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Well he did warn you. That is both hilarious and damning.
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I'm sitting here trying to comprehend how you manage -- and how users access -- what sounds like dozens of little shitfalo devices. Do you have to send out a daily or weekly org-wide email with the current list of who uses what device and where they all are?
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Potato Salad posted:I'm sitting here trying to comprehend how you manage -- and how users access -- what sounds like dozens of little shitfalo devices. Do you have to send out a daily or weekly org-wide email with the current list of who uses what device and where they all are? SMB shares set up with a software RAID, shared from a file server.
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Sep 12, 2015 00:24
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Someone's having a fun Friday night:
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Sep 12, 2015 06:58
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baquerd posted:Someone's having a fun Friday night: Or Isup.me is wrong. It says apple.com is down for me, but I can load it fine. In before someone registers isupme.up
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EDIT: thread topic necromancy, nevermind, it died on its own.
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I love teasing the Semi-new guy I work with on Saturdays. He switched his schedule over so that he could work with me throughout the week, and we make a pretty drat good team. Today, one of the control rooms KVM switches is failing to see one of the PC's connected to it. They have a show starting soon, and need to have it up ASAP. Co-worker does everything right, gives me a rundown and says that he can't figure it out. I've had to deal with this plenty of times, and know that just restarting the PC itself will resolve the issue, so I get to the control room, go through the motion of copying what he's already done, and then ask him to restart the PC. As he's walking around the console to the other side to crawl between the sound board and trolly box, I hit the small power button on the back of the PSU and kill the computer. He gets in position, starts crawling towards it, and exclaims "IT'S OFF?!" Que huge poo poo eating grin and me telling him "You've got to be kidding me. You did all that work on this system and it was off the whole time?" He's suspicious now. He's got another system he's dragged out of the storage room and is going over the thing trying to figure out the KVM switch and what went wrong. I honestly think this guys better than I am. He's the main reason I go around looking at every issue and working towards finding every reason that could cause the problem as he's always looking to understand everything. Because of that, I push myself to learn more to make sure that I have the answers he's looking for, and that they are the right answers. For those that we don't know, we both look at resolving the problem and finding a permanent resolution. With all the issues we deal with everyday, it's refreshing to know that if I can't figure something out, I've actually got someone else that wants to actually help find a solution rather than a quick fix.
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fromoutofnowhere posted:I love teasing the Semi-new guy I work with on Saturdays. He switched his schedule over so that he could work with me throughout the week, and we make a pretty drat good team. Today, one of the control rooms KVM switches is failing to see one of the PC's connected to it. They have a show starting soon, and need to have it up ASAP. Co-worker does everything right, gives me a rundown and says that he can't figure it out. I've had to deal with this plenty of times, and know that just restarting the PC itself will resolve the issue, so I get to the control room, go through the motion of copying what he's already done, and then ask him to restart the PC. As he's walking around the console to the other side to crawl between the sound board and trolly box, I hit the small power button on the back of the PSU and kill the computer. He gets in position, starts crawling towards it, and exclaims "IT'S OFF?!" Que huge poo poo eating grin and me telling him "You've got to be kidding me. You did all that work on this system and it was off the whole time?" You uh... told him you were joking around with him, right?
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less than three posted:Or Isup.me is wrong. It says apple.com is down for me, but I can load it fine. It was giving a lot of people 403 Forbidden site-wide. Maybe you got a cached version or they fixed it shortly after my post, though it would be very interesting to see a 403 for only some users on a public facing web site.
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fromoutofnowhere posted:A healthy, relaxed work relationship based on mutual respect with a sprinkling of levity I think you have just graduated from this thread.
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quote:I have an exclusive Apt in Manhattan that I listed in street easy.My prolem is that I dont know how to make the changes I need help Thanks e: And then she left two voicemails. anthonypants fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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Sep 12, 2015 16:06
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I told someone to plug in their laptop. They asked me how to do that. 
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guppy posted:I told someone to plug in their laptop. They asked me how to do that. Purchase wide-ruled Mead notebook for user, retrieve laptop, close ticket.
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guppy posted:I told someone to plug in their laptop. They asked me how to do that. The amount of time I have spent explaining what a power cord is and where it plugs into on the wall is... Well, it's more than "No time at all."
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What do you mean I have to plug it in, I thought this thing had wifi.
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Inspector_666 posted:The amount of time I have spent explaining what a power cord is and where it plugs into on the wall is... My theory is that people get scared of not knowing what's going on, and that somehow makes them freeze up and overthink everything. I get a lot of mileage out of" Do X, however you normally would."
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you ate my cat posted:My theory is that people get scared of not knowing what's going on, and that somehow makes them freeze up and overthink everything. I get a lot of mileage out of" Do X, however you normally would." I get this a bunch with passwords, "what's my password" usually is solved with me saying "that thing you type to get into your computer every single day"
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socialsecurity posted:I get this a bunch with passwords, "what's my password" usually is solved with me saying "that thing you type to get into your computer every single day" "Before we can interface with the majesty of The Computer, we must perform the ritual of Pa'as-Wurd. Here we will press the keys in order: l-e-t-m-e-i-n, then we press the [Enter] key and bow our heads in prayer. They say those who do not follow the ritual are doomed to be shunned by The Computer."
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A ticket came in: We must perform the ritual of Pa'as-Wurd Thanks, mods.
