair on it. The poor Dell tech pops it open (it was a newer Latitiude 7000 something with the small flat internal battery) and he brings me over and says "look at all of this corrosion here", like something had spilled on it. There was a bunch of blue and white mold, fungus, corrosion, whatever all over everything inside. So I ask the user is she knows what could've happened and she denies everything. So we end up getting a replacement for that, I chalked it up to condensation from leaving it outside in the car during winter or something. Finally when the replacement arrives and shes all set up she comes clean. She was incredibly embarrassed about destroying two new laptops and finally admits that her new puppy peed all over the second laptop. She was afraid to say anything so she just tried to let it dry out and then wiped off the outside case with some wetwipes and tried to soldier on. The Dell guy never knew he was touching moldy dog pee, the poor poor soul. I felt bad for those outsourced Dell techs before, but I felt even worse for that poor bastard.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:23
|
|
|
totalnewbie posted:Didn't that get turned into a crochet of a 3D bar code? uncurable mlady posted:
"Captain Capacitor" posted:Here's a daytime version. then there was a bunch of poo poo with MS tags, ASCII QR codes, morse code, etc... I'd post all of it but we just had an intern show up. My boss is supposed to task him with stuff, but boss is not here... The intern is here for 2 days. I cannot think of a single thing that we could use a highschool kid for in the next 2 days that doesn't require constant supervision. Bonus hilarity: CommanderApaul posted:Picked up this this morning. Screenshot of our patient orders system, printed out, scanned in as a pdf, printed again, then hand-annotated and captioned, faxed, scanned again as a PDF, emailed to the Asst Director of Pharmacy, then forwarded to me. To go along with that, the Asst Director is the one who called me, who was called by the second person in line who annotated the PDF, who was called a manager in the pharmacy who took the original screenshot, who was called by the pharmacy tech who originally had the problem entering the order.  edit: gently caress here's one better: 
GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Aug 24, 2015 |
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:30
|
|
|
Lightning Jim posted:I want to believe they at least software RAID 1 this. look into your heart it'll be raid 0
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:39
|
|
|
GnarlyCharlie4u posted:My boss is supposed to task him with stuff, but boss is not here... The intern is here for 2 days. I cannot think of a single thing that we could use a highschool kid for in the next 2 days that doesn't require constant supervision. Thing's I'd use free labour with questionable competence for: - Sorting network cables by length - Drawing a map of the office with patch panel port numbers labeled - Making a list of users that still use VGA or PS/2 - Destroying 6 months backlog worth of hard drives
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:40
|
|
|
A ticket came in... A student's laptop wasn't connecting to the internet. Zscaler (our web filter) was blocking chrome. Which is actually an adware that somehow made it's way onto the image we use. That I imaged 150 computers with. Manually. That someone else is going to have to deal with because I leave at the end of the week 
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:42
|
|
|
spankmeister posted:look into your heart Actually, my heart believes there's no RAID at all, just 2 drives. Even a RAID 0 would have had some thought put into it.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:46
|
|
|
Lightning Jim posted:Actually, my heart believes there's no RAID at all, just 2 drives. Even a RAID 0 would have had some thought put into it. Basically this. They are just two standalone 64GB thumb drives.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:49
|
|
|
peak debt posted:Thing's I'd use free labour with questionable competence for: cables are sorted and every hdd has been dban'd by our last intern. the ports have all been identified (and phone). the only thing I think I can use him for is sorting through stuff to be disposed, which still requires boss' approval of each and every single individual loving item.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:52
|
|
|
Gwaihir posted:This is the new "Printout of a web page scanned in to a PDF and insert in to a word document then attached to an email" and it's beautiful.  How much can we torture the OSI model?
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:53
|
|
|
peak debt posted:- Destroying 6 months backlog worth of hard drives How can you possibly have difficulty finding someone to sanitise hard drives? Unless you got to do it to printers I can't think of any more cathartic job.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 16:58
|
|
|
GnarlyCharlie4u posted:cables are sorted and every hdd has been dban'd by our last intern. gently caress it, hand him a box of cable, a box of heads, some crimpers and some cable testers. Have him cut you 10/20 foot cables till his time is up.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:02
|
|
|
Rhymenoserous posted:gently caress it, hand him a box of cable, a box of heads, some crimpers and some cable testers. Have him cut you 10/20 foot cables till his time is up. I might have him pull the batteries out of hosed batt backups.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:15
|
|
|
GnarlyCharlie4u posted:cables are sorted and every hdd has been dban'd by our last intern. Do you have any dry cleaning that needs picking up?
