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hihifellow posted:There's broadbandmap.gov but it tends to be a little inaccurate. It's a starting point for who to call about service at least. I would use https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport to see what is available in the area and then you have to check with each company for specific prices and service area. You can at least see what the best providers are in each zip code.
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you ate my cat posted:Verizon at least checks the address against the same database that the sales reps do. Doesn't guarantee it'll be right, but at least it's closer than some.
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Bob Morales posted:Aren't marketing emails without an unsubscribe link illegal? Why yes, they are, and if you were to convince the federal government to go after some random salesperson they might be in a heap of trouble! This and many other reasons are why the CAN SPAM act was labeled the "Yes, you can Spam" act.
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Sep 12, 2015 04:00
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So there's no clause in there for civil suits? Weird.
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I spent a couple of hours yesterday morning removing a VPN link between two of our offices that used defined routes, and recreating it with a better standard of encryption and with OSPF to handle route advertisement. Checked it all and as far as I could tell everything was working fine. Then I was informed that a particular device on the far side was unreachable from a lab subnet on the nearside. I spent twice as long as I had spent setting the tunnel up checking firewall entries, doing packet traces etc. until I could prove to the team that owned the device that packets were reaching it across the tunnel but never being returned. Exported the config from the device, searched for any mention of this subnet, nothing. Turns out that when it was configured it was connected to this lab network and pulled down a DHCP address, and after being moved and having nothing connected to that interface it still tried to route everything to that subnet our of that interface as though it was connected on-net. Of course it's some piece of poo poo telephony appliance, it's either that or printers that have monumentally retarded networking issues.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:So there's no clause in there for civil suits? Weird. No, and that's one of the many problems. States started writing their own patchwork of laws around this since the FTC and the FCC weren't stepping up, which included letting people file civil suits for obscene sums of money. Then the CAN SPAM act passed and superseded these laws, making it so that private citizens can't get justice even if they know exactly who is doing this. Then again, the law was written by the Direct Marketing Association, so huge surprise that it was awful.
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Sep 12, 2015 23:00
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Boss wants us to setup a plan to make a color code for patch cords at our branches so we can talk users through things easier. Now, at a basic level this seems alright, we used to use blue for data, yellow for voice where we could, but now that we use all voip phones, we've gone back to just blue. So new plan is to use blue for data, white for internet/mpls connection, yellow for analog, purple for uplink ports, red for security devices, and so on. For some sites we would use 8 colors worth of cables. Which means we'd have to keep 8 different cable colors in stock at all times, all of varying lengths. Not to mention that on deployments that would require dragging even more equipment with us. All to make a technicolor network closet. This would only matter for brand new locations, because its not like we are going to hit the road to redo patch panels at 110+ sites. At least I hope so.
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Sep 15, 2015 05:35
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Red patch cables for the mpls line. The red wuns goes fasta.
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Its loving awesome when people schedule changes for 6am and then cant be arsed to turn up to do their part
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Sep 15, 2015 06:43
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One of our locations is right next to basically the best doughnut place in Atlanta. We actually have an understood monthly budget on our cards for bribing people with those doughnuts, especially for non-working-hours appointments.
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Sep 15, 2015 12:43
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From a few pages back, but...Wrath of the Bitch King posted:Oh, now you're taking me through the Wayback Machine, back to an era at a different company where we used some of the worst software in the world, BankerInsight and TellerInsight. BI/TI both ran on Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere and had no central management, so all 50+ Bank Branches had to have individual physical servers with their own unique BI/TI databases. The software was a huge chore and backups were incredibly painful because of the antiquated way it handled them; all backups were done flatfile locally, which then had to be robocopied from each branch server to a central CIFS share, which was then backed up using Commvault, which was later copied to tape. Keep in mind that these were at most paired ISDN lines at the time for each branch, so speed was abysmal.
