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ilkhan posted:For some inexplicable reason nearly half the office is not present today. Trying to stretch a holiday into a 4 day weekend. It's the same at my work too. Also, all week it's taken me 2 hours to commute the 20 miles to work. Today it took 30 mins. God Bless Labor Day. 
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My 35 minute commute took 15 today. Instead of the 7 installs I normally have all over the greater region, I've got 3. Life is good.
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Sep 4, 2015 19:38
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ilkhan posted:For some inexplicable reason nearly half the office is not present today. I'm in the offices of Big New York Newspaper and there is pretty much nobody here. The office is quiet normally but now it's dead quiet. Of course I can't track decode errors (one was around 125 billion) over time on the switch if there is nobody here!
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Sep 4, 2015 19:53
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Why were you googling information from Larches' posts in the first place? 
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Sep 4, 2015 19:57
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Why were you googling information from Larches' posts in the first place? We all want to see the shitshow for ourselves.
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pr0digal posted:I'm in the offices of Big New York Newspaper and there is pretty much nobody here. The office is quiet normally but now it's dead quiet. I'm surprised that a newspaper office isn't always dead.
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Sep 4, 2015 20:08
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Segmentation Fault posted:We all want to see the shitshow for ourselves. I'd bet a nickel it's no worse than 50% of other local stations.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I'd bet a nickel it's no worse than 50% of other local stations. yeah but we have context behind the madness
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 Okay, seriously, wtf. vvvv: Not yet... not yet... Malek fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Sep 4, 2015 |
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Sep 4, 2015 22:40
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A ticket came in from one of our remote locations. They can access their file shares on our intranet just fine, but their email (Outlook to Office365) isn't loading. I remote in and sure enough, the email is stuck at connecting. Restart the client, no dice, restart the computer, still no good. How in the gently caress do they have access to our servers but not Microsoft's servers? Maybe the Office 365 servers are down? Nope, I've got a connection right now. Alright, maybe the WebMail client will work and it's an Outlook issue? Nope, WebMail client fails too. I double check, they're able to ping 8.8.8.8 and load https://www.msn.com, and they're using the same DNS as us. Check the Hosts file for oddities (none), check the firewall, reboot it, reboot the modem, and then notice another oddity. This location normally has multiple VPN tunnels, but only one is up right now. I remote to the destination of one of the tunnels that is down, and try to reach the remote location; no response. At this point I'm so loving confused; I've never seen half the Internet just not work for a location but clearly that's what's going on. So I call the ISP, and the pre-recorded message helpfully informs me that they are working on a major outage limiting some, but not all, websites.  How the gently caress does that even work? Did someone decide to start tidying up cables at a main hub or something?
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A ticket went out, with data on how to reproduce, screen caps, error logs, and packet captures. A serious of increasingly idiotic theories and questions came back. All the information you need is in the data I just gave. I already solved it by looking at the aforementioned data, but didn't want to sound smug or patronizing when I gave it to you. I figured it would be obvious. I'd fix it myself, but I don't have the access needed to those systems. You do. Now go and implement the fix, instead of flailing around in email taking wild stabs at what the root cause might be. I swear to god, some days I feel like the I'm back pages of an Encyclopedia Brown book. The frustrating thing is this guy is usually really on the ball. I've never had to spell out the obvious to him before. It's been a long week, and this was the poo poo-cherry on top. Thankfully, it's a three day weekend.
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Sep 5, 2015 01:00
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Bugs Meany broke your systems?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Bugs Meany broke your systems? 
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I thought I saw tumbleweeds blowing across the parking lot outside my building. And getting on base took about 15 secs. It was quiet, peaceful even, and after 12:01pm the base essentially became abandoned except for us blood-sucking contractors. Apparently 4 hours and 1 minute is enough to constitute a full duty day, so the commanders cut their troops loose after that and disappear as well
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Sep 5, 2015 01:23
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Bugs Meany broke your systems? He would if he could. The dick. Also, gently caress I'm old.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Bugs Meany broke your systems? That's impossible, he has an airtight alibi, he was up at the North Pole doing research on penguins.
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Sep 5, 2015 01:55
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Check the Tigers' clubhouse and look for cherry pits and stems...I am really loving old.
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Sep 5, 2015 03:28
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Thanks to this thread, I have started unironically using "do the needful" at work both in emails and in person, and have managed to infect my team lead with the same. Not sure what the sustainable population level is, but I'm going to try and get at least another three people doing the same thing before I move to a different project.
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Sep 5, 2015 03:44
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Check the Tigers' clubhouse and look for cherry pits and stems...I am really loving old. Don't feel bad. Hey, if someone were to pass out while standing upright, which way would they fall?
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I tried really hard to think of an IT related thing that the Tigers' name should really be, but came up blank. 
