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drukqs posted:
It's much better than the subject being something nondescript like "HELP!!!!!!"
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We're like 98% DBs here so we don't really shrink filesystems either. It's only come up like twice since we started deploying RHEL7 and only because someone was over zealous in expanding a filesystem. A bigger problem we have is our backups. They're done through Netbackup and some wizardry where our vmdks are backed up and then Netbackup cracks them open and reads the filesystem to build the index and allow for single file backups even though the backup was done at the VMware level.... except this doesn't work for XFS yet.
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One of our science groups is moving to a new building in the university. It's an old chemistry building. Fun things about the building: second floor where half of the group is smells like ethanol and mold, I think smell is coming from rooms that are sealed, third floor is supposedly radioactive and no one is allowed up there, first floor we have five offices that have twenty ethernet jacks of which two work. I found the issue with the jacks. They come into the networking closet go to a punch down and that's it. No cabling to the switches. I told the building IT about it. They did nothing about it for a week. So I put in cables for the room everything works now. Bonus is the IT guy came by and said everything is working must have been my imagination. Now I am sitting around waiting for scientists to show up so I can change the dns records to point at our DC's new ip addresses. All the technicians have shown up and settled in but the big wig scientists are no where to be found. It's going to be a long day of waiting.
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captkirk posted:We're like 98% DBs here so we don't really shrink filesystems either. It's only come up like twice since we started deploying RHEL7 and only because someone was over zealous in expanding a filesystem. Lmao at our new datacenter this is exactly the setup we are moving to. Awesome
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Oct 15, 2015 20:57
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:If the network was down... how did he expect the email to be sent? I'd get a lot of emails at my old job from fellow IT coworkers asking if there were mail problems. But I'd get them after the mail problems were sorted out.
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Oct 15, 2015 20:58
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gently caress you, distribution groups If we manage them, it is wildly inconvenient to put in a ticket to make changes If we allow user management, "That isn't my job! Why isn't IT managing the DLs that only I use!?"
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Oct 15, 2015 21:04
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ElGroucho posted:gently caress you, distribution groups This reigns true for everything. Including cleaning out the microwave and changing lightbulbs.
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Oct 15, 2015 21:05
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Why is it that the only error message users actually read are the bullshit "THE NETWORK IS DOWN" ones that so many apps generate?
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Oct 15, 2015 22:25
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Dick Trauma posted:Why is it that the only error message users actually read are the bullshit "THE NETWORK IS DOWN" ones that so many apps generate? My favorite are the tickets that come in about a cryptic error message, but the user can't tell me what it says. I physically go to their computer and ask them to show me what it's doing, and the error message pops up for a split second before they immediately click ok. When asked what the error said they'll always say, "Oh, I don't know, what's wrong with my computer!?"
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Oct 15, 2015 22:29
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Users have been so conditioned by decades of cryptic, inscrutable errors to ignore the content of error messages that when a message actually does tell them exactly what the problem is they're no longer capable of reading it due to conditioned error-message-blindness. I've seen cases where e.g. Chrome was showing an error like "There's a certificate error and it's probably because your system date is wrong, you should check your system date" and the problem was in fact a bad system date, but the user couldn't figure it out because it just didn't occur to them to actually read the error message.
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Oct 15, 2015 22:46
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I've lost track of the number of times I've seen someone using a computer and they'll try to close a window, a message will pop up asking it they want to save their work, and they will just click cancel and keep trying to close the program over and over without reading what the popup says. I personally miss the days of useful error messages, when there were specific error codes you could look up to figure out a problem. These days everything is literally just "an error occurred. Try again later."
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Oct 15, 2015 22:53
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Gus Hobbleton posted:I've lost track of the number of times I've seen someone using a computer and they'll try to close a window, a message will pop up asking it they want to save their work, and they will just click cancel and keep trying to close the program over and over without reading what the popup says. I personally miss the days of useful error messages, when there were specific error codes you could look up to figure out a problem. These days everything is literally just "an error occurred. Try again later." Something happened
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Oct 15, 2015 22:56
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larchesdanrew posted:Something happened :(
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A ticket came in, and it's a bit of a head-scratcher (at least for me). A user is working from home today, and her personal printer isn't being redirected into her RDS session. She already completely signed out of the session, rather than just disconnecting like most users, as well as restarting her ~MacBook Air~. This particular printer has redirected fine in the past, as she usually works from home once a week anyway, but for the hell of it I completely removed and re-added it. No dice. I completely reinstalled the RDC client (Microsoft's official OS X app) and added the connection back into the list again, but it still won't redirect. I got the idea to test it with a completely different RDS, and of course the printer shows up. For the hell of it, I then connect to the original RDS with a different domain account, and that also works as intended. It's literally only this user's account that won't redirect her printer now. Any ideas?
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Oct 15, 2015 23:17
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Your forceful ejection of the bits will cause more dings in the shielding, degrading your cable even further and causing more etherblasts. Lies - everyone knows you unplug both ends, wring the cable like a wet towel, then swing the ends like a helicopter to eject the faulty bits
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Oct 15, 2015 23:53
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Don't forget to keep the ends capped off - don't want any stray bits getting in.