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Goddammit, I blew at least two hours futzing around with a laptop upgrading with a SSD and I'm still not done. Normally I'd just use Samsung Migration, slap it in and be done with in 15-20 minutes. But this particular laptop has changed hands quite a lot so I figured I'd blow away Windows to freshen it up; wrong move. Installed Windows 7 on the new disk but activation won't accept the key, troubleshooting time passes, oh wait of course it's HP! it probably needs the drat OEM disc. So I dug out a fistful of discs and went through them until one of them would let me install again, and eventually landed with Windows 8 (I know basically everything we've bought is pretty much Win 8 but with downgrade rights to 7). I get that up and running and at least install MS Office before leaving time, and try to set up the user account with Outlook but for some reason it won't connect with exchange even though auto discover worked fine. Of course I did consider saving myself the hassle before reinstalling and just cloning the original disc, but there was 200+Gb of stuff to put on a 120 disk which is another cleanup operation.
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Sep 15, 2015 18:34
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I have a personality clash with my boss because I don't scream enough. I usually just get on with my work and don't really complain if I'm busy. I call In support from other sites if I need it and whatever but I don't stress about pretty much anything Then today my direct report hands her notice in for a better job and my boss decided in her infinite wisdom to take it personally My direct report told me that my boss said I have no people skills or management skills amongst other things and I tend to believe that is the sort of thing my boss would do Obviously it's hearsay and my boss would simply deny saying any of that But true colours have been shown and I'll be looking for a new job once I've made a few house payments (I start a mortgage in under 2 weeks or I'd be straight out the door!)
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Sep 15, 2015 19:21
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Swapping out a failing firewall and putting a random configuration that you have sitting on your laptop from 8 months back instead of pulling the proper one out of the inventory system before declaring "welp, that's my part done" then leaving site before anyone has verified that the remote management is still accessible is really not cool, in case anyone was wondering.
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Sep 15, 2015 19:29
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Awesome. Just got in an argument because I don't want my small lovely office to become file storage central (physical files/cabinets). The owner of the company told the main accounting guy "we should have less file cabinets". So he wants to put his poo poo in here. I said loving no way. Scan that poo poo or put it somewhere else.
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Sep 15, 2015 19:57
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Thanks Ants posted:Swapping out a failing firewall and putting a random configuration that you have sitting on your laptop from 8 months back instead of pulling the proper one out of the inventory system before declaring "welp, that's my part done" then leaving site before anyone has verified that the remote management is still accessible is really not cool, in case anyone was wondering. Are you me? My boss flubbed something like this on a friday, then took a weeks vacation and left the mess in my lap.
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Sep 15, 2015 21:06
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Things that make me distraught Co-workers that dial into calls when they're already able join through computer audio or VoIP.
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Sep 15, 2015 21:34
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My favorite thing (that no longer happens at newgig) Every time you have a conference call, and the "new user" beep happens, the project manager goes, "OKAY WHO JOINED THE CALL?" (NEver mind you can set it up to announce new users, but turning that poo poo on makes no sense)
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Sep 15, 2015 21:42
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nitrogen posted:My favorite thing (that no longer happens at newgig) Automatically announcing new users, especially on large calls where people will bounce in and out, is ridiculously annoying. It always seems to interrupt the speaker at the worst moments, and if you're like most people and skip the 'state your name' portion it just ends up announcing no one over and over anyway.
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you ate my cat posted:especially on large calls where people will bounce in and out, Why can the people who host these calls never figure out auto-mute on call join? I, and the other 85 people on the bridge, don't want to listen to the background noise at Darryl the retarded sales guy's desk because no one knows how to mute anything ever.
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NeuralSpark posted:Why can the people who host these calls never figure out auto-mute on call join? I, and the other 85 people on the bridge, don't want to listen to the background noise at Darryl the retarded sales guy's desk because no one knows how to mute anything ever. We used to have issues with people joining a call, muting themselves, getting a second call and picking that up. This starts their hold music. We had a Very Important Call with Very Important People that chased themselves out of 2 rooms on our conference bridge. The same person did this both times and never admitted to it, even when the telephony group pulled stats.
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I'm saddened that we can't take "trash" cat5 cable from work (normally just the clips on the ends are broken) because they "retain information".