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Sep 5, 2015 04:48
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I'm nearly 30 and have no clue what any of you are talking about. 
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Sep 5, 2015 04:53
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Get off our lawn. 
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larchesdanrew posted:Just trying to earn a paycheck while some fat-titted old man screams at me to do things the wrong way You seriously need to come hang with us in IRC at #BOFH on synirc.net.
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neogeo0823 posted:I'm nearly 30 and have no clue what any of you are talking about. So uncultured. I bet you never read any Hardy Boys or Boxcar Children either 
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neogeo0823 posted:I'm nearly 30 and have no clue what any of you are talking about. I'm 24 and I do  .It was a series of whodunits aimed at kids. Like the short story, "Can you tell who did it?" kind.
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neogeo0823 posted:I'm nearly 30 and have no clue what any of you are talking about. I am 30 and I do. Encyclopedia Brown and You Be the Jury were my bread and butter as a young'n.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm 24 and I do "Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing E-mails" ... "Well, it appears Miss Hayes stored all those important emails from the Nigerian Prince of Wales in the trash. Little did Miss Hayes know, but her' sysadmin ran an automated job on weekends that automatically emptied her Exchange deleted items folder." Sally put Miss Hayes's mouse down, and looked at Encyclopedia. "But that's not all! I was able to hack my way into the Prince's server by backtracing his IP address to his client-server area location, and found something very interesting. The signal was coming from he edge of town, right near where The Tigers' clubhouse is." Encyclopedia looked self assured. "Not only that, but Ned the Mailman has a 2nd job for Comcast. He let me know that he was instaling internet at the clubhouse 2 weeks ago, right when The Nigerian Prince sent his first email. It's a good thing you lost those e-mails, Miss Hayes. You could have lost a whole lot more." Now, they go down to Bugs' clubhouse, and they take off his mask, and it's really Old Man Stallman trying to scare people off his internet so he can post more cat pictures.
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nitrogen posted:"Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing E-mails" 7/10 - no GUI created using Visual Basic to back-trace the IP.
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flosofl posted:7/10 - no GUI created using Visual Basic to back-trace the IP. 
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Ozz81 posted:Be careful on the torrent stuff, that can be a HUGE security risk and cause headaches later if someone is downloading pirated software (don't fool yourself, chances are they already have and will keep doing it) or movies and poo poo. Keep Youtube alive, block torrent bullshit and tell anyone if they want to use that crap to go home or hit up a local eatery with free wireless. Really not worth dealing with the hassles of possible DMCA threats or other legal troubles, and even the most "trustworthy" folks can end up being a huge problem. DMCA doesn't apply in this country, but the initial network setup was already done when I started in this job. I got hired because I have 10 years of experience running school IT, and the first thing I said when I saw the topology plans was "Why the hell don't we have a stateful firewall? That's going to bite us in the rear end!" and it did. Torrents will probably he shut off entirely (I have a feeling the people in power will actually listen to the IT people this time). If students need Linux distros they get get them via FTP or HTTP - or get their IT-teacher to open a ticket with us and let us download it for them.
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GWBBQ posted:Trying to move a professor's files (entire life's work) from a pair of external hard drives to OneDrive because it would be kind of nice for it to be backed up somewhere other than the other hard drive in his laptop bag that frequently travels with him internationally, on boats, etc. OneDrive sync failed because most of his 560,000 files are over the 254 character limit due to his Byzantine directory structure and naming convention, and most of it is duplicate files because every year he makes a copy the previous year's folder with everything in it duplicated even though the vast majority remains untouched Do you work with me. I have the same problem with professors at my work.
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nitrogen posted:Now, they go down to Bugs' clubhouse, and they take off his mask, and it's really Old Man Stallman trying to scare people off his internet so he can post more cat pictures. This is the best payoff.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:GUI interface using Visual Basic Graphical User Interface Interface?
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Sure, haven't you ever forgotten your PIN number at the ATM machine?!
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Chickenwalker posted:Graphical User Interface Interface? https://youtu.be/hkDD03yeLnU
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nitrogen posted:"Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing E-mails" "The emails aren't missing at all. In fact, you never sent them!" How did Encyclopedia know? Because gently caress you, that's why.
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That hurt more than it should have
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Ursine Asylum posted:Boxcar Children Third(?) book when they worked at a shop and the PITA woman who returned everything was the anonymous new owner was always my favorite. drat that's a series I haven't thought about for a couple decades.
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Crowley posted:DMCA doesn't apply in this country, but the initial network setup was already done when I started in this job. I got hired because I have 10 years of experience running school IT, and the first thing I said when I saw the topology plans was "Why the hell don't we have a stateful firewall? That's going to bite us in the rear end!" and it did. Set up an internal torrent tracker, and seed the ISOs internally, while still blocking torrent traffic at the firewall!
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