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A friend of mine who used to work at EA got a an email with "Congratulations on five years with EA, Valued employee, Part of a big family.." that kind of crap. Then at the end there's a disclaimer with "This mail was automatically generated, do not reply." 
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Sep 22, 2015 14:03
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FreshFeesh posted:An architectural firm I have as a client recently upgraded all of their drafters to Macs, all running Windows 7 in bootcamp. Appearances. Just quote them Windows machines and get them all Thunderbolt displays. No one will know the difference.
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Sep 22, 2015 14:07
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Collateral Damage posted:A friend of mine who used to work at EA got a an email with "Congratulations on five years with EA, Valued employee, Part of a big family.." that kind of crap. Man. At my company when you hit 5 years they give you a one month sabbatical and encourage you to GTFO of the country for that time by giving some help with travel expenses.
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Sep 22, 2015 14:34
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spog posted:I am sure that was a joke in a movie somewhere. Last 20 minutes of "Christmas Vacation" I think.
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Sep 22, 2015 14:35
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captkirk posted:Man. At my company when you hit 5 years they give you a one month sabbatical and encourage you to GTFO of the country for that time by giving some help with travel expenses. Epic?
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Sep 22, 2015 14:41
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Sirotan posted:The CEO left a note of "I know you work hard!" and then promptly spelled my name wrong. "Shirotan" is a perfectly valid romanisation of the name too, you know!
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Sep 22, 2015 14:54
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captkirk posted:Man. At my company when you hit 5 years they give you a one month sabbatical and encourage you to GTFO of the country for that time by giving some help with travel expenses. This would be awesome.
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Sep 22, 2015 15:05
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Sirotan posted:Came home last night to find a letter from the CEO in my mailbox. It was to let me know that while someone had nominated me for the Employee of the Year award (that came with a whole $500 prize), I was not selected as the winner. The CEO left a note of "I know you work hard!" and then promptly spelled my name wrong. We once pulled a 800 seat call center out of our collective asses in less then a week and we got a 1000 euro bonus for it from the CEO. Promptly the tax man appeared and took half of it  Socialist Europe has a downside it seems. edit: Seems like a first world problem when you think about it.
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Sep 22, 2015 15:27
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Sirotan posted:Came home last night to find a letter from the CEO in my mailbox. It was to let me know that while someone had nominated me for the Employee of the Year award (that came with a whole $500 prize), I was not selected as the winner. The CEO left a note of "I know you work hard!" and then promptly spelled my name wrong. Well, when you're constantly costuming as someone you're not, it's hard to tell whether you're the Sirotan in IT, or the Sirotan in sales. Just be your sealy self!
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Sep 22, 2015 16:04
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Migishu posted:Just be your sealy self! You mean "Just be your sealf."
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Sep 22, 2015 16:06
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A ticket came in, from me. My super secret private wifi I'm not allowed to have stopped broadcasting today. Not surprising since it's a WRT54g running dd-wrt. Tried logging into the control panel but no luck. Tried doing a factory restore and no luck. I believe it to be well and truly dead, since it's spitting out random DHCP settings and doesn't show up on a network scan. RIP lovely Linksys router (2003-2015) 
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Sep 22, 2015 16:24
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Inspector_666 posted:You mean "Just be your sealf." Damnit I'm no good at this
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Sep 22, 2015 16:36
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larchesdanrew posted:A ticket came in, from me. It lived a good life. I wonder how many WRT54g's are still alive and kicking in grandparents and parents households around the US. It has to be one of the most ubiquitous wifi routers ever. I mean back in the day that was what you got if you were lucky enough to have wifi devices that worked on G.
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Sep 22, 2015 16:37
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*kazoo Taps* I bought a WRT54gl when it was the go-to router, drat, 8 or 9 years ago? That little guy has been with me through 4 moves, 3 different iterations of tomato, and I will have lost a friend when it finally takes the long RMA to the sky.
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Sep 22, 2015 16:40
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:It lived a good life. It's what my parents bought when we first moved from dial up to cable internet. It then went with me to college, and then to my first apartment. It was with me when I got engaged, when I found out we were having our first child, and it finally died in this piece of poo poo office. However, it died doing what it was born to do: proving my supervisor wrong about a thing he said was impossible. You were too good for this world, little blue friend.