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Gothmog1065 posted:I'm saddened that we can't take "trash" cat5 cable from work (normally just the clips on the ends are broken) because they "retain information". 
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Sep 16, 2015 02:05
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Gothmog1065 posted:I'm saddened that we can't take "trash" cat5 cable from work (normally just the clips on the ends are broken) because they "retain information".  I'm pretty sure I saw this in a dilbert comic.
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President Ark posted:
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I'm pretty sure this was my first Dilbert comic. It set the tone for my love of Dilbert to this day.
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fluppet posted:Its loving awesome when people schedule changes for 6am and then cant be arsed to turn up to do their part Even better when someone on a higher tier team decides to roll out a patch for the remote tools the techs use, and it gets flagged as a false positive by antivirus. And said tech on the higher tier didn't test the patch internally, nor did they bother telling anyone about the patch. Because apparently testing things before rolling them out is for pussies.
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In my ongoing SBS 2003 server saga, I finally got around to taking apart and cleaning out the random one that wound up on my floor after an acquisition. Turns out the machine was built in 2010, which means some rear end in a top hat in their infinite wisdom willingly chose to install SBS 2003 instead of Server 2008. Edit: just to be clear we're not even talking SBS 2003 R2, we're talking the standard release that was EOL'd in 2007. Sheep fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Sep 16, 2015 |
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Sep 16, 2015 02:32
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Goddammit Dell. I just want to download drives for a laptop. I don't feel like it is necessary that I have to download and install Dell System Detect 6.6.0.2 to be able to do this. Especially since I am downloading these driver files on a different computer. Especially since this computer isn't even a Dell. edit: And fix your goddamn ISO making tool thingy. What a neat feature it is to be able to download all your drivers into a single ISO that I can burn/mount/etc. But if it produces a valid ISO with an invalid file structure, making each file unusable, what's the point? Agrikk fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Sep 16, 2015 |
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Agrikk posted:Goddammit Dell. Dealt with that bullshit this afternoon just trying to figure out what FirePro cards were in a set of Precision T1650s. I had the service tags and everything, but no, I had to download the autodetect tool that took about five minutes to actually work. Turns out they were just V4900s.
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Kazinsal posted:Dealt with that bullshit this afternoon just trying to figure out what FirePro cards were in a set of Precision T1650s. No. It's really quite simple. You just go to support.dell.com and click on System Configuration: quote:
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Agrikk posted:Goddammit Dell. http://ftp.dell.com Or use this tool: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/7534.dell-command-update
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Kazinsal posted:Dealt with that bullshit this afternoon just trying to figure out what FirePro cards were in a set of Precision T1650s. I had the service tags and everything, but no, I had to download the autodetect tool that took about five minutes to actually work.
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Gothmog1065 posted:I'm saddened that we can't take "trash" cat5 cable from work (normally just the clips on the ends are broken) because they "retain information".  Catx cables where the clips are broken are unusable, but I guess you could salvage the cable and crimp new connectors for home use.
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Sep 16, 2015 14:06
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Agrikk posted:Goddammit Dell. Anyone else remember this poo poo? 
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Gothmog1065 posted:I'm saddened that we can't take "trash" cat5 cable from work (normally just the clips on the ends are broken) because they "retain information". Tell them that when you cut the ends off, all the bits fall out, effectively wiping the cable of all old info, and that you can guarantee there's no retained data after the operation.
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Take an air compressor and blow out the bits
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Collateral Damage posted:
That's what I would end up doing. Replacing the end and having a bunch of 30+ft cat5e cables.
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Gothmog1065 posted:I'm saddened that we can't take "trash" cat5 cable from work (normally just the clips on the ends are broken) because they "retain information". Two questions: 1) What moron said this retarded poo poo? 2) Do you own a baseball bat?
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Bob Morales posted:Anyone else remember this poo poo? Oh god, no. Please no. I remember the endorphin rush of a completed update. If only because the wait was a tightrope walk over a pit of bricked machines from failed checksums.
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