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Thanks Ants posted:Don't forget to keep the ends capped off - don't want any stray bits getting in. Any time you unplug the cable you have to be sure that your body or some other solid surface is between the end of the cable and a source of wifi.
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Oct 15, 2015 23:56
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nitrogen posted:Goddamn, I have an argument with a guy at my last job about this. On a computer, there is no difference. He seriously wanted to have a project to change GMT to UTC on every machine in a multiple DC's and a total of 20k+ servers. In effect, it's the difference between kleenex and tissues. It matters to Kimberly-Clark and Georgia Pacific, but the rest of us don't give a poo poo. Even if the time was different, that wouldn't be a reason to change them. You just want it to be consistent so you can tell which order things happen in.
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This is going to sound a little out there... but has anyone seen weird things happening in the last couple of days with printers, perhaps due to a windows update? In the past three days, the helpdesk has had six or seven different users try to print something, either see an error or nothing prints, then notice all their printers are gone in Devices&Printers. They often discover this after a reboot. Helpdesk says they try to restart the print spooler, then in some cases printers reappear but show as offline. If they try to remove and re-add one of these "offline" printers, they often get the infamous "cannot connect to printer" error 0x0000007e I'm sorry to come in here and sound like a user reporting an issue, without being able to give detailed info, but I haven't seen this myself, I seldom deal with the users. I wondered if a bad M$ update might have gone out recently, or something like that. I don't see anything weird on the print server itself. Best as I can figure out, this started Tuesday morning.
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drukqs posted:
I had a team lead who did that at my last job. Like yours, he would send me questions in an email with every sentence in the subject. I started replying to him by putting my answer in the subject. He stopped after that.
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I don't think it's a terrible practice for simple stuff. Subject: Going to Starbucks, you want something? Subject: Is it still raining outside? Subject: Can you explain Diffie-Hellman real quick?
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MrMojok posted:This is going to sound a little out there... but has anyone seen weird things happening in the last couple of days with printers, perhaps due to a windows update? Well that's eerie. I just restarted the Print Spooler on our end as well, but the user reported that their printer still isn't showing up after signing out and in again.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I don't think it's a terrible practice for simple stuff. That's the exact use case for instant messaging.
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Oct 16, 2015 00:47
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You must communicate with me in the medium that i prefer.
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Interpretive dance 
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Volmarias posted:Interpretive dance I'd absolutely love to see this for the Diffie Hellman explanation.
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MrMojok posted:This is going to sound a little out there... but has anyone seen weird things happening in the last couple of days with printers, perhaps due to a windows update? I ran into a similar issue recently with a network printer - had to use printui /s /t2 from command prompt, delete the offending drivers, then reload from scratch
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MrMojok posted:This is going to sound a little out there... but has anyone seen weird things happening in the last couple of days with printers, perhaps due to a windows update? I think I've figured out the reason behind this. It's a bit convoluted, but stick with me: You see, it's because printers.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:I'd absolutely love to see this for the Diffie Hellman explanation. I don't know how much you know about fringe politics, but Lawrence Lessig's media guy Brian Boyko has videos of himself demonstrating networking protocols like the three way handshake. I'll find a gif or two when I get home.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I don't know how much you know about fringe politics, but Lawrence Lessig's media guy Brian Boyko has videos of himself demonstrating networking protocols like the three way handshake. Boyko For President 2016  See this thread for all the fun: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3634476 and the current Lessig thread http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3736109 pr0digal fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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larchesdanrew posted:I think I've figured out the reason behind this. It's a bit convoluted, but stick with me:
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a ticket came in, from me, to me, at home MY loving personal laptop stopped booting. IT does this sometimes, rarely to infrequently. I think it happens after hibernation. I take the thing 1/2 apart, think I rip the keyboard ribbon (it just CAME OUT! WITH NO CONECTOR ON IT! turn out, thats fine - it just slips in and then you lock it. Minor heart attack). Oh, and then I almost strip a screw. Fuuuuck, that thing was in there way too tight. Lucky that it can be gripped now. I merely look at it, jossle screws and blow on stuff, decide to try to start it. IT loving TURNS ON. AHGHHHHH. Welp there goes the 3 hours I wanted to spend working on my unity halloween project. Mother fucker.
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Oct 16, 2015 03:52
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:If the network was down... how did he expect the email to be sent? PS: FACEBOOK IS DOWN
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ilkhan posted:Somebody put printers onto the aliens dude meme. 
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MiniFoo posted:Any ideas? 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=248gcCvAIMU
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nexxai posted:Stupid question but did you turn on Printer Redirection in the properties when you re-created the connection? Nope, that never occurred to me!  I closed the ticket anyway. Maybe the problem will fix itself by next Thursday.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:If the network was down... how did he expect the email to be sent? yea. I've gotten "is the internet down" from people with PhD's It's best not to get into it w/ people who ask questions like these.
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jesus loving christ I made it 3 seconds before alt-f4'ing gently caress you gently caress whoever this is
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Volmarias posted:That's the exact use case for instant messaging.
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