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:18
|
|
|
If he's doing like, school work experience or something then I would think he'd just be glad to observe. When I did work ex at a primary school I got stuck in an office photocopying end of year reports until I got high off the ozone. Just about anything that lets you take busted electronics to bits would be more fun I would think.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:18
|
|
|
OwlFancier posted:If he's doing like, school work experience or something then I would think he'd just be glad to observe. "Now watch me browse these forums for a few hours"
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:30
|
|
|
AreWeDrunkYet posted:"Now watch me browse these forums for a few hours" We don't want them to know what work is ACTUALLY like. Just some idealized version of what he thinks it SHOULD be like.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:31
|
|
|
ChubbyThePhat posted:We don't want them to know what work is ACTUALLY like. All the printers are broken. Here's a cart full of paper. Go fix the printers.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:32
|
|
|
OwlFancier posted:True, and neatly so at that. Like what happened to my bottle opener drive like two days after getting it. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:34
|
|
|
People who let keys dangle off the end of thumbdrives plugged into the front of desktops are monsters.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 17:57
|
|
|
nexxai posted:Your response is the perfect explanation of "just because you can doesn't mean you should". That reminds me of a company that was our customer back in my sysadmin days. They had a pretty good USB tapedrive, but for some reason we had to schedule the start of backups earlier in the afternoon each time to make sure they completed before 9 AM, resulting eventually in backups starting at 5:30 PM and finishing at like 8:45 AM. Put it down to a fluke in some settings for further analysis when we went on-site for other maintenance tasks. When I went to test their backups I noticed that the system was terribly slow with reading out and restoring. Turned out their relatively new Dell server only had USB1 ports, no USB2 port to be found anywhere on it. This was in like 2008/2009 too. Of course they were too cheap to invest in either an internal tapedrive or at least a USB2 PCI card, so we just kept it at that and hoped their dataset wouldn't keep growing too much. And another client we took over had dual external HDs for their backups, with one set for every day of the week(10 drives, neatly labeled with days of the week, all the same brand and model of consumer HDD) They just swapped them out in the morning by unplugging them from USB and power, then plugging in the new set. By the time we got there, half the drives had either died or gone corrupt, no backup logging or testing had ever taken place, just a Windows Backup task. Forgot to swap out the drives? Then the previous day's backup was just gone, since they were all new full backups, no incrementals. They were stored on-site in a metal desk cabinet. Sold 'em a tapedrive and some actual good backup software, no issues since.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 18:05
|
|
|
Client puts in a ticket saying he can't get a machine connected to the SAN even though he's run our setup script and the metadata network is active! The implication here being that our script must be wrong. I remote in and take look. The system can't see the LUNs since the fibre doesn't look to be plugged in.  It's totally our script buddy. Can't have anything to do with you didn't plug the fibre in.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 18:06
|
|
|
Boogalo posted:People who let keys dangle off the end of thumbdrives plugged into the front of desktops are monsters.   (It helps me not forget that I've plugged it in somewhere...)
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 18:26
|
|
|
Sirotan posted:
Presumably that is not very heavy, whereas a set of keys is much more so. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 18:28
|
|
|
I think that's permissible, when people do it with keychains with twenty rings and the keys to the garden shed it's less forgivable.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 18:29
|
|
|
Sirotan posted:
Where'd you get that little octopus dude?
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 18:34
|
|
|
everythingWasBees posted:Where'd you get that little octopus dude? Sirotan, you need to get a namechange to "little octopus dude" now, we in #bofh have deemed it necessary.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 18:59
|
|
|
everythingWasBees posted:Where'd you get that little octopus dude? She's clearly a seal
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 19:09
|
|
|
Ha! Look at this guy with his Outlook 2007 setup.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 19:46
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 04:27 |
|
|
Boogalo posted:People who let keys dangle off the end of thumbdrives plugged into the front of desktops are monsters. Incidentally, the opposite case holds true as well. My mechanic got on my case for leaving my car key on my carabiner when I started my car up; apparently it doesn't take a whole lot of added weight to gently caress up your ignition system.
|
|
#
?
Aug 24, 2015 19:52
|
|