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Sep 22, 2015 16:41
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:It lived a good life. I still have mine in a box somewhere in my parent's house. I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. It even got a few weeks of use about a year ago as a stop gap until I got a dual band router.
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Sep 22, 2015 16:46
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A ticket came in: someone is losing connection only on the company network, not any other network. He is the only one on the network losing connection. Any ideas?
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Sep 22, 2015 16:49
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Losing LAN connectivity? Internet connectivity? Both? Is he losing his IP lease? There's like, 80 jillion things this could be. Did you replace the cable?
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Sep 22, 2015 16:51
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Sorry. WiFi, no cable. Looking at Meraki, he is disassociating and then reassociating with the AP every few minutes. He is getting new DHCP leases every few minutes, but not paired with the associating. He loses both new connections and existing (email) connections.
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Sep 22, 2015 17:03
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Renegret posted:I still have mine in a box somewhere in my parent's house. I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. Me too! And it's my backup router. It can't handle the speeds my cable modem puts out today--that's why I replaced it--but it's there in a pinch.
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Sep 22, 2015 17:12
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:It lived a good life. I probably have a dozen or so, myself. Plus 3 150n and a 300n. larchesdanrew pm me your address. I'll give you a replacement.
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Sep 22, 2015 17:21
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Sorry. WiFi, no cable. Looking at Meraki, he is disassociating and then reassociating with the AP every few minutes. He is getting new DHCP leases every few minutes, but not paired with the associating. For starters, remove the network connection entirely and flush dns. This could be an authentication issue. Radius/LDAP?
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Sep 22, 2015 17:26
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:For starters, remove the network connection entirely and flush dns. We saw this on one particular wireless client when the person's AD password was changed, and it went away after about a day. In the meantime, he just used a wired link.
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Sep 22, 2015 17:31
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Storysmith posted:We saw this on one particular wireless client when the person's AD password was changed, and it went away after about a day. In the meantime, he just used a wired link.  well there it is. Any feedback as to why?
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Sep 22, 2015 17:34
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larchesdanrew posted:RIP lovely Linksys router (2003-2015) Go buy a MikroTik. Seriously, they're awesome (if a bit hard to get started with, but take that as a challenge).
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Sep 22, 2015 17:45
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Crowley posted:Go buy a MikroTik. Seriously, they're awesome (if a bit hard to get started with, but take that as a challenge). Seconding this. Mikrotik is amazing. Or spend a couple bucks more, don't learn poo poo, buy Ubiquiti, and play with their awesome GUI software.
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Sep 22, 2015 17:49
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"My assistant said this wasn't a Word document, can you open this in Word and resave it?" *Staring at Word 2010 with said file made from our template that I know is in Word in the first place*
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Sep 22, 2015 17:55
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Battling a really wacky issue on OS X. Every time something (like a program or system preferences) requires authentication it just hangs and doesn't pop up username and password field. It does this with both local and network users and a user I created. It is basically preventing the client from running anything that requires authentication. It's annoying as poo poo. I repaired the disk and permissions, even had them boot into safe mode but nothing worked. Anybody ever see this before or should I just say gently caress it and have them re-image the system.
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Sep 22, 2015 18:25
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I probably have a dozen or so, myself. I managed to find a Cisco E1200 in the basement that may work if I can set it up with DHCP forwarding. I'll keep your offer in mind though if this dumb thing doesn't work. Re: Mikrotik We have a single E1500 stashed away in a networking closet, it's connected to a DSL modem in the basement, it reaches maybe the first two offices on that floor on a good day and half of my office on the floor below, and it also has to be reset every few hours or it just stops working. We constantly have employees and visitors asking about Wi-Fi and I have to either tell them no, or that the only Wi-Fi we have is a pile of poo poo and not worth connecting to. So, one of my big long term goals is to get building-wide dual-band Wi-Fi set up so we can have employee access and guest/personal phone access. I've done this in the past, but it was for three separate small buildings and a single AP per building was ample enough coverage. This will be a first for setting up multiple APs in the same building. Any suggestions for a decent system that won't absolutely demolish the bank? Is this a thing I can realistically set up and maintain myself, or is this the sort of task you outsource to professionals?