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Mo_Steel posted:"Before we can interface with the majesty of The Computer, we must perform the ritual of Pa'as-Wurd. Here we will press the keys in order: l-e-t-m-e-i-n, then we press the [Enter] key and bow our heads in prayer. They say those who do not follow the ritual are doomed to be shunned by The Computer." I want to become IT Chumbucket where I pray to the Angel Instruction, talking about holy trinity of drivers, shell, and kernel, mumbling under my breath about sacred ports and servers.
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Sep 12, 2015 22:58
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socialsecurity posted:I get this a bunch with passwords, "what's my password" usually is solved with me saying "that thing you type to get into your computer every single day" Even better If you have to log in under an admin account when they're out & they can't figure out how to change the login with "switch user" 
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Segmentation Fault posted:I want to become IT Chumbucket where I pray to the Angel Instruction, talking about holy trinity of drivers, shell, and kernel, mumbling under my breath about sacred ports and servers. And lo, the ups with 30 minutes runtime did last for 3 hours, allowing the boot cycle to compete and saving the windows 2000 machine from obliteration. This miracle we now celebrate as APChanukah by daisy chaining 8 ups's, cutting utility power, and exchanging gifts as each one craps out.
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less than three posted:I had never even heard of Buffalo until larchesdanrew, but holy hell. The experience I have with Buffalo drives at work is that any nas with its own built in OS is a piece of poo poo, including these things. We've mostly worked out the permission issue kinks that make problems with the conflict with their stuff, but they're just generally poo poo.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:The experience I have with Buffalo drives at work is that any nas with its own built in OS is a piece of poo poo, including these things. We've mostly worked out the permission issue kinks that make problems with the conflict with their stuff, but they're just generally poo poo. Synology isn't bad. Buffalo is easily among the worst, though.
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ConfusedUs posted:Synology isn't bad. Buffalo is easily among the worst, though. Right, I said buffalo :p
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RFC2324 posted:New thread title Don't at least a couple of goons have the official title of "Techpriest" at work?
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Inspector_666 posted:Don't at least a couple of goons have the official title of "Techpriest" at work?
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Inspector_666 posted:Don't at least a couple of goons have the official title of "Techpriest" at work?
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ilkhan posted:I should get cards made up with the title "techwizard". I do all the magics at work. I jokingly asked for "Office Macgyver" when asked to submit my details for new business cards. I loved those cards.
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anthonypants posted:That is far too close to "digital prophet" for my tastes. The digital prophet is a false idol who will be crushed beneath the tracks of our Land Raider.
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Inspector_666 posted:The digital prophet is a false idol who will be crushed beneath the tracks of our Land Raider. A true monster of the battlefield, armoured in solid z/400 spanels and armed with sponsoon mounted tape libraries.
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I finally, after 2 years, got asked to change my title in our performance management system from 'Technomancer Adpetus" to my actual title. That was a sad day.
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Antioch posted:I finally, after 2 years, got asked to change my title in our performance management system from 'Technomancer Adpetus" to my actual title. That was a sad day. I was required to put the HR-acceptable signature template on my emails, so I compromised by having a set of randomized signatures with ridiculous job titles (which I can't post because literally anyone I work with would probably look at them and say OH I KNOW EXACTLY WHO THAT IS  )
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Inspector_666 posted:Don't at least a couple of goons have the official title of "Techpriest" at work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgNBsCI4EA#t=21
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Mine says "IT Daemon" but I feel the clock is ticking on that as corporate has been trumpeting a signature overhaul for the entire company the last couple of months. As long as they never crack down on my computer/rap puns in my Lync status.
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I was given a mug with "Genius" printed on it, it's quite pretentious but was given to me by a cool lady time ago as part of a desk group thing. When it wears out I am tempted to get something like a Judge Dredd mug instead though.
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RFC2324 posted:New thread title A vindicating feeling, truly. There have been blessedly few tickets of late; more generally, reading the stories here gives me a very thankful feeling. Mostly that my boss and upper management aren't trying to actively sabotage my efforts; rather both have been supportive and interested in improving things. I've been with this company a year now, having started with no professional experience in IT and a recently obtained A+ cert along with hobbyist knowledge to my name, and I have learned a ton of stuff in that year, much due to my boss being willing to give me a task and just let me at it and then being available for any questions I have. The part I probably enjoy the most though is making scripts to get poo poo done, be it cmdline or Powershell, and so I think I'm going to start looking into paths to a more development focused profession. I find myself looking at some of our existing systems and thinking I could probably make something better in Visual Studio and kind of itching to try, but there isn't really time for it now at work and the ownership aspect of who owns code you write when it's related to your job, even when you're off the clock, seems murky. Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Sep 13, 2015 |
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Why would you design an HA system and then have the heartbeat be a simple ping check? I had the (only, ugh) HDD in the primary of a hardware cluster fail but because it was still pingable the secondary never took over even though it knew services on the primary were unavailable, and you can only change statuses from the primary. To get it to fail over I had to drive in to work and pull the network cable out of the primary. This is the vendor documented method to force a secondary to fail over to primary.
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We had a series of power outages at work this weekend due to some strong storms passing through. The generator never kicked in because it's hosed up and supervisor was supposed to have it fixed last year. Guess what he never did? Due to the power outages, I have a ticket queue a mile long over malfunctioning equipment and dead battery backups. It's going to be 70 and sunny tomorrow for the first time since April. I'm taking a personal day under the guise of taking my kid to a doctor checkup in a neighboring city, and wouldn't you know, it's gonna take all day. I've also made sure to send a list of all issues to supervisor and CC'd the GM. I'm an rear end in a top hat but I'm gonna be on my lawnmower drinking beer all day, so gently caress everyone. See you all Tuesday!
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