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Sep 22, 2015 18:28
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Seconding this. Mikrotik is amazing. larchesdanrew posted:We have a single E1500 stashed away in a networking closet, it's connected to a DSL modem in the basement, it reaches maybe the first two offices on that floor on a good day and half of my office on the floor below, and it also has to be reset every few hours or it just stops working. We constantly have employees and visitors asking about Wi-Fi and I have to either tell them no, or that the only Wi-Fi we have is a pile of poo poo and not worth connecting to. (Blarg, that took forever to type out. Need more  )
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Sep 22, 2015 18:32
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pr0digal posted:Battling a really wacky issue on OS X. Every time something (like a program or system preferences) requires authentication it just hangs and doesn't pop up username and password field. You'll need the user handy to type their password, but Keychain Access.app has a first aid function. That's the first thing I'd try, because the second is poring through what the actual permissions are, and spending a lot of time in Console third. Good hunting.
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Sep 22, 2015 18:44
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My company runs a Ruckus shop and I have always been impressed with the WiFi coverage the APs provide. Given I have never actually seen one of the quotes I send it due to them going through a purchaser, I don't think they'll demolish your funds. I think they have a decent price range depending on what you're looking for.
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Sep 22, 2015 18:46
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ChubbyThePhat posted:My company runs a Ruckus shop and I have always been impressed with the WiFi coverage the APs provide. Given I have never actually seen one of the quotes I send it due to them going through a purchaser, I don't think they'll demolish your funds. I think they have a decent price range depending on what you're looking for. Or Ubiquiti, that's kind of their thing.
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Sep 22, 2015 18:49
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ChubbyThePhat posted:My company runs a Ruckus shop and I have always been impressed with the WiFi coverage the APs provide. Given I have never actually seen one of the quotes I send it due to them going through a purchaser, I don't think they'll demolish your funds. I think they have a decent price range depending on what you're looking for. So that's like a lease or subscription deal? Inspector_666 posted:Or Ubiquiti, that's kind of their thing. I remember someone mentioning Ubiquiti a while back in this thread. Hell, I think I brought up a similar or the same issue. It looks rad as hell.
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Sep 22, 2015 18:52
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Inspector_666 posted:Or Ubiquiti, that's kind of their thing. Yeah I just went a looked up the differences after posting. Ubiquiti sounds like what you'll wanna go with if you really don't need all the extra features of the Ruckus (sounds like you wont). They're worth the price if you use them, but if you don't need them you're just throwing money at a name for no reason in particular. I've always been told that Ruckus tends to be better in every way (for enterprise solutions), but with no actual experience on either side of that coin I don't like to push that out as knowledge because I don't actually know for myself if it's true. larchesdanrew posted:So that's like a lease or subscription deal? No the client owns the equipment. The purchaser also works for my company; he just sends out quotes and buys the physical hardware. ChubbyThePhat fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Sep 22, 2015 |
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Sep 22, 2015 18:56
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larchesdanrew posted:Re: Mikrotik Three words: One Watt Broadcast. http://routerboard.com/RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN I stand by Ubiquiti UniFi AP's though. Amazing. Their AC Pro models are very capable (though you have to be close-ish to take advantage of AC speeds.) https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/ They're PoE, truely mesh if there are multiple, and don't even need to all have a physical connection back to LAN. They repeat very well. Also, This is cool as poo poo: https://www.ubnt.com/broadband/technology/
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Sep 22, 2015 19:07
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Three words: One Watt Broadcast.
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Sep 22, 2015 19:10
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A client complaint came in, that she shouldn't have been billed for each of the following service calls: 1) Client wants us to set up email accounts on multiple systems, specifying which email accounts should got to which computer. 2) Client calls a week later with QuickBooks issues. We also reset an email password. 3) Client calls two weeks later having changed her mind and now wanting all email accounts accessible from all computers. Apparently nobody at that company understands "scope of work" or that just because multiple calls involve the same object/system they aren't necessarily connected. This industry would be so much easier without the clients.
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Sep 22, 2015 19:12
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Storysmith posted:We saw this on one particular wireless client when the person's AD password was changed, and it went away after about a day. In the meantime, he just used a wired link. Wire it up. Log out. Log back in. Problem should be solved. If this is what it is that is.
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anthonypants posted:Jesus christ, as if 2.4GHz isn't bad enough It's a beautiful thing if you have neighbors. It's like bringing a fire hose to a water-balloon fight. gently caress everyone else